Realism, Robustness,
and the
Nuclear Renaissance

NCSD 2009

 

 

 

 

 

NCSD’2009 Organizing Committee

General Chairman:
 Michaele Brady Raap
michaele.bradyraap@pnl.gov
(509)375-3781

Honorary Chairman:
Hans Toffer
Htoffer@aol.com

Technical Program Chairman:
David Erickson
David_G_Erickson@rl.gov

Finance Chairman:
Scott Finfrock
Scott.Finfrock@fluor.com

Publications Chairman:
Ray Puigh
Raymond_Puigh@rl.gov

Technical Tours:
Maynard Plahuta
myplahuta@clearwire.net

Corporate Sponsorship:
Jennifer Tanner
jennifer.tanner@pnl.gov

Student Coordinator:
Andrew Prichard
andrew.prichard@pnl.gov

DOE/RL Liaison:
L. (Tom) Nirider
Laurren_T_Nirider@rl.gov

Web Page Administration:
Scott Finfrock
Scott.Finfrock@fluor.com

 

Topical Meeting of the ANS Nuclear Criticality Safety Division 2009:
 

Shilo Inn, Richland, Washington, USA
September 13-17, 2009
 

 

Realism and Criticality Safety:                                                                                            

  • Input data

  • Cross sections

  • Modeling

  • Accident scenarios

Robustness in controls:

  •  Development of Criticality Controls

  •  Requirements documents DOE, NRC

  •  Standards role

  •  Implementation of Criticality Controls

  •  Examples

  •  International experience

Ready for the Renaissance:

  • Status and scope of GNEP

  • Criticality safety needs for the fuel cycle (enrichment, fabrication, transportation, storage and disposal)

  •  Harvesting existing benchmark data (fuel cycle and nuclear data)

  •  In-situ measurements

  •  Criticality safety and engineering design

  •  Use of computers in operations controls

  •  People needs, training and education

 

Panel discussion “Are We Ready?”

 

Hanford Site Tours
    Applications and Realism:

    – Benchmark selection
    – Tsunami and other methods
    – Sub-critical Measurements
    – Burn-up credit applications

  • Vitrification plant,

  • B reactor,

  • Waste Management

  • FFTF (Fast Flux Test Facility)

Preliminary Schedule for Authors

   January 9, 2009            Electronic Submission of Abstracts
   February 6, 2009           Notification to Authors
   April 6, 2009                 Submission of Full Papers
   June 12, 2009               Final Notification to Authors
   July 10, 2009                Full Papers Due for Publication (on CD)
   August 4, 2009             Early Registration/Hotel Reservations

 

Workshop: Visual Editor for MCNP

With this innovation, users of MCNP have access to a powerful graphical user interface for efficient creation and interrogation of input files, which will significantly reduce the amount of time required to create and debug input files.

 

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