2023 Publications:
Georgeta Radulescu, Updated Recommendations Related to Spent Fuel Transport and Dry Storage Shielding Analyses, NUREG/CR-7302 (ORNL/TM-2023/2679), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (May 2023).
2022 Publications:
Cihangir Celik, Douglas E. Peplow, Mathieu N. Dupont, and Georgeta Radulescu, SCALE 6.2.4 Validation: Radiation Shielding, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL/TM-2020/1500/v4 (November 2022). Web doi:10.2172/1902814.
Georgeta Radulescu, Cihangir Celik, and Peter Stefanovic, "Overview of ORNL SCALE Shielding Analyses for Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation and Storage Applications," Proceedings of ICRS 14/RPSD 2022: 14th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and 21st Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, pp.54–57, Seattle, Washington, September 25–29, 2022.
Douglas E. Peplow, Daniel E. Archer, James M. Ghawaly, Jr., Tenzing H.Y. Joshi, Mark S. Bandstra, and Brian J. Quiter, "Threat Sources for Detection Algorithm Testing Developed with SCALE," Proceedings of ICRS 14/RPSD 2022: 14th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and 21st Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, pp. 136–139, Seattle, Washington, September 25–29, 2022.
Douglas E. Peplow, Daniel E. Archer, James M. Ghawaly, Jr., Tenzing H. Y. Joshi, Mark S. Bandstra, Brian J. Quiter, and Abigael C. Nachtsheim, "Detection Algorithm Virtual Testbed for Urban Search with SCALE," Proceedings of ICRS 14/RPSD 2022: 14th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and 21st Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, pp. 140–143, Seattle, Washington, September 25–29, 2022.
Noel B. Nelson, Michael B. R. Smith, Lawrence H. Heilbronn, Harrison L. Line, Douglas E. Peplow, and Mathew W. Swinney, "The Sensitivity of Three Terrestrial Bacteria to a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator," Proceedings of ICRS 14/RPSD 2022: 14th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and 21st Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, pp. 292–295, Seattle, Washington, September 25–29, 2022.
Michael B. R. Smith, M. Scott Greenwood, Noel B. Nelson, Nicholas A. Thompson, and Douglas E. Peplow, "Virtual Interaction with Physics Enhanced Reality (VIPER): Using Augmented Reality to Visualize and Interact with Ionizing Radiation Data," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 126, 805–808 (2022).
Georgeta Radulescu and Peter Stefanovic, A Study on the Characteristics of the Radiation Source Terms of Spent Fuel and Various Non-Fuel Hardware for Shielding Applications, ORNL-SPR-2021/2373, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (May 2022).
Nicholas Kucinski, Peter Stefanovic, Justin Clarity, and William Wieselquist, Impacts of LEU+ and HBU Fuel on Decay Heat and Radiation Source Term, ORNL/TM-2022/1841, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (April 2022).
2021 Publications:
Georgeta Radulescu, Kaushik Banerjee, Thomas M. Miller, and Douglas E. Peplow, "Skyshine Calculations for a Large Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility with SCALE 6.2.3," Nuclear Technology, 207(11), 1768–1783 (November 2021).
Georgeta Radulescu, Thomas Miller, Kaushik Banerjee, and Douglas E. Peplow, Dose Rate Analysis of the WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility, ORNL/SPR-2019/1070, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (August 2021).
Douglas E. Peplow, Gregory G. Davidson, Cihangir Celik, Elliot D. Biondo, Alexadra C. Hackett, William R. Ray, Daniel E. Archer, James M. Ghawaly, Jr., Andrew D. Nicholson, Michael J. Willis, Brian J. Quister, Mark S. Bandstra, Ross E. Meyer, Chun Ho Chow, Ian R. Steward, and Jeffrey O. Johnson, Monte Carlo Simulation of Background and Source Measurements with CSG and CAD Geometries, ORNL/TM-2021/2078, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (June 2021).
Mathieu N. Dupont, Douglas E. Peplow, Cihangir Celik, Georgeta Radulescu, and William A. Wieselquist, "Overview of the 2020 SCALE 6.2.4 Validation Report for Radiation Shielding Applications," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 124, 639–642 (June 2021).
