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, January 22, 2019 (7:30 AM) to Thursday, January 24, 2019 (6:01 PM)

Monday, January 21, 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

7:45 AM

7:45 AM - 8:10 AM
Room: City View
8:10 AM Welcome to GWU - Allison Macfarlane (GWU)
Welcome to GWU
- Allison Macfarlane (GWU)
8:10 AM - 8:15 AM
Room: City View
8:15 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks - Timothy Hallman (DOE)
Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Timothy Hallman (DOE)
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: City View
8:30 AM Meeting structure and Goals - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/University of California - Berkeley)
Meeting structure and Goals
- Lee Bernstein (LBNL/University of California - Berkeley)
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Room: City View
8:45 AM Background of Collaborative Nuclear Data Activities - Catherine Romano (ORNL)
Background of Collaborative Nuclear Data Activities
- Catherine Romano (ORNL)
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: City View
9:00 AM Isotope Program Needs - Ethan Balkin (DOE)
Isotope Program Needs
- Ethan Balkin (DOE)
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: City View
9:15 AM Nuclear Energy Program Needs - Alice Caponiti (DOE)
Nuclear Energy Program Needs
- Alice Caponiti (DOE)
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: City View
9:30 AM NRC Needs - Amy Cubbage (NRC)
NRC Needs
- Amy Cubbage (NRC)
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: City View
9:45 AM Modern Nuclear Data Evaluation Methods - Arjan Koning (IAEA)
Modern Nuclear Data Evaluation Methods
- Arjan Koning (IAEA)
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: City View
10:00 AM Japanese Collaboration - Mitsuo Koizumi (JAEA) Douglas Rodriguez (JAEA)
Japanese Collaboration
- Mitsuo Koizumi (JAEA)
- Douglas Rodriguez (JAEA)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: City View
10:15 AM

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: City View
10:45 AM NA-113 - Teresa Bailey (LLNL)
NA-113
- Teresa Bailey (LLNL)
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: City View
10:55 AM NA-114 - Jim Peltz (DOE/NNSA)
NA-114
- Jim Peltz (DOE/NNSA)
10:55 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: City View
11:05 AM NA-221 Overview - Donald Hornback (DOE/NNSA)
NA-221 Overview
- Donald Hornback (DOE/NNSA)
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: City View
11:20 AM NA-222 - Timothy Ashenfelter (DOE/NNSA)
NA-222
- Timothy Ashenfelter (DOE/NNSA)
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: City View
11:30 AM Safeguards Needs - Chris Ramos (DOE/NNSA)
Safeguards Needs
- Chris Ramos (DOE/NNSA)
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: City View
11:40 AM DTRA Nuclear Data Needs - Kevin Mueller (DTRA)
DTRA Nuclear Data Needs
- Kevin Mueller (DTRA)
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: City View
11:50 AM AFTAC Needs - William Johnson (AFTAC)
AFTAC Needs
- William Johnson (AFTAC)
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: City View
12:00 PM Criticality Safety Program Needs - Doug Bowen (ORNL)
Criticality Safety Program Needs
- Doug Bowen (ORNL)
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Room: City View
12:15 PM Break
Break
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: City View
1:45 PM Nuclear Data 101/The Nuclear Data Pipeline - Jeremy Conlin (LANL) David Brown (BNL/NNDC)
Nuclear Data 101/The Nuclear Data Pipeline
- Jeremy Conlin (LANL)
- David Brown (BNL/NNDC)
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: City View
2:15 PM NDIAWG FOA Overview - Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
NDIAWG FOA Overview
- Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: City View
2:30 PM 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)
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: City View
2:45 PM 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)
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: City View
3:00 PM 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)
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: City View
3:15 PM 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)
3:15 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: City View
3:25 PM 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)
3:25 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: City View
3:35 PM 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)
3:35 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: City View
3:45 PM Break
Break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: City View
4:15 PM 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)
4:15 PM - 4:25 PM
Room: City View
4:25 PM Evaluation of Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields - Toshihiko Kawano (LANL)
Evaluation of Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields
- Toshihiko Kawano (LANL)
4:25 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: City View
4:35 PM Measurement of Independent Fission Product Yields - Dana Duke (LANL)
Measurement of Independent Fission Product Yields
- Dana Duke (LANL)
4:35 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: City View
4:45 PM 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)
4:45 PM - 4:55 PM
Room: City View
4:55 PM Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields - Anton Tonchev (LLNL)
Energy Dependent Fission Product Yields
- Anton Tonchev (LLNL)
4:55 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: City View
5:05 PM Discussion/Q&A
Discussion/Q&A
5:05 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: City View

