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FY2025 Foreign Travel

Destination Date Lab Conference/Meeting Justification
OECD/NEA, Paris, France May 2025 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
Madrid, Spain Jun 2025 BNL 16th International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2025) Present and collaborate in matters relevant to the development of the Nuclear Data task in BNL and other topics associated with the NCSP mission
AWE, Reading, UK TBD 2024 LANL Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with AWE and UKNNL Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix F.
Atomic Energy Society of Japan Oct 2024 LANL International Topical Workshop on Fukushima-Daiichi Decommissioning Research 2024 (FDR24) in support of the 1FRAME The topical workshop promotes a broad global exchange of information on technologies, operations, management and safety for the Research and Development activities on decommissioning and dismantling of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
Paris, France Oct 2024 LANL Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications + Monte Carlo 2024 Participation provides state of the art information for Monte Carlo and Supercomputing
OECD/NEA, Paris, France Nov 2024 LANL WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings Contributor and co-leads of multiple sub-groups and expert groups, including SG51 "Evaluation, Processing and Validation in the Unresolved Resonance Region” and SG52 "Development and application of advanced methodologies to produce application specific nuclear data libraries.” These groups are focused on activities that overlap with NCSP priorities.
IAEA, Vienna, Austria Dec 2024 LANL IAEA Consultancy Meeting - INDEN and Nuclear Data standards Taking part in INDEN and standards IAEA meeting to present Appendix B evaluation work on actinides.
IRSN, Paris, France TBD 2025 LANL Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with IRSN Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix E.
Ljubljana, Slovenia Apr 2025 LANL ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings Authors or reviewers for NeSO, Godiva, Cerberus, and JAEA evaluations for ICSBEP, as well as authors of future submissions (IER 498, IER 567) who have not attended previously. Will also provide technical support at IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Group Meetings.
Tokyo, Japan Apr 2025 LANL 2025 Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group (CNWG) Support the CNWG agenda, and meet related to obtaining an MOU for the 1FRAME project.
OECD/NEA, Paris, France May 2025 LANL WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings Contributor and co-leads of multiple sub-groups and expert groups, including SG51 "Evaluation, Processing and Validation in the Unresolved Resonance Region” and SG52 "Development and application of advanced methodologies to produce application specific nuclear data libraries.” These groups are focused on activities that overlap with NCSP priorities.
OECD/NEA, Paris, France May 2025 LANL Working Party on Reactor Systems 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.
OECD/NEA, Paris, France Jun 2025 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.
Madrid, Spain Jun 2025 LANL 16th International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2025) Participation in the premier international nuclear data conference by differential measurement experimenters, nuclear data evaluators, and integral experimenters.
Daejeon, Korea Jun 2025 LANL 6th meetings of the Program Review Group (PRG) and the Management Board (MB) of the OECD/NEA Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident Information Collection and Evaluation (FACE) Project Gain a better understand of 1F-related R&D performed by members of FACE, present an overview of the 1FRAME project, and scope 1FRAME’s contribution to FACE through discussions on future planning of FACE-2.
IAEA, Vienna, Austria Jul 2025 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.
AWE, Aldermasten, UK TBD 2024 LLNL Coordinate JOWOG activities with AWE Coordinate joint AWE-LLNL work as described in Appendix E of the Five-Year Execution Plan and the JOWOG 30 Work Scope
IRSN, Paris, France TBD 2024 LLNL Coordinate LLNL International Collaboration Efforts with IRSN Coordinate joint IRSN-LLNL work as described in Appendix E of the Five-Year Execution Plan.
Paris, France Oct 2024 LLNL Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications + Monte Carlo 2024 Conference focusing on computer modeling for nucler applications
Ljubljana, Slovenia Apr 2025 LLNL ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings Meeting of the Technical Review Group of the ICSBEP to review new benchmarks
OECD/NEA, Paris, France May 2025 LLNL WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings Technical meeting of international experts on nuclear data including SG38 (GND) and SG42 (Thermal scattering law).
OECD/NEA, Paris, France Jun 2025 LLNL WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings Participate in activities of the Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety and subgroup meetings on criticality safety methods and benchmarking
Madrid, Spain Jun 2025 LLNL 16th International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2025) Conference focusing on generation, testing, and usage of nuclear data
Ljubljana, Slovenia Apr 2025 NNL ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings As NDAG Chair, participate in ICSBEP TRG and SINBAD EG Meetings
OECD/NEA, Paris, France May 2025

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WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings

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 As NDAG Chair, participate in WPEC, EG-HPRL, EG-GNDS, and SG51 (URR)
Madrid, Spain Jun 2025 NNL 16th International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2025) Participation provides state of the art information for nuclear data measurement and evaluation.
JRC-Geel, Mol, Belgium Various ORNL Resonance region nuclear data measurements using GELINA facility at JRC-Geel 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		 Nov 2024 ORNL Consultancy Meeting of the International Nuclear Data Evaluation Network (INDEN) on the Evaluation of Light Elements The purpose of the event is to monitor and revise the work plan on the neutron induced evaluations of light nuclei relevant for reactor operation and safeguards, nonproliferation, waste management, criticality and other applications.
IAEA
Vienna, Austria		 Dec 2024 ORNL Technical Meeting of the International Nuclear Data Evaluation Network on Nuclear Data Evaluation of Fissile Actinides The purpose of the event is to discuss and exchange evaluation methodologies and further coordinate the activities in different laboratories with the aim of obtaining consistent evaluated data files of fissile actinides that respect the differential data (particularly the thermal constants of previous Standards (2017), softer Prompt Fission Neutron Spectra and new cross-section measurements) and preserve good performance in criticality benchmarks.
IRSN, Paris, France TBD 2025 ORNL Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with IRSN Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix E.
AWE, Reading, UK TBD 2025 ORNL Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with AWE Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix F.
Ljubljana, Slovenia Apr 2025 ORNL ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings IE review and collaboration to share expertise and experience on best practices in the NCS community and learn from the international user community
OECD/NEA, Paris, France May 2025 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)
Paris, France May 2025 ORNL ISO TC85/SC5/WG8 “Nuclear Criticality Safety” Annual Meetings Doug Bowen is convenor of WG8 and leads this committee/meetings.
Madrid, Spain Jun 2025 ORNL 16th International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2025) Participation in the premier international nuclear data conference by differential measurement experimenters and nuclear data evaluators.
OECD/NEA, Paris, France Jun 2025 ORNL WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings Collaboration to share expertise and experience on best practices in the NCS community and learn from the international user community.
Japan Jun 2025

ORNL
LANL
LANL/JAEA

 Trip to support Fukusima Fuel Debris Collaboration DOE-NCSP has setup a collaboration with Japan to aid in criticality monitoring for Fukushima fuel debris removal. This is a joint project with LANL, IRSN, and relevant organizations in Japan (TEPCO, METI, etc.). 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 2025 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)
Ljubljana, Slovenia Apr 2025 SNL ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings.