Name: Workshop for Applied Nuclear Data Activities (WANDA)
Start: 2019-01-22T07:30:00-05:00
End: 2019-01-24T18:01:00-05:00
Location: Elliott School of International affairs at the George Washington University

Workshop for Applied Nuclear Data Activities (WANDA)

from Tuesday 22 January 2019 (07:30) to Thursday 24 January 2019 (18:01)

Monday 21 January 2019
Tuesday 22 January 2019

07:45

07:45 - 08:10
Room: City View
08:10 Welcome to GWU - Allison Macfarlane (GWU)
Welcome to GWU
- Allison Macfarlane (GWU)
08:10 - 08:15
Room: City View
08:15 Welcome & Opening Remarks - Timothy Hallman (DOE)
Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Timothy Hallman (DOE)
08:15 - 08:30
Room: City View
08:30 Meeting structure and Goals - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/University of California - Berkeley)
Meeting structure and Goals
- Lee Bernstein (LBNL/University of California - Berkeley)
08:30 - 08:45
Room: City View
08:45 Background of Collaborative Nuclear Data Activities - Catherine Romano (ORNL)
Background of Collaborative Nuclear Data Activities
- Catherine Romano (ORNL)
08:45 - 09:00
Room: City View
09:00 Isotope Program Needs - Ethan Balkin (DOE)
Isotope Program Needs
- Ethan Balkin (DOE)
09:00 - 09:15
Room: City View
09:15 Nuclear Energy Program Needs - Alice Caponiti (DOE)
Nuclear Energy Program Needs
- Alice Caponiti (DOE)
09:15 - 09:30
Room: City View
09:30 NRC Needs - Amy Cubbage (NRC)
NRC Needs
- Amy Cubbage (NRC)
09:30 - 09:45
Room: City View
09:45 Modern Nuclear Data Evaluation Methods - Arjan Koning (IAEA)
Modern Nuclear Data Evaluation Methods
- Arjan Koning (IAEA)
09:45 - 10:00
Room: City View
10:00 Japanese Collaboration - Mitsuo Koizumi (JAEA) Douglas Rodriguez (JAEA)
Japanese Collaboration
- Mitsuo Koizumi (JAEA)
- Douglas Rodriguez (JAEA)
10:00 - 10:15
Room: City View
10:15

