2019 SCALE Users’ Group Workshop Monday – Wednesday ...
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2019 SCALE Users’ Group Workshop Monday – Wednesday, August 19 – 21, 2019
Event contact Germina Ilas, 865-241-4672 (office); [email protected] Will Wieselquist, 865-574-0204 (office); [email protected]
Note: Morning and afternoon refreshments are available in Wigner Auditorium and the VOCC
Time Event Lead Location
Monday, August 19
8:00-9:00am Check-in and Registration
Marsha Henley/ Elaine Davis (ORNL)
ORNL Visitors Center/ 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
9:00–9:10am Welcome and Logistics Will Wieselquist/ Germina Ilas (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
9:10-9:35am Emerging Initiatives in SCALE Will Wieselquist (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
9:35-10:00am TBD John Monninger (NRC) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
10:00-10:30am Break 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
10:30–10:45am Introduction of the SCALE Team
Will Wieselquist (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
10:45–11:10am TBD Kevin Reynolds (Y-12) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
11:10-11:35am Transformational Challenge Reactor: Nuclear Core Design with Advanced Manufacturing
Ben Betzler (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
11:35-12:00pm Synergy VERA/SCALE Dave Kropaczek (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
12:00-1:00pm Working Lunch: GAIN: What is it and is it helping?
Andy Worrall (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
Event Speaker Location
Monday, August 19
Tutorial Session [1:00-3:00pm] ORIGEN/MAVRIC Activation Analysis of the Silene Experiment
Cihangir Celik, Shane Hart and Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL)
5700, VOCC Lab, Room B306
Technical Session [1:00-3:00pm] Advanced Reactor Modeling with SCALE: (1) Nodal Data Calculation in TRITON/Shift: Part I,
Applications (2) Nodal Data Calculation in TRITON/Shift: Part II, Tally
Methods (3) Molten Salt Reactor Fuel Cycle and Reactor Physics
Analysis with SCALE/TRITON (4) SCALE Multigroup Capability and Challenges in
Advanced Reactor Analysis (5) <TITLE TBD>
(1) Matt Jessee (ORNL) (2) Will Wieselquist (ORNL) (3) Ben Betzler (ORNL) (4) Kang Seog Kim
(ORNL) (5) Kyle Anderson (UTK)
4500N, Wigner Auditorium
Break [3:00-3:30pm] Wigner Auditorium and VOCC Lab
Tutorial Session [3:30-5:30pm] CSAS/Shift for Criticality Analysis and 3D Visualization
B.J. Marshall and Rob Lefebvre (ORNL)
5700, VOCC Lab, Room B306
Technical Session [3:30-5:30pm] Applications of SCALE to Nuclear Safeguards and Security: (1) Monte Carlo Uncertainty Quantification in UF6
Neutron Emissions (2) Retrospective assay of UF6 to Discriminate Historical
HEU from LEU (3) INDEPTH Demonstration (4) Developing 3D Reactor Model for Criticality Safety
Analysis of the Newly Converted NIRR-1 using the KENO-VI Module of the SCALE Code System
(1) Ryan O’Mara (NCSU) (2) Robert Hayes (NCSU) (3) Brandon Grogan
(ORNL) (4) Abdulhameed Salawu
(Federal University Lokoja)
4500N, Wigner Auditorium
5:30-7:00pm Poster Session and Reception (in lieu of a working dinner)
Lobby of Bldg 5100
Event Speaker Location
Tuesday, August 20 Note: Morning refreshments are available in Wigner Auditorium and the VOCC
Tutorial Session [8:00-10:00am] Sampler Applied to Criticality Safety for Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification
B.J. Marshall and Justin Clarity (ORNL)
5700, VOCC Lab, Room B306
Technical Session [8:00-10:00am] Reactor Safety Analysis with SCALE: (1) MELCOR/SCALE for HTGRs (2) Kernel Density Estimators for Sampler Analysis (3) Generation of SCALE multi-group libraries with AMPX
for Nodal Calculations (4) Data Generation for an Artificial Neural Network for
MOX Criticality Prediction using SCALE/TRITON (5) Polaris Updates in SCALE 6.3
(1) Will Wieselquist (ORNL) (2) Ryan O’Mara (NCSU) (3) Pascal Rouxelin (NCSU) (4) Jin Whan Bae (ORNL) (5) Matt Jessee (ORNL)
4500N, Wigner Auditorium
Tutorial Session [10:00-Noon] SCALE Utilities for Nuclear Data Interrogation, Comparison and Visualization
