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-BEAVRS Input File Generator
-===========================
-
-The BEAVRS script has been redesigned to be more user-friendly and modular. With
-the new script it should be much easier to extract single elements of the
-geometry (e.g., single assemblies and pins) as well as make modifications to
-different parts of the geometry.
-
-The old script is replaced with python module `beavrs`, and a main builder class
-that contains all elements of the model that can be manipulated in python before
-outputing input files.
-
-The script has been built to use OpenCG (formerly
-[OpenCG](https://github.com/mit-crpg/opencg)) and the OpenMC python API.
-This should enable future changes to OpenMC input file format to be easily
-accomodated for, and allow for easy creation of inputs for different codes (e.g.
-Serpent, MCNP) once OpenCG compatibility modules are created for them.
-
-Installation
-------------
-
-This package can be installed with distutils via:
-
-```bash
-python setup.py install --user
-```
-
-The dependencies are not officially released yet, but they are easy to obtain
-for CRPG group members.  In the near future these will be part of official
-publicly-available releases.
-
-To satisfy the OpenCG dependency:
-
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/mit-crpg/OpenCG.git
-cd OpenCG
-python setup.py install --user
-```
-
-Usage
------
-
-Once the module is installed, it can be constructed in python:
-
-```python
-from beavrs.builder import BEAVRS
-
-model = BEAVRS()
-
-model.write_openmc_geometry()
-model.write_openmc_materials()
-model.write_openmc_plots()
-model.write_openmc_settings()
-
-```
-
-For convenience, a script `make_beavrs.py` is also provided to build the model.
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