Mini-CSEWG 2023

US/Pacific
Livermore Valley Open Campus

Livermore Valley Open Campus

Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Gustavo Nobre (BNL)
    • 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Formats & Processing
      • 9:00 AM
        Welcome 10m
        Speakers: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
      • 9:10 AM
        Clarification of ENDF sum rules (#145) 10m
        Speaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 9:20 AM
        Correct a minor omission in File 4 (#141) 10m
        Speaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 9:30 AM
        Thermal neutron capture primary gamma-rays: Issue and repair 10m
        Speakers: Emanuel Chimanski (BNL), Ian Thompson (LLNL)
      • 9:40 AM
        Ability to use MT=900-999 for primary gammas (#139) 10m
        Speaker: Ian Thompson (LLNL)
      • 9:50 AM
        Clarification for collapsing of probability matrices (#143) 10m
        Speaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
      • 10:00 AM
        LTY=0 matrices options clarification (#142) 10m
        Speaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
      • 10:10 AM
        Format Proposal for Isotopic Distribution in TSL Files for ENDF/B-VIII.1 (#144) 10m
        Speaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
      • 10:20 AM
        Break 20m
      • 10:40 AM
        FUDGE 20m
        Speaker: Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
      • 11:00 AM
        NJOY 20m
        Speaker: Wim Haeck (LANL)
      • 11:20 AM
        AMPX 20m
        Speaker: Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
      • 11:40 AM
        General discussion: How to use the new TSL data effectively in user code 20m
        Speaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 1:30 PM 3:00 PM
      Release Discussion
    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      CSEWG Executive Committee Meeting

      AGENDA
      - refine paper timeline
      - lay down rules for Big Paper authorship & author ordering
      - set up time for discussing TSL conflicts
      - Any Other Business

    • 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Validation I
      • 9:00 AM
        Welcome 10m
        Speakers: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
      • 9:10 AM
        Validation of Nuclear Data Files from the Third Preliminary Release of ENDF/B-VIII.1 40m
        Speaker: Noah Kleedtke (LANL)
      • 9:50 AM
        Validating ENDF/B-VIII.1beta1 with LLNL pulsed-sphere neutron-leakage spectra 10m
        Speaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
      • 10:00 AM
        NNL Testing of ENDF/B-VIII.1(beta1) 30m
        Speaker: Jason Thompson (NNL-KAPL)
      • 10:30 AM
        Break 25m
      • 10:55 AM
        Initial Assessment of ENDF/B-VIII.1β1 with VALID Criticality Benchmarks 20m
        Speaker: William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
      • 11:15 AM
        AWE Fast Crit Testing of beta1 15m
        Speaker: Mark Cornock (AWE.Plc)
      • 11:30 AM
        LLNL MERCURY ENDF/B-VIII.1(β1) testing results using GNDS processed by FUDGE 15m
        Speaker: Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)
      • 11:45 AM
        Recent experimental benchmark results for TEX-Pu for TSL testing 15m
        Speaker: Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 1:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Validation II
      • 1:30 PM
        E8R1 beta1 testing in Studsvik’s CASMO5 lattice physics code 15m
        Speaker: Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik Scandpower)
      • 1:45 PM
        Evaluation of the Pool Critical Assembly (PCA) Benchmark with ENDF/B-VIII.1beta1 using MCNP6 20m
        Speaker: Greg Fischer (Westinghouse)
      • 2:05 PM
        Open Discussion 1h
    • 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Evaluations
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 1:30 PM 4:50 PM
      Covariances
      • 1:30 PM
        MF=34 format and O-16 covariance testing 20m
        Speaker: Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 1:50 PM
        Pu-9, U-5, U-8 15m
        Speaker: Kent Parsons (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 2:05 PM
        Covariance ADVANCE testing 15m
        Speaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 2:20 PM
        Covariance LLNL testing 10m
        Speaker: Robert Casperson (LLNL)
      • 2:30 PM
        Covariance Testing Progress for ENDF/B-VIII.1β1 at ORNL 25m
        Speaker: William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
      • 2:55 PM
        Covariance processing from ORNL + Ta-181 20m
        Speakers: Jesse Brown (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
      • 3:15 PM
        Break 20m
      • 3:35 PM
        Covariance testing and Update on 239Pu and 235U PFNS covariances 20m
        Speakers: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division), Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Patrick Talou (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 3:55 PM
        Full Energy Covariance Generation of Pb-208 15m
        Speaker: Peter Brain (RPI)
      • 4:10 PM
        Pu-9, U-5, U-3 RRR covariances 15m
        Speaker: Marco Pigni (ORNL)
      • 4:25 PM
        n+239Pu covariance evaluation at LLNL 10m
        Speakers: Konstantinos Kravvaris, Kyle Wendt (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
      • 4:35 PM
        INDEN Covariances 10m
        Speaker: Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)
      • 4:45 PM
        Pu-9(n,f) cross section covariances 5m
        Speaker: Georg Schnabel (IAEA)