February 15–17, 2022
Hosted Virtually by: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
NCSP Management Team
Angela Chambers, DOE NNSA (NA-511), NCSP Program Manager
Doug Bowen, ORNL, Execution Manager
John Miller, Sandia, CEdT Manager
Marsha Henley, ORNL, Program Execution Support
Contact the team: ncsp-mgmt [at] llnl.gov (ncsp-mgmt[at]llnl[dot]gov)
DAY 1 — February 15, 2022
| Welcome | |
|---|---|
| Angela Chamber (DOE NNSA) | FY22 NCSP Technical Program Review |
| Doug Bowen (ORNL/NCSP) | The DOE/NNSA Nuclear Criticality Safety Program and the Purpose of the Technical Program Review |
| Mikey Brady (CSSG) | The DOE CSSG: 2021 the Year in Review |
| NCSP Task Manager Invited Site Reports | |
|---|---|
| Joetta Goda (LANL) | LANL FY21 NCSP Highlights |
| Catherine Percher (LLNL) | LLNL FY21 NCSP Overview |
| Sylvia Wright-Reeder (MSTS) | |
| Doug Bowen (ORNL) | ORNL NCSP FY 2021 Budget Summary and Highlights |
| Yaron Danon (RPI) | NCSP Related Nuclear Data Research at RPI, Overview Talk |
| Gary Harms (SNL) | The NCSP at Sandia in FY21 |
| David Erickson (SRS) | FY21 CritView Status |
| Kevin Reynolds (Y-12) | GELINA DU-Mo Rotating Target Assembly Fabrication |
| David Brown (BNL) | NCSP Activities at BNL (FY21) |
| International Collaborations | |
|---|---|
| Matthew Harker (AWE) | NCSP – AWE Collaboration |
| Julie-Fiona Martin | Update on activities in the NEA Nuclear Science Committee relevant to the NCSP |
| Peter Schillebeeckx (JRC/GEEL) | Nuclear Data Activities at JRC Geel |
| Jean-Christophe Trama, Coralie Carmouze (CEA) |
Update of CEA DES Criticality-Safety Activities and Perspectives |
| Sophie Pignet (IRSN) | IRSN Work in Support of NCSP: FY2021 and Plan for Future |
| FY21 Analytical Methods Technical Presentations | |
|---|---|
| Caleb Mattoon (LLNL) | TNSL improvements in FUDGE |
| Jeremy Conlin (LANL) | Nuclear Data Activities Supporting MCNP |
| Wei Ji (RPI) | Adaptive-in-temperature method for fast on-the-fly sampling of thermal neutron scattering data in MCNP6 |
| Nathan Gibson (LANL) | Update on Covariance Data Testing Strategy at LANL |
| Wim Haeck (LANL) | NJOY Work in FY21 |
| Mike Rising (LANL) | FY21 MCNP Updates for the Nuclear Criticality Safety Program |
| Tim Valentine (ORNL) | Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) |
| Andrew Holcomb (ORNL) | AMPX Developments |
| William B.J. Marshall (ORNL) | Expansion of the Verified, Archived, Library of Inputs and Data (VALID) |
| Isaac Meyer (ORNL/MIT) | Temperature-Dependent Propagation of Resonance Parameter Uncertainty |
| William Wieselquist (ORNL) | SCALE AM2 Accomplishments in FY21 |
DAY 2 — February 16, 2022
| FY21 Analytical Methods Technical Presentations (continued) | |
|---|---|
| Johann Herth (IRSN) | Status of the Slide Rule Update - Phase 4 Plutonium Configurations – Delayed Gamma |
| FY21 Information Preservation And Dissemination Technical Presentations | |
|---|---|
| Mathieu Dupont (ORNL) | FY21 Progress of the Oak Ridge Health Physics Research Reactor CAAS Benchmark Evaluation |
| Scott Finfrock (SRS) | CritView Database Expansion |
| FY21 Training and Education Technical Presentations | |
|---|---|
| Doug Bowen (ORNL) | ORNL NCSP Training and Education Support for FY2021 |
| Shauntay Coleman (LLNL) | NCS Pipeline UC Berkeley Course Overview |
| Norann Calhoun (LANL) | University Pipeline (with UNM) for Criticality Safety Professionals |
| FY21 Nuclear Data Technical Presentations | |
|---|---|
| Gustavo Nobre (BNL) | Automating neutron resonances classification with Machine-Learning |
| Ching-Yen Wu (LLNL) | Parallel-Plate Avalanche Counter (PPAC) Fabrication for 240Pu PFNS Measurement |
| Denise Neudecker, Amy Lovell (LANL) | Modeling and evaluating 239Pu and 235U PFNS and average prompt-neutron multiplicity |
| Esther Leal Cidoncha, Aaron Couture (LANL) | 233U(n,y) measurements at LANSCE |
DAY 3 — February 17, 2022
