2019 scale users’ group workshop monday – wednesday

2019 SCALE Users’ Group Workshop Monday – Wednesday, August 19 – 21, 2019

Event contact Germina Ilas, 865-241-4672 (office); [email protected] Will Wieselquist, 865-574-0204 (office); [email protected]

Note: Morning and afternoon refreshments are available in Wigner Auditorium and the VOCC

Time Event Lead Location

Monday, August 19

8:00-9:00am Check-in and Registration

Marsha Henley/ Elaine Davis (ORNL)

ORNL Visitors Center/ 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

9:00–9:10am Welcome and Logistics Will Wieselquist/ Germina Ilas (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

9:10-9:35am Emerging Initiatives in SCALE Will Wieselquist (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

9:35-10:00am TBD John Monninger (NRC) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

10:00-10:30am Break 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

10:30–10:45am Introduction of the SCALE Team

Will Wieselquist (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

10:45–11:10am TBD Kevin Reynolds (Y-12) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

11:10-11:35am Transformational Challenge Reactor: Nuclear Core Design with Advanced Manufacturing

Ben Betzler (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

11:35-12:00pm Synergy VERA/SCALE Dave Kropaczek (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

12:00-1:00pm Working Lunch: GAIN: What is it and is it helping?

Andy Worrall (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

Event Speaker Location

Monday, August 19

Tutorial Session [1:00-3:00pm] ORIGEN/MAVRIC Activation Analysis of the Silene Experiment

Cihangir Celik, Shane Hart and Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL)

5700, VOCC Lab, Room B306

Technical Session [1:00-3:00pm] Advanced Reactor Modeling with SCALE: (1) Nodal Data Calculation in TRITON/Shift: Part I,

Applications (2) Nodal Data Calculation in TRITON/Shift: Part II, Tally

Methods (3) Molten Salt Reactor Fuel Cycle and Reactor Physics

Analysis with SCALE/TRITON (4) SCALE Multigroup Capability and Challenges in

Advanced Reactor Analysis (5) <TITLE TBD>

(1) Matt Jessee (ORNL) (2) Will Wieselquist (ORNL) (3) Ben Betzler (ORNL) (4) Kang Seog Kim

(ORNL) (5) Kyle Anderson (UTK)

4500N, Wigner Auditorium

Break [3:00-3:30pm] Wigner Auditorium and VOCC Lab

Tutorial Session [3:30-5:30pm] CSAS/Shift for Criticality Analysis and 3D Visualization

B.J. Marshall and Rob Lefebvre (ORNL)


Technical Session [3:30-5:30pm] Applications of SCALE to Nuclear Safeguards and Security: (1) Monte Carlo Uncertainty Quantification in UF6

Neutron Emissions (2) Retrospective assay of UF6 to Discriminate Historical

HEU from LEU (3) INDEPTH Demonstration (4) Developing 3D Reactor Model for Criticality Safety

Analysis of the Newly Converted NIRR-1 using the KENO-VI Module of the SCALE Code System

(1) Ryan O’Mara (NCSU) (2) Robert Hayes (NCSU) (3) Brandon Grogan

(ORNL) (4) Abdulhameed Salawu

(Federal University Lokoja)


5:30-7:00pm Poster Session and Reception (in lieu of a working dinner)

Lobby of Bldg 5100


Tuesday, August 20 Note: Morning refreshments are available in Wigner Auditorium and the VOCC

Tutorial Session [8:00-10:00am] Sampler Applied to Criticality Safety for Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification

B.J. Marshall and Justin Clarity (ORNL)


Technical Session [8:00-10:00am] Reactor Safety Analysis with SCALE: (1) MELCOR/SCALE for HTGRs (2) Kernel Density Estimators for Sampler Analysis (3) Generation of SCALE multi-group libraries with AMPX

for Nodal Calculations (4) Data Generation for an Artificial Neural Network for

MOX Criticality Prediction using SCALE/TRITON (5) Polaris Updates in SCALE 6.3

(1) Will Wieselquist (ORNL) (2) Ryan O’Mara (NCSU) (3) Pascal Rouxelin (NCSU) (4) Jin Whan Bae (ORNL) (5) Matt Jessee (ORNL)


Tutorial Session [10:00-Noon] SCALE Utilities for Nuclear Data Interrogation, Comparison and Visualization

Andrew Holcomb and Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL)