5:15 PM

5:15 PM - 5:16 PM
Room: City View
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

7:45 AM Registration & AM Refreshments
Registration & AM Refreshments
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: City View
8:30 AM Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Lindner Family Commons
Contributions

8:30 AM Introduction: Nuclear Data Needs for Nuclear Energy Applications - Bradley Rearden (ORNL)

8:50 AM Nuclear Data Needs for Spent Fuel Dry Storage and Radioactive Materials Transportation - Drew Barto (NRC)

9:05 AM Recent LWR Systems Analysis Research Projects at the USNRC - Pete Yarsky (NRC)

9:25 AM Data Challenges for Advanced Reactor Licensing - Timothy Drzewiecki (NRC)

9:40 AM Nuclear Data Needs for High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors - Eben Mulder (X-energy)

9:55 AM Discussion - Eric Matthews (UC Berkeley)
Isotope Production
Isotope Production
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: State Room
Contributions

8:30 AM Nuclear Data for Isotope Production: A Program Manager’s Perspective - Ethan Balkin (DoE)

8:50 AM Current status of infrastructure and capabilities for nuclear data measurements at BLIP - Dmitri Medvedev (BNL)

9:10 AM Capabilities for Isotope Production Nuclear Data Measurements at LBNL - Andrew Voyles (UCB / LBNL)

9:25 AM Radioactive targets for Nuclear Astrophysics experiments at LANL. - Georgios Perdikakis (Central Michigan University)

9:40 AM Argonne capabilities and needs for nuclear and atomic data related to the isotope program - Jerry Nolen (ANL)
10:00 AM Break
Break
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: City View
10:20 AM Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy
10:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Lindner Family Commons
Contributions

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

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

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

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

11:25 AM 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 AM Thermal Scattering Law Data for Advanced Reactor Applications - Ayman Hawari (NCSU)

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

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

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

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

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

11:40 AM Wrap-Up Discussion
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: City View
1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 2:55 PM
Room: State Room
Contributions

1:15 PM Introduction and Guidelines - Catherine Romano (ORNL)

1:25 PM Materials Issues for Non-light Water Reactors - Raj Iyengar (NRC)

1:40 PM Materials Issues for Fusion Systems - Daniel Clark (Office of Science, Fusion)

1:55 PM IAEA work on primary radiation damage cross sections - Arjan Koning (IAEA)

2:10 PM The Impact of ENDF/B-VIII.0 and FENDL-3.1d on Fusion Neutronics Calculations - Tim Bohm (Univ. Wisc.-Madison)

2:25 PM Fusion Nuclear Science Facility - Charles Kessel (ORNL)

2:40 PM IAEA CRP on Primary Radiation Damage and SPECTER - Larry Greenwood (PNNL)
- Program manager perspective User Input
- Program manager perspective User Input
1:15 PM - 2:55 PM
Room: Lindner Family Commons
Contributions

1:15 PM Defining the Need - Christopher Pickett (NNSA)

1:35 PM Destructive Analyses Methods & Nuclear Data Needs - Brian Ticknor

1:55 PM Nondestructive Analysis Methods & Nuclear Data Needs - Andrea Favalli (LANL) Stephen Croft (ORNL)

2:15 PM Brainstorming, Prioritizing, and Summarizing - Eric Matthews
2:55 PM Break
Break
2:55 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM Materials Damage
Materials Damage
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: State Room
Contributions

3:15 PM Damage Correlation: Exposure Vs. Material Damage - Roger Stoller (ORNL)

3:30 PM Materials Damage Characterization - Peter Hosemann (UC Berkeley)

3:45 PM Neutron Dosimetry with STAYSL for Materials Irradiations and the IAEA CRP on IRDFF - Larry Greenwood (PNNL)

4:00 PM Activation and Damage Cross Sections in Use for EUROFusion Fusion Nuclear Technology - Robert Grove (ORNL)

