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, October 31, 2022 (8:00 AM) to Friday, November 11, 2022 (5:00 PM)

Monday, October 31, 2022
8:00 AM NDAG
NDAG
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: B
Contributions

8:00 AM Opening Remarks & Introductions - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

8:05 AM Review and Adoption of the Agenda

8:10 AM Nuclear Data Needs from Curie Benchmark - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

8:30 AM Fission Product Credit Priorities - Begin Discussion

8:50 AM 233U(n, γ) DANCE and NEUANCE measurements at LANSCE - Esther Leal Cidoncha (LANL)

9:10 AM Sub-Thermal Transmission Experiments of Organic Materials at the RPI Gaerttner LINAC Center - Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

9:30 AM Nuclear Data Requests -Review of 5-year plan, Appendix B - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

11:00 AM New Nuclear Data Needs

11:30 AM Other Business

11:45 AM FY2023 NCSP Calendar

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

11:55 AM Summary of Action Items - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: B
1:30 PM Validation
Validation
1:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: B
Contributions

1:30 PM Welcome - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

1:35 PM Introduction - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

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

2:25 PM ENDF/B-VIII.1beta0 Testing with LLNL Pulsed Spheres - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

2:40 PM Contribution to the Validation of the INDEN Evaluated Data Files - Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)

3:00 PM Preliminary fast benchmarking of 239Pu for ENDF/B-VIII.1 - Tim Gaines (AWE Plc)

3:35 PM Updated Gadolinium Validation in SCALE 6.3.0 using ENDF/B-VIII.0 Data - William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

3:55 PM Recent Overview of the Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library (FENDL) - Tim Bohm (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

4:10 PM Status of ADVANCE CI/CD - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

4:20 PM Status of ENDF Reviews - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

4:30 PM Calculation parameters vs data in burnup calculations - Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)

4:45 PM Discussion
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
8:00 AM Neutrons
Neutrons
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: B
Contributions

8:00 AM Welcome and comments - Dave Brown (BNL)

8:10 AM Evaluation session opening comments - Mark Chadwick (Lanl)

8:15 AM Summary of ENDF library work - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

8:30 AM INDEN Si, Cr, Fe, Cu, U, F isotopes - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)

9:00 AM RRR for 233,235U and 239Pu - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

9:30 AM Evaluation and validation of 63,65Cu - Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)

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

10:20 AM 181Ta - Mike Herman (LANL)

10:35 AM Pb isotopes - Peter Brain (RPI)

10:50 AM 16O - Mark Paris (LANL T-2)

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

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

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

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: B

Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM TSL
TSL
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: B
Contributions

2:00 PM Neutron Pulsed Die-Away Experiments at LLNL - Ruby Araj (LLNL)

2:20 PM NeTS Modules for Graphite and Beryllium - Jonathan Crozier (NCSU)

2:40 PM Update on NNL TSL Evaluations - Jonathan Wormald

3:00 PM Proposed methodology for evaluating and validating TSLs - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

3:20 PM Status of ORNL TSL evaluations - Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)

3:40 PM TSL Nuclear Fuel Evaluations and Capabilities at NC State University - Nina Fleming (North Carolina State University)

4:00 PM Implementation of TSL Evaluations Beyond the Incoherent Approximation - Briana Laramee (NCSU)
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
8:00 AM Covariances
Covariances
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Large Seminar Room
Contributions

8:00 AM 5-10 year priorities identified for nuclear data uncertainties and covariances - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

8:05 AM Covariance testing and missing covariances - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

8:20 AM Generation of synthetic experimental data in the resonance region in support of reliable and reproducible cross section uncertainty evaluation - Noah Walton

8:40 AM Ta-181 covariances and problem of low evaluated uncertainties - Mike Herman (LANL)

9:00 AM FPY covariances - Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:20 AM Impact of FPY correlations - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL) Andrea Mattera (BNL)

9:35 AM RRR actinide covariances - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

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

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

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

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

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

11:25 AM Problems in formulating MF=34 - Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)
11:30 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Spillover
Spillover
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Room: B
Contributions

1:30 PM INDEN Pu-239 capture and n2n covariances and corrections to U-235 covariances - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)
1:50 PM Measurements
Measurements
1:50 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Large Seminar Room
Contributions

