Workshop for Applied Nuclear Data Activities (WANDA) 2025

10 Feb 2025, 07:00 → 13 Feb 2025, 17:00 US/Eastern

Ellen O'Brien (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesse Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Hilton Arlington National Landing, 2399 Richmond Hwy, Arlington, VA, 22202

Monday, 10 February

07:00 → 08:00 Morning Hospitality and Registration

08:00 → 12:00 Session I: Plenary

08:00 Welcome

Speakers: Dr Ellen O'Brien (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesse Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:05 NDWG Welcome and Overview

Speakers: Jennifer Jo Ressler, Todd Bredeweg (LANL)

08:10 WANDA

Speakers: Linda Horton (Department of Energy), Sharon Stephenson (Department of Energy)

08:30 NDIAWG

Speaker: Keith Jankowski (DOE Office of Science, Nuclear Physics)

08:50 DOE-CDO

Speaker: Robert King (Department of Energy)

09:10 NA-22

Speaker: Nick Antonio (NNSA)

09:30 DOE-IP

Speaker: Ethan Balkin (DOE)

09:45 DOE-FES

10:00 Break

10:15 DOE-NE

Speaker: Don Algama (Department of Energy Office of Science, Nuclear Energy)

10:30 NA-113

Speaker: Tod Caldwell (NNSA)

10:45 NA-114

Speaker: Jim Peltz (NNSA)

11:00 NCSP

Speaker: Douglas Bowen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:15 NRC

Speaker: Lucas Kyriazidis (NRC)

11:30 DTRA

Speaker: Joanna Ingraham (Defense Threat Reduction Agency)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 17:00 Session II: Nuclear Data & Deterrence

13:00 Introduction

Speaker: Jennifer Jo Ressler

13:10 → 14:00 Session II: Defining Directions

13:10 Determining Needs

Speakers: Ali Dreyfuss (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Robert Casperson (LLNL)

13:35 Defining Experiments

Speaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:00 → 14:50 Session II: Next-Generation Computational Methods

14:00 Opportunities for AI/ML

Speaker: Scott Vander Wiel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:25 Capabilities with HPC, GPU, and QIS

Speaker: Konstantinos Kravvaris (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:50 → 15:10 Session II: Discussion

15:10 → 16:00 Session II: Next-Generation Experimental Platforms

15:10 Nuclear Data Experiments

Speaker: Aaron Couture (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:35 Integrated Experiments for Applications (radiography)

Speaker: Mory Aufderheide (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:00 → 16:50 Session II: Next-Generation Diagnostics

16:00 Detection Capabilities for Nuclear Data

Speaker: Keegan Kelly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:25 Integrated Experiment Diagnostics

Speaker: Samantha Labb (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:50 → 17:00 Session II: Discussion

Tuesday, 11 February

07:00 → 08:00 Morning Hospitality and Registration

08:00 → 12:00 Session III: Nuclear Data Prioritization for Fusion

08:00 Summary of Fusion Energy Science sessions at WANDA-24

Speaker: Michael Loughlin (ORNL)

08:25 An Assessment of Existing Nuclear Data and Proposals for Future Experiments

Speaker: Prof. Lee Bernstein (University of California - Berkeley/LBNL)

08:50 Fusion technologies data needs: the missing links

Speaker: Jean-Christophe Sublet (UKEA)

09:15 Fusion-Relevant Changes in the ENDF/B-VIII.1 Library

Speaker: Paul Romano (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:40 Break

10:00 Review of Challenges to Achieving Nuclear Data Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis for Fusion

Speaker: Bamidele Ebiwonjumi

10:25 Nuclear Reactions with a Radioactive Ion Beam

Speaker: Chad Forrest (University of Rochester)

10:50 Disucssion

12:00 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 13:30 Poster Session

13:30 → 17:30 Session IV: Challenges in the Deployment of HALEU and Novel Moderators for Advanced Reactors

Conveners: Cutler, Theresa (Los Alamos National Lab.), Javier Ortensi (Idaho National Laboratory)

13:30 Introduction

Speakers: Javier Ortensi (Idaho National Laboratory), Theresa Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:40 → 14:50 Session IV: Customer Perspective

13:40 HALEU Transportation and Fuel Cycle Licensing and the DNCSH Project

Speakers: Andrew Barto (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Don Algama (Department of Energy Office of Science, Nuclear Energy)

14:00 Bridging gaps in Nuclear data needs for optimized deployment of KP-FHR reactors.

