Overview of MCNP6 capabilities for criticality accident impact assessment and alarm system design - 6-01

MCNP is designed to be a general-purpose Monte Carlo radiation transport software package. The package has a development history spanning decades and is still undergoing development. MCNP6 involves the merger of MCNP5 and MCNPX and new features found in neither. Many of these features are particularly useful for criticality accident alarm systems (CAAS) designers attempting to characterize a source, model radiation transport through a facility to measure dose, and to model detectors. The MCNP development team provides six verification and validation suites that are of particular interest to CAAS designers. The development team also gives advanced criticality courses that can, by request, feature lecture material to explain how MCNP6 can be used