10:15 - 10:45
Room: City View
10:45 NA-113 - Teresa Bailey (LLNL)
NA-113
- Teresa Bailey (LLNL)
10:45 - 10:55
Room: City View
10:55 NA-114 - Jim Peltz (DOE/NNSA)
NA-114
- Jim Peltz (DOE/NNSA)
10:55 - 11:05
Room: City View
11:05 NA-221 Overview - Donald Hornback (DOE/NNSA)
NA-221 Overview
- Donald Hornback (DOE/NNSA)
11:05 - 11:20
Room: City View
11:20 NA-222 - Timothy Ashenfelter (DOE/NNSA)
NA-222
- Timothy Ashenfelter (DOE/NNSA)
11:20 - 11:30
Room: City View
11:30 Safeguards Needs - Chris Ramos (DOE/NNSA)
Safeguards Needs
- Chris Ramos (DOE/NNSA)
11:30 - 11:40
Room: City View
11:40 DTRA Nuclear Data Needs - Kevin Mueller (DTRA)
DTRA Nuclear Data Needs
- Kevin Mueller (DTRA)
11:40 - 11:50
Room: City View
11:50 AFTAC Needs - William Johnson (AFTAC)
AFTAC Needs
- William Johnson (AFTAC)
11:50 - 12:00
Room: City View
12:00 Criticality Safety Program Needs - Doug Bowen (ORNL)
Criticality Safety Program Needs
- Doug Bowen (ORNL)
12:00 - 12:15
Room: City View
12:15 Break
Break
12:15 - 13:45
Room: City View
13:45 Nuclear Data 101/The Nuclear Data Pipeline - David Brown (BNL/NNDC) Jeremy Conlin (LANL)
Nuclear Data 101/The Nuclear Data Pipeline
- David Brown (BNL/NNDC)
- Jeremy Conlin (LANL)
13:45 - 14:15
Room: City View
14:15 NDIAWG FOA Overview - Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
NDIAWG FOA Overview
- Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
14:15 - 14:30
Room: City View
14:30 Improving the Nuclear Data on Fission Products Decays at CARIBU - Guy Savard (ANL)
Improving the Nuclear Data on Fission Products Decays at CARIBU
- Guy Savard (ANL)
14:30 - 14:45
Room: City View
14:45 Novel Approach for Improving Antineutrino Spectral Predicitons for Nonprofiliferation Applications - Filip Kondev (ANL)
Novel Approach for Improving Antineutrino Spectral Predicitons for Nonprofiliferation Applications
- Filip Kondev (ANL)
14:45 - 15:00
Room: City View
15:00 238U(p,xn) and 235U(d,xn) 235-237Np Nuclear Reaction Cross Sections Relevant to the Production of 236gNp - Michael Fassbender (LANL)
238U(p,xn) and 235U(d,xn) 235-237Np Nuclear Reaction Cross Sections Relevant to the Production of 236gNp
- Michael Fassbender (LANL)
15:00 - 15:15
Room: City View
15:15 State-of-the-art Gamma-ray Spectroscopy to Enhance the ENSDF - Libby McCutchan (BNL/NNDC)
State-of-the-art Gamma-ray Spectroscopy to Enhance the ENSDF
- Libby McCutchan (BNL/NNDC)
15:15 - 15:25
Room: City View
15:25 Beta-strength function, reactor decay heat, and anti-neutrino properties from total absorption spectroscopy of fission fragments - Krzysztof RYKACZEWSKI (ORNL)
Beta-strength function, reactor decay heat, and anti-neutrino properties from total absorption spectroscopy of fission fragments
- Krzysztof RYKACZEWSKI (ORNL)
15:25 - 15:35
Room: City View
15:35 Improving the double-differential 238U(n,n’g) cross section using neutron-gamma coincidences - Lee Bernstein (LBNL)
Improving the double-differential 238U(n,n’g) cross section using neutron-gamma coincidences
- Lee Bernstein (LBNL)
15:35 - 15:45
Room: City View
15:45 Break
Break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: City View
16:15 Integral Measurements of Independent and Cumulative Fission Product Yields Supporting Nuclear Forensics and Other Applications - Todd Bredeweg (LANL)
Integral Measurements of Independent and Cumulative Fission Product Yields Supporting Nuclear Forensics and Other Applications
- Todd Bredeweg (LANL)
16:15 - 16:25
Room: City View
16:25 Evaluation of Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields - Toshihiko Kawano (LANL)
Evaluation of Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields
- Toshihiko Kawano (LANL)
16:25 - 16:35
Room: City View
16:35 Measurement of Independent Fission Product Yields - Dana Duke (LANL)
Measurement of Independent Fission Product Yields
- Dana Duke (LANL)
16:35 - 16:45
Room: City View
16:45 Independent Fission Product Yields from 0.5 to 20 MeV - Shea Mosby (LANL)
Independent Fission Product Yields from 0.5 to 20 MeV
- Shea Mosby (LANL)
16:45 - 16:55
Room: City View
16:55 Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields - Anton Tonchev (LLNL)
Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields
- Anton Tonchev (LLNL)
16:55 - 17:05
Room: City View
17:05 Discussion/Q&A
Discussion/Q&A
17:05 - 17:15
Room: City View

17:15

17:15 - 17:16
Room: City View
Wednesday 23 January 2019

07:45 Registration & AM Refreshments
Registration & AM Refreshments
07:45 - 08:30
Room: City View
08:30 Isotope Production
Isotope Production
08:30 - 10:00
Room: State Room
Contributions

08:30 Nuclear Data for Isotope Production: A Program Manager’s Perspective - Ethan Balkin (DoE)

08:50 Current status of infrastructure and capabilities for nuclear data measurements at BLIP - Dmitri Medvedev (BNL)

09:10 Capabilities for Isotope Production Nuclear Data Measurements at LBNL - Andrew Voyles (UCB / LBNL)

09:25 Radioactive targets for Nuclear Astrophysics experiments at LANL. - Georgios Perdikakis (Central Michigan University)

09:40 Argonne capabilities and needs for nuclear and atomic data related to the isotope program - Jerry Nolen (ANL)
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Lindner Family Commons
Contributions

08:30 Introduction: Nuclear Data Needs for Nuclear Energy Applications - Bradley Rearden (ORNL)

08:50 Nuclear Data Needs for Spent Fuel Dry Storage and Radioactive Materials Transportation - Drew Barto (NRC)

09:05 Recent LWR Systems Analysis Research Projects at the USNRC - Pete Yarsky (NRC)

