Name: Nuclear Data Week(s) 2022 (CSEWG-USNDP-NDAG)
Start: 2022-10-31T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-11-11T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Berkner Hall

Nuclear Data Week(s) 2022 (CSEWG-USNDP-NDAG)

from Monday 31 October 2022 (08:00) to Friday 11 November 2022 (17:00)

Monday 31 October 2022
08:00 NDAG
NDAG
08:00 - 12:00
Room: B
Contributions

08:00 Opening Remarks & Introductions - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

08:05 Review and Adoption of the Agenda

08:10 Nuclear Data Needs from Curie Benchmark - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

08:30 Fission Product Credit Priorities - Begin Discussion

08:50 233U(n, γ) DANCE and NEUANCE measurements at LANSCE - Esther Leal Cidoncha (LANL)

09:10 Sub-Thermal Transmission Experiments of Organic Materials at the RPI Gaerttner LINAC Center - Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

09:30 Nuclear Data Requests -Review of 5-year plan, Appendix B - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

11:00 New Nuclear Data Needs

11:30 Other Business

11:45 FY2023 NCSP Calendar

11:50 Time and Place of Next NDAG Meeting - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

11:55 Summary of Action Items - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: B
13:30 Validation
Validation
13:30 - 17:50
Room: B
Contributions

13:30 Welcome - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

13:35 Introduction - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

13:40 Validation of ENDF/B-VIII.1-/beta-based continuous-energy data tables - Noah Kleedtke (LANL)

14:25 ENDF/B-VIII.1beta0 Testing with LLNL Pulsed Spheres - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

14:40 Contribution to the Validation of the INDEN Evaluated Data Files - Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)

15:00 Preliminary fast benchmarking of 239Pu for ENDF/B-VIII.1 - Tim Gaines (AWE Plc)

15:35 Updated Gadolinium Validation in SCALE 6.3.0 using ENDF/B-VIII.0 Data - William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:55 Recent Overview of the Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library (FENDL) - Tim Bohm (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

16:10 Status of ADVANCE CI/CD - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:20 Status of ENDF Reviews - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

16:30 Calculation parameters vs data in burnup calculations - Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)

16:45 Discussion
Tuesday 1 November 2022
08:00 Neutrons
Neutrons
08:00 - 12:00
Room: B
Contributions

08:00 Welcome and comments - Dave Brown (BNL)

08:10 Evaluation session opening comments - Mark Chadwick (Lanl)

08:15 Summary of ENDF library work - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

08:30 INDEN Si, Cr, Fe, Cu, U, F isotopes - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)

09:00 RRR for 233,235U and 239Pu - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

09:30 Evaluation and validation of 63,65Cu - Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)

10:00 Secondary distributions added to file - Hye Young Lee (LANL) Ian Thompson (LLNL)

10:20 181Ta - Mike Herman (LANL)

10:35 Pb isotopes - Peter Brain (RPI)

10:50 16O - Mark Paris (LANL T-2)

11:05 235U PFNS and nubar and 238U nubar work in progress - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

11:20 Photonuclear evaluation perspectives - Mark Chadwick (Lanl)

11:25 Preliminary look at IAEA photonuclear - Wim Haeck (LANL)
12:00

12:00 - 14:00
Room: B

Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 TSL
TSL
14:00 - 17:30
Room: B
Contributions

14:00 Neutron Pulsed Die-Away Experiments at LLNL - Ruby Araj (LLNL)

14:20 NeTS Modules for Graphite and Beryllium - Jonathan Crozier (NCSU)

14:40 Update on NNL TSL Evaluations - Jonathan Wormald

15:00 Proposed methodology for evaluating and validating TSLs - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:20 Status of ORNL TSL evaluations - Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)

15:40 TSL Nuclear Fuel Evaluations and Capabilities at NC State University - Nina Fleming (North Carolina State University)

16:00 Implementation of TSL Evaluations Beyond the Incoherent Approximation - Briana Laramee (NCSU)
Wednesday 2 November 2022
08:00 Covariances
Covariances
08:00 - 11:30
Room: Large Seminar Room
Contributions

08:00 5-10 year priorities identified for nuclear data uncertainties and covariances - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

08:05 Covariance testing and missing covariances - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

08:20 Generation of synthetic experimental data in the resonance region in support of reliable and reproducible cross section uncertainty evaluation - Noah Walton

08:40 Ta-181 covariances and problem of low evaluated uncertainties - Mike Herman (LANL)

09:00 FPY covariances - Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:20 Impact of FPY correlations - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL) Andrea Mattera (BNL)

09:35 RRR actinide covariances - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

10:10 235U and 239Pu PFNS and nu-bar covariances - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

10:25 Adjusting nuclear data to multiple responses beyond keff - jesson hutchinson (LANL)

10:45 LANL cross section covariances - Matthew Mumpower (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:05 Problems in MF=34 covariances - Kent Parsons (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:20 NJOY and processing MF=34 - Wim Haeck (LANL)

