Modernization of ALARA build

[gonuke]

ALARA needs to have its build system and some language features udpated.

1. Newer CMake version
2. c++-17 standards don't allow dynamic exceptions - maybe other things?

[MicahGale]

Is there a specific version of CMake and c++ that this should be targeting?

[ahnaf-tahmid-chowdhury]

CMake 3.18 is recommended as it enables setting the minimum version of different packages. I'm not sure why we need to upgrade to C++17, but in such a case, we can replace dynamic exceptions (throw without an explicit exception specification) with appropriate error handling mechanisms such as std::exception and try-catch blocks.