NE421 Introduction to Nuclear Criticality Safety

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Computational Setup for NE421

1. Open a Command Prompt by typing "Command prompt" in the lower left search box. I recommend that you then right-click and add it to the taskbar. We will use it a lot.
2. Create a dedicated directory for the class. I recommend c:/NE421
3. Download the following to the directory (by right-clicking and then choosing 'Save link as...'):
• NE421.jar
• NE421.lib
• Test.in
• run.bat
• run.txt
  (Identical to 'run.bat', but some systems won't let you download .bat files , so download this and changes its name to 'run.bat'.)
4. Inside the Command prompt, in the new directory, enter "run Metric test". (Be sure Metric is capitalized.)
• If you see something like this:

  

  you are in business

• If not, then we have some more work to do.
5. If you ARE in business, note that the whole thing is driven by keystrokes.
• Press 'a' to get a popup of what all keystrokes will do.
• (The most interesting is 'k', which performs a k-effective calculation. Try it.)
6. If you are NOT in business, the most probable reason is that your computer doesn't have an appropriate Java JRE (Java runtime environment)
   • You may need to download and install one from Java JRE download

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