Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP) Technical Program Review - 2024 | Nuclear Criticality Safety Program

February 20–22, 2024

Hosted by: Brookhaven National Laboratory

NCSP Management Team

Angela Chambers, DOE NNSA (NA-ESH-21), NCSP Program Manager
Doug Bowen, ORNL, Execution Manager
John Miller, Sandia, IE Manager
Marsha Henley, ORNL, Program Execution Support
Contact the team: ncsp-mgmt [at] llnl.gov (ncsp-mgmt[at]llnl[dot]gov)

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Welcome
Angela Chambers (NNSA)	Welcome from NCSP
John Hill (BNL)	Welcome from Brookhaven National Laboratory Director of Science and Technology
David Brown (BNL)	BNL Welcome
Doug Bowen (ORNL)	The Purpose of the DOE/NNSA Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Technical Program Review

NCSP Task Manager Invited Site Reports
Joetta Goda (LANL)	LANL FY23 NCSP Highlights
Catherine Percher (LLNL)	LLNL NCSP Task Manager FY23 Overview
William Hall (MSTS)	NNSS Support Activities FY23
Doug Bowen (ORNL)	ORNL NCSP FY2023 Budget Summary and Highlights
Travis Zipperer (PNNL)	PNNL Budget Summary and Highlights
Yaron Danon (RPI)	NCSP Related Nuclear Data Research at RPI
David Ames (SNL)	Sandia Site Report
Scott Finfrock (SRS)	CritView Status Report
Kevin Reynolds (Y-12)	Y-12 Task Manager FY 2023 Summary
Gustavo Nobre (BNL)	BNL Site Report for the NCSP Technical Program Review

International Collaborations
Matthew Harker (AWE)	International Collaborations AWE UK, Progress FY24 and Look Ahead
Aurelien Dorval (CEA) Michael Prigniau (CEA)	Overview of CEA activities in nuclear criticality safety
Sophie Pignet (IRSN)	IRSN work in support to NCSP: FY2023
Julie-Fiona Martin (OECD NEA)	NEA Nuclear Science Committee activities in connection with the NCSP

FY23 Analytical Methods (AM) Technical Presentations
Michael Rising (LANL) LANL-AM1	FY23 MCNP® Updates for the Nuclear Criticality Safety Program
Wim Haeck (LANL) LANL-AM2	Overview of NJOY work for NCSP FY23
Alexander Clark (LANL) LANL-AM1	Whisper Updates
Wim Haeck (LANL) LANL-AM1	Processing, Verification, and Validation of ENDF/B-VIII.1 Beta Releases at LANL
Camden Blake (RPI) LANL-AM3	On-The-Fly Sampling for Inelastic Incoherent Thermal Neutron Scattering for Monte Carlo Codes
Tim Valentine (ORNL) ORNL-AM1	Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC)
Will Wieselquist (ORNL) Kursat Bekar (ORNL) ORNL-AM2	SCALE Activities in FY23
Doro Wiarda (ORNL) Jesse Brown (ORNL) ORNL-AM3	AMPX Developments in FY2024 Path to Automated Validation of ENDF/B-VIII.1
Travis Greene (ORNL) ORNL-AM17	Status of the Verified, Archived, Library of Inputs and Data (VALID)
Lisa Fassino (ORNL) ORNL-AM18	Assessing the Impact of Sensitivity/Uncertainty Selection Criteria on Computational Bias Prediction
Travis Zipperer (PNNL) PNNL-AM1, ORNL-AM19	Sum-of-Fractions Method
Sophie Pignet (IRSN) LLNL-AM3, ORNL-AM6	Status of the slide rule update
Romain Vuiart (IRSN) LANL-AM5, LLNL-AM5, ORNL-AM10, Y12-AM1	International Benchmark Comparison for Nuclear Data and Code Validation: Outlook and Status
Jeffrey Favorite (LANL) Invited	Writing Benchmark Models with a Computer Program

FY23 Integral Experiments (IE) Technical Presentations
Jeffrey Favorite (LANL)	IER 555: Status of Godiva-IV Benchmark (HEU-MET-FAST-086) Revision
Alexander Clark (LANL)	IER 121: Updates on the NeSO benchmark
Kristin Stolte (LANL)	IER 423: Flattop-HEU Benchmark Re-evaluation Summary
Geordie McKenzie (LANL)	IER 479: Challenges of a Low Temperature Experiment and Proposed Solutions
Cole Kostelac (LANL)	IER 517: MOBY DICK - Molybdenum Critical Experiment HEU Design
Kristin Stolte (LANL)	IER 537: Update on CERBERUS Experiment Execution & HEU Plate Characterization
Peter Brain (LANL)	IER 551: EUROPA - Intermediate Pu and Be Experiment
Joetta Goda (LANL)	IER 605: Godiva IV Criticality Accident Alarm System (CAAS) Testing for AWE
Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)	FY23 ORNL Integral Experiment and DOE-EM work summary
David Ames (SNL)	Completion of IER 305: Molybdenum Sleeve Experiments and Preparations for Performing IER 441: Epithermal Tantalum Experiments
Augie Chapa (SNL)	Procurement Process Challenges, Issues, and Lessons Learned from IER 305 and IER 441
Mac Cook (SNL)	IER 523: Updates on UO2-BeO Experiments
Catherine Percher (LLNL)	IER 480: TEX-Pu Benchmark (PU-MET-THERM-004) to Test Polyethylene and Lucite Thermal Scattering Laws
Jacob Glesmann (LLNL) Eric Aboud (LLNL)	IER 479 and 547: Low Temperature TEX Surrogate Testing and Reflector Design
Jesse Norris (LLNL)	IER 518: Data Analysis for High Multiplication Subcritical Experiments
Samuel Varghese (LLNL)	IER 500: Restarting the AWE Five Year Measurement Campaign
Aaron Tamashiro (LLNL)	IER 484: AFRRI Field Characterization Measurements
Eric Aboud (LLNL)	IER 499: Final Design of a TEX Variant with Chlorine to Support NNSA Operations

