NEA Data Bank training

Ongoing

The NEA Data Bank Computer Program Service (CPS) has been conducting training activities for more than 30 years. These courses provide a unique opportunity to bring together code users from around the world, facilitating exchanges on the use of computer programs among users and with the code developers.

Related events

November

2024

SERPENT-2 in-person training course for beginners

December

2024

NJOY Training Course

May

2025

Intermediate MCNP6®

ALL EVENTS

Upcoming events

Date	Class	Registration	Fees	Location
8-12 July 2024	PENELOPE Course description	Registration closed	1500 EUR	University of Barcelona, Spain
12-15 November 2024	OpenMC Course description	To open soon	450 EUR	Online
19-22 November 2024	SERPENT-2 for beginners Course description	Register	750 EUR	NEA, Paris, France
2-6 December 2024	NJOY Course description	Register	700 EUR	NEA, Paris, France
12-16 May 2025	MCNP6® Intermediate Only applications from participants already holding a personal MCNP6.2® or 6.3® licence* will be considered. If not licensee, please contact RSICC* Course description	To open in September	2000 EUR	NEA, Paris, France
19-23 May 2025	MCNP6® Advanced Only applications from participants already holding a personal MCNP6.2® or 6.3® licence* will be considered. If not licensee, please contact RSICC* Course description	To open in September	2000 EUR	NEA, Paris, France

For in-person courses, the fee includes the training course, luncheons and coffee breaks.

Class sizes are limited and workshops may be cancelled if minimum enrollment is not obtained one month prior to the workshop. Workshop fees paid are refundable up to one month before each class.

For participants working in France: the NEA is not a training centre ("centre de formation"), no training agreement ("convention de formation") will be established.

What the NEA offers - Catalogue of courses

Training courses and interactive workshops are offered on the most widely used computer programs, by the authors of the codes. They are held in person (at the NEA Headquarters in Paris or in NEA Data Bank participating countries) or online. The language of these events is English. Courses are held in different formats, from half a day to five days of training.

ABNTT, analytical benchmarks: case studies in neutron transport theory
FISPACT-II, inventory simulation platform for nuclear observables and materials science
FLUKA, Monte Carlo general purpose tool for calculations of particle transport and interactions with matter
FRENDY, Nuclear Data Processing System for Evaluated Nuclear Data File
FUDGE/(MC)GIDI/GNDS, open-source codes FUDGE and GIDIplus (available from https://github.com/LLNL/fudge and https://github.com/LLNL/gidiplus) to generate and use nuclear data in the Generalised Nuclear Database Structure or GNDS
MCNP, Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code System
- Introduction
- Intermediate
- Advanced
NJOY2016, a nuclear data processing system for converting evaluated nuclear data into libraries for applications calculations
OpenMC, a community-developed Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code
Electron-photon transport modelling with PENELOPE physics, code structure and operation. The PENELOPE manual is available here
PHITS, a Monte-Carlo particle and heavy ion transport code system
SCALE
- SCALE/KENO: criticality safety calculations
- SCALE/KENO-MAVRIC: criticality safety and radiation shielding
- SCALE/ORIGEN: standalone fuel depletion, activation, and source term analysis
- SCALE/TRITON: lattice physics and depletion
- SCALE/TSUNAMI: sensitivity and uncertainty calculations
- Nuclear Data Fundamentals and AMPX Libraries Generation

SERPENT V2.2.X, 3-D continuous-energy Monte Carlo reactor physics burnup calculation, lattice physics applications