2020 SCALE Users' Group Workshop
Monday - Wednesday, July 27 - 29, 2020
Presented Virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Event Contacts:
- Germina Ilas, ilasg@ornl.gov
- Will Wieselquist, wieselquistwa@ornl.gov
Monday, July 27, 2020
Plenary:
- Don Algama (NRC) - The NRC: Safety and SCALE
- Doug Bowen (ORNL) - DOE/NNSA Nuclear Criticality Safety Program - Brief Overview
- Will Wieselquist (ORNL) - SCALE in 2021 and Beyond
- Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU), Jason Hou (NCSU) - Recent R&D Activities at NCSU using SCALE Tools
- Ben Betzler (ORNL), Brian Ade (ORNL) - Transformational Challenge Reactor: Agile Core Design with Advanced Modeling and Simulation
- Tom Evans (ORNL) - On the Path to Exascale: Reactor Neutronics in ECP
Tutorial:
- Frequent Fulcrum Functions: The Basics of SCALE’s Graphical User Interface
- Instructor: Rob Lefebvre (ORNL)
Introduction to SCALE Methodologies:
- Kang-Seog Kim (ORNL) - Introduction to Resonance Self-Shielding Methods in SCALE: XSPROC and ESSM
- Andrew Holcomb (ORNL) - Covariance & Other Nuclear Data in SCALE 6.3
- B.J. Marshall (ORNL) - Similarity Assessment with TSUNAMI
- Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Rob Lefebvre (ORNL) - Sampler UQ
- Cihangir Celik (ORNL) - CADIS Variance Reduction with MAVRIC
- Germina Ilas (ORNL) - ORIGEN Reactor Libraries
Tutorial:
- Generation of SCALE Multigroup Libraries for Advanced Reactors Using AMPX
- Instructors: Doro Wiarda (ORNL), Andrew Holcomb (ORNL), Rike Bostelmann (ORNL)
Best SCALE Model Contest:
- SCALE Model Contest 2020
- Matt Glanfield
- Antonio Jimenez Carrascosa
- Abdulhameed Salawu
- Javier Alonso Sanz (best of non-ORNL models)
- Larry Wetzel
- Bob Hall
- Rike Bostelmann
- Cihangir Celik
- Mathieu Dupont
- Travis Greene
- Brian Ade
- Germina Ilas
- Matt Jessee
- B.J. Marshall
- Georgeta Radulescu
- Steve Skutnik
- Mike Smith (best of ORNL models)
- Will Wieselquist
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Tutorial:
- Generating Light Water Reactor ORIGEN Libraries with Polaris
- Instructors: Matt Jessee (ORNL), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL)
Best Practices for SCALE Modeling & Simulation:
- Andrew Bielen (NRC) - Assessment of Polaris/GenPMAXS/PARCS Depletion using VERA-CS
- Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) - Advanced Reactor Modeling with TRITON-NEWT
- Justin Clarity (ORNL) - Assessing Convergence in keff Calculations
- Travis Greene (ORNL) - Use of Direct Perturbation Calculations to Confirm the Accuracy of TSUNAMI-3D
- Bob Hall (ORNL) - Back of the Envelope PWR Studies: Increased Enrichment and Burnup Using SCALE Tools
- Antonella Labarile (Universitat Politècnica de València) - Polaris Cross-Section Generation for Core analysis. UPV Experience
- B.J. Marshall (ORNL) - Plotting Flux Spectra from KENO
- Steve Skutnik (ORNL) - Doing Depletion Diligently: Best Practices for Depletion Calculations with ORIGEN
- Andrew Ward (University of Michigan) - Revised guidance of Polaris BWR XS generation for PARCS
Tutorial:
- Advanced User Interface Capabilities Tutorial
- Instructor: Rob Lefebvre (ORNL)
Lunch Presentation:
Justin Clarity (ORNL) - Spent Nuclear Fuel Systems Analyses Using UNF-ST&DARDS and SCALE
Tutorial:
- Crossing the Streams - Sampler and TemplateEngine
- Instructors: B.J. Marshall (ORNL), Rob Lefebvre (ORNL)
How I use SCALE for my Work? (SCALE Open Mic):
- Brad Rearden (X-Energy)
- Joey Burns (ORNL)
- Pedro Vicente-Valdez (UC Berkeley)
- Travis Greene (ORNL)
- Robert Hayes (NCSU)
- Briana Hiscox (ORNL)
- Josh Peterson-Droogh (INL)
- Jin Whan Bae (ORNL)
- Mike Smith (ORNL)
- William Walters (Penn State)
- Kevin Govers (FANC, Belgium)
Tutorial:
- Activation Analysis with ORIGEN/MAVRIC for Advanced Reactors
- Instructors: Cihangir Celik (ORNL), Steve Skutnik (ORNL)
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Tutorial:
- SCALE Utilities for Nuclear Data Interrogation, Comparison, and Visualization
- Instructors: Andrew Holcomb (ORNL), Doro Wiarda (ORNL), Rike Bostelmann (ORNL), Shane Hart (ORNL)
Tutorial:
- Advanced Reactor Source Terms for Safeguards Application
- Instructors: Germina Ilas (ORNL), Rike Bostelmann (ORNL)