Create a standard source

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1

Is there any workaround to simulate a standardized source without coding the source spectrum (neutron / photon)?
Which is the smartest way to do that?

I.E.: AmBe, RaBe or similiar.

Thanks!

2

We don’t have any built-in distribution that has the same spectrum as a AmBe or RaBe source, so you would have to enter this as a tabulated distribution using the openmc.stats.Tabular class:

ambe_spectrum = openmc.stats.Tabular(...)
settings = openmc.Settings()
settings.source = openmc.Source(energy=ambe_spectrum)