SCONE

SCONE (Stochastic Calculator Of Neutron Transport Equation) is an object-oriented Monte Carlo particle transport code for reactor physics. It is intended as an accessible environment for graduate students to test and develop their ideas before contributing them to more established codes suitable for design calculations.

SCONE documentation is hosted at: https://scone.readthedocs.io

To cite SCONE, please use the following:

@article{sconeANE,
  title   = {Status of the SCONE Monte Carlo neutron transport code},
  journal = {Annals of Nuclear Energy},
  volume  = {227},
  pages   = {112015},
  year    = {2026},
  issn    = {0306-4549},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.anucene.2025.112015},
  url     = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306454925008321},
  author  = {Valeria Raffuzzi and Paul Cosgrove and Mikolaj Adam Kowalski},
  keywords = {SCONE, Monte Carlo, Neutron transport},
}

Prerequisites

Required

• Cmake (>=3.10)
• Fortran compiler, gfortran (>=8.3)
• LAPACK and BLAS Libraries
• GNU/Linux operating system

Optional

• pFUnit 4 test framework
• Python 3 interpreter

Installation

Instructions are avaliable in the Sphinx documentation.

Compiling Documentation

Sphinx documentation is available in the docs folder. It is readable with any reStructuredText (RST) viewer, but it is best to compile to html.

Compiling documentation requires few python packages. You can install them all with the following command. Option --user installs them in your home directory and does not require administrator access.

pip install --user -U sphinx, sphinx_rtd_theme

Then natigate to docs folder and compile using make

make html

HTML documentation should now be avaliable in ./_build/html

Licence

This project is licensed under MIT Licence - see the LICENCE file for details.