FY2024 Foreign Travel

Destination	Date	Lab	Conference/Meeting	Justification
OECD/NEA Paris, France	May 2024	BNL	WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	Present and collaborate at the discussions and expert subgroups related to the development of the Nuclear Data and Analytical Methods tasks in BNL
OECD/NEA Paris, France	Sep 2024	BNL	WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	Collaborate in matters relevant to the development of the Nuclear Data task in BNL
Miyagi, Japan	Oct 2023	LANL	International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC)	Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety.
IAEA Vienna, Austria	Nov 2023	LANL	IAEA Consultancy Meeting - INDEN and Nuclear Data Standards	Meetings (INDEN and Neutron Data Standards) are related to nuclear data evaluation of U-238, U-235, and Pu-238-242 fission observables (nu-bar, PFNS, (n,f) cross sections.) These are related to ongoing work in ND1.
IAEA Vienna, Austria	Fall 2023	LANL	IAEA Consultancy Meeting (Trip not taken)	Meetings are related to nuclear data processing, the codes and the processed formats. As NJOY developers (AM-2) and processors (AM-1) we play an important role.
IRSN Paris, France	TBD 2023	LANL	Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with IRSN (Trip not taken)	Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix E.
AWE Reading, UK	TBD 2024	LANL	Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with AWE and UKNNL (Trip not taken)	Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix F.
Tokyo, Japan	Aug 2024	LANL	Planning trip with IRSN to STACY	IRSN has been coordinating with JAEA personnel on making measurements at a reconfigured STACY core to support eventual debris measurements at Fukushima. LANL expertise with the MC-15 from NCSP subcritical benchmarks and underwater measurements at the RPI reactor (another IRSN collaboration) are very relevant to the challenge.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	May 2024	LANL	WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings (Trip was not attended by anyone using NCSP funding)	Contributor and co-leads of multiple sub-groups and expert groups, including SG45 "Validation of Nuclear Data Libraries (VaNDaL) Project,” SG46 “"Efficient and Effective Use of Integral Experiments for Nuclear Data Validation,” SG49 "Reproducibility in Nuclear Data Evaluation," and EG-GNDS "Recommended Definition of General Nuclear Database Structure." These groups are focused on activities that overlap with NCSP priorities. Attending WPEC and its Subgroup 49 to present NCSP sponsored Ta181 evaluation as a paramount example of evaluation reproducibility.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	May 2024	LANL	Working Party on Reactor Systems (Trip not taken)	International meeting on the analysis of reactor systems. There is considerable overlap between reactor systems and critical assemblies. NCSP and NCERC are one of the few options for important research.
IAEA Vienna, France	Jul 2024	LANL	Compound Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics	R-Matrix and Applications in energy sessions are of interest and participant can present on NCSP funded Sm results and upcoming Pu-239 experiment.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	Sep 2024	LANL	WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	Contributors and participants in multiple subgroups aimed at providing and comparing state-of-the-art information for improving MCNP®, Whisper, and other computational methods that are necessary and heavily used in NCSP work. Ongoing subgroups include: benchmark quality assessments and metrics, computational bias methods and comparisons, and benchmark correlation calculational methods.
Paris, France	Sep 2024	LANL	Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety Meeting
Miyagi, Japan	Oct 2023	LLNL	International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC)	Once every 4 year conference devoted to criticality safety and related disciplines.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	Feb 2024	LLNL	20th Meeting of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (Trip not taken)	Technical meeting of international experts on technical issues relating to the analysis of reactor systems and reactor physics
OECD/NEA Paris, France	May 2024	LLNL	WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	Technical meeting of international experts on nuclear data including SG38 (GND) and SG42 (Thermal scattering law).
Lucca, Italy	May 2024	LLNL	Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty (BEPU) International Conference	Conference on estimating uncertainties relevant to benchmarking and nuclear data.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	Sep 2024	LLNL	WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	Participate in activities of the Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety and expert group meetings on IE S/U, MC methods, criticality accidents, and experimental needs.
Miyagi, Japan	Oct 2023	NNL	International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC)	Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	May 2024	NNL	WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	As NDAG Chair, participate in WPEC, SG48 (Thermal Scattering Law) and EG-HPRL
OECD/NEA Paris, France	Sep 2024	NNL	WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings (Trip not taken)	As NDAG Chair, participate in SG8 on criticality benchmark expert knowledge.
Miyagi, Japan	Oct 2023	ORNL	International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC)	Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety.
