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Xyce TM XDM Netlist Translator User Guide (V 2.0)

This manual describes the installation and use of the XyCe TM XDM Net list Translator. XDM simplifies the translation of netlists generated by commercial circuit simulator tools into Xyce-compatible netlists. XDM currently supports translation from PSpice and HSPICE netlists into Xyce TM netlists.

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Waste Compliance and Tracking System (WCATS) User Guide (Release 2)

This manual has been written to provide a general reference of the usage of WCATS. Because WCATS is designed to be used at many different kinds of facilities, much of the usage of the application is driven by the metadata configuration of the system. General usage of the system and the different types of tasks provided is included in this document, but custom usage and an exhaustive list of configuration options will not be provided. This manual is not intended to be a replacement for detailed work procedures or desk instructions, and it will not include configuration details such as service unit names, waste stream numbers for selection, etc. Any use of such information in this document is only provided as an example.

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Xyce XDM Netlist Translator User Guide (V.2.1)

This manual describes the installation and use of the Xyce TM XDM Net list Translator. XDM simplifies the translation of netlists generated by commercial circuit simulator tools into Xyce-compatible netlists. XDM currently supports translation from PSpice and HSPICE netlists into Xyce TM netlists.

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AniMACCS User Guide

AniMACCS is a utility code in the MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System (MACCS) software suite that allows for certain MACCS output information to be visually displayed and overlaid onto a geospatial map background. AniMACCS was developed by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. MACCS is designed to calculate health and economic consequences following a release of radioactive material in the atmosphere. MACCS accomplishes this by modeling the atmospheric dispersion, deposition, and consequences of the release, which depend on several factors including the source term, weather, population, economic, and land-use characteristics of the impacted geographical area. From these inputs, MACCS determines the characteristics of the plume, as well as ground and air concentrations as a function of time and radionuclide.

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HFIRCON Version 1.0.5 User Guide

The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) Controller (HFIRCON) code is a collection of python routines and C plugins that automate the workflow for fuel and single- or multicycle target depletion analyses for HFIR at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This code calls the LAVAMINT (LAVA Model Interrogator) parallel (MCNP) Monte Carlo N-Particle model interrogator to stochastically calculate cell volumes and bounding boxes, the ADVANTG (Automatic Variance Reduction Generation) code package for all variance reduction and source biasing calculations, the ORNL-Transformative Neutronics/MCNP5 transport solver for all transport solutions, and the MSX_DEPLETE module to perform all depletion calculations via the ORIGEN (Oak Ridge Isotope Generation) application programming interface. It also performs a robust set of postprocessing functions to automatically provide summaries of several key metrics that are common to a wide variety of typical HFIR design and safety-basis analyses.

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Xyce XDM Netlist Translator User Guide (Version 2.2)

This manual describes the installation and use of the Xyce™ XDM Netlist Translator. XDM simplifies the translation of netlists generated by commercial circuit simulator tools into Xyce-compatible netlists. XDM currently supports translation from PSpice and HSPICE netlists into Xyce™ netlists.

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Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT) User Guide. Software v1.3.

The Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT) supports decision analysis for new ("greenfield") microgrid designs as well as microgrids with existing infrastructure. The current version of MDT includes two main capabilities. The first capability, the Microgrid Sizing Capability (MSC), is used to determine the size and composition of a new, grid connected microgrid in the early stages of the design process. MSC is focused on developing a microgrid that is economically viable when connected to the grid. The second capability is focused on designing a microgrid for operation in islanded mode. This second capability relies on two models: the Technology Management Optimization (TMO) model and Performance Reliability Model (PRM).

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Strategic Performance Evaluation Measurement Plan (PEMP) Scorecard in QuickScore Training Tool (User Guide)

The Strategic Performance Evaluation Measurement Plan (PEMP) Scorecard, now housed in QuickScore, is an assurance and governance data scorecard which shows the health of the labs against the current fiscal year PEMP objectives. POC's for PEMP objective owners are requested to provide status of their PEMP objective, capture the top 6 cumulative accomplishments, top 6 issues, which include IFR issues and provide mitigation and or improvement action plans. Updated scorecards are used in OMR and BOM GS&S committee

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Xyce™ XDM Netlist Translator User Guide (Version 2.4)

This manual describes the installation and use of the Xyce™ XDM Netlist Translator. XDM simplifies the translation of netlists generated by commercial circuit simulator tools into Xyce-compatible netlists. XDM currently supports translation from PSpice, HSPICE, and Spectre netlists into Xyce™ netlists.

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Xyce™ XDM Netlist Translator User Guide (V.2.3)

This manual describes the installation and use of the Xyce™ XDM Netlist Translator. XDM simplifies the translation of netlists generated by commercial circuit simulator tools into Xyce-compatible netlists. XDM currently supports translation from PSpice, HSPICE, and Spectre netlists into Xyce™ netlists.