Andrew Holcomb and Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL)
5700, VOCC Lab, Room
B306
Break [10:00-10:30am] 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
Technical Session [10:30-Noon] Applications of SCALE for Nuclear Criticality Safety: (1) CSAS/Shift Integration within SCALE 6.3 (2) User Experiences with the ICSBEP Distributed SDFs
with SCALE – 2019 Edition (3) Initial KENO Validation with ENDF/B-VIII Nuclear
Data in SCALE 6.3.0-beta4 (4) Preliminary TSUNAMI Assessment of the Impact of
Accident Tolerant Fuel Concepts on Reactor Physics Validation
(1) Kursat Bekar (ORNL) (2) Justin Clarity (ORNL) (3) B.J. Marshall (ORNL) (4) B.J. Marshall (ORNL)
4500N, Wigner Auditorium
Tour [10:30-Noon] Irradiated Fuels Exam Lab Bruce Bevard (ORNL) Meet at 4500N,
Flagpole
Event Speaker Location
Tuesday, August 20 Note: Afternoon refreshments are available in Wigner Auditorium and the VOCC
Working Lunch: [12:00-1:00pm] Nuclear Data Activities for Nuclear Energy Applications Brad Rearden (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner
Auditorium
Tutorial Session [1:00-3:00pm] Nodal Data Generation for Advanced Reactors with TRITON/Shift
Brian Ade and Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL)
5700, VOCC Lab, Room B306
Technical Session [1-2:30pm] Nuclear Data for SCALE Applications:
(1) Sampler Sensitivity Indices (2) Updates on ORIGEN Readers and Data (3) Augmented Covariance Data Libraries for SCALE
6.3
(1) Friederike Bostelmann
(ORNL) (2) Shane Hart (ORNL) (3) Vlad Sobes (ORNL)
4500N, Wigner Auditorium
Tour [1-2:30pm] Liquid Salt Loop Kevin Robb (ORNL) 5700, Lobby
Break with Refreshments [2:30-3:00pm] 4500N, Wigner Auditorium
Tutorial Session [3:00-5:00pm] Generation of SCALE Multi-Group Libraries with AMPX
Andrew Holcomb, Doro Wiarda, Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL)
5700, VOCC Lab, Room B306
Technical Session [3:00-4:30pm] Decommissioning, Disposal and Spent Nuclear Fuel Burnup Credit:
(1) Detailed Radiation Dose Rate Evaluations of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters
(2) Uncertainty Quantification for Criticality and Burnup Simulation with Sampler
(3) Comparison of MPACT and Shift for MAGNOX Reactors
(1) Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL)
(2) Pascal Rouxelin (NCSU) (3) Brian Ade (ORNL)
4500N, Wigner Auditorium
Tour [3:00-4:30pm] Graphite Reactor B.J. Marshall (ORNL) Meet at 4500N,
Flagpole
Concluding Remarks & Users’ Feedback [5:00-5:30pm] Will Wieselquist (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner
Auditorium
Event Speaker Location
Wednesday, August 21 Note: Morning refreshments are available in the VOCC
Tutorial Session [8:00-10:00am] Research Reactor Source Terms with ORIGEN/ORIGAMI for Safeguards Applications
Germina Ilas and Jianwei Hu (ORNL)
5700, VOCC Lab, Room B306
Tutorial Session [10:00-Noon] Time-Dependent Depletion Analysis with Polaris
Matt Jessee and Ben Betzler (ORNL)
5700, VOCC Lab, Room B306
Poster Title Presenter
Posters presented during the reception on Monday, August 19
Progress on Implementation and Validation of Polaris for CANDU Applications Simon Younan, McMaster University
Monte Carlo Uncertainty Quantification in UF6 Cylinder Neutron Emissions
Ryan O’Mara, North Carolina State University (Mentor: W. Wieselquist, ORNL)
MAPPER Approach for Bias and Uncertainties Mapping in Criticality Safety
Dongli Huang, Purdue University (Mentor: U. Mertyurek, ORNL)
Modeling Molten Salt Reactor Fission Product Removal with SCALE
Pedro Vicente Valdez, University of California, Berkeley (Mentor: Benjamin Betzler, ORNL)
Investigating the Magnus Series in Coupled Transport-Depletion Problems
Tseelmaa Byambaakhuu, Ohio State University (Mentor: S. Hart, ORNL)
Trillions and trillions of spectral gamma ray cameras densely covering every inhabited area (including Natanz) – and where to find them
Robert Hayes, North Carolina State University
Reactor Physics Modeling of High Assay Low Enriched Uranium
Vincent Novellino, North Carolina State University (Mentor: M.Jessee, ORNL)
Current activities with SCALE in the NCSU’s RDFMG Pascal Rouxelin, North Carolina State University