Cyclus installation and guidance for beginner

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Feri Wibisono

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Jun 24, 2020, 4:44:09 AM6/24/20

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Hello everyone,

My name is Feri and I just finishing my PhD at Cambridge University. I would like to learn cyclus as it will be helpful for my next project. After struggling with the installation for few days, I finally managed to successfully installed both cyclus and cycamore in my computer. However, when I tried to run the cyclus_unit_test it shows that from 507 tests, 506 tests are passed and 1 test failed with error message InfileConvertes.PyXmlRoundTrip.

I'm wondering if I made any mistake during the installation and might need to reinstall the package. Anyone got any clue?

Also, as I never use cyclus before, I try to learn through the tutorial that I found from this page:https://fuelcycle.org/user/tutorial/index.html

However, in order to do this tutorial, it requires me to install cyclist, a graphical user interface for cyclus. I tried to download cyclist, but unable to access the link, which was provided through University of Wisconsin page (http://cnergdata.engr.wisc.edu/cyclus/cyclist/cyclist-1.0.deb). Can anyone give me a direction on where to download cyclist? Or is there another user guide/tutorial examples to learn cyclus for beginner without using cyclist at all?

Thank you all!

Best,
Feri

Max Schalz

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Jun 30, 2020, 9:43:54 AM6/30/20

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Hi Feri,

Also, as I never use cyclus before, I try to learn through the tutorial that I found from this page:https://fuelcycle.org/user/tutorial/index.html
However, in order to do this tutorial, it requires me to install cyclist, a graphical user interface for cyclus. I tried to download cyclist, but unable to access the link, which was provided through University of Wisconsin page (http://cnergdata.engr.wisc.edu/cyclus/cyclist/cyclist-1.0.deb). Can anyone give me a direction on where to download cyclist? Or is there another user guide/tutorial examples to learn cyclus for beginner without using cyclist at all?

I am unsure if Cyclist is still maintained. However you might want to check out the 'Writing input files' and 'Running simulations' sections, see https://fuelcycle.org/user/index.html .

The input file defines the setting of your simulation and you can either write it 'by hand', as done in the tutorial I've mentioned above, or using a GUI (Cyclist). In both cases, you end up with an input file that is then run by Cyclus