5700, VOCC Lab, Room

B306

Break [10:00-10:30am] 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

Technical Session [10:30-Noon] Applications of SCALE for Nuclear Criticality Safety: (1) CSAS/Shift Integration within SCALE 6.3 (2) User Experiences with the ICSBEP Distributed SDFs

with SCALE – 2019 Edition (3) Initial KENO Validation with ENDF/B-VIII Nuclear

Data in SCALE 6.3.0-beta4 (4) Preliminary TSUNAMI Assessment of the Impact of

Accident Tolerant Fuel Concepts on Reactor Physics Validation

(1) Kursat Bekar (ORNL) (2) Justin Clarity (ORNL) (3) B.J. Marshall (ORNL) (4) B.J. Marshall (ORNL)


Tour [10:30-Noon] Irradiated Fuels Exam Lab Bruce Bevard (ORNL) Meet at 4500N,

Flagpole


Tuesday, August 20 Note: Afternoon refreshments are available in Wigner Auditorium and the VOCC

Working Lunch: [12:00-1:00pm] Nuclear Data Activities for Nuclear Energy Applications Brad Rearden (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner

Auditorium

Tutorial Session [1:00-3:00pm] Nodal Data Generation for Advanced Reactors with TRITON/Shift

Brian Ade and Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL)


Technical Session [1-2:30pm] Nuclear Data for SCALE Applications:

(1) Sampler Sensitivity Indices (2) Updates on ORIGEN Readers and Data (3) Augmented Covariance Data Libraries for SCALE

6.3

(1) Friederike Bostelmann

(ORNL) (2) Shane Hart (ORNL) (3) Vlad Sobes (ORNL)


Tour [1-2:30pm] Liquid Salt Loop Kevin Robb (ORNL) 5700, Lobby

Break with Refreshments [2:30-3:00pm] 4500N, Wigner Auditorium

Tutorial Session [3:00-5:00pm] Generation of SCALE Multi-Group Libraries with AMPX

Andrew Holcomb, Doro Wiarda, Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL)


Technical Session [3:00-4:30pm] Decommissioning, Disposal and Spent Nuclear Fuel Burnup Credit:

(1) Detailed Radiation Dose Rate Evaluations of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters

(2) Uncertainty Quantification for Criticality and Burnup Simulation with Sampler

(3) Comparison of MPACT and Shift for MAGNOX Reactors

(1) Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL)

(2) Pascal Rouxelin (NCSU) (3) Brian Ade (ORNL)


Tour [3:00-4:30pm] Graphite Reactor B.J. Marshall (ORNL) Meet at 4500N,

Flagpole

Concluding Remarks & Users’ Feedback [5:00-5:30pm] Will Wieselquist (ORNL) 4500N, Wigner

Auditorium


Wednesday, August 21 Note: Morning refreshments are available in the VOCC

Tutorial Session [8:00-10:00am] Research Reactor Source Terms with ORIGEN/ORIGAMI for Safeguards Applications

Germina Ilas and Jianwei Hu (ORNL)


Tutorial Session [10:00-Noon] Time-Dependent Depletion Analysis with Polaris

Matt Jessee and Ben Betzler (ORNL)


Poster Title Presenter

Posters presented during the reception on Monday, August 19

Progress on Implementation and Validation of Polaris for CANDU Applications Simon Younan, McMaster University

Monte Carlo Uncertainty Quantification in UF6 Cylinder Neutron Emissions

Ryan O’Mara, North Carolina State University (Mentor: W. Wieselquist, ORNL)

MAPPER Approach for Bias and Uncertainties Mapping in Criticality Safety

Dongli Huang, Purdue University (Mentor: U. Mertyurek, ORNL)

Modeling Molten Salt Reactor Fission Product Removal with SCALE

Pedro Vicente Valdez, University of California, Berkeley (Mentor: Benjamin Betzler, ORNL)

Investigating the Magnus Series in Coupled Transport-Depletion Problems

Tseelmaa Byambaakhuu, Ohio State University (Mentor: S. Hart, ORNL)

Trillions and trillions of spectral gamma ray cameras densely covering every inhabited area (including Natanz) – and where to find them

Robert Hayes, North Carolina State University

Reactor Physics Modeling of High Assay Low Enriched Uranium

Vincent Novellino, North Carolina State University (Mentor: M.Jessee, ORNL)

Current activities with SCALE in the NCSU’s RDFMG Pascal Rouxelin, North Carolina State University

2019 scale users’ group workshop monday – wednesday

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