Name: Reactor Graphite Workshop
Start: 2025-07-08T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-07-09T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488)

Reactor Graphite Workshop

from Tuesday 8 July 2025 (08:00) to Wednesday 9 July 2025 (18:00)

Monday 7 July 2025
Tuesday 8 July 2025
09:00
09:00 - 09:25
Room: Room B
Contributions

09:00 BNL Welcome - Alejandro Sonzogni (BNL)

09:10 Workshop Goals - Dave Brown Gustavo Nobre (BNL)
09:25
09:25 - 10:25
Room: Room B
Contributions

09:25 Qualifying Graphite for Reactor Applications: A Materials Perspective - Dominic Piedmont (BNL)

09:55 Discussion about material characterization - All
10:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 - 10:40
Room: Room B
10:40
10:40 - 12:00
Room: Room B
Contributions

10:40 NNL Perspective of Reactor-grade Graphite - Mike Zerkle (NNL)

11:00 Updates to the HTR-PROTEUS HALEU Benchmark Using Modern Analysis Methodologies - Javier Ortensi (INL) John Bess (INL) Volkan Seker (INL)

11:30 Thermal Scattering Law Impact on BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor - Chase Lawing (BWXT) Gabriel Lentchner (BWXT) Matthew Nash (BWXT)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:20
Room: Room B
13:20
13:20 - 13:50
Room: Room B
Contributions

13:20 Discussion about users' perspectives - All
13:50
13:50 - 15:10
Room: Room B
Contributions

13:50 Physics of Phonons in Graphite: Integrating Inelastic Neutron Scattering Measurements and First-Principles Calculations - Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL)

14:20 Machine learned atomistic modeling of porosity in nuclear graphite - Kemal Ramic (ORNL)

14:40 Investigation and Evaluation of Thermal Neutron Scattering in Nuclear Graphite - Ayman Hawari (NCSU/TAMU)
15:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:10 - 15:30
Room: Room B
15:30
15:30 - 17:20
Room: Room B
Contributions

15:30 Overview of historical and new transmission measurements of nuclear graphite - Chris Chapman (ORNL)

15:50 Investigating the Impact of Fast Neutron Radiation Damage on Graphite Lattice Dynamics - Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL)

16:10 Discussion about modeling and evaluation approaches - All
Wednesday 9 July 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room B
Contributions

09:00 Integral Benchmarks for Graphite TSL Validation - Catherine Percher (LLNL)

09:30 Deimos and Graphite TSLs - Nick Thompson (LANL)

09:50 Modernization of Historical Graphite Measurements and Techniques - Benjamin Wang (RPI)

10:10 ORNL testing of multiple graphite benchmarks - Travis Greene (ORNL)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Room B
10:50
10:50 - 12:10
Room: Room B
Contributions

10:50 Benchmark and Validation of Thermal Neutron Scattering in Nuclear Graphite - Ayman Hawari (NCSU/TAMU)

11:20 Discussion about Validation - All
11:30

11:30 - 11:40
Room: Room B

12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:30
Room: Room B
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Room B
Contributions

13:30 Discussion about validated graphite library requirements to fulfill user needs - All

14:30 Discussion about path forward - All
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Room B
16:00
16:00 - 17:20
Room: Room B
Contributions

16:00 Discussion about action items - All
17:20
17:20 - 17:30
Room: Room B
Contributions

17:20 Workshop closing - Dave Brown (BNL) Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

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