Faculty and research staff from the Nuclear Engineering Department at North Carolina State University are conducting under the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)/OECD the first International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS). The SINUS is on the topic of reactor single- and multi-physics simulations based on Light Water Reactor (LWR) Uncertainty Analysis in Modeling (UAM) benchmark produced by the NEA Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS). SINUS is taking place in time period of May, 1 – 23 May 2023 including remote/online training from May 2 to May 12, 2023 and in-person event on 22-23 May 2023 in Bologna, Italy.

The event is jointly developed by North Carolina State University (NSCU), the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the NEA WPRS. The in-person part will be hosted by the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) in Bologna, Italy. The activity has also strong links to the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy.

The trainings will include practical exercises with state-of-the-art reactor simulation packages, which will be provided by the NEA Data Bank (DB) and RSICC in Docker environments. More information can be found on the SINUS web-site link at: http://oe.cd/sinus