2020 Publications:
Georgeta Radulescu, Kaushik Banerjee, Best Practices for Shielding Analyses of Activated Metals and Spent Resins from Reactor Operation, ORNL/SPR-2020/1586, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (September 2020).
James M. Ghawaly Jr., Andrew D. Nicholson, Douglas E. Peplow, Christine M. Anderson-Cook, Kary L. Myers, Daniel E. Archer, Michael J. Willis, and Brian J. Quitter, "Data for training and testing radiation detection algorithms in an urban environment," Scientific Data, 7, 328 (2020).
Andrew D. Nicholson, Douglas E. Peplow, James M. Ghawaly, Michael J. Willis, and Daniel E. Archer, "Generation of Synthetic Data for a Radiation Detection Algorithm Competition," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 67(8), 1968–1975 (August 2020).
Michael B. R. Smith and Douglas E. Peplow, "Official Release of The Radioisotope Power System Dose Estimation Tool (RPS-DET)," Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1–6, Big Sky, Montana, March 7–14, 2020.
Previous Year Publications:
Kaushik Banerjee, Cihangir Celik, Gregory Davidson, Thomas M. Evans, Bradley T. Rearden, and William A. Wieselquist, The MAVRIC-Shift Sequence in SCALE for Radiation Transport and Shielding Calculations with Automated Variance Reduction and Parallel Computing, ORNL/TM-2019/1358, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (October 2019).
Michael B. R. Smith, Douglas E. Peplow, Robert A. Lefebvre, and William A. Wieselquist, Radioisotope Power System Dose Estimation Tool (RPS-DET) User Manual, ORNL/TM-2019/1249, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (August 2019).
Mathew W. Swinney and Jackson N. Wagner, "Preliminary Validation of the Shift Monte Carlo Code for Fixed-Source Radiation Transport Problems," Nuclear Technology, 206(1), 107–125 (July 2019).
Cihangir Celik, Douglas E. Peplow, Gregory G. Davidson, and Mathew W. Swinney, "A Directional Detector Response Function for Anisotropic Detectors," Nuclear Science and Engineering, 193(12), 1355–1370 (July 2019).
Jackson N. Wagner and Douglas E. Peplow, "Validation of the Shift Monte Carlo Code – Neutron Field Measurements in a Concrete Labyrinth," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 120, 763–766 (2019).
Georgeta Radulescu, Thomas M. Miller, Kaushik Banerjee, and Douglas E. Peplow, "Detailed SCALE Dose Rate Evaluations for a Consolidated Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 118, 765–768 (June 2018).
D. E. Peplow, "A Comparison of the FW-CADIS and MR-CADIS Variance Reduction Methods," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 116, 540–543 (2017). [pdf]
D. E. Peplow, M. W. Swinney, G. G. Davidson, A. D. Nicholson and B. W. Patton, "Initial Modeling of Urban Search Measurements," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 116, 913–916 (2017). [pdf]
B. T. Rearden, L. M. Petrie, D. E. Peplow, K. B. Bekar, D. Wiarda, C. Celik, C. M. Perfetti, A. M. Ibrahim, S. W. D. Hart, M. E. Dunn, and W. J. Marshall, “Monte Carlo Capabilities of the SCALE Code System,” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 82, 130–141 (2015).
G. Radulescu, R. A. Lefebvre, D. E. Peplow, M. L. Williams, and J. M. Scaglione, "Dose Rate Analysis Capability for Actual Spent Fuel Transportation Cask Contents," Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) 55th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, July 20–24, 2014. [pdf]
G. Radulescu, D. E. Peplow, Mark L. Williams, and J. M. Scaglione, “Dose Rate Analysis of As-Loaded Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks,” Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 14–18, 2014, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2014). [pdf]
D. E. Peplow, G. Radulescu, M. L. Williams, and R. A. Lefebvre, “SCALE Enhancements for Detailed Cask Dose Rate Analysis,” Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 14–18, 2014, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2014). [pdf]
J. C. Wagner, D. E. Peplow, and S. W. Mosher, “FW-CADIS Method for Global and Semi-Global Variance Reduction of Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Calculations,” Nuclear Science and Engineering, 176(1), 37–57 (2014).
