Interactive tutorials

Learn Nucleide feature by feature with live demos. No installation needed.

These pages run Nucleide right here — no Python or Rust installation is required; every example is live.

Available interactive tutorials

Foundations

• Nuclides & nuclear data — name conversions, masses, abundances, half-lives.
• Materials — formula expansion, atom/weight fractions, mixing, XML export.

Fuel cycle

• Enrichment cascades — solve matched-abundance-ratio cascades.
• Depletion — load a chain and run one CRAM step.

Transport input and tooling

• MCNP I/O — parse material cards, xsdir, meshtal, and WWINP files.
• Serpent output — parse _res.m, _dep.m, and _det.m MATLAB-style files.
• FLUKA USRBIN — read USRBIN mesh tallies from .lis output.
• Deck editor — parse, validate, and edit full MCNP decks.
• Deterministic transport — ISOTXS libraries, RTFLUX fluxes, PARTISN decks.
• Variance reduction — MAGIC bounds and alias-table source sampling.
• MCPL particle lists — read/write MCPL bytes and SSW conversion.
• Code-card emission — five-dialect cards, ARMI keys, and mass drift.

Neutron sources

• Fusion sources — sample D-D/D-T ring, point, and parametric sources (including fuel mixtures) and emit SDEF cards.

Activation and radiological analysis

• Activation — ALARA decks and output, FISPACT-II inventories, ORIGEN tapes, R2S workflows.
• Clearance screening — sum-of-fractions classification against EU or Spanish limits.
• Radiological totals — committed hazards, transport ratio, IAEA clearance, and gamma dose over caller inventories.

Damage, measurement, and uncertainty

• Damage metrics — fold a multigroup flux into dpa and gas production.
• Gamma-ray spectroscopy — smoothing and peak counting.
• Spectrum unfolding — SAND-II, least-squares, and GRAVEL adjustment over detector measurements.
• UQ sampling — seeded MVN sampling over caller-supplied covariance blocks.

Dynamics and the fuel cycle

• Point kinetics — step-reactivity transients and the prompt jump.
• Tritium permeation — 1D breakthrough curve and time lag.
• TBR bookkeeping — raw and effective TBR, breeding margin, and daily burn and surplus.
• Equilibrium data — INDATA parsing and wall-load mapping in flux coordinates.

When the live demos are not enough

The live demos are a teaching and exploration tool. For production work—large chain files, full transport decks, batch processing — use the Rust crate API or the Python package.