Speakers: Chris Campbell (Kairos), Nader Satvat (Kairos)

14:20 Westinghouse Nuclear Data Needs for Advanced Reactor Products

Speaker: Keith Means (Westinghouse)

14:40 Break

14:50 → 15:45 Session IV: Fuel Procurement and Experiment Needs

14:50 Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Support for HALEU and Other DOE Programs

Speaker: Douglas Bowen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:05 The DEIMOS Testbed for HALEU Reactor Demonstrations and HALEU Fuel Procurement

Speaker: Nicholas Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:20 Applied Nuclear Data Supporting HALEU Fuel Transport: DNCSH Critical Benchmark Experiments at SPRF/CX

Speaker: Ramon Pulio (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:35 Break

15:45 → 16:25 Session IV: Thermal Scattering Law Updates

15:45 Bridging Thermal Scattering Law Data Gaps for Novel Moderators in Advanced Reactors

Speaker: Iyad Al-Qasir (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:00 Update on ENDF/B-VIII.1 TSLs for Moderator and Fuel Materials

Speaker: Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

16:15 Break

16:25 → 16:55 Session IV: Safeguards

16:25 Data Needs for Nuclear Material Accounting and Safeguards in the HALEU Fuel Cycle

Speaker: Mark Croce (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:40 Multi-Physics Code Prediction of Nuclear Material Quantities for Advanced Reactor Safeguards

Speaker: Karen Hogue (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:55 → 17:30 Session IV: Discussion

Conveners: Javier Ortensi (Idaho National Laboratory), Theresa Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Wednesday, 12 February

07:00 → 08:00 Morning Hospitality and Registration

08:00 → 12:00 Session V: Data Preservation & Data Workflows

Conveners: Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), David Brown (BNL/NNDC)

08:00 Introduction

Speakers: Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), David Brown (BNL/NNDC)

08:15 SANPC Workshop Summary

Speaker: Kyle Godbey

08:15 → 10:10 Session V: Open Data

08:30 Keynote

Speaker: Michael Cooke (DOE)

08:50 Digitising historical atmospheric electricity data with citizen science

Speaker: Keri Nicoll (University of Reading (UK))

09:05 NNDC and other PuRe Data Resources

Speaker: David Brown (BNL/NNDC)

09:20 Discussion

09:50 Break

10:10 → 12:00 Session V: Legacy Data

10:10 Introduction

10:20 Experimental nuclear data archaeology

Speakers: Naohiko Otuka (IAEA), Vivian Dimitriou (IAEA)

10:35 Legacy data for an automatically readable, comprehensive, and curated experimental reaction database

Speaker: Boris Pritychenko (BNL)

10:50 Talk 3

Speaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:05 Talk 4

Speaker: Catherine Percher (LLNL)

11:20 Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 17:00 Session V: Data Preservation & Data Workflows

13:00 → 15:10 Session V: Data Workflows

13:00 Introduction

13:05 A Framework for a Modern USNDP

Speaker: Keith Jankowski (DOE Office of Science, Nuclear Physics)

13:25 Processing trails: beyond n-transport only

Speaker: Jean-Christophe Sublet (UKEA)

13:40 Talk 2

Speaker: Michael Fleming (OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)

13:55 Updating to a GNDS-based nuclear data workflow

Speaker: Dr Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:10 Discussion

14:50 Break

15:10 → 17:00 Session V: Data & Workflow Preservation, Governance and Knowledge Management