11:25 Problems in formulating MF=34 - Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)
11:30 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 13:30
13:30 Spillover
Spillover
13:30 - 13:50
Room: B
Contributions

13:30 INDEN Pu-239 capture and n2n covariances and corrections to U-235 covariances - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)
13:50 Measurements
Measurements
13:50 - 17:50
Room: Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 LANL results on O-16(n,alpha) - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

14:15 NZ results on Fe and Ni, including Ni-56 - Sean Kuvin

14:30 PFNS for U-235 and U-238, and neutron scattering measurements at LANL - Keegan Kelly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:50 Recent measurements on C-13, Li-7, and F-19 at Kentucky with a digital data acquisition system - Jeffrey Vanhoy (US Naval Academy)

15:10 Overview of Nuclear Data Measurements at RPI - Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

15:50 Nuclear Data Measurements at AWE - Andrew Simons (AWE)

16:10 Sub-Thermal Transmission Experiments of Organic Materials at the RPI Gaerttner LINAC Center - Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

16:25 Current status of Zr-90 experiments - Jesse Brown (ORNL)

16:45 Recent Standards work - Allan Carlson (NIST)

17:05 Measurements Program Update from Berkeley - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)

17:20 Status of the EXFOR project - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)
Thursday 3 November 2022
08:00 FPY
FPY
08:00 - 10:05
Room: B
Contributions

08:00 Status of the updated FPY evaluation for 252Cf(sf), 235,238U(n,f), and 239Pu(n,f) - Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:25 Analysis of 235U and 239,241Pu delayed electron and gamma spectra measured by J.K. Dickens et al. - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

08:45 Experimental FY compilation and decay data corrections - Andrea Mattera (BNL)

09:05 Prediction of the initial conditions of fission fragments from microscopic theory - Possible consequences for Evaluations - Nicolas Schunck (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:25 Preliminary Study on Photo-nuclear Fission Product Yield Evaluation - Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:45 Fission Product Yields Comments - Mark Chadwick (Lanl)
10:05 Break
Break
10:05 - 10:25
Room: B
10:25 Discussion
Discussion
10:25 - 10:55
Room: B
Contributions

10:25 NSAC Nuclear Data Charge - Lee Bernstein (LLNL/UCB)

10:40 Nuclear Data in the NSAC Long Range Plan - Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 Spillover
Spillover
14:00 - 14:20
Room: B
Contributions

14:00 EXFOR, GitHub and license issues - Arjan Koning (IAEA)
14:20 CP
CP
14:20 - 16:00
Room: B
Contributions

14:20 (a,n) studies at the University of Notre Dame and Ohio University - James deBoer (University of Notre Dame)

14:40 Candidate evaluation for He3 + He4 scattering from R-matrix theory - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

15:00 Charged-particle sublibrary evaluations in multi-channel unitary R-matrix approach - Mark Paris (LANL T-2)
16:00 WANDA Planning
WANDA Planning
16:00 - 18:00
Room: B
Friday 4 November 2022
08:00 Formats & Processing
Formats & Processing
08:00 - 12:00
Room: B
Contributions

08:00 ENDF manual changes - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:05 ENDF Format Change Discussions - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:25 TSL Concerns: isotopic evaluations for fuels - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:45 TSL Concerns: TSL & GNDS - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

09:05 URR Concerns: Covariances in the URR - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

09:25 GNDS Overview Plus New Developments - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

10:00 FUDGE and GIDI++ - Bret Beck (LLNL) Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

10:20 NJOY - Wim Haeck (LANL)

10:40 AMPX - Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)

11:00 Automated, Reproducible Data Processing, Verification, and Validation at the NEA - Andrew Holcomb (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:20 On a formal ENDF format specification language and associated interpreter - Georg Schnabel (IAEA)

11:40 SAMMY - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
Saturday 5 November 2022
Sunday 6 November 2022

Monday 7 November 2022
09:35
09:35 - 12:00
Room: B
Contributions

09:35 Welcome - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:40 NuDat, NSR and other NNDC website updates - Benjamin Shu Donnie Mason

10:00 EXFOR and NSR update - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

10:20 ENSDF modernization - Chris Morse (BNL)

11:00 NucScholar - Bethany Goldblum (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:20 XUNDL, ENSDF and Nuclear Data Sheets updates - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

11:40 ENDF update - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: B
13:00
13:00 - 16:30
Room: B
Contributions

13:00 Budget briefing, reporting and workplan discussion
Tuesday 8 November 2022
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Room: B
Contributions

09:00 ANL - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:20 BNL - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:40 LANL - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

10:00 LBNL - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)

10:20 LLNL - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

11:00 MSU - Jun Chen (NSCL/MSU)

11:20 McMaster - Balraj Singh (McMaster University)

11:40 NIST - Allan Carlson (NIST)

12:00 ORNL - Michael Smith (ORNL)

12:20 TAMU - Ninel Nica (Texas A&M University)

12:40 TUNL - John Kelley (NCSU & TUNL)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: B
Wednesday 9 November 2022
Thursday 10 November 2022
Friday 11 November 2022

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