Wednesday – Friday, April 27 – 29, 2022
Presented In-Person and Virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Agenda
Event Contacts
- Germina Ilas, [email protected]
- Will Wieselquist, [email protected]
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Tutorial Sessions
- Rob Lefebvre, Shane Hart (ORNL) – Frequent Fulcrum Functions: The Basics of SCALE’s Graphical User Interface [supporting files]
- Germina Ilas, Joseph Burns (ORNL) – LWR Decay Heat Analysis with SCALE [supporting files]
- Steve Skutnik, Briana Hiscox (ORNL) – ORIGEN Library Generation with TRITON [supporting files]
- Doro Wiarda, Rike Bostelmann, Shane Hart (ORNL) – SCALE Utilities for Nuclear Data Interrogation, Comparison, and Visualization [supporting files]
- Cihangir Celik, Steve Skutnik (ORNL) – Activation Analysis with ORIGEN/MAVRIC for Advanced Reactors [supporting files]
- Matt Jessee, Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL) – Polaris Lattice Physics Modeling for ATF Designs [supporting files]
- Germina Ilas, Shane Hart (ORNL) – SCALE Modeling & Simulations for Source Terms in Spent Nuclear Fuel [supporting files]
- Jordan McDonnell, Will Wieselquist (ORNL) – SCALE Sensitivity [supporting files]
Introductions/Welcome
- Jeremy Busby (ORNL)
- Germina Ilas (ORNL)
Technical Session – Best Practices for SCALE Modeling & Simulation
- Arzu Alpan (ORNL) – Reactor Pressure Vessel Shielding Analysis
- Mathieu Dupont (ORNL) – Using the Criticality Accident Alarm System Modeling Capabilities in SCALE
- Nicholas Kucinski (ORNL) – Polaris Depletion Calculations: Selected Best Practices
- B.J. Marshall (ORNL) – Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis for Nuclear Criticality Safety Validation
- Alex Shaw (ORNL) – Illustration of Neutronic Decoupling in Fresh Fuel Storage Environments
Tutorial Sessions
- B.J. Marshall, Shane Hart (ORNL) – VADER for Criticality Safety Validation [supporting files]
- Ugur Mertyurek, Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) – New Sensitivity Metrics in Sampler [supporting files]
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Technical Session – SCALE Team Highlights
- Will Wieselquist (ORNL) – SCALE 6.3
- Alex Shaw (ORNL) – Impacts of LEU+ and ATF on Fresh Fuel Storage Criticality Safety
- Ugur Mertyurek, Jianwei Hu, Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Rizki Oktavian (Purdue University) – HALEU/HBU/ATF Reactor Physics
- Nicholas Kucinski, Peter Stefanovic, Will Wieselquist (ORNL), Justin Clarity (PNNL) – Calculation of Spent Fuel Pool Time-to-Boil using Polaris/ORIGAMI
- F. Bostelmann, A. Lo, B. Betzler, D. Hartanto, W. Wieselquist (ORNL) – MSR Reactivity, Power, and Source Term Simulations with SCALE
- B.J. Marshall, Cihangir Celik (ORNL), Justin Clarity (PNNL) – Criticality and Radiation Shielding Impact of ENDF/B-VIII
- Steve Skutnik (ORNL) – Flowing-Pebble Depletion Modeling in ORIGAMI
Technical Session – Special Session (Invited Talks)
- Oscar Cabellos, Nuria Garcia-Herranz, Antonio Jimenez-Carrascosa (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid [UPM], Spain) – UPM Activities in the Framework of SANDA Project using SCALE System
- Hossein Esmaili (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC]) – NRC Neutronics Regulatory Applications & SCALE Code Development
- Ahmed Shama (National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste [NAGRA], Switzerland) – Predicting the Bias of SNF Depletion Calculations: Application of Polaris, Sampler, and Machine Learning
- Larry Wetzel (BWX Technologies, Inc.[BWXT]) – SCALE use at BWXT
Working Lunch
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL) – Spatially Dependent Resonance Self-Shielding Capability for Non-Uniform Temperature Profile In SCALE-6.3 XSPROC-BONAMI
Technical Session – SCALE Open Mic
- Luis Felipe Durán-Vinuesa (UPM, Spain) – MUSIC: a UPM tool for cross-sections generation and uncertainty propagation
- Joao Claudio Fiel (Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil) – Parameterization of Macroscopic Cross Section for PWR Reactors in Burn-up Cycles
- Kevin Govers (Federal Agency for Nuclear Control [FANC], Belgium) – May I … average the characteristics of a spent nuclear fuel assembly stockpile in source term evaluations?
- Pascal Rouxelin (North Carolina State University) – Cross section generation with Polaris and SAMPLER for LWR modeling
- Austin Carter (Idaho National Laboratory) – MOAA: MCNP to ORIGEN-S Activation Automation tool
Tutorial Sessions
- Brian Ade, Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) – Nodal Data with TRITON/Shift [supporting files]
- Ben Betzler, Donny Hartanto (ORNL) – Molten Salt Reactor Analysis with SCALE
Friday, April 29, 2022
Technical Session – Best SCALE Model Contest
- Arzu Alpan (ORNL)
- Rike Bostelmann, Ben Betzler, Will Wieselquist (ORNL) – 1st Place
- Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
- Kevin Govers (FANC)
- B.J. Marshall (ORNL)
- Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL) – 2nd Place
- Alex Shaw (ORNL)
- Hafssa Ziani, T. El Bardouni (Abdelmalek Essaadi University), C. Elyounoussi (CENSTEN) – 3rd Place
Closing Session
- Will Wieselquist (ORNL)
- Germina Ilas (ORNL)