Workshops

SCALE Nuclide Inventory and Radiation Shielding for Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Professional Development Center, Rockville, Maryland, September 29-October 2, 2025.  

• Presented by Cihangir Celik, Lisa Fassino, and Steve Skutnik

Spent Fuel Pool and New Fuel Vault Criticality Safety Analyses with SCALE Training, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland, June 9-13, 2025.  

• Presented by Ugur Mertyurek, Alex Shaw, and  Will Wieselquist.

EPRI ATF/LEU+/HBU Workshop - Review of Technical Readiness for Fresh and Spent Fuel Storage (Wet and Dry) & Transportation, Washington, DC, February 11-13, 2025.

• Will Wieselquist, “Overview of SCALE Capabilities and Technical Evaluation for Readiness for HALEU/HBU/ATF.”
• Arzu Alpan, “Fuel Assembly and Irradiation Parametric Study for Extended-Enrichment and High-Burnup LWR Spent Nuclear Fuel in Dry Storage Casks and Transportation Packages (NUREG/CR 7306).”
• Ugur Mertyurek and Walid Metwally, “Sensitivity Uncertainty Methods for Criticality Safety Validation.”
• Germina Procop, “NUREG/CR 7303 - Validating Actinides and Fission Products for Burnup Credit Criticality Safety Analyses –Nuclide Compositions Prediction with Extended Validation Basis.”
• Walid Metwally, Mathieu Dupont, Alex Lang, Veronica Karriem, B. J.. Marshall, Cihangir Celik, Lisa Fassino, and Alex Shaw, “Validation Studies for High Burnup and Extended Enrichment Fuels in Burnup Credit Criticality Safety Analyses.”
• Kang Seog Kim, BK Jeon, Andy Ward, Ugur Mertyurek, Matthew Jessee, Rabab Elzohery, Will Wieselquist, “Polaris/PARCS Validation.” 

International Conference on Physics of Reactors (PHYSOR 2024),  San Francisco, California, April 21-24, 2024.

• Rike Bostelmann, Travis Greene, Germina Procop, Ugur Mertyurek, and Will Wieselquist, ”Validation with SCALE: How to Connect Paper Reactors with Reality."