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The past few years have seen a concerted effort from many U.S. states to encourage nuclear development. The momentum behind nuclear-friendly policies has grown considerably, with many states repealing moratoriums, courting nuclear developers and suppliers, and in some cases creating advisory groups and road maps to push deployment of new nuclear reactors.
G. Giudicelli, R. Crowder, L. Harbour, D. Gaston
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 1 | April 2025 | Pages S397-S405
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2332009
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MaCaw is a Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE)–based application that enables domain-decomposed neutral particle transport calculations in MOOSE. It leverages MOOSE’s ray-tracing module for unstructured mesh particle tracking and OpenMC for collision physics. Additionally, the OpenMC implementation of several calculation steps (e.g. initialization and normalization) needed in a Monte Carlo particle transport eigenvalue calculation were adapted for domain decomposition. This paper reports on MaCaw’s implementation and several limitations, a single verification case, and early single-node scaling studies. This paper also serves as an announcement of the public release of MaCaw on the Idaho National Laboratory GitHub at https://github.com/idaholab/macaw.