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Title

Soda Application Design and Development

Organization

Department: Nuclear Eng'g & Health Physics

University: Idaho State University College: Science & Engineering Department: Nuclear Eng'g & Health Physics 23

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City

Pocatello

Coverage

Unknown to Unknown

Creator

Kushal Bhattarai

Publisher

Idaho State University

Type

Thesis

Is Complete

Yes

Date Published

9/13/2016

Archive

digital

City: Pocatello

Degree

Master

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Abstract Idaho State University, in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory, has developed a portable and simple to use software application called SODA (Stochastic Objective Decision-Aide) that stochastically calculates the radiation dose associated with hypothetical radiological material release scenarios. Rather than producing a point estimate of the dose, SODA produces a dose distribution result to allow a deeper understanding of the dose potential. SODA allows users to select the distribution type and parameter values for all of the input variables used to perform the dose calculation. SODA then randomly samples each distribution input variable and calculates the overall resulting dose distribution. In cases were an input variable distribution is unknown, a traditional single point value can be used. SODA was developed using the MATLAB coding framework. The purpose of this work was to develop the underlying software. The software application has a graphical user input. SODA can be installed on both Windows and Mac computers and does not require MATLAB to function.