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The Nuclear Company forms partnership with University of South Carolina
The Nuclear Company, which in April opened its primary engineering and construction office in Columbia, S.C., announced a partnership with the University of South Carolina’s Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing, whereby the company will invest up to $5 million in the college over five years. USC is to match the private investment with funds from federal grants, industry partners, and other donors.
Yasuhiro Minamigawa, Evans D. Kitcher, Sunil S. Chirayath
Nuclear Technology | Volume 206 | Number 1 | January 2020 | Pages 73-81
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1624429
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP6) radiation transport code is widely used to perform material transmutation and depletion calculations using the embedded module CINDER90. CINDER90 is capable of obtaining fission product and transuranic nuclide concentrations with a high level of accuracy in irradiated nuclear fuel. This information is very useful for many nuclear applications including reactor design and analysis, nuclear safeguards, nuclear security, and nuclear forensics, to name a few. However, at present the MCNP6 code does not estimate the overall statistical uncertainty in the nuclide concentrations reported at the end of a depletion calculation. We report our approach using a random sampling method to estimate stochastic uncertainty in fission product nuclide concentration using various parameters reported in MCNP6 output and how these uncertainties are affected by the calculation parameters.