IAEA Vienna, Austria	Oct 2023	ORNL	IAEA Technical Meeting on Nuclear Data Processing (Trip not taken)	Technical meeting of international experts on nuclear data processing methods and codes. Note: Travel costs may be offset by IAEA funding.
JRC-Geel Mol, Belgium	Nov 2023	ORNL	Resonance region nuclear data measurements using GELINA facility at JRC-Geel (Trip not taken)	Continues cross-section measurements to support the production of new cross-section evaluations per the schedule in Appendix B of the Five-Year Plan. Jesse Brown to support half of the visits to supporting succession planning.
IAEA Vienna, Austria	Dec 2023	ORNL	IAEA International Nuclear Data Evaluation Network (INDEN) on Structural Methods	Technical meeting of international experts on nuclear data processing methods and codes. Note: Travel costs may be offset by IAEA funding.
IRSN, CEA, AWE, Rolls-Royce, JRC-Geel, NNL (UK)	TBD 2024	ORNL	Coordinate NCSP International Collaborations (Trip not taken)	Proposed trip to NCSP collaborators for NCSP Manager and execution manager to discuss future collaborations.
JRC-Geel Mol, Belgium	Apr 2024	ORNL	Resonance region nuclear data measurements using GELINA facility at JRC-Geel (Trip not taken)	Continues cross-section measurements to support the production of new cross-section evaluations per the schedule in Appendix B of the Five-Year Plan. Jesse Brown to support half of the visits to supporting succession planning.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	May 2024	ORNL	WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	Technical meeting of international experts on nuclear data including SG38 (GND), EG-GNDS, SG48 (thermal scatter), SG44 (covariance), SG45 (validation), SG46 (IE for ND evaluation), SG50 (automatic readable experimental data base)
NEA, Paris, France	May 2024	ORNL	FUDGE/(MC)GIDI/GNDS Introductory Course	Attendance at this workshop is useful for ORNL staff to use the open-source codes FUDGE and GIDIplus to generate and use nuclear data in the GNDS format. This is necessary to continue ND work at ORNL.
JRC-Geel Mol, Belgium	Jun 2024	ORNL	Resonance region nuclear data measurements using GELINA facility at JRC-Geel (Trip not taken)	Continues cross-section measurements to support the production of new cross-section evaluations per the schedule in Appendix B of the Five-Year Plan. Jesse Brown to support half of the visits to supporting succession planning.
IAEA Vienna, Austria	Jun 2024	ORNL	IAEA International Nuclear Data Evaluation Network (INDEN) on light nuclei evaluations	IAEA International Nuclear Data Evaluation Network (INDEN), Vienna, 1 week. International nuclear data evaluation collaboration. Represent NCSP and ORNL interests in international nuclear data evaluation. Note: Travel costs may be offset by IAEA funding.
Fukushima, Japan	Aug 2024	ORNL	NCSP Management Travel to Japan with LANL for White House Collaboration	Review progress in active subgroups and discuss activities of interest at the WPNCS meeting.
Paris, France	Sep 2024	ORNL	Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety and associated subgroup meetings	Review progress in active subgroups and discuss activities of interest at the WPNCS meeting
London, UK	Sep 2024	ORNL	ISO TC85/SC5/WG8 Nuclear Criticality Safety meetings and SC5 Plenary	Provides US leadership to ISO TC85/SC5/WG8 by D. Bowen who also chairs the ANS-8 Subcommittee. A. Lang is added to the list as a backup for WG8 leadership in the future.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	Sep 2024	ORNL	WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	AM collaboration to share expertise and experience on best practices in the NCS community and learn from international user community
JRC-Geel Mol, Belgium	Sep 2024	ORNL	Resonance region nuclear data measurements using GELINA facility at JRC-Geel (Trip not taken)	Continues cross-section measurements to support the production of new cross-section evaluations per the schedule in Appendix B of the Five-Year Plan. Jesse Brown to support half of the visits to supporting succession planning.
Miyagi, Japan	Oct 2023	PNNL	International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC)	Participation provides: State of the art information for criticality safety. Opportunity to inform the international community on the Sum-of-Fractions Method.
OECD/NEA Paris, France	May 2024	RPI	WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings	As CSEWG US Measurements Chair, participate and present in the WPEC meeting, subgroup SG-C (high priority list), and other subgroups. Also actively participate in SG-48 (Advances in Thermal Scattering Law Analysis) and SG-50 (Developing an Automatically Readable, Comprehensive and Curated Experimental Reaction Database)
Miyagi, Japan	Oct 2023	SNL	International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC)	Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety.
Miyagi, Japan	Oct 2023	Y12	International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC)	Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety.

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