PHYSOR 2016
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PHYSOR 2016
PHYSOR 2016 Unifying Theory and Experiments in the 21st Century Meeting Program Honorary Chairs James Lake, Longnecker & Assocs. Harold McFarlane, Idaho National Laboratory (ret.) General Chair Finis Southworth, AREVA (ret.) Assistant General Chairs Danielle Perez, INL/IANS Teri Ehresman, IANS Financial Chair Robert Skinner, IANS Technical Program Chair Mark DeHart, INL/IANS The Physics of Reactors (PHYSOR) conferences represent a series of international forums organized and sponsored to assemble expertise related to reactor physics and related topical areas. PHYSOR 2016: Unifying Theory and Experiments in the 21st Century, will be a venue focused on both modeling/simulation & experimental aspects of reactor physics and exploration of common aspects & requirements of the two focus areas. The meeting will also include on an opening plenary, technical tours, workshops, and sessions in other topics relevant to the physics of nuclear reactor systems. Special events are also planned throughout the week, including a spouse/guest program. PHYSOR will begin with a series of technical workshops Sunday morning, followed by the Opening Reception Sunday evening. An Opening Plenary will be held Monday morning, with a number of speakers widely known in the reactor physics community. Technical sessions will begin Monday afternoon, running through noon on Thursday. Seven parallel sessions are planned for each session segment, with mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks between sessions. Lunch will be provided Monday – Wednesday. If you have not yet registered for the meeting or conference hotel, both registrations are available online at www.physor2016.org. This website also contains a wealth of other information about the meeting and the area, including options for getting to Sun Valley. Assistant Technical Program Chairs Sun Valley is a resort city tucked within the mountains of south central Idaho, near the city of Ketchum. It sits at the edge of the Sawtooth and Challis National Forests, with the Big Wood River, a fisherman’s dream, running through the Wood River Valley. Tourists from around the world enjoy its skiing, hiking, ice skating, trail riding, tennis, and cycling. The elevation of Sun Valley Lodge is 5920 feet (1804 m) above sea level. Todd Palmer, Oregon State Univ. Kent Welter, NuScale Power Publications Chair Germina Ilas, ORNL Spouse Activity Chairs Cindie Jensen, INL/IANS Marinelle Rowe, INL/IANS Student Arrangement Chair Massimiliano Fratoni, UC Berkeley International Relations Jim Gulliford, OECD/NEA Deokjung Lee, UNIST Jean-Pascal Hudelot, CEA Sun Valley is a prominent year-round resort, with economic and environmental sustainability, successful regional partnerships, social and cultural richness, and a unique character and quality of life. Sun Valley enjoys a pleasant mountain desert climate with an average humidity of only 30%. Its pristine mountains and pastures, clean air and clean water make Sun Valley a highly desirable place to work, play, live and visit. hope to see you there! We Contents PHYSOR 2016 Sponsors 4 Organizing Committee 5 Meeting Organizers 5 Technical Program Committee 6 Speaker and Poster Instructions 8 Sessions By Day 9 Technical Program 13 Monday Morning 13 Monday Afternoon 13 Monday Evening Poster Session 19 Tuesday Morning 22 Tuesday Afternoon 29 Wednesday Morning 34 Wednesday Afternoon 40 Thursday Morning 46 Exhibition Hall Map 50 Inn and Village Convention Facilities Map 51 Sun Valley Map 52 3 PHYSOR 2016 Sponsors (As of Mar 28, 2016) 4 Organizing Committee Honorary Chair Honorary Chair James Lake Harold McFarlane ANS Past President ANS Past President General Chair Assistant General Chair Assistant General Chair Finis Southworth Danielle Perez Teri Ehresman AREVA (ret.) INL / Idaho American Nuclear Society Idaho American Nuclear Society Financial Chair Robert Skinner Idaho American Nuclear Society Technical Program Chair Assistant Technical Program Chair Assistant Technical Program Chair Mark DeHart Todd Palmer Kent Welter INL / Idaho American Nuclear Society Oregon State University NuScale Power Publications Chair Germina Ilas Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spouse Activity Chair Spouse Activity Chair Cindie Jensen Marinelle Rowe INL / Idaho American Nuclear Society INL / Idaho American Nuclear Society Student Arrangement Chair Massimiliano Fratoni University of California, Berkeley International Relations International Relations Jim Gulliford Deokjung Lee International Relations Jean-Pascal Hudelot OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives Meeting Organizers ANS Idaho Section Idaho National Lab University of Idaho Idaho State University University of California at Berkeley University of New Mexico 5 Technical Program Committee Technical Program Chair Mark DeHart, Idaho National Laboratory/Chair, Idaho American Nuclear Society Assistant Technical Program Chairs Todd Palmer, Oregon State University Kent Welter, NuScale Power Committee Members Hany Abdel-Khalik, Purdue University Arzu Alpan, Westinghouse Electric Company Yousry Y Azmy, North Carolina State University John Bess, Idaho National Laboratory Keith Bradley, Argonne National Laboratory Blair Bromley, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Jon Carmack, Idaho National Laboratory Go Chiba, Hokkaido University, Japan Cassiano de Oliveira, University of New Mexico Benoit Dionne, Argonne National Laboratory Tom Downar, University of Michigan Ronald Ellis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Romain Eschbach, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies, France Rodolfo Ferrer, Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. Ben Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massimiliano Fratoni, University of California at Berkeley Katherin Goluoglu, Syzygy Solutions Sedat Goluoglu, University of Florida Qingzhen Guo, Halliburton Ayman Hawari, North Carolina State University Wei Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Zain Karriem, Idaho National Laboratory Atul Karve, Global Nuclear Fuels - Americas Dale Lancaster, NuclearConsultants.com Luiz Leal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Chang Ho Lee, Argonne National Laboratory Deok Jung Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Jaakko Leppänen, VTT, Finland Bill Martin, University of Michigan Katheryn McCarthy, Idaho National Laboratory Sean R Morrell, Idaho National Laboratory David Nigg, Idaho National Laboratory Javier Ortensi, Idaho National Laboratory Scott Palmtag, Core Physics, Inc Geoff Parks, Cambridge University, UK Cheolho Pyeon, Kyoto University, Japan Cristian Rabiti, Idaho National Laboratory Sebastian Schunert, Idaho National Laboratory Sonat Sen, Idaho National Laboratory Wei Shen, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Thomas Sutton, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Temitope Taiwo, Argonne National Laboratory Akira Tokuhiro, Purdue University 6 Wilfred van Rooijen, University of Fukui, Japan Zeyun Wu, National Institute of Standards and Technology Akio Yamamoto, Nagoya University, Japan Won Sik Yang, Purdue University Gilles Youinou, Idaho National Laboratory Qiong Zhang, Baker Hughes Inc. 7 Speaker and Poster Instructions • Registration: All speakers must register to present. If you have not already registered, please make sure to do so for the day(s) you are speaking or the full conference prior to arriving on-site. If you have questions about registration, please contact the ANS Registrar at registrar@ans.org regarding PHYSOR 2016 • Pick up your badge and meeting materials at the Registration Desk (located outside the Limelight Ballroom in the Sun Valley Inn). Oral Presentations • On the day of your session, you are invited to the Speaker’s Breakfast in Limelight B. You will have an opportunity meet your Session Chairs, who will be able to answer any questions and make you aware of any changes that may have come up. You should provide the Chair with a brief biography that can be used to introduce you at your presentation. • Plan to report to the room assigned for your session (as listed in the Official Program) 15 minutes prior to the start of the session. If you have not already done so, please provide the Chair with a brief biography. • A computer and projector with screen will be provided for each session. You should load and test your presentation on the computer prior to the session. If you need to use your own laptop please advise your Session Chairs prior to the beginning of the session. • Please limit your presentation to 20 minutes, allowing a five-minute discussion period following the formal presentation of your paper. Your Session Chairs will advise you as you near the end of your allotted time. • Please do not ask the Session Chair to reschedule your paper within the session. Many attendees schedule their attendance at various sessions in accordance with the times listed in the Official Program. Poster Presentations • The Poster Session will be held Monday evening from 6-8pm in the Exhibition Hall. Posters should be mounted between 4 and 5:30pm. • Two posters will be mounted side by side on each side of a 4’ (1.2 