FY23 Information Preservation And Dissemination (IPD) Technical Presentations
Doug Bowen (ORNL) ORNL-IPD3, ORNL-IPD4	Nuclear Criticality Safety Repository, LFE Database, and the NDA Program
Mathieu Dupont (ORNL) ORNL-IPD5	Status of the HPRR experiments evaluation to create a published shielding benchmark
Catherine Percher (LLNL) Aaron Tamashiro (LLNL) LLNL-IPD1, LLNL-IPD6	LLNL IPD Tasks: ICSBEP and Pulsed Spheres Benchmark

FY23 Training and Education (TE) Technical Presentations
Doug Bowen (ORNL) ORNL-TE1	ORNL NCSP Training and Education Support for FY 2023
Walid Metwally (ORNL) ORNL-TE14	Overview and Status Update of the Nuclear Criticality Safety Training and Pipeline Program

FY23 Nuclear Data (ND) Technical Presentations
Chris Chapman (ORNL) ORNL-ND4	Thermal Neutron Total Cross Section Measurements for Improvement of Criticality Calculations and Propagation of Scattering Kernel Uncertainties
Kemal Ramic (ORNL) ORNL-ND11	Status update of ORNL ND11 task for FY23
Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL) ORNL-ND6	Recent Developments in the R-Matrix Code SAMMY
Marco Pigni (ORNL) ORNL-ND2	ORNL nuclear data evaluation contribution to NCSP
Klaus Guber (ORNL) ORNL-ND1, ORNL-ND3	ORNL Neutron Cross Section Measurements of Zr-isotopes
Chris Chapman (ORNL) ORNL-ND9	Simultaneous TSL/RRR Evaluation of UO2 & PuO2 – Theory and Preliminary Results
Ayman Hawari (NCSU) LLNL-ND12	Thermal Scattering Law Research and Development at NC State University
Tim Classen (LLNL) LLNL-ND9	Scoping Study for a 6Li-Doped Scintillator Array for Fission Correlation Measurements
Sukhjinder Singh (RPI) RPI-ND1	Measurements and Evaluation of Fe54
Greg Siemers (RPI) RPI-ND1	High Energy Quasi-Differential Neutron Emission Measurements of Ta-181 and F-19
Alec Golas (RPI) RPI-ND1	Automatic Determination of Resonance Parameters from Self-Shielded Measurements
Gustavo Nobre (BNL) BNL-ND1	Progress towards ENDF/B-VIII.1
Esther Leal Cidoncha (LANL) LANL-ND2	R-Matrix analysis of the neutron-induced cross sections on 143Nd measured at LANSCE
Thanos Stamatopoulos (LANL) LANL-ND2	R-Matrix analysis of ¹⁴⁹Sm using DICER and DANCE data
Matthew Devlin (LANL) LANL-ND1	Evaluated U-238 PFNS with Chi-Nu data
Ionel Stetcu (LANL) LANL-ND1	Evaluation of neutron-induced reactions on medium-mass nuclei and actinides
Mark Paris (LANL) LANL-ND1	Recent updates to the ⁶Li, ⁹Be and ¹⁶O evaluations for ENDF/B-VIII.1
Matthew Devlin (LANL) LANL-ND2	Prompt Fission Neutron Spectra Measurements at LANSCE: 240Pu and 233U(n,f)

FY23 Invited Talks & Technical Presentations
Joetta Goda (LANL)	Successful PFUNS Execution - Real Time Update
Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL)	Neutron Moderation: From Quanta to the Continuum
Kemal Ramic (ORNL)	Graphite: cautionary tale on the importance of inelastic neutron scattering and transmission measurements
Will Wieselquist (ORNL)	DOE/NRC Criticality Benchmark Safety Support for HALEU (DNCSH)
Walid Metwally (ORNL)	SARP Analyst Course: Now and Then
Bob Little (LANL)	EUCLID Project Summary
Matthew Devlin (LANL)	PARADIGM: PARallel Approach of Differential and InteGral Measurements
Eloura Phelps (LANL) Chloe McMath (LANL)	NCERC Control System Upgrade Status: Challenges and Accomplishments
Angela Chambers (NNSA)	Final Remarks