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Xyce XDM Netlist Translator User Guide, Version 2.5

This manual describes the installation and use of the Xyce™ XDM Netlist Translator. XDM simplifies the translation of netlists generated by commercial circuit simulator tools into Xyce-compatible netlists. XDM currently supports translation from PSpice, HSPICE, and Spectre netlists into Xyce™ netlists.

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A User Guide to PARET/ANL

PARET was originally created in 1969 at what is now Idaho National Laboratory (INL), to analyze reactivity insertion events in research and test reactor cores cooled by light or heavy water, with fuel composed of either plates or pins. The use of PARET is also appropriate for fuel assemblies with curved fuel plates when their radii of curvatures are large with respect to the fuel plate thickness. The PARET/ANL version of the code has been developed at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Energy/NNSA since the inception of the Reactor Conversion Program. Since Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR) began in 1978, PARET/ANL has been benchmarked to experimental data including SPERT testing, and used to determine the expected transient behavior of a large number of reactors regardless of enrichment both inside and outside the Reactor Conversion Program. This document provides the pertinent information for the use of PARET/ANL Version 7.6. PARET/ANL models the various fueled regions of a reactor core as channels. Each of these channels consists of a single flat fuel plate/pin (including cladding and, optionally, a gap) with water coolant on each side. In slab geometry the coolant channels for a given fuel plate are of identical dimensions (mirror symmetry), but they can be of different thickness in each channel. There can be many channels, but each channel is independent and coupled only through reactivity feedback effects to the whole core. The time-dependent differential equations that represent the system are replaced by an equivalent set of finite-difference equations in space and time, which are integrated numerically. PARET/ANL uses fundamentally the same numerical scheme as RELAP5 for the time-integration of the point-kinetics equations. The one-dimensional thermal-hydraulic model includes temperature-dependent thermal properties of the solid materials, such as heat capacity and thermal conductivity, as well as the transient heat production and heat transfer from the fuel meat to the coolant. Temperature- and pressure-dependent thermal properties of the coolant such as enthalpy, density, thermal conductivity, and viscosity are also used in determining parameters such as friction factors and heat transfer coefficients. The code first determines the steady-state solution for the initial state. Then the solution of the transient is obtained by integration in time and space. Multiple heat transfer, DNB and flow instability correlations are available. The code was originally developed to model reactors cooled by an open loop, which was adequate for rapid transients in pool-type cores. An external loop model appropriate for Miniature Neutron Source Reactors (MNSR’s) was also added to PARET/ANL to model natural circulation within the vessel, heat transfer from the vessel to pool and heat loss by evaporation from the pool. PARET/ANL also contains models for decay heat after shutdown, control rod reactivity versus time or position, time-dependent pump flow, and loss-of-flow event with flow reversal as well as logic for trips on period, power, and flow. Feedback reactivity effects from coolant density changes and temperature changes are represented by tables. Feedback reactivity from fuel heat-up (Doppler Effect) is represented by a four-term polynomial in powers of fuel temperature. Photo-neutrons produced in beryllium or in heavy water may be included in the point-kinetics equations by using additional delayed neutron groups.

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Xyce XDM Netlist Translator User Guide, V.2.6

This manual describes the installation and use of the Xyce™ XDM Netlist Translator. XDM simplifies the translation of netlists generated by commercial circuit simulator tools into Xyce-compatible netlists. XDM currently supports translation from PSpice, HSPICE, and Spectre netlists into Xyce™ netlists.

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The VTK-m Users' Guide (V.1.9)

High-performance computing relies on ever finer threading. Advances in processor technology include ever greater numbers of cores, hyperthreading, accelerators with integrated blocks of cores, and special vectorized instructions, all of which require more software parallelism to achieve peak performance. Traditional visualization solutions cannot support this extreme level of concurrency. Extreme scale systems require a new programming model and a fundamental change in how we design algorithms. To address these issues we created VTK-m: the visualization toolkit for multi-/many-core architectures. VTK-m supports a number of algorithms and the ability to design further algorithms through a top-down design with an emphasis on extreme parallelism. VTK-m also provides support for finding and building links across topologies, making it possible to perform operations that determine manifold surfaces, interpolate generated values, and find adjacencies. Although VTK-m provides a simplified high-level interface for programming, its template-based code removes the overhead of abstraction. VTK-m simplifies the development of parallel scientific visualization algorithms by providing a framework of supporting functionality that allows developers to focus on visualization operations. Consider the listings in Figure 1.1 that compares the size of the implementation for the Marching Cubes algorithm in VTK-m with the equivalent reference implementation in the CUDA software development kit. Because VTK-m internally manages the parallel distribution of work and data, the VTK-m implementation is shorter and easier to maintain. Additionally, VTK-m provides data abstractions not provided by other libraries that make code written in VTK-m more versatile.

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