09:25 Data Challenges for Advanced Reactor Licensing - Timothy Drzewiecki (NRC)

09:40 Nuclear Data Needs for High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors - Eben Mulder (X-energy)

09:55 Discussion - Eric Matthews (UC Berkeley)
10:00 Break
Break
10:00 - 10:20
Room: City View
10:20 Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy
10:20 - 12:00
Room: Lindner Family Commons
Contributions

10:20 Advanced Reactor Design and Analysis - Nicholas Touran (TerraPower)

10:35 Nuclear Data Needs for Current and Future Nuclear Energy Systems - Alex Levinsky (Westinghouse)

10:50 Impact of Nuclear Data on the Design of Fluoride Cooled Reactors - Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley/Kairos Power)

11:05 Nuclear Data Needs Assessment for Advanced Nuclear System: History and Update - Giuseppe Palmiotti (INL)

11:25 The Status of Nuclear Data Uncertainty Libraries and the Problem of Too Small Uncertainties on Differential Data and Too Large Uncertainties on Integral Data - Vladimir Sobes (ORNL)

11:40 Thermal Scattering Law Data for Advanced Reactor Applications - Ayman Hawari (NCSU)

11:55 Discussion - Bradley Rearden (ORNL) Eric Matthews
Isotope Production
Isotope Production
10:20 - 12:00
Room: State Room
Contributions

10:20 Activation measurements of therapeutic radionuclide excitation functions using Quasi-Monoenergetic Neutron Beams - Jonathan Engle (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

10:40 University of Washington Medical Cyclotron Facility (UWMCF) - Gregory Moffitt (University of Washington)

11:00 Atomic and Nuclear Data for Auger emitters - Roger Howell (Rutgers University)

11:20 Growth and Potential Isotope Needs in Medicine - Hobbs Robert (Johns Hopkins Medicine)

11:40 Wrap-Up Discussion
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:15
Room: City View
13:15 - Program manager perspective User Input
- Program manager perspective User Input
13:15 - 14:55
Room: Lindner Family Commons
Contributions

13:15 Defining the Need - Christopher Pickett (NNSA)

13:35 Destructive Analyses Methods & Nuclear Data Needs - Brian Ticknor

13:55 Nondestructive Analysis Methods & Nuclear Data Needs - Andrea Favalli (LANL) Stephen Croft (ORNL)

14:15 Brainstorming, Prioritizing, and Summarizing - Eric Matthews
13:15 - 14:55
Room: State Room
Contributions

13:15 Introduction and Guidelines - Catherine Romano (ORNL)

13:25 Materials Issues for Non-light Water Reactors - Raj Iyengar (NRC)

13:40 Materials Issues for Fusion Systems - Daniel Clark (Office of Science, Fusion)

13:55 IAEA work on primary radiation damage cross sections - Arjan Koning (IAEA)

14:10 The Impact of ENDF/B-VIII.0 and FENDL-3.1d on Fusion Neutronics Calculations - Tim Bohm (Univ. Wisc.-Madison)

14:25 Fusion Nuclear Science Facility - Charles Kessel (ORNL)

14:40 IAEA CRP on Primary Radiation Damage and SPECTER - Larry Greenwood (PNNL)
14:55 Break
Break
14:55 - 15:15
15:15 Roadmapping Session 2B - Safeguards
Roadmapping Session 2B - Safeguards
15:15 - 17:00
Room: Linder Family Commons
Contributions

15:15 Brainstorming, Prioritizing, and Summarizing - Eric Matthews
Materials Damage
Materials Damage
15:15 - 17:00
Room: State Room
Contributions

15:15 Damage Correlation: Exposure Vs. Material Damage - Roger Stoller (ORNL)

15:30 Materials Damage Characterization - Peter Hosemann (UC Berkeley)

15:45 Neutron Dosimetry with STAYSL for Materials Irradiations and the IAEA CRP on IRDFF - Larry Greenwood (PNNL)

16:00 Activation and Damage Cross Sections in Use for EUROFusion Fusion Nuclear Technology - Robert Grove (ORNL)

16:15 Using Heavy Ion Beams to Study Radiation Damage in Fuel Elements and Structural Materials for Reactors - Jerry Nolen (ANL)
17:00

17:00 - 17:01
Room: City View
Thursday 24 January 2019

07:45 Registration & AM Refreshments
Registration & AM Refreshments
07:45 - 08:30
Room: City View
08:30 Atomic, XRF Data
Atomic, XRF Data
08:30 - 10:00
Room: State Room
Contributions

