2021 SCALE Users’ Group Workshop

2021 SCALE Users’ Group Workshop

Wednesday – Friday, August 4-6, 2021

Presented Virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Event Contacts:

• Germina Ilas, [email protected]
• Will Wieselquist, [email protected]

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Opening Session:

• Germina Ilas (ORNL) – Introductions
• Jeremy Busby (ORNL) – Welcome

Technical Session – SCALE 6.3.0 Highlights and Applications:

• Will Wieselquist (ORNL) – Overview of SCALE 6.3
• Andrew Holcomb (ORNL) – What’s new in Nuclear Data for SCALE 6.3
• Will Wieselquist (ORNL) – SCALE New Documentation Strategy
• B.J. Marshall, Travis Greene (ORNL) – Status of Shift for NCS Applications in SCALE 6.3
• Steve Skutnik (ORNL) – Demonstration of New Interpolation/Archival Capabilities in SCALE 7

Tutorial Session:

• Rob Lefebvre (ORNL) – Frequent Fulcrum Functions: The Basics of SCALE’s Graphical User Interface [supporting files]

Technical Session – Non-LWR Analysis with SCALE 6.3:

• Steve Skutnik (ORNL) – Pebble Fuel Source Term Generation
• Will Wieselquist (ORNL) – Activities in HALEU/HBU/ATF
• Kang Seog Kim, Dorothea Wiarda, Rike Bostelmann, Andrew Holcomb (ORNL) – Multigroup Cross Section Processing Capability of the SCALE-6.3 XSProc for Non-LWR Analysis
• Will Wieselquist (ORNL) – Non-LWR SCALE Activities
• Mathieu Dupont, Justin Clarity (ORNL) – Horizontal Split Table Conceptual Design for Validation of Nuclear Data used in Advanced Reactors

Technical Session – Best SCALE Model Contest:

• Rike Bostelmann (ORNL)
• Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
• Cihangir Celik (ORNL) 2^nd place
• Matt Jessee (ORNL)
• Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
• Erik Walker (ORNL) 1^st place
• Peter Wolniewicz (SKB AB) 3^rd place

Technical Session – SCALE Validation:

• Zhian Li (NRC) – Code Validation – A Critical Step for Ensuring Criticality Safety
• Ahmed Sharma (NAGRA) – Predicting the Bias in Calculations of Spent Nuclear Fuel Characteristics
• Travis Greene, B.J. Marshall (ORNL) – SCALE Validation for Nuclear Criticality Safety
• Cihangir Celik, Mathieu Dupont, Douglas Peplow, Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL) – SCALE 6.2.4 Validation: Radiation Shielding
• Germina Ilas, Joseph Burns, Briana Hiscox, Ugur Mertyurk (ORNL) – SCALE 6.2.4 Validation: Reactor Physics

Tutorial Sessions:

• Ugur Mertyurek, Rike Bostelmann, Andrew Holcomb (ORNL) – Sensitivity Uncertainty Analysis of HALEU/HBU Fuel using SAMPLER [supporting files]
• Erik Walker, Alex Shaw (ORNL) – SCALE Modeling of the Fast Spectrum Heat Pipe Reactor [supporting files]

Thursday, August 5, 2021

Technical Session – Best Practices for SCALE Modeling & Simulation

• Justin Clarity (ORNL) – Using the “Inner” Array Boundary in KENO-VI
• Alex Shaw (ORNL) – Calculating the Effective Delayed Neutron Fraction (βeff) with the SCALE Prompt Fission Neutron Spectrum
• Briana Hiscox, Benjamin Betzler (ORNL) – ORIGEN Reactor Libraries Generation
• Shane Hart (ORNL) – Building SCALE from Source
• Justin Clarity (ORNL) – Polaris depletion calculations using the UNF-ST&DARDS detailed analysis sequence
• Matt Jessee (ORNL) – LWR Activation Analysis with Polaris and TRITON

Tutorial Sessions:

• Matt Jessee, Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL) – Polaris Lattice Physics Modeling for ATF Designs [supporting files]
• Steve Skutnik, Rike Bostelmann, Cihangir Celik, Will Wieselquist (ORNL) – KENO-VI modeling of double heterogeneous reactor systems using TRISO fuel [supporting files]

Technical Session – How I use SCALE for my Work? (SCALE Open Mic)

• Jin Whan Bae (ORNL) – Solving Advection Problems with Isotopic Evolution with SCALE/ORIGEN
• Antonio Jimenez-Carrascosa (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) – Use of SCALE for the analysis of Sodium Fast Reactors
• Robert Kile (University of Tennessee)
• Josh Peterson-Droogh (INL)
• Lisa Reed (GA Tech)

Tutorial Sessions:

• Justin Clarity, Shane Hart, B.J. Marshall (ORNL) – Criticality Safety Validation using VADER
• Cihangir Celik, Steve Skutnik (ORNL) – Activation Analysis with ORIGEN/MAVRIC for Advanced Reactors [supporting files]

Friday, August 6, 2021

Tutorial Sessions:

• Dorothea Wiarda, Andrew Holcomb, Shane Hart, Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) – SCALE Utilities for Nuclear Data Integration, Comparison, and Visualization [supporting files]
• Germina Ilas, Joseph Burns (ORNL) – LWR Decay Heat Analysis with SCALE [supporting files]
• Steve Skutnik, Erik Walker, Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) – From SCALE to Source Term: Exporting SCALE Inventories to MELCOR [supporting files]