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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Hanford looks inside sealed nuclear reactors using modern technology
A new imaging technology is being used on decommissioned reactors at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington state, revealing a detailed look inside the sealed enclosures.
G. Giudicelli, R. Crowder, L. Harbour, D. Gaston
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 1 | April 2025 | Pages S397-S405
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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.