| Destination | Date | Lab | Conference/Meeting | Justification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IAEA, Vienna, Austria | Dec 2025 | BNL |
IAEA Consultancy Meeting - INDEN meeting on structural materials (Trip not taken) |
Present and take part into the INDEN collaboration to develop and improve evaluations on structural materials relevant to NCSP, in particular the ones present in the Appendix B. |
| Paris, France | Mar 2026 | BNL | P(ND)2: Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade | Attend the third international workshop on Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade, which aims to bring together researchers working on experimental and theoretical methods related to nuclear data production, including integral data. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May 2026 | 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 tasks in BNL and other topics associated with the NCSP mission. |
| Aix-En Provence, France | Jun 2026 | BNL | WONDER-2026 | Taking part in International Workshop On Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications (WONDER-2026) which is held in Aix-En Provence in France. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Jun 2026 | BNL |
WPNCS - Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (Trip not taken) |
Collaborate in matters relevant to the development of the Nuclear Data task in BNL and other topics associated with the NCSP mission. |
| Yokohama, Japan | Oct 2025 | LANL | Symposium on Information, Data and Knowledge Management for Radioactive Waste | Participate in OECD/NEA symposium on data management pertaining to nuclear waste. This work is intended to support collaborative efforts in the 1FRAME project. |
| Milan, Italy | Nov 2025 | LANL |
FACE (Trip not taken) |
Participate in OECD/NEA expert group on the Fukushima Decommissioning. |
| Yokohama, Japan | Nov 2025 | LANL |
2025 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD (Trip not taken) |
Participation in the IEEE meeting involving detection technology and analysis methods. This is also a very useful trip to include side meetings for the 1FRAME project. |
| Vienna, Austria | Jul 2026 | LANL | IAEA Consultancy Meeting - Nuclear Data standards | Taking part in standards IAEA meeting to present Appendix B evaluation work on actinides. |
| Aix-En Provence, France | Jul 2026 | LANL | WONDER-2026 | Taking part in International Workshop On Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications (WONDER-2026) which is held in Aix-En Provence in France. |
| Paris, France | TBD 2025 | LANL |
IAEA Consultancy Meetings (Trip not taken) |
Taking part in IAEA consultancy meeting to present Appendix B evaluation work on actinides. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Apr 2026 | LANL | ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings | Authors or reviewers for Godiva, Deimos, MUSiC, and PFUNS for ICSBEP, as well as experimentalists who supported other evaluations. Will also provide technical support at IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Group Meetings. |
| Turin, Italy | Apr 2026 | LANL | International Conference on Reactor Physics 2026 | Participation in the premier international reactor physics conference by integral experimenters. |
| Paris, France | May 2026 | LANL | IMORN | Participate in the International Meeting on Reactor Noise. This meeting will support neutron noise measurement techniques used in subcritical system monitoring. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May 2026 | 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 | May 2026 | 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,” SG52 "Development and application of advanced methodologies to produce application specific nuclear data libraries,” and SG53 “Stable Zirconium Evaluations and Validation.” These groups are focused on activities that overlap with NCSP priorities. |
| Oslo, Norway | May 2026 | LANL |
Conference/Meeting - 10th Oslo Workshop on Strength Functions and Level Densities (Trip not taken) |
Taking part in conference as a follow-up to measurements for 149Sm and subsequent publication; how we use level densities to test statistical properties of nuclei, showcasing 149Sm and how we can combine DANCE and DICER to extract beautiful data. Note that the combination between DANCE and DICER is the model we built on getting coherent data for NCSP and improved resonance parameters. |
| Tokyo, Japan | Jun 2026 | LANL | FACE | Participate in OECD/NEA expert group on the Fukushima Decommissioning. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Jun 2026 | 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. |
| Varenna, Italy | Jun 2026 | LANL | 17th Varenna Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms | Taking part in conference as a follow-up to measurements for 149Sm and subsequent publication; NCSP supported work on 149Sm, initiated a systematic study which revealed non-statistical effects in nuclei. |
| ASNR, Paris, France | Jul 2026 | LANL | Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with ASNR | Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix E. |
| Tokyo, Japan | Aug 2026 | LANL | 1FD10 | Participate in the 10th forum on decommissioning of Fukushima. This event and side meetings are an essential part of the collaboration on the 1FRAME project. |
| AWE, Reading, UK | TBD 2026 | LANL |
Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with AWE and UKNNL (Trip not taken) |
Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix F. |
| Japan | Aug 2026 | LANL | Trip to support Fukushima 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, ASNR, 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 ASNR collaboration) are very relevant to the challenge. |
