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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