Name: Nuclear Data Week 2025
Start: 2025-11-03T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-07T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Berkner Hall

Nuclear Data Week 2025

from Monday, November 3, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, November 7, 2025 (6:00 PM)

Monday, November 3, 2025
9:00 AM Welcome - Martin Schoonen (BNL) David Brown (NNDC-BNL)
Welcome
- Martin Schoonen (BNL)
- David Brown (NNDC-BNL)
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
9:05 AM CSEWG 101 - David Brown (NNDC-BNL)
CSEWG 101
- David Brown (NNDC-BNL)
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM ENDF Library Update - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)
ENDF Library Update
- Gustavo Nobre (BNL)
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Thermal Neutron Scattering
Thermal Neutron Scattering
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Fission Products Yields and Decay Data
Fission Products Yields and Decay Data
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Update on the FY compilation effort at BNL - Andrea Mattera (BNL)

1:20 PM TBD - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

1:40 PM TBD - Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2:00 PM Updating GEANIE Experimental Data by Evaluated Fission Product Yields, and Los Alamos CoH-based Evaluation (LACE) Framework - Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2:20 PM LLNL FPY Modeling and Evaluation - Ramona Vogt Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)

2:40 PM Fission product yield data for basic physics research and applications - Anton Tonchev (LLNL)
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

3:15 PM Charged Particles
Charged Particles
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

8:00 AM Neutrons
Neutrons
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Executive Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Measurements
Measurements
1:30 PM - 5:35 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Measurements with DICER at LANSCE - Thanos Stamatopoulos (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

1:45 PM Update on Recent Cl-35(n,p) LENZ Measurements into the RRR - Kenneth Hanselman (LANL)

2:00 PM Recent measurements of 235U, 238U, 239Pu, and 240Pu photofission cross sections in the region of the Giant Dipole Resonance - Anton Tonchev (LLNL)

2:20 PM Thermal Transmission measurements - Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)

2:35 PM Recent Work on Neutron Standards - Allan Carlson (NIST)

2:55 PM Recent Zr-88 and Xe-135 measurements - Will Flanagan (UT)

3:25 PM Hafnium High-Energy Quasi Differential Scattering - Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

3:45 PM Zr measurements at GELINA - Klaus Guber (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

4:00 PM Nuclear Data measurements at RPI - Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

4:20 PM Recent Results from GENESIS - Thibault Laplace (University of California Berkeley)

4:40 PM The present status of the EXFOR project - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

4:55 PM Thermal scattering measurements from graphite - Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)

5:10 PM Nuclear data measurements of Ni and Cr capture gamma-rays - Shuya Ota (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:25 PM Mn, Cu, Fe capture gammas at thermal - Marian Jandel (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA)
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
8:00 AM Covariances
Covariances
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

8:00 AM Introduction - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

8:02 AM TBD (Ta181 Covariance) - jesson hutchinson (LANL)

8:17 AM TBD (Standards) - Georg Schnabel (IAEA)

8:32 AM Using ML to find root causes for discrepancies in experimental data underlying the new 252Cf PFNS Standard - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

8:47 AM TBD (model UQ RRR) - Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee)

9:02 AM TBD (exp. UQ and eval. in the URR) - Cole Fritsch (UTK) Noah Walton (LANL)

9:17 AM Bayesian Model Mixing and the Bayesian Analysis of Nuclear Dynamics (BAND) Software Framework - Daniel Philips (U. Ohio)

9:32 AM The BAND approach to optical potentials - Kyle Beyer (University of Michigan)

9:57 AM TBD (Pu239 cov. fast region) - Marc Salinas

10:12 AM TBD (radchem AI/ML) - Andre Sieverding (LLNL)

10:27 AM TBD (AI/ML for photo-induced eval.) - Ajeeta Khatiwada (LANL) Ajeeta Khatiwada (LANL)

10:42 AM TBD (photo-induced eval. and cov.) - Noah Walton (LANL)

10:57 AM TBD (inventory studies using cov.) - Friederike Bostelmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:12 AM Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) for data and covariance evaluations: a phonon density of states case study - Goran Arbanas (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:27 AM TBD (TSL cov.) - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:42 AM TBD (FPY cov.) - Amanda Lewis (LANL)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Formats & Processing
Formats & Processing
1:00 PM - 6:10 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Energy dependent fission yield covariance - Wim Haeck (LANL)

1:10 PM Disallowing interpolation on the current fission product yield data - Wim Haeck (LANL)

1:20 PM Standardisation of reaction identifiers for GNDS and linking to ENDF MT nomenclature. - Wim Haeck (LANL)

1:30 PM TSL Format discussions - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

1:40 PM Depletion Data (or the Lack Thereof) in ENDF Data Files - Charles Wemple (Studsvik Scandpower Inc.)

1:50 PM Minor ENDF manual changes - David Brown (NNDC-BNL) Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL) Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

2:00 PM File 32/File 33 covariance mixing - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL) Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle) Marco Pigni (ORNL)

2:10 PM Unifying the ENDF free text documentation formats - David Brown (NNDC-BNL)

2:20 PM NJOY - Wim Haeck (LANL)

2:40 PM AMPX - Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)

3:20 PM FUDGE - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

3:40 PM NDEX - Jason Thompson (NNL-KAPL)

4:00 PM ADVANCE - Coles Rebecca (BNL)

4:20 PM SAMMY - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

4:40 PM GNDS Updates - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
Thursday, November 6, 2025
8:00 AM Validation
Validation
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

8:00 AM Welcome - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory) Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

8:05 AM LANL Validation Results of Recently Released Libraries - Noah Kleedtke (LANL)

8:20 AM NNL Validation Testing - Linden Cotchen (NNL)

8:35 AM MC21 Testing of the ENDF/B-VIII.1 Graphite TSLs in the ORELA PNSDT Benchmark - Jason Thompson (NNL-KAPL) Jason Thompson (NNL)

8:50 AM ORNL Validation Testing - Travis Greene (ORNL)

9:05 AM LLNL Testing of ENDF/B-VIII.1 with the COG Validation Suite - Jesse Norris (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

9:25 AM AWE Validation Testing - Mark Cornock (AWE.Plc)

9:40 AM Nuclear Data Testing at Studsvik Scandpower - Charles Wemple (Studsvik Scandpower Inc.)

9:55 AM Update on New ICSBEP Evaluations - Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:30 AM Data Testing of ENDF/B-VIII.2 Beta Chlorine with ICSBEP - Eric Aboud (LLNL)

10:45 AM Source Modelling in the LLNL Pulsed Spheres - Tim Gaines (AWE Plc)

11:05 AM Benchmarking and Validation of Gamma-Producing Nuclear Data For Well Logging - Bor Kos (Baker Hughes)

11:25 AM Potential for Validation Data from Radioisotope Production at ORNL - William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:45 AM First Look at use of PARADIGM for ND Validation - Peter Brain (LANL)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Inventory Library
Inventory Library
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Welcome - Andre Sieverding (LLNL)

1:05 PM Activation Library Use in Target Design and Analysis for Radioisotope Production at ORNL - William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

1:20 PM Nuclear data needs for activation in inertial confinement fusion

1:35 PM Impact of cross section and fission yield uncertainties on fuel inventory for a molten salt fast reactors - Germina Procop (ORNL)

1:55 PM Nuclide inventory validation: effect of nuclear data libraries - Germina Procop (ORNL)

2:10 PM Reaction theory developments at LANL - Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2:25 PM Reaction theory and workflow developments at LLNL

2:40 PM Discussion
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

3:15 PM

3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Friday, November 7, 2025

8:00 AM NDAG
NDAG
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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