Mini-CSEWG 2023

US/Pacific
Livermore Valley Open Campus

Livermore Valley Open Campus

Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Gustavo Nobre (BNL)
    • 09:00 12:00
      Formats & Processing
      • 09:00
        Welcome 10m
        Speakers: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
      • 09:10
        Clarification of ENDF sum rules (#145) 10m
        Speaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 09:20
        Correct a minor omission in File 4 (#141) 10m
        Speaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 09:30
        Thermal neutron capture primary gamma-rays: Issue and repair 10m
        Speakers: Emanuel Chimanski (BNL), Ian Thompson (LLNL)
      • 09:40
        Ability to use MT=900-999 for primary gammas (#139) 10m
        Speaker: Ian Thompson (LLNL)
      • 09:50
        Clarification for collapsing of probability matrices (#143) 10m
        Speaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
      • 10:00
        LTY=0 matrices options clarification (#142) 10m
        Speaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
      • 10:10
        Format Proposal for Isotopic Distribution in TSL Files for ENDF/B-VIII.1 (#144) 10m
        Speaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
      • 10:20
        Break 20m
      • 10:40
        FUDGE 20m
        Speaker: Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
      • 11:00
        NJOY 20m
        Speaker: Wim Haeck (LANL)
      • 11:20
        AMPX 20m
        Speaker: Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
      • 11:40
        General discussion: How to use the new TSL data effectively in user code 20m
        Speaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
    • 12:00 13:30
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 13:30 15:00
      Release Discussion
    • 15:00 16:30
      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

    • 09:00 12:00
      Validation I
      • 09:00
        Welcome 10m
        Speakers: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
      • 09:10
        Validation of Nuclear Data Files from the Third Preliminary Release of ENDF/B-VIII.1 40m
        Speaker: Noah Kleedtke (LANL)
      • 09:50
        Validating ENDF/B-VIII.1beta1 with LLNL pulsed-sphere neutron-leakage spectra 10m
        Speaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
      • 10:00
        NNL Testing of ENDF/B-VIII.1(beta1) 30m
        Speaker: Jason Thompson (NNL-KAPL)
      • 10:30
        Break 25m
      • 10:55
        Initial Assessment of ENDF/B-VIII.1β1 with VALID Criticality Benchmarks 20m
        Speaker: William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
      • 11:15
        AWE Fast Crit Testing of beta1 15m
        Speaker: Mark Cornock (AWE.Plc)
      • 11:30
        LLNL MERCURY ENDF/B-VIII.1(β1) testing results using GNDS processed by FUDGE 15m
        Speaker: Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)
      • 11:45
        Recent experimental benchmark results for TEX-Pu for TSL testing 15m
        Speaker: Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
    • 12:00 13:30
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 13:30 16:30
      Validation II
      • 13:30
        E8R1 beta1 testing in Studsvik’s CASMO5 lattice physics code 15m
        Speaker: Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik Scandpower)
      • 13:45
        Evaluation of the Pool Critical Assembly (PCA) Benchmark with ENDF/B-VIII.1beta1 using MCNP6 20m
        Speaker: Greg Fischer (Westinghouse)
      • 14:05
        Open Discussion 1h
    • 09:00 12:00
      Evaluations
    • 12:00 13:30
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 13:30 16:50
      Covariances
      • 13:30
        MF=34 format and O-16 covariance testing 20m
        Speaker: Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 13:50
        Pu-9, U-5, U-8 15m
        Speaker: Kent Parsons (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 14:05
        Covariance ADVANCE testing 15m
        Speaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 14:20
        Covariance LLNL testing 10m
        Speaker: Robert Casperson (LLNL)
      • 14:30
        Covariance Testing Progress for ENDF/B-VIII.1β1 at ORNL 25m
        Speaker: William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
      • 14:55
        Covariance processing from ORNL + Ta-181 20m
        Speakers: Jesse Brown (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
      • 15:15
        Break 20m
      • 15:35
        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)
      • 15:55
        Full Energy Covariance Generation of Pb-208 15m
        Speaker: Peter Brain (RPI)
      • 16:10
        Pu-9, U-5, U-3 RRR covariances 15m
        Speaker: Marco Pigni (ORNL)
      • 16:25
        n+239Pu covariance evaluation at LLNL 10m
        Speakers: Konstantinos Kravvaris, Kyle Wendt (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
      • 16:35
        INDEN Covariances 10m
        Speaker: Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)
      • 16:45
        Pu-9(n,f) cross section covariances 5m
        Speaker: Georg Schnabel (IAEA)