| Fukuoka, Japan | Oct-26 | BNL | 8th international workshop on Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics (CNR*26) | BNL had an abstract submitted and accepted, entitled "Pathway to a Modern EMPIRE", discussing the NCSP-funded effort modernize and maintain the EMPIRE reaction code, used in most main ND evaluations |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May-27 | 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 |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Jun-27 | BNL | WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated parallel meetings | Collaborate in matters relevant to the development of the Nuclear Data task in BNL and other topics associated with the NCSP mission |
| IAEA, Vienna, Austria | TBD-27 | BNL | IAEA Consultancy Meeting - INDEN meeting on structural materials | 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. |
| Geel, Belgium | Sep-26 | LANL | 7th Biannual Workshop for Inelastic and Elastic Neutron Scattering | Participation in the premier international conference on neutron scattering. Visit of the GELINA facility to foster collaboration with the local scattering experts |
| Gothenburg, Sweden | Oct-26 | LANL | Great Pioneer course at Chalmers University | Invited to lecture on LANSCE NCSP related activities. |
| Jeju, South Korea | Oct-26 | LANL | 15th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and 23rd ANS Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division | Participation in the premier international conference on radiation shielding with a special session on the recovery from the Fukushima disaster which directly relates to the NCSP 1FRAME project. |
| Fukuoka, Japan | Oct-26 | LANL | 8th international workshop on Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics (CNR*26) | Invited to give a lecture on R-Matrix and recent findings in NCSP-funded data from 149Sm. |
| Unknown | Nov-26 | LANL | 23rd ANS Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division | Participate in OECD/NEA expert group on the Fukushima Decommissioning. |
| Geneva, Switzerland | Nov-26 | LANL | 9th High Power Targetry Workshop | Participate in the workshop and interact with experts on neutron target designs for the upcoming neutron target at Lujan. |
| Granada, Spain | Nov-26 | LANL | IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD Conference | Author and presenter for work related to deuterated organic scintillator measurements performed at LANL and their impact on organic scintillator response modeling. |
| Trieste, Italy | Nov-26 | LANL | Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Nuclear Reaction Data: Experiment and Compilation | Presenting reaction rates from critical experiments at NCERC in a poster session. Participate in workshop and interact with experts on reaction rate analysis. |
| Geneva, Switzerland | Dec-26 | LANL | 25th anniversary of nTOF facility | Invited to present DICER activities and results. Will initiate discussions on participating in the nTOF collaboration, to allows us international collaborations and acquiring samples for nuclear data measurements |
| Vienna, Austria | Dec-26 | LANL | IAEA Consultancy Meetings | Taking part in IAEA consultancy meeting to present Appendix B nuclear data measurements on actinides. |
| Tokai, Japan | Apr-27 | LANL | ICSBEP, IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Meetings | Authors or reviewers for Diemos, Theta, Paradigm, and Music for ICSBEP, as well as experimentalists who supported other evaluations. Will also provide technical support at IRPhE, and SINBAD Technical Review Group Meetings. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May-27 | 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. |
| Unknown | May-27 | LANL | FACE | Participate in OECD/NEA expert group on the Fukushima Decommissioning. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May-27 | 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. |
| Paris, France | Jun-27 | LANL | IMORN-34 (34th International Meeting on Reactor Noise) | Participate in the International Meeting on Reactor Noise. This meeting will support neutron noise measurement techniques used in subcritical system monitoring. |
| Prague, Che | Jun-27 | LANL | 10th International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications | Provide presentations on recent NCERC experiments and capabilities. Networking with international peers. Visiting experimental facilities in Prague. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | Jul-27 | 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. |
| Tokyo, Japan | Aug-27 | LANL | 1FD11 | Participate in the 11th forum on decomissioning of Fukushima. This event and side meetings are an esseantial part of the collaboration on the 1FRAME project. |
| Manchester, UK | Sep-27 | LANL | International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC-2027) | Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety. |
| Japan | Q3-27 | 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 | Q4-27 | LANL | Trip to support Fukushima Measurements | 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. |