| Japan | Q4 2026 | LANL |
Trip to support Fukushima Measurements (Trip not taken) |
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, ASNR, 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 ASNR collaboration) are very relevant to the challenge. |
| AWE, Aldermaston, UK | TBD 2026 | 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 2026 | LLNL |
Coordinate LLNL International Collaboration Efforts with IRSN (Trip not taken) |
Coordinate joint IRSN-LLNL work as described in Appendix E of the Five-Year Execution Plan. |
| Paris, France | Mar 2026 | LLNL | P(ND)2: Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade | Attend the third international workshop on Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade, which aims to bring together researchers working on experimental and theoretical methods related to nuclear data production, including integral data. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Apr 2026 | LLNL | ICSBEP, IRPhE Technical Review Meetings | Meeting of the Technical Review Group of the ICSBEP to review new benchmarks. |
| Turin, Italy | Apr 2026 | LLNL | PHYSOR 2026: International Conference on Reactors | Conference focusing on the physics of reactors, including neutronics and criticality. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May 2026 | LLNL |
WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings (Trip not taken) |
Technical meeting of international experts on nuclear data including SG38 (GND) and SG42 (Thermal scattering law). |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Jun 2026 | 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. |
| TBD | TBD | LLNL |
ICDA-5: International Conference on Dosimetry and its Applications (Trip not taken) |
Conference focusing on dosimetry, including criticality accident dosimetry and reactor dosimetry. |
| TBD | TBD | LLNL | ICTT-29: International Conference on Transport Theory | Conference focusing on radiation transport, including neutronics. |
| Turin, Italy | Apr 2026 | NNL | PHYSOR 2026 | Participation provides state of the art information for nuclear data and integral experiment needs and validation. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Apr 2026 | NNL | ICSBEP Technical Review Meetings | As NDAG Chair, participate in ICSBEP TRG Meetings. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May 2026 | NNL | WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings | As NDAG Chair, participate in WPEC, EG-HPRL, EG-GNDS, and SG51 (URR). |
| No Institution, Japan and/or Italy | Nov 2025 | ORNL |
MGT Team representation at Fukushima collaborations with LANL as needed/required. (Trip not taken) |
Participate in OECD/NEA expert group on the Fukushima Decommissioning and/or collaborations with Japanese collaborators as necessary to support 1FRAME for the NCSP. |
| 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. |
| OECD/NEA Paris, France | Apr 2026 | 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. |
| JRC-Geel, Mol, Belgium | Apr 2026 | 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. |
| Turin, Italy | Apr 2026 | ORNL | International Conference on the Physics of Reactors (PHYSOR 2026) | Conference to promote and obtain the latest advancements in reactor physics. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May 2026 | 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). |
| JRC-Geel, Mol, Belgium | May 2026 | 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. |
| Aix-en-Provence, France | July 2026 | ORNL | WONDER-2026: 6th International Workshop on Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications | Taking part in International Workshop On Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications (WONDER-2026). |
| JRC-Geel, Mol, Belgium | July 2026 | 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. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | July 2026 | ORNL | WP-NCS 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. |
| Tokyo, Japan | Aug 2026 | ORNL |
1FD10 (Trip not Taken) |
Participate in the 10th forum on decommissioning of Fukushima. This event and side meetings are an essential part of the collaboration on the 1FRAME project. |
| Geel, Belgium | Sep 2026 | ORNL | WINS 2026: The 7th Biannual Workshop for Inelastic and Elastic Neutron Scattering | Technical meeting of international experts on neutron scattering located near GELINA where current measurements are being performed |
| ASNR, Paris, France | TBD | ORNL |
Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with ASNR (Trip not taken) |
Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix E. |
| NNL | TBD | ORNL |
Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with UK NNL (Trip not taken) |
Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix G. |
| AWE, Reading, UK | TBD | ORNL |
Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with AWE (Trip not taken) |
Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix F. |
| TBD | TBD | ORNL |
ISO TC85/SC5/WG8 "Nuclear Criticality Safety" Annual Meetings (Trip not taken) |
Doug Bowen is convenor of WG8 and leads these committee/meetings. Alex Lang is a WG8 member. |
| UK (AWE) FR (ASNR) BE (JRC-Geel) |
FY 2026 | ORNL |
Support NCSP Management Team (Trip not taken) |
Support NCSP Management Team. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May 2026 | 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) |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Apr 2026 | SNL |
ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings (Trip not taken) |
ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings. |
| UK (AWE) FR (ASNR) BE (JRC-Geel) |
FY 2026 | SNL |
Support NCSP Management Team (Trip not taken) |
Support NCSP Management Team. |
