Core Maker

The CoreMaker package is a nuclear reactor core modelling package. This package aims to make it easy for researchers to create reproducible, interoperable descriptions of nuclear reactor cores.

This package is developed as part of the Reactor Analysis Management Program project, where it is used for defining the concepts of a nuclear core and implementations of various geometries and materials.

To understand the core concepts of this package, please check out our documentation. Building the documentation is done by writing "make html" in the docs folder once all the requirements are installed.

How to Contribute

Our documentation is probably where we have the most to gain from new contributors. Please feel free to read through it, ask questions and help us make it a better tool for beginners.

Users who want support for additional Surfaces, Geometries or Constructions are welcome to suggest and contribute new models. If you can send us the use case for core components where such tools are necessary, we will gladly consider your contribution.

Another relatively good place to start is with writing tests. Our test coverage could still be better, and writing tests is a good way to make yourself familir with our API.

For more experienced developers, one of our main next goals is to support a human readable serialization of our models.