4:15 PM Using Heavy Ion Beams to Study Radiation Damage in Fuel Elements and Structural Materials for Reactors - Jerry Nolen (ANL)
Roadmapping Session 2B - Safeguards
Roadmapping Session 2B - Safeguards
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Linder Family Commons
Contributions

3:15 PM Brainstorming, Prioritizing, and Summarizing - Eric Matthews
5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 5:01 PM
Room: City View
Thursday, January 24, 2019

7:45 AM Registration & AM Refreshments
Registration & AM Refreshments
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: City View
8:30 AM (n,x) reactions
(n,x) reactions
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: City View
Contributions

8:30 AM Applied Sensitivity Studies - Robert Casperson (LLNL)

8:40 AM LLNL Nuclear Data Survey - Teresa Bailey (LLNL)

8:45 AM Covariance availability for neutron reaction data - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

8:50 AM Integral Criticality Benchmarks and Nuclear Data - Catherine Percher (LLNL)

8:55 AM LANL Light Element Evaluations - Mark Paris (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:00 AM Evaluation Discussion

9:20 AM GENESIS for Low-z - Darren Bleuel (LLNL)

9:25 AM Inelastic Scattering with a Segmented Neutron/Gamma Calorimeter - Robert Casperson (LLNL)

9:30 AM A 4-pi array for the inelastic scattering study - Ching-Yen Wu (LLNL)

9:35 AM Uncertainties in Neutron Scattering Cross Sections - Matthew Devlin (LANL)

9:40 AM UMass Lowell Capabilities - Matthew Devlin (LANL)

9:45 AM The Gaerttner LINAC Center 1 Overview Of Experimental Nuclear Data Capabilities at RPI - Yaron Danon (RPI)

9:55 AM Neutron Experiments at Edwards Accelerator Laboratory at Ohio State - Alexander Voinov (Ohio U)
Atomic, XRF Data
Atomic, XRF Data
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: State Room
Contributions

8:30 AM General overview of ENDF atomic data libraries - David Brown (BNL)

8:40 AM IAEA support of atomic data - Arjan Koning (IAEA)

8:50 AM NIST atomic data capabilities - Yuri Ralchenko (NIST)

9:00 AM Atomic data support in EXFOR - Boris Pritychenko (BNL)

9:10 AM GNDS implementation of atomic data - Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)

9:20 AM Atomic data in Monte Carlo transport codes and their validation - Maria Grazia Pia (INFN)

9:30 AM SNL electron and photon scattering data use at Sandia - Brian Franke (SNL) Clif Drumm (SNL)

9:40 AM LLNL capabilities and needs - Eric Jurgenson (LLNL) Ian Thompson (LLNL) Michael Kruse (LLNL) Steve Libby (LLNL)

9:50 AM Atomic data needs for ENSDF & decay data - Alejandro Sonzogni (BNL)
10:00 AM Break
Break
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: City View
10:20 AM (n,x) reactions
(n,x) reactions
10:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: City View
Contributions

10:20 AM Scattering Discussion

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

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

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

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

11:20 AM 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 AM An Intense Neutron Source at FRIB - Michael Smith (ORNL)

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

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

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

10:40 AM Discussion

11:40 AM Drafting of Close-out Talk
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: City View
1:30 PM Presentation of Key Outcomes - Robert Casperson (LLNL) Etienne Vermeulen (LANL) Christopher Pickett (ORNL) Catherine Romano (ORNL) Brad Rearden (ORNL) Matthew Devlin (LANL) Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL) David Brown (BNL/NNDC)
Presentation of Key Outcomes
- Robert Casperson (LLNL)
- Etienne Vermeulen (LANL)
- Christopher Pickett (ORNL)
- Catherine Romano (ORNL)
- Brad Rearden (ORNL)
- Matthew Devlin (LANL)
- Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)
- David Brown (BNL/NNDC)
1:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: City View
3:45 PM Break
Break
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: City View
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: City View
Contributions

4:15 PM Fission and Nuclear Data - Alejandro Sonzogni (BNL/NNDC)

4:45 PM Final Discussions - Donald Hornback (DOE/NNSA) Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)
5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 5:01 PM
Room: City View

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