JENSC: A PC-Based Educational Software for Detection of Special Nuclear Materials

Jordan Educational Nuclear Security Code (JENSC) is a code written in C++ language, designed to keep pace with the development of nuclear security, especially in the field of detection of Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) where SNM could be used for terrorist activities as well as production of nuclear weapons. For that purpose, this software package was initially developed for educational aims where it could provide students of nuclear security and radiation shielding courses with good experience on the detection of special nuclear materials. In this paper, the passive detection technique of SNM is presented where the user can simulate different scenarios under different conditions to see if the materials would be detected. JENSC provides an interactive environment to ease the modeling and simulation process where the user can complete the run by following the instructions written on the console screen without needing to prepare an input file. Simply the user specify the source type, shielding types and detector type along with different parameters related to these components and then the code runs to determine if the materials can be detected under these circumstances. The next version of the code will contain the active integration technique which comes after doing passive detection and also some improvements on the passive detection technique.