SCALE Highlights

Newly Released Reports:
  • Development of a SCALE Model for High Flux Isotope Reactor Cycle 400
  • Criticality Safety Validation of SCALE 6.1

    SCALE 6.1 is Released!
    The SCALE development team is pleased to announce the release of SCALE 6.1. SCALE 6.1 provides several new capabilities such as improved flexibility in shielding calculations with automated variance reduction, flexibility in the definition of group structures for depletion calculations, and improved sensitivity analysis techniques including generalized perturbation theory for reactor physics calculations. The SCALE 6.1 development team has focused on improved robustness via substantial additional regression testing and verification for new and existing features, providing improved performance relative to SCALE 6.0, especially in reactor physics calculations and in the nuclear data used for source term characterization and shielding calculations. Additionally, SCALE 6.1 includes the full version the KENO3D visualization tool at no additional charge. A more complete description of the package is available in the Summer 2011 edition of the SCALE Newsletter. SCALE 6.1 is available from RSICC and will soon be available from the NEA Data Bank.
    SCALE 6 Nuclear Technology Special Edition

    SCALE was featured in the special edition of Nuclear Technology in May 2011. The following articles were published to provide a comprehensive review of SCALE features as of the SCALE 6.0 release.

    Foreword: Special Issue on the SCALE Nuclear Analysis Code System
    John C. Wagner

    SCALE 6: Comprehensive Nuclear Safety Analysis Code System
    S. M. Bowman

    Resonance Self-Shielding Methodologies in Scale 6
    Mark L. Williams

    Isotopic Depletion and Decay Methods and Analysis Capabilities in SCALE
    Ian C. Gauld, Georgeta Radulescu, Germina Ilas, Brian D. Murphy, Mark L. Williams, Dorothea Wiarda

    Reactor Physics Methods and Analysis Capabilities in SCALE
    Mark D. DeHart, Stephen M. Bowman

    Monte Carlo Criticality Methods and Analysis Capabilities in Scale
    Sedat Goluoglu, Lester M. Petrie, Jr., Michael E. Dunn, Daniel F. Hollenbach, Bradley T. Rearden

    Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis Capabilities and Data in SCALE
    B. T. Rearden, M. L. Williams, M. A. Jessee, D. E. Mueller, D. A. Wiarda

    Monte Carlo Shielding Analysis Capabilities with MAVRIC
    Douglas E. Peplow

    •