2:00 PM LANL results on O-16(n,alpha) - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

2:15 PM NZ results on Fe and Ni, including Ni-56 - Sean Kuvin

2:30 PM PFNS for U-235 and U-238, and neutron scattering measurements at LANL - Keegan Kelly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2:50 PM Recent measurements on C-13, Li-7, and F-19 at Kentucky with a digital data acquisition system - Jeffrey Vanhoy (US Naval Academy)

3:10 PM Overview of Nuclear Data Measurements at RPI - Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

3:50 PM Nuclear Data Measurements at AWE - Andrew Simons (AWE)

4:10 PM Sub-Thermal Transmission Experiments of Organic Materials at the RPI Gaerttner LINAC Center - Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

4:25 PM Current status of Zr-90 experiments - Jesse Brown (ORNL)

4:45 PM Recent Standards work - Allan Carlson (NIST)

5:05 PM Measurements Program Update from Berkeley - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)

5:20 PM Status of the EXFOR project - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)
Thursday, November 3, 2022
8:00 AM FPY
FPY
8:00 AM - 10:05 AM
Room: B
Contributions

8:00 AM Status of the updated FPY evaluation for 252Cf(sf), 235,238U(n,f), and 239Pu(n,f) - Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

8:25 AM Analysis of 235U and 239,241Pu delayed electron and gamma spectra measured by J.K. Dickens et al. - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

8:45 AM Experimental FY compilation and decay data corrections - Andrea Mattera (BNL)

9:05 AM Prediction of the initial conditions of fission fragments from microscopic theory - Possible consequences for Evaluations - Nicolas Schunck (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

9:25 AM Preliminary Study on Photo-nuclear Fission Product Yield Evaluation - Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:45 AM Fission Product Yields Comments - Mark Chadwick (Lanl)
10:05 AM Break
Break
10:05 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: B
10:25 AM Discussion
Discussion
10:25 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: B
Contributions

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

10:40 AM Nuclear Data in the NSAC Long Range Plan - Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Spillover
Spillover
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: B
Contributions

2:00 PM EXFOR, GitHub and license issues - Arjan Koning (IAEA)
2:20 PM CP
CP
2:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: B
Contributions

2:20 PM (a,n) studies at the University of Notre Dame and Ohio University - James deBoer (University of Notre Dame)

2:40 PM Candidate evaluation for He3 + He4 scattering from R-matrix theory - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

3:00 PM Charged-particle sublibrary evaluations in multi-channel unitary R-matrix approach - Mark Paris (LANL T-2)
4:00 PM WANDA Planning
WANDA Planning
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: B
Friday, November 4, 2022
8:00 AM Formats & Processing
Formats & Processing
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: B
Contributions

8:00 AM ENDF manual changes - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:05 AM ENDF Format Change Discussions - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:25 AM TSL Concerns: isotopic evaluations for fuels - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

8:45 AM TSL Concerns: TSL & GNDS - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

9:05 AM URR Concerns: Covariances in the URR - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

9:25 AM GNDS Overview Plus New Developments - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

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

10:20 AM NJOY - Wim Haeck (LANL)

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

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

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

11:40 AM SAMMY - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Sunday, November 6, 2022

Monday, November 7, 2022
9:35 AM
9:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: B
Contributions

9:35 AM Welcome - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:40 AM NuDat, NSR and other NNDC website updates - Benjamin Shu Donnie Mason

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

10:20 AM ENSDF modernization - Chris Morse (BNL)

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

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

11:40 AM ENDF update - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: B
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: B
Contributions

1:00 PM Budget briefing, reporting and workplan discussion
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: B
Contributions

9:00 AM ANL - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:20 AM BNL - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:40 AM LANL - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

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

10:20 AM LLNL - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

11:00 AM MSU - Jun Chen (NSCL/MSU)

11:20 AM McMaster - Balraj Singh (McMaster University)

11:40 AM NIST - Allan Carlson (NIST)

12:00 PM ORNL - Michael Smith (ORNL)

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

12:40 PM TUNL - John Kelley (NCSU & TUNL)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: B
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Friday, November 11, 2022

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