| ASNR, Paris, France | TBD-27 | LANL | Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with ASNR | Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix E. |
| AWE, Reading, UK | TBD-27 | LANL | Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with AWE and UKNNL | Coordinate work as described the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix F. |
| Geel, Belgium | TBD-27 | LANL | Neutron Resonance Analysis school | Invited to lecture on the DICER technique and instrument |
| JAEA, Tokai, Japan | Apr-27 | LLNL | ICSBEP and IRPhE Technical Review Meetings | Meeting of the Technical Review Group of the ICSBEP to review new benchmarks. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May-27 | 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 | Jul-27 | 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 | Jul-27 | LLNL | IMORN-34 (34th International Meeting on Reactor Noise) | Premiere technical meeting for topics related to neutron noise analysis. |
| Manchester, UK | Sep-27 | LLNL | International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC-2027) | Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety. |
| AWE, Aldermaston, UK | TBD-27 | 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 |
| ASNR, Paris, France | TBD-27 | LLNL | Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with ASNR | Coordinate joint ASNR-LLNL work as described in Appendix E of the Five-Year Execution Plan. |
| JAEA, Tokai, Japan | Apr-27 | NCSP MGT Team | ICSBEP and IRPhE Technical Review Meetings | Meeting of the Technical Review Group of the ICSBEP to review new benchmarks |
| South Korea | May-27 | NCSP MGT Team | ISO TC85/SC5/WG8 Nuclear Criticality Safety meetings and SC5 Plenary | Doug Bowen is convenor of WG8 and leads these committee/meetings. Alex Lang is a WG8 member. |
| OECD/NEA Paris, France | Jul-27 | NCSP MGT Team | 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 |
| Manchester, UK | Sep-27 | NCSP MGT Team | International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC-2027) | Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety. |
| UK (AWE), FR (ASNR), BE (JRC-GEEL) | TBD-27 | NCSP MGT Team | Support NCSP Management Team | Support NCSP Management Team |
| JAEA, Tokai, Japan | Apr-27 | NNL | ICSBEP and IRPhE Technical Review Meetings | As NDAG Chair, participate in ICSBEP TRG Meetings. |
| OECD/NEA, Paris, France | May-27 | NNL | WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings | As NDAG Chair, participate in WPEC, EG-HPRL, EG-GNDS, and SG51 (URR). |
| Manchester, UK | Sep-27 | NNL | International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC-2027) | As NDAG Chair, participate in ICNC-2027 to maintain awaremenss of emerging nuclear data needs for NCS. |
| Geneva, Switzerland | Dec-26 | ORNL | 25th anniversary of nTOF facility | Invited to discuss ORNL ND activities. |
| JAEA, Tokai, Japan | Apr-27 | ORNL | ICSBEP and IRPhE 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-27 | 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 database). |
| OECD/NEA Paris, France | Jul-27 | ORNL | WPNCS Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings | Collaboration to share expertise and experience in best practices in the NCS community and learn from the international user community |
| Japan | Aug-27 | ORNL | NCSP MGT Team representation at Fukushima collaborations with LANL as needed/required. | Participate in OECD/NEA expert group on the Fukushima Decommissioning and/or collaborations with Japanese collaborators as necessary to support 1FRAME for the NCSP. |
| Manchester, UK | Sep-27 | ORNL | International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC-2027) | Participation provides state of the art information for criticality safety. |
| JRC-Geel, Mol, Belgium | TBD-27 | ORNL | Resonance region nuclear data measurements using GELINA facility at IRMM | Continue 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 supporting succession planning. |
| ASNR, Paris, France | TBD-27 | ORNL | Coordinate International Collaboration Efforts with ASNR | Coordinate work as described in the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix E. |
| AWE, UK | TBD-27 | ORNL | Coordinate International collaboration efforts with AWE | Coordinate work as described in the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix F. |
| UK NNL, UK | TBD-27 | ORNL | Coordinate International collaboration efforts with UK NNL | Coordinate work as described in the Five-Year Execution Plan, Appendix G. |
| TBD | May-27 | RPI | WPEC Annual Meeting and associated subgroup meetings | As CSEWG US Measurements Chair, participate and present in the WPEC meeting, including Subgroup SG-C (High-Priority Request List) and other relevant subgroups. Actively contribute to SG-51 (URR processing) and SG-53 (Zr evaluation), both of which are directly supported by NCSP-related work conducted at RPI. |
| JAEA, Tokai, Japan | Apr-27 | SNL | ICSBEP and IRPhE Technical Review Meetings | ICSBEP and IRPhE Technical Review Meetings |
| Manchester, UK | Sep-27 | SNL | International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC-2027) | Participation provides state of the art information for criticaity safety |