D. E. Peplow, “Comparison of Hybrid Methods for Global Variance Reduction in Shielding Calculations,” Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2013), Sun Valley, Idaho, May 5–9, 2013. [pdf]
D. E. Peplow, T. M. Miller, B. W. Patton, and J. C. Wagner, “Hybrid Monte Carlo/Deterministic Methods for Accelerating Active Interrogation Modeling,” Nuclear Technology, 182(1), 63–74 (2013).
D. E. Peplow, S. W. Mosher, and T. M. Evans, Consistent Adjoint Driven Importance Sampling using Space, Energy and Angle, ORNL/TM-2012/7, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (August 2012).
A. M. Ibrahim, D. E. Peplow, J. C. Wagner, S. W. Mosher, and T. M. Evans, “Acceleration of Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations Using Deterministic-Based Starting Sources,” Proceedings of PHYSOR 2012, April 2012. [pdf]
D. E. Peplow, “Monte Carlo Shielding Analysis Capabilities with MAVRIC,” Nuclear Technology, 174(2), 289–313 (2011).
J. M. Risner, D. Wiarda, M. E. Dunn, T. M. Miller, D. E. Peplow, and B. W. Patton, Production and Testing of the VITAMIN-B7 Fine-Group and BUGLE-B7 Broad-Group Coupled Neutron/Gamma Cross-Section Libraries Derived from ENDF/B-VII.0 Nuclear Data, NUREG/CR-7045 (ORNL/TM 2011/12), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2011).
J. C. Wagner, D. E. Peplow, S. W. Mosher, and T. M. Evans, “Review of Hybrid (Deterministic/Monte Carlo) Radiation Transport Methods, Codes, and Applications at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,” Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology, 2, 808–814 (2011).
D. E. Peplow, S.W. Mosher, and T. M. Evans, “Hybrid Monte Carlo/Deterministic Methods for Streaming/Beam Problems,” Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Joint Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 19–23, 2010.
J. C. Wagner, E. D. Blakeman, and D. E. Peplow, “FW-CADIS Method for Variance Reduction of Monte Carlo Calculations of Detailed Distributions and Multiple Localized Quantities,” Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Advances in Mathematics, Computational Methods, and Reactor Physics (M&C 2009), Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3–7, 2009.
D. Wiarda, M.E. Dunn, D.E. Peplow, T.M. Miller, and H. Akkurt, Development and Testing of ENDF/B-VI.8 and ENDF/B-VII.0 Coupled Neutron-Gamma Libraries for SCALE 6, NUREG/CR-6990 (ORNL/TM-2008/047), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (February 2009).
D. E. Peplow, T. M. Evans and J. C. Wagner, “Simultaneous Optimization of Tallies in Difficult Shielding Problems,” Nuclear Technology, 168(3), 785–792 (2009).
J. C. Wagner, D. E. Peplow and T. M. Evans, “Automated Variance Reduction Applied to Nuclear Well-Logging Problems,” Nuclear Technology, 168(3), 799–809 (2009).
D. E. Peplow, E. D. Blakeman and J. C. Wagner, “Advanced Variance Reduction Strategies for Optimizing Mesh Tallies in MAVRIC,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 97, 595–597 (2007). [pdf]
J. C. Wagner, E. D. Blakeman and D. E. Peplow, “Forward-Weighted CADIS Method for Global Variance Reduction,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 97, 630–633 (2007).
D. E. Peplow and J. C. Wagner, “Automated Variance Reduction for SCALE Shielding Calculations,” Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society’s 14th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, pp. 391–393, Carlsbad, New Mexico, April 2–6, 2006.
D. E. Peplow, S. M. Bowman, J. E. Horwedel and J. C. Wagner, “Monaco/MAVRIC: Computational Resources for Radiation Protection and Shielding in SCALE,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 95, 669–671 (2006).