NUCLEAR CRITICALITY SAFETY PROGRAM (NCSP)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM REVIEW
MARCH 15-16, 2016
SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORY
FINAL AGENDA
| 8:30am–5:30pm | Tuesday, March 15, 2016 | ||
| 8:30am | Welcome from SNL | Gary Harms | |
| Safety and Security Briefing | Gary Harms | ||
| Welcome and Introductions | Jerry McKamy | ||
| A Year of Highs and Lows for the CSSG | David Erickson | ||
| CSSG Review of the Hands-on Training and Education Courses |
Calvin Hopper | ||
| NCSP TECHNICAL PROGRAM ELEMENTS TO BE PRESENTED |
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| ANALYTICAL METHODS | |||
| INFORMATION PRESERVATION AND DISSEMINATION | |||
| INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS | |||
| NUCLEAR DATA | |||
| TRAINING AND EDUCATION | |||
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| ANALYTICAL METHODS | |||
| ORNL | SCALE 6.2 and AMPX Development and Modernization for the NCSP | Brad Rearden | |
| ORNL | Diagnosing Undersampling in Monte Carlo Eigenvalue and Flux Tally Estimates | Chris Perfetti | |
| IRSN | Update of the Nuclear Criticality Slide Rule for Emergency Response to a Nuclear Criticality Accident | Matthieu Duluc | |
| 10:30–10:45am | BREAK | ||
| 10:45am | ANALYTICAL METHODS (continued) | ||
| ORNL | Recent Progress in Determination of Critical Experiment Correlations | B.J. Marshall | |
| LANL | MCNP Progress for NCSP | Forrest Brown (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | Fission Multiplicity Model Usage in Criticality Calculations | Michael Rising | |
| LANL | The Dawn of NJOY21 in 2015 | Jeremy Conlin | |
| OPEN DISCUSSION | ALL | ||
| INFORMATION PRESERVATION AND DISSEMINATION | |||
| LLNL | ICSBEP Accomplishments | Dave Heinrichs | |
| 12:30–1:30pm | LUNCH | ||
| 1:30pm | INFORMATION PRESERVATION AND DISSEMINATION (continued) |
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| LLNL | Website Statistics | Chuck Lee | |
| NNSA/ORNL | Website Enhancements | Lori Scott | |
| OPEN DISCUSSION | ALL | ||
| INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS | |||
| LANL | Operational Considerations for Experimental Work at NCERC | Tim Beller (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | NCERC Control Room Upgrades | Ryan LeConte | |
| LANL | NCERC Safety Basis Update | James Strelow | |
| NNSS | KRUSTY Safety Basis Update | Jeff Lewis | |
| 3:30–3:45pm | BREAK | ||
| 3:45pm | INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS (continued) |
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| LANL | Subcritical Benchmark of the BeRP Ball Reflected by Tungsten | Jesson Hutchinson (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | Uncertainty as a Function of Time for Subcritical Experiment Parameters | Jesson Hutchinson (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | Material Considerations for Burst Reactor Design | Bob Margevicius | |
| LANL | Final Critical Experiment Design to Measure the Fission Neutron Spectrum Shape Using Threshold Activation Detectors | Theresa Cutler (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | Dynamics and Stability Analysis for the Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling Technology (KRUSTY) Experiment | Steve Klein | |
| LANL | Utilization of NCERC in Support of Nuclear Forensics Measurements | Todd Bredeweg John Bounds |
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| 5:30pm | ADJOURN | ||
| 8:30am–12:30pm | Wednesday, March 16, 2016 | ||
| 8:30am | INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS (continued) |
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| ORNL | The Collaborative International Benchmark Evaluation for the SILENE Solution Critical Experiment | Thomas Miller (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | Evaluation of Engineering Controls Implemented to Mitigate Godiva Contamination | Joette Goda (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | Use of Comet to Support Development of the Design Basis for JAEA's Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility (TEF-P) | Joette Goda (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | Preliminary Flattop-25 Reevaluation Results | Jeff Favorite | |
| LLNL | TEX Subcritical Thermal and Dose Measurements | Catherine Percher | |
| LLNL | TEX-Hf Preliminary Design | Catherine Percher | |
| 10:30–10:45am | BREAK | ||
| 10:45am | INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS (continued) |
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| SNL | NCSP IE and T&EP Activities at Sandia | Gary Harms (BEST PAPER) |
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| OPEN DISCUSSION | ALL | ||
| NUCLEAR DATA | |||
| ORNL | Improvements for the 63Cu and 65Cu Resonance Evaluations for Criticality Safety Applications | Vladimir Sobes (BEST PAPER) |
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| ORNL | Cross Section Evaluation of 40Ca for Neutron Energies up to 1.5 MeV and Validation of Tungsten Cross Sections up to 100 keV | Marco Pigni | |
| ORNL | Resonance Region Cross-Section Measurements for Calcium and Cerium | Klaus Guber | |
| IRSN | IRSN-ORNL Data Evaluation in Support of Criticality Safety: 235U. 239Pu. 56Fe. 16O. 54Fe and 103Rh | Luis Leal | |
| LANL | NDAG and Nuclear Data Working Group Update | Skip Kahler | |
| LANL | Data Testing CIELO Evaluations with ICSBEP Benchmarks | Skip Kahler | |
| LANL | Evaluation of Prompt Fission Gamma Rays for n+U235, n+Pu239, and Cf252(sf) | Patrick Talou | |
| 12:30–1:30pm | LUNCH | ||
| 1:30pm | NUCLEAR DATA (continued) |
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| RPI KAPL |
Overview of Recent Nuclear Data Measurements at RPI Status of the LINAC Refurbishment | Yaron Danon/ Brian Epping |
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| BNL | ADVANCE Status, ENDF/B-VIII Status and Resonance Fun | David Brown | |
| OPEN DISCUSSION | ALL | ||
| TRAINING AND EDUCATION | |||
| ORNL | Status of the NCSP Training and Education Courses for FY2015 | Doug Bowen | |
| LANL | Summary of CNEC and CVT Year One Measurement Campaigns | Jesson Hutchinson (BEST PAPER) |
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| NCSP UNIVERSITY TASKS | |||
| Georgia Tech ORNL |
Development of a New Unresolved Resonance Region Analysis Methodology | Andrew Holcomb | |
| GENERAL DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION | ALL | ||
| 3:45pm | BREAK | ||
| North Carolina State University |
Movie: Thermal Scattering Data Generation and Advance Methods Development | By: Ayman Hawari | |
| 4:00pm | ADJOURN | ||
| 4:15pm | NDAG MEETING | for invitees only |
