Wednesday - Friday, June 5-7, 2024
Presented In-Person and Virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Agenda
Event Contacts
- Germina Ilas, ilasg@ornl.gov
- Will Wieselquist, wieselquistwa@ornl.gov
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Tutorial Sessions
- Shane Hart, Rob Lefebvre (ORNL) - How to Build and Install SCALE
- Cihangir Celik, Steve Skutnik (ORNL) - Activation Analysis with ORIGEN/MAVRIC for Advanced Reactors [supporting files]
Introductions/Welcome
- Dave Pointer (ORNL)
Technical Session - Special Session - Invited Talks
- Hatice Akkurt (Electric Power Research Institute) - Extending the Validation Range for Decay Heat Measurements
- Lucas Kyriazidis (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC]) - NRC Regulatory Applications with SCALE
- Dave Luxat (Sandia National Laboratories) -MELCOR and Nuclear Energy Safety Frontiers
- Brad Rearden (X-energy) - Analytical Methods for Microreactor Development at X-energy
- Vlad Sobes (University of Tennessee, Knoxville [UT-K]) - Incorrect Resonance Escape Probabilities and How to Fix Them with SCALE
Technical Session - SCALE Team Highlights
- Shane Hart (ORNL) - What’s New in SCALE 6.3.2
- Tarek Ghaddar (ORNL) - Improvements to ORANGE Performance in SCALE 7.0
- Kursat Bekar (ORNL) - Capability Enhancements to Support Nuclear Criticality Safety Analysis
- Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) - Non-LWR Analysis and Capability Enhancement for NRC Readiness Support - Status and Plans
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Tutorial Session
- Ugur Mertyurek, Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) - New Sensitivity Features and More in Sampler [supporting files]
Technical Session - SCALE Open Mic
- Grace Power (ORNL) - ORIGEN and Isotope Production at ORNL
- Ondrej Chvala (University of Texas, Austin) - Sample-Decay-Dose
- Naeem Ul Hasan Syed (Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Norway) - The Safety Analysis of the Sunken Komsomolets in the Norwegian Sea
- C. Erika Moss (UT-K) - Modeling the Sourdough Fuel Cycle in the EIRENE Molten Salt Reactor with SCALE
- Claire Gibson (UT-K) - Designing a Critical Experiment for Advanced Reactor Implementation
Working Lunch - What is new in SCALE - Sneak Peek at Upcoming Features
- Cihangir Celik (ORNL) - New Energy Deposition, Photonuclear Physics, and CAAS Capabilities in MAVRIC - SCALE 7.0
- Steve Skutnik (ORNL) - Emerging Visualization and Utility Capabilities for Fulcrum
- Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL) - New Target Search Capabilities in SAMPLER
- Jordan McDonnell (ORNL) - Photonuclear Data in SCALE 7.0
Technical Session - SCALE Open Mic
- Annie Berens (UT-K) - Equilibrium Temperature Sensitivity in the HTR-10
- João Claudio Batista Fiel (Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil) - Multi-laminate Shielding Applied to a Hypothetical Small Modular Reactor
- Jonathan Wing (UT-K) - Exploring the Impact of Modeling Fidelity on Spent Fuel Characteristics for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
Technical Session - Best Practices for SCALE Modeling & Simulation
- Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) - SLICE Method for Inventory Generation of PBR Equilibrium Cores
- Alex Shaw (ORNL) - SCALE Tools for Criticality Safety Validation
- BK Jeon (ORNL) - ORIGEN Sensitivity for Nuclide Inventory
Friday, June 7, 2024
Technical Session - Best SCALE Model Contest
- Claire Gibson (ORNL)
- C. Erika Moss (UT-K)
- Jonathan Wing (UT-K) - winner
- Naeem Ul Hasan Syed (Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Norway)
- Rabab Elzohery (ORNL) - 1st place winner
- Donny Hartanto (ORNL)
- Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL)
- Cihangir Celik (ORNL)
- Annie Berens (UT-K) - winner
Closing Session
- Will Wieselquist (ORNL)
- Germina Ilas (ORNL)
Bonus Virtual Tutorials, May 31-June 4, 2024
May 31, 2024
- Rob Lefebvre, Steve Skutnik (ORNL) - Frequent Fulcrum Functions: The Basics of SCALE’s Graphical User Interface [supporting files]
- Germina Ilas, BK Jeon (ORNL) - LWR Decay Heat Analysis with SCALE [supporting files]
- Steve Skutnik, Donny Hartanto (ORNL) - OBIWAN from A to Z
- Steve Skutnik, Briana Hiscox (ORNL) - ORIGEN Library Generation with TRITON [supporting files]
June 3, 2024
- Rob Lefebvre, Steve Skutnik (ORNL) - Fulcrum Data and Geometry Visualization
- Jordan McDonnell, Alex Shaw (ORNL) - SCALE Sensitivity [supporting files]
- Jesse Brown, Jordan McDonnell (ORNL) - SCALE Utilities for Nuclear Data Interrogation, Comparison, and Visualization [supporting files]
- Matt Jessee, Ugur Mertyurek, (ORNL) - Polaris Lattice Physics Modeling for ATF Designs [supporting files]
June 4, 2024
- Donny Hartanto, Rike Bostelmann (ORNL) - Molten Salt Reactor Analysis with SCALE [supporting files]
- BK Jeon, Germina Ilas (ORNL) - New Sensitivity Capability in ORIGEN
- Germina Ilas, Shane Hart (ORNL) - SCALE Modeling & Simulations for Source Terms in Spent Nuclear Fuel [supporting files]