15:10 Introduction

15:15 Knowledge Management for Multi-Generational Projects

Speaker: Stephen Bell

15:35 Towards a Standard Experimental Nuclear Data Format (SENDF)

Speaker: Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

15:50 Virtual VAX

Speaker: Todd Bredeweg (LANL)

16:05 Case study in data and knowledge preservation: experiences from a user with ALEPH archived data

Speaker: Yi Chen (Vanderbil University)

16:20 Discussion

Thursday, 13 February

07:00 → 08:00 Morning Hospitality and Registration

08:00 → 12:00 Session VI: Funded Project Reports

08:00 Early Career Award: An Innovative (n,xn) Measurement Capability for Fusion Reactors, Fast Reactors, Radiochemical Diagnostics, and Astrophysics

Speaker: Keegan Kelly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:07 Scoping Study for Nuclear Reaction Cross sectionson Short-Lived FP (NNSA)

Speaker: Andrew Ratkiewicz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

08:21 Reaction Cross Sections, Secondary Gamma-Ray Yields, and Measured Neutron Spectra for Alpha-Induced Reactions on Light Nuclei

Speakers: Hye Young Lee (LANL), Seth McConchie (ORNL)

08:35 Gamma Production Cross Sections for Active Neutron Interrogation with GENESIS

Speaker: Bethany Goldblum (UCB)

08:49 New measurements of spontaneous fission properties of Pu isotopes

Speaker: Matthew Devlin (LANL)

09:03 Designing Nuclear-data Measurements that Resolve Discrepancies in Existing Data

Speaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:17 Modern Structure-based Nuclear Data Evaluations for Basic Science, Nuclear Safety & Security

Speaker: Mark Paris (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:31 Determination of β-energy spectral shapes in fission products affecting reactor decay heat, anti-neutrino flux, and addressing potential physics beyond the standard model

Speaker: Bertis Rasco (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:45 Accelerated Decay Data Evaluation and Development of an Adopted Decay Data Library

Speaker: Libby McCutchan (BNL/NNDC)

09:59 Impact of Nuclear Data on Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems Safety and Operation

Speaker: Germina Procop (ORNL)

10:13 Benchmarking and validating cosmogenic activation models

Speakers: Aaron Hellinger (PNNL), Richard Saldanha (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

10:27 Break

10:43 Bayesian Framework for Mining of Evaluated Nuclear Mass Data

Speaker: Kyle Godbey

10:57 Development of Benchmark Measurements for Capture Gamma Cascades

Speakers: Ian Marker (RPI), Yaron Danon (RPI)

11:11 The Berkeley Atlas: A database of absolute cross sections for inelastic, gamma-ray production with 14 MeV neutrons

Speakers: Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta (University of California Berkeley), Patrick Peplowski (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

11:25 Evaluation of Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields

Speaker: Toshihiko Kawano (LANL)

11:32 Fission products with NuCARIBU

Speaker: Guy Savard (ANL)

11:39 Nuclear Structure Evaluators Traineeship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Speakers: Anthony Ramirez (LLNL), Libby McCutchan (BNL/NNDC)

11:46 Quasi-continuum Nuclear Data Evaluator Training

Speaker: Mathis Wiedeking (iThemba LABS and University of the Witwatersrand)

11:53 ND Summer School

Speaker: Marco Pigni (ORNL)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 17:00 Session Summaries

13:00 Nuclear Data and Deterrence Session Summary

Speakers: Aaron Couture (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jennifer Jo Ressler, Todd Bredeweg (LANL)

13:20 Fusion Session Summary

Speakers: Prof. Lee Bernstein (University of California - Berkeley/LBNL), Lee Bernstein, Michael Loughlin (ORNL)

13:40 HALEU and Novel Moderators Session Summary

Speakers: Javier Ortensi (Idaho National Laboratory), Theresa Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:00 Data Preservation and Data Workflows Session Summary

Speakers: Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), David Brown (BNL/NNDC)

14:40 Closeout

Speakers: Dr Ellen O'Brien (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesse Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)