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The NEA Data Bank Computer Program Service (CPS) has been conducting training activities for more than 30 years. These courses provide a unique opportunity to bring together code users from around the world, facilitating exchanges on the use of computer programs among users and with the code developers.

Upcoming events

Date Class Registration Fees Location
17-19 June 2025 FISPACT-II
Course description		 Registration closed 600 EUR NEA, Paris, France
30 June-3 July 2025 OpenMC
Course description		 Register 450 EUR Online event
17-21 November 2025 SCALE/ORIGEN
Course description		 Register 2000 EUR NEA, Paris, France
24-28 November 2025 Analytical Benchmarks: Case Studies in Neutron Transport Theory (ABNTT)
Course description		 Register 750 EUR NEA, Paris, France
1-5 December 2025 NJOY
Course description		 Register 700 EUR NEA, Paris, France

General information

Courses are held in English, in person (at the NEA Headquarters in Paris or in NEA Data Bank participating countries) or online. Course duration varies from half a day to a full week.

For in-person courses, the fee includes the training course, luncheons and coffee breaks.

Course condition

Courses may be cancelled if minimum enrollment is not obtained one month prior to the workshop. Details are provided to users in advance and payment is never requested until the course participation requirements are met.

Registration fees

Regsitration fees are to be paid prior to the course. They are refundable up to one month before each class.

Note for participants working in France

As the NEA is not a training centre ("centre de formation"), no training agreement ("convention de formation") can be established.

What the NEA offers - Catalogue of courses

Training courses and interactive workshops are offered on the most widely used computer programs, by the authors of the codes or highly-experienced Senior Scientists.

  • ABNTT, analytical benchmarks: case studies in neutron transport theory
  • FISPACT-II, inventory simulation platform for nuclear observables and materials science
  • FLUKA, Monte Carlo general purpose tool for calculations of particle transport and interactions with matter
  • FRENDY, Nuclear Data Processing System for Evaluated Nuclear Data File
  • FUDGE/(MC)GIDI/GNDS, open-source codes FUDGE and GIDIplus (available from https://github.com/LLNL/fudge and https://github.com/LLNL/gidiplus) to generate and use nuclear data in the Generalised Nuclear Database Structure or GNDS
  • MCNP, Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code System
  • Introduction
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • NJOY2016, a nuclear data processing system for converting evaluated nuclear data into libraries for applications calculations
  • OpenMC, a community-developed Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code
  • Electron-photon transport modelling with [PENELOPE physics, code structure and operation. The PENELOPE manual is available here
  • PHITS, a Monte-Carlo particle and heavy ion transport code system
  • SCALE
  • SCALE/KENO: criticality safety calculations
  • SCALE/KENO-MAVRIC: criticality safety and radiation shielding
  • SCALE/ORIGEN: standalone fuel depletion, activation, and source term analysis
  • SCALE/TRITON: lattice physics and depletion
  • SCALE/TSUNAMI: sensitivity and uncertainty calculations
  • Nuclear Data Fundamentals and AMPX Libraries Generation
  • SERPENT V2.2.X, 3-D continuous-energy Monte Carlo reactor physics burnup calculation, lattice physics applications