NCRC
INL's Nuclear Computational Resource Center
This software is available free of charge for all users via GitHub.
MOOSE, the Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment, is a finite-element multiphysics framework largely developed by Idaho National Laboratory. It offers a high level interface to sophisticated nonlinear solver technology, such as BISON for nuclear fuel, Griffin for radiation transport and reactor multiphysics, and more. MOOSE has a straightforward API well suited to how scientists and engineers tackle real-world problems. It is a fully coupled and fully implicit multiphysics solver that is automatically parallel, making it possible to run large simulations and tackle complicated models.
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Bison is a nuclear fuel performance code that can model light water reactor fuel rods, TRISO particle fuel, metallic rod and plate fuel, and other fuel forms.
Bison solves thermomechanics and species diffusion equations for 1D, 2D and 3D geometries, with fuel models that describe temperature properties, fission product swelling and other material aspects.
INL maintains a large number of commercial analysis codes, open-source packages, and codes owned/licensed by other entities. Below is a small sampling of some available codes. In order to use codes licensed by others, you will need to contact the code developers for a license.
MCNP® is a software created and maintained by Los Alamos National laboratory. It is a general purpose Monte Carlo n-particle code that can be used for neutron, photon, electron, or coupled neutron/photon/electron transport. This tool can be used in a variety of applications including radiation protection and dosimetry, radiation shielding, radiography, medical physics, and nuclear criticality safety.