m) by 8’ (2.4 m) cork bulletin board; hence posters should be no more than 4’ (1.2 m) in width. Posters may be up to 6’ (1.8 m) tall, but the mounting surface is only 4’ (1.2 m) in height. • Tacks will be provided for mounting posters. If a foam-core backing is used on your poster, you should provide your own mounting tacks – provided tacks may not be long enough. • Posters will be judged and the best poster will be recognized at the closing session on Thursday. Sessions By Day Monday 8:00-12:15 PM Opening Plenary: A Perspective on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century - Opera House Session Organizers: Dr. Finis H. Southworth (NGNP Industry Alliance), Mark DeHart (Idaho National Laboratory) Monday 1:30-3:35 PM Fuel Cycle Physics, Management & Optimization I - Boiler Diffusion Methods for Reactor Analysis - Camas Depletion Methods I - Ram Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis I - Sawtooth Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations I - Limelight C Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries I - Columbine Experiments I - Lupine Monday 4:00-5:40 PM Verification and Validation of Reactor Analysis Methods I - Camas Transient Reactor Testing I - Ram Depletion Methods II - Boiler Full Core Analysis Methods I - Sawtooth Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations II - Limelight C Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries II - Columbine Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis II - Lupine 9 Monday 6:00-8:00 PM Poster Session Tuesday 8:00-9:40 AM Fuel Cycle Physics, Management & Optimization II - 8:00-9:40 - Boiler Noise-Based Methods Reactor Analysis - Camas Nodal Methods for Reactor Analysis I - Columbine Experiments II - Sawtooth Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations III - Limelight C Apollo Validation - Ram Sub-Critical Systems I - Lupine Tuesday 10:10 AM - 12:15 PM Reactor Analysis Methods I - Boiler Cross Section Methods for Reactor Analysis - Sawtooth Recent Developments in Monte Carlo Codes and Methods I - Columbine Research and Test Reactors - Camas Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis III - Lupine Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations IV - Limelight C Advanced Multidimensional Reactor Kinetics Methods I - Ram Tuesday 1:30-3:35 PM Reactor Analysis Methods II - Boiler Fast Reactors I - Camas Depletion Methods III - Ram MCNP Validation and Applications - Sawtooth Validation Facilities - Lupine Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations V - Limelight C Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries III - Columbine 10 Tuesday 4:00-5:40 PM Fuel Cycle Physics, Management & Optimization III - Boiler Reactor Analysis Methods III - Sawtooth Transient Reactor Testing II - Ram Sub-Critical Systems II - Camas Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis IV - Lupine Advanced Multidimensional Reactor Kinetics Methods II - Limelight C Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries IV - Columbine Wednesday 8:00-9:40 AM Fuel Cycle Physics, Management & Optimization IV - Boiler Reactor Dosimetry - Camas Full Core Analysis Methods II - Columbine Experiments III - Sawtooth Advanced and Small Modular Reactor Designs I - Limelight C Validation of Kinetics Methods - Ram Validation of Thermal/Hydraulic Methods - Lupine Wednesday 10:10 AM-12:15 PM Reactor Analysis Methods IV - Boiler Burn-up Credit and Spent Fuel Measurements - Limelight C Recent Developments in Monte Carlo Codes and Methods II - Columbine Verification and Validation of Reactor Analysis Methods II - Sawtooth Modeling and Simulation for Nonproliferation and Safeguards - Camas SCALE Validation - Lupine Advanced and Small Modular Reactor Designs II - Ram 11 Wednesday 1:30-3:35 PM Reactor Analysis Methods V - Limelight C Fast Reactors II - Camas Verification and Validation of Reactor Analysis Methods III - Columbine Recent Developments in Monte Carlo Codes and Methods III - Sawtooth Finite Element Methods for Reactor Analysis - Boiler Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis V - Lupine Advanced and Small Modular Reactor Designs III - Ram Wednesday 4:00-5:40 PM Full Core Analysis Methods III - Boiler Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations VI - Limelight C Reactor Operation and Control - Sawtooth Nodal Methods for Reactor Analysis II - Camas Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries V - Columbine Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis VI - Lupine Advanced and Small Modular Reactor Designs IV - Ram Thursday 8:00-10:05 AM Experiments IV - Sawtooth Fast