Monday-Friday, June 8-12, 2026
Presented Virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Event Contacts
- Germina Procop, [email protected]
- Lisa Fassino, [email protected]
- Will Wieselquist, [email protected]
- Rob Lefebvre, [email protected]
- Rike Bostelmann, [email protected]
Monday, June 8, 2026
Tutorial Sessions
- Rob Lefebvre, Steve Skutnik (ORNL) – Frequent Fulcrum Functions: The Basics of SCALE’s Graphical User Interface [supporting files]
- Jesse Brown, Jordan McDonnell (ORNL) – SCALE Utilities for Nuclear Data Interrogation, Comparison, and Visualization [supporting files]
- Rob Lefebvre, Steve Skutnik (ORNL) – Fulcrum Data and Geometry Visualization [supporting files]
Technical Session – Special Session – Invited SCALE User Talks
- Current and Emerging SCALE Capabilities for the NRC – Modernizing Decision-making and Regulations (Lucas Kyriazidis (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission) - Use of SCALE at SRNS for Criticality Safety (Tracy Stover (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC)
- Automated Testing and Creation of AMPX-Formatted JEFF Libraries (Shane Hart (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – Nuclear Energy Agency)
- Radiation Shielding Analysis for SPARC (System Physics Advanced Reactor Critical facility) Using MAVRIC Dongok Choe (Idaho National Laboratory)
- Confirmatory Analysis of Advanced Reactors Using SCALE at Idaho National Laboratory Matt Lund (Idaho National Laboratory)
Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
Tutorial Sessions
- Cihangir Celik, Steve Skutnik (ORNL) – Activation Analysis with ORIGEN/MAVRIC for Advanced Reactors [supporting files]
- Donny Hartanto, Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) – Molten Salt Reactor Analysis with SCALE [supporting files]
- Cihangir Celik, Mathieu Dupont (ORNL) – MAVRIC Long-Distance Statistics for Activation [supporting files]
Technical Session- SCALE Open Mic
- Benone Frigea (Cernavoda N.P.P)
- Ievgen Bilodid (SSTC NRS)
- Briana Hiscox/ Rebecca Krentz-Wee (IAEA)
- Iñigo Gayo (Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid) - Travis Trahan (IAEA)
- Jonathan Faulkner (Georgia Tech)
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Tutorial Sessions
- Steve Skutnik, Lisa Fassino(ORNL) – ORIGEN Reactor Library Generation with Polaris
- Ugur Mertyurek, Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) – Nuclear Data Uncertainty Quantification with Sampler for HALEU/HBU LWR
- Travis Greene, Alex Shaw (ORNL) – Sampler for Nuclear Criticality Safety Applications
Technical Session – Best SCALE Model Contest
- Benone Frigea (Cernavoda N.P.P)
- Sofiia Asadchykh (NCSU)
- Jonathan Faulkner (Georgia Tech)
- Mark Nguyen (University of Tennessee)
- Cihangir Celik/Tarek Ghaddar (ORNL)
- Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
- Travis Greene (ORNL)
- Donny Hartanto (ORNL)
- Alex Lang (ORNL)
- Steve Skutnik (ORNL)
- Will Wieselquist (ORNL)
- Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL)
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Tutorial Sessions
- Rike Bostelmann, Donny Hartanto (ORNL) – Modeling of TRISO Fuel with SCALE [supporting files]
- Lisa Fassino, Alex Shaw (ORNL) – VADER for Criticality Safety Validation [supporting files]
- Steve Skutnik, Yves Robert (ORNL) – Accessible Data Files in SCALE and How to Use Them: II.JSON and CSV
Technical Session – SCALE 7.0 Features
- Sphere Packing in Complex Geometries (Tarek Ghaddar-ORNL)
- ORIGEN SDFs and E Similarity Index (Yves Robert-ORNL)
- New Power and Energy Deposition Distributions in SCALE 7 (Will Wieselquist-ORNL)
- SCALE Nuclear Data Library Automation (Jesse Brown-ORNL)
- Fuel Cycle Estimator (Steve Skutnik-ORNL)
- Hybrid Parallelism in SCALE‑Shift Sequences (Kursat Bekar-ORNL)
Friday, June 12, 2026
- Germina Procop, Yves Robert (ORNL)- Decay Heat and Source Terms Analysis with SCALE
- Lisa Fassino, Alex Shaw (ORNL)- Similarity Assessment Workflow for Nuclear Criticality Safety
- BK Jeon, Yves Robert (ORNL)- ORIGEN Sensitivity
Tutorial Sessions
- SCALE Resources You May Not Know About (Lisa Fassino-ORNL)
- PROTEUS Modeling/Validation (Donny Hartanto-ORNL)
- Nuclear Data Impacts on Nuclide Inventory and Decay Heat for PBR Spent Fuel (Rabab Elzohery-ORNL)
- Decay Heat and Nuclides Important for Advanced Reactors (Yves Robert-ORNL)
- SCALE Shielding Calculations for Advanced Reactor Accident Scenarios (Georgeta Radulescu-ORNL)
- Simplifying Multi-Level Parallelism Through Pre-Built Apptainer Distributions (Rob Lefebvre-ORNL)
Closing Session
- Germina Procop (ORNL)
- Will Wieselquist (ORNL)