NUCLEAR CRITICALITY SAFETY PROGRAM (NCSP)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM REVIEW
MARCH 27-28, 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Rd., Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Tennessee Conference Rooms A-C
FINAL AGENDA
| 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM | Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | ||
| 8:30 AM | Welcome from ORNL | Dr. Alan Icenhour | |
| Welcome from NCSP | Dr. Angela Chambers | ||
| About the Annual NCSP Technical Program Review | Dr. Doug Bowen | ||
| Safety and Security Briefing | Dr. Doug Bowen | ||
| The DOE CSSG - 2017 the Year in Review | David Erickson | ||
| NCSP TECHNICAL PROGRAM ELEMENTS TO BE PRESENTED |
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| ANALYTICAL METHODS | |||
| INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS | |||
| INFORMATION PRESERVATION AND DISSEMINATION | |||
| NUCLEAR DATA | |||
| TRAINING AND EDUCATION | |||
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| ANALYTICAL METHODS | |||
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| LANL | MCNP Progress for NCSP | Mike Rising | |
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| CNS-DOE LLNL |
Y-12 Criticality Alarm System Testing with Godiva | Chris Haught (BEST PAPER) |
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| IRSN | Nuclear Criticality Slide Rule – Introducing Plutonium Systems | Thomas Miller | |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | BREAK | ||
| 10:45 AM | ANALYTICAL METHODS (continued) |
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| ORNL | Recent Developments in SCALE | Brad Rearden | |
| ORNL | Data and Code Testing with KENO | BJ Marshall (BEST PAPER) |
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| OPEN DISCUSSION | ALL | ||
| 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM | LUNCH | ||
| 1:15 PM | ANALYTICAL METHODS (continued) |
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| ORNL | AMPX Status Report and ENDF/B-VIII.0 Data Testing | Andrew Holcomb | |
| ORNL | NCSP Evaluation Activities at IRSN | Luiz Leal Presented by: Vladimir Sobes |
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| INFORMATION PRESERVATION AND DISSEMINATION | |||
| LLNL | Website Modernization | Dave Heinrichs | |
| OPEN DISCUSSION | ALL | ||
| INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS | |||
| LANL | Design of a Critical Experiment to Validate U-235 Unresolved Resonance Region (URR) Nuclear Data and Computational Methods |
Rian Bahran (BEST PAPER) |
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| LANL | SCRαP (Subcritical Copper-Reflected alpha-Phase plutonium) Benchmark Updates |
Jesson Hutchinson | |
| LANL | Neptunium Sphere Observation (NeSO) Subcritical Experiment Design |
Alex McSpaden | |
| 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | BREAK | ||
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INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS |
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| LANL | Neutron Clustering and the RPI Measurements | Nick Thompson | |
| LANL | KRUSTY Update | Rene Sanchez (BEST PAPER) |
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| AWE | An Update on Work Undertaken by AWE Using Subcritical Assemblies in the DAF |
Neil McMillan Nigel Kelsall |
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| LLNL | Integral Experiments Accomplishments: IER-252 Flattop Field Measurements and Upcoming NAD Exercise (IER-253) | Dave Hickman | |
| LLNL | Optimizing TEX-Pu for Testing Thermal Scattering Cross & Tera Sparks Sections and Maximizing the Intermediate Fission Fraction |
Jesse Norris (BEST PAPER) |
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| 5:30 PM- 5:45 PM | BREAK | ||
| 5:45 PM- 7:30 PM | Working Dinner (heavy hor d'oeuvres) with Key Note Speaker |
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| Key Note Speaker | Pat McClure, LANL | ||
| 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM | Wednesday, March 28, 2018 | ||
| 8:30 AM | INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS (continued) |
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| LLNL | Thermal/Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) First Critical Experiments with Plutonium-Aluminum Zero Power Physics Reactor (ZPPR) Plates | Catherine Percher (BEST PAPER) |
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| LLNL | ISSA Preliminary Results | Tony Nelson | |
| LLNL | IER-329 CED-1: Preliminary Design for TEX with U-233 ZPPR Plates and High-Density Polyethylene (TEX-23) | Will Zywiec (BEST PAPER) |
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| NNSS | NNSS Accomplishments: KRUSTY Support by MSTS, Safety Basis & Readiness, Vault Modifications | Jeff Lewis (BEST PAPER) |
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| SNL | Overview of NCSP Integral Experiments at Sandia | Gary Harms | |
| SNL | IER-451 Titanium and Aluminum Sleeve Experiments in the BUCCX |
David Ames Presented by: Gary Harms |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | BREAK | ||
| 10:45 AM | INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS (continued) |
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| ORNL | Conceptual Design of an Intermediate Energy Critical Experiment using the SPR/CX Lattice |
Justin Clarity | |
| ORNL | Preliminary Design of Temperature Dependent Critical Experiments at Atmospheric Pressure with Low Enriched UO2 |
Thomas Miller | |
| NUCLEAR DATA | |||
| BNL | ENDF/B-VIII.0 | Dave Brown | |
| BNL | Angular Distributions in ENDF/B-VIII.0 | Dave Brown | |
| RPI | Measurements of Neutron Induced Reactions Relevant to NCSP |
Yaron Danon | |
| OPEN DISCUSSION | ALL | ||
| 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM | LUNCH | ||
| 1:15 PM | NUCLEAR DATA (continued) |
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| ORNL | Cross Section Evaluation of Dy Isotopes and 16O in the Resolved Resonance Neutron Region |
Marco Pigni | |
| ORNL | SAMMY Modernization | Goran Arbanas | |
| IRSN LANL |
Spatial Correlation Measurements at RPI | Eric Dumonteil | |
| LANL | Resonance Reconstruction Capabilities in NJOY21 | Jeremy Conlin | |
| LANL | LANL Nuclear Data for NCSP | Ionel Stetcu | |
| TRAINING AND EDUCATION | |||
| ORNL | Status of the Development and Deployment of the NCSP Training and Education Courses for FY17 |
Doug Bowen | |
| NCSP UNIVERSITY TASKS | |||
| NCSU | Thermal Scattering Law Research and Development | Colby Sorrel (BEST PAPER) |
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| GENERAL DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION | ALL | ||
| 3:00 PM | ADJOURN |
