The nuclear reaction code McGNASH

McGNASH is a modern statitistical/preequilibrium nuclear reaction code, being developed at Los Alamos, which can simulate neutron-, proton- and photon-induced reactions in the energy range from a few-keV to about 150 MeV. It is written in modern Fortran 95 scientific language, offering new capabilities both for the developer and the user. McGNASH is still in a development stage, and a first public release is planned for later in 2005. The statisticaUpre-equilibrium nuclear reaction code GNASH has been used successfully over the years to compute neutron-, proton- and photon-induced reactions cross sections on a variety of nuclei targets, and for incident particle energies from tens of keV up to 150-200 MeV. This code has been instrumental in producing numerous nuclear data evaluation files for various ENDF libraries around the World, and in particular the ENDFB-VI and pre-ENDFB-VII libraries in the US. More recently, GNASH was used extensively for the creation of the LA1501ibrary, including data on neutron- and proton-induced reactions up to 150 MeV incident energy. We are now developing a modern version of the code, called McGNASH.