PROGRESS REPORT ON THE AVAILABLE ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR ACCELERATOR SHIELDING ANALYSIS 2002

Given the new developments in accelerators, especially spallation neutron sources, new analytical tools and applications have recently been developed, tested, and used. An ongoing need exists to distribute the codes, their data, and the benchmarks used in validating the design parameters for shielding energies and particles involved in the applications. What is presented is the fruit of the efforts of the data centers that identify, collect, test, and disseminate the tools necessary for proper accelerator shielding analysis around the world. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank (NEA DB), the ORNL Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC), and the Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST) have continued to lead the European, American, and Japanese nuclear communities, respectively, to state-of-the-art software and data that fit their needs. The following contains a listing of those tools that are available and most applicable to today's accelerator shielding analyses.