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TopMC®

Multi-Functional Program for Neutronics Calculation, Nuclear Design and Safety Evaluation

A large-scale nuclear design software developed for more than 30 years, taking radiation transport calculation as the core.

TopMC application domains: nuclear energy systems, cloud computing, radiation therapy, fusion reactors and reactor modeling
30+Years of development
1000+Nuclear-related institutions
90+Countries and regions
ITERSelected as reference code
Introduction

Whole process neutronics calculation, in one program

Multi-Functional Program for Neutronics Calculation, Nuclear Design and Safety Evaluation (TopMC, updated and extended version of SuperMC) is a large-scale nuclear design software, which has been developing by FDS Consortium for more than 30 years. Taking radiation transport calculation as the core, TopMC supports the whole process neutronics calculation containing depletion, radiation source term/dose/biohazard, material activation and transmutation.

It is featured with high efficiency and high fidelity multi-physics calculation, accurate modeling, visualized analysis and virtual simulation and intelligent nuclear design and safety evaluation. TopMC can be used for the design and safety evaluation of nuclear energy systems, as well as nuclear technology application fields.

TopMC has been widely used in more than 1000 well-known nuclear-related institutions in energy, healthcare, industry, in more than 90 countries. Related methodologies and technologies have won the National Natural Science Award, the European Prize for Innovation in Fusion Research, etc.

  • Selected as the reference code by ITER
  • Passed the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the United Kingdom
  • Available from OECD/NEA and RIST/NCC
  • National Natural Science Award of China
  • European Prize for Innovation in Fusion Research
TopMC architecture: automatic modeling of geometry and physics, radiation transport core coupled with depletion, activation and source term, feeding visualized analysis and virtual simulation
TopMC architecture
Functions

Eight calculation modules

From multi-particle transport to shutdown dose rate and accident evolvement, covering the full neutronics workflow of a nuclear system.

Radiation Transport Calculation

  • Multi-particles: neutron, photon, electron, proton, heavy ion, etc.
  • Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, large perturbation analysis, calculation suspension and resumption, etc.

Isotope Depletion Calculation

  • Inner-coupling methods: beginning-of-step constant flux approximation (BOS), predictor-corrector (PC), improved semi-predictor-corrector (ISPC), etc.

Material Activation Calculation

  • Computational modes: point activation calculation, transport-activation inner-coupling calculation
  • Activation properties: activity, decay heat, biological hazard, dose rate, clearance index and the corresponding contribution of each nuclide in the activation properties, etc.

Shutdown Dose Rate Calculation

  • Rigorous-Two-Step (R2S) method
  • Improved Direct-One-Step (IDIS) method

Multi-physics Coupling Calculation

Accident Evolvement Simulation

Organic Dose Evaluation based on Virtual Roaming

Intelligent Nuclear Design and Analysis

Advanced Features

What sets TopMC apart

01

Full-function & High-efficiency Neutronics Calculation

  • Inner-coupled whole process neutronics calculation
  • Strong anisotropic neutron transport
  • Multi-particle radiation dose calculation
02

CAD/Image-based Accurate Modeling for Complex Irregular Geometry

  • Parameterized high-fidelity (pin-by-pin level) whole reactor modeling
  • Whole model interactive modeling (geometry, material, source, tally, etc.)
  • Extended supporting of modeling for multiple codes, including MCNP, Geant4, FLUKA, TRIPOLI, PHITS, TORT, etc.
03

Data Analysis based on Multi-dimensional / Multi-style Visualization

  • Various styles visualization: volume rendering, visualized analysis of results coupled with geometries, etc.
  • Extended supporting of visualization for multiple codes, including MCNP, TORT, etc.
04

One-key Nuclear Design and Safety Evaluation based on Artificial Intelligence

  • Intelligent modeling: interactive generation of complex nuclear system computing models
  • Intelligent computing: intelligent prediction of key parameters of nuclear system based on deep learning
  • Intelligent analysis: nuclear analysis based on multimodal interaction
Applications

From ITER to the hospital bedside

Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Fusion Energy

Applied in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) design for over 10 years, supported to establish ITER reference neutronics basic models.

Nuclear Fission Energy

Selected as the reference software for nuclear design and safety evaluation of China Lead-based Reactor (CLEAR), supported the compact design of CLEAR; applied in the radiation shielding assessments of HPR1000 and passed the Generic Design Assessment (GDA).

Nuclear Technology

Nuclear detector

Support the quantitative analysis of the impact of detector structure, the optimization of detection efficiency, etc.

Particle accelerator

Support the system design, the optimization of beam quality, radiation protection, etc.

Neutron radiography

Support the optimized design and plan formulation.

Radiation therapy

Support the accurate dose evaluation of photon/electron/neutron radiation in human body.

Nuclear logging

Support the design of the detector, shielding, interpretation system, etc.

Irradiation processing

Support the dose simulation to optimize/evaluate the irradiation plans.

FDS Consortium

The team behind TopMC

FDS, the consortium for nuclear technology innovation in China, focuses on R&D of advanced nuclear systems and applications of nuclear technology. Its history can be traced back to the 1980s. In addition to fundamental research on neutron science and technology, FDS conducts applied research in the fields of Nuclear Informatics and Software Applications, Neutron Detection and Applications, Advanced Nuclear Energy and Safety, and Radiation Medicine and Applications.

FDS Consortium has over 800 employees with 80% of its R&D members holding doctoral degrees. It has registered more than 20 subsidiary independent legal entities and established five R&D bases located in Chongqing, Qingdao, Nanjing, Hefei and Anqing. It has undertaken more than 200 domestic and international projects, including ITER related projects and collaborations with IAEA and IEA.

Product portfolio

  • Advanced Nuclear Software
  • Neutron Detection Equipment
  • China Lead-Based Reactors (CLEAR)
  • Accurate Radiotherapy Systems (KylinRay)
800+Employees
80%R&D members with doctoral degrees
200+Domestic and international projects
20+National and international awards
FDS Consortium research bases
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