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Re: Sheilding Software Inquiry



Most notably, in RSIC's Monte Carlo venue, MCNP.  A big burley
program that can run on PCs if you don't mind taking a few
weeks!  Also, EGS4 and FLUKA can be used for these purposes
(particularly for accelerator shielding applications).

>MicroShield is a point kernal program.  That is, it calculates dose 
>at a point by straight-line distances and attenuation from defined 
>sources.  Scatter is accounted for using a generic buildup factor, 
>typically for the last shielding material encountered.  The public 
>domain version of this routine, called QAD (for quick-and-dirty), is 
>available from the Radiation Shielding Information Center (RSIC) at 
>Oak Ridge.  QAD does the same calculation as MicroShield, but does 
>not have the nice, graphical front end for defining the problem 
>geometry.  The RSIC library also has several other, more sophisticated 
>programs for more complex geometries, including discrete ordinate and 
>Monte Carlo routines.
>
>Contacts:  MicroShield is by Grove Engineering, Atlanta.
>           RSIC phone 615/574-6176, http://epicws.epm.ornl.gov/
>
>Dave Scherer
>scherer@uiuc.edu
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Michael P. Grissom
mikeg@slac.stanford.edu
Phone:  (415) 926-2346
Fax:    (415) 926-3030