Wednesday - Friday, April 27 - 29, 2022
Presented In-Person and Virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Agenda
Event Contacts
- Germina Ilas, ilasg@ornl.gov
- Will Wieselquist, wieselquistwa@ornl.gov
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)