08:30 General overview of ENDF atomic data libraries - David Brown (BNL)

08:40 IAEA support of atomic data - Arjan Koning (IAEA)

08:50 NIST atomic data capabilities - Yuri Ralchenko (NIST)

09:00 Atomic data support in EXFOR - Boris Pritychenko (BNL)

09:10 GNDS implementation of atomic data - Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)

09:20 Atomic data in Monte Carlo transport codes and their validation - Maria Grazia Pia (INFN)

09:30 SNL electron and photon scattering data use at Sandia - Brian Franke (SNL) Clif Drumm (SNL)

09:40 LLNL capabilities and needs - Eric Jurgenson (LLNL) Ian Thompson (LLNL) Michael Kruse (LLNL) Steve Libby (LLNL)

09:50 Atomic data needs for ENSDF & decay data - Alejandro Sonzogni (BNL)
(n,x) reactions
(n,x) reactions
08:30 - 10:00
Room: City View
Contributions

08:30 Applied Sensitivity Studies - Robert Casperson (LLNL)

08:40 LLNL Nuclear Data Survey - Teresa Bailey (LLNL)

08:45 Covariance availability for neutron reaction data - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

08:50 Integral Criticality Benchmarks and Nuclear Data - Catherine Percher (LLNL)

08:55 LANL Light Element Evaluations - Mark Paris (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:00 Evaluation Discussion

09:20 GENESIS for Low-z - Darren Bleuel (LLNL)

09:25 Inelastic Scattering with a Segmented Neutron/Gamma Calorimeter - Robert Casperson (LLNL)

09:30 A 4-pi array for the inelastic scattering study - Ching-Yen Wu (LLNL)

09:35 Uncertainties in Neutron Scattering Cross Sections - Matthew Devlin (LANL)

09:40 UMass Lowell Capabilities - Matthew Devlin (LANL)

09:45 The Gaerttner LINAC Center 1 Overview Of Experimental Nuclear Data Capabilities at RPI - Yaron Danon (RPI)

09:55 Neutron Experiments at Edwards Accelerator Laboratory at Ohio State - Alexander Voinov (Ohio U)
10:00 Break
Break
10:00 - 10:20
Room: City View
10:20 (n,x) reactions
(n,x) reactions
10:20 - 12:00
Room: City View
Contributions

10:20 Scattering Discussion

10:50 Advancing Neutron Capture at LANSCE - Aaron Couture (LANL)

11:00 Capabilities to address cross section needs for reactions on unstable nuclei - Jutta Escher (LLNL)

11:10 Surrogate Cross Section Experiments - Jason Burke (LLNL)

11:15 Measuring (n,f) and (n,z) Reactions with the fissionTPC - Luke Snyder (LLNL)

11:20 High quality (n,p) and (n,a) data using LENZ at LANSCE Microscopic E,J,π-dependent level densities for applications and basic science. - Georgios Perdikakis (Central Michigan University)

11:25 An Intense Neutron Source at FRIB - Michael Smith (ORNL)

11:30 Capture, (n,2n), (n,z) Discussion
Atomic, XRF Data
Atomic, XRF Data
10:20 - 12:00
Room: State Room
Contributions

10:20 Atomic data needs for safeguards - Steven Croft (ORNL)

10:30 PyXRF and related XRF analysis codes at light sources - Andrew Kiss (BNL) Stewart Campbell (BNL)

10:40 Discussion

11:40 Drafting of Close-out Talk
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: City View
13:30 Presentation of Key Outcomes - David Brown (BNL/NNDC) Robert Casperson (LLNL) Matthew Devlin (LANL) Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL) Christopher Pickett (ORNL) Catherine Romano (ORNL) Brad Rearden (ORNL) Etienne Vermeulen (LANL)
Presentation of Key Outcomes
- David Brown (BNL/NNDC)
- Robert Casperson (LLNL)
- Matthew Devlin (LANL)
- Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)
- Christopher Pickett (ORNL)
- Catherine Romano (ORNL)
- Brad Rearden (ORNL)
- Etienne Vermeulen (LANL)
13:30 - 15:45
Room: City View
15:45 Break
Break
15:45 - 16:00
Room: City View
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: City View
Contributions

16:15 Fission and Nuclear Data - Alejandro Sonzogni (BNL/NNDC)

16:45 Final Discussions - Donald Hornback (DOE/NNSA) Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
17:00

17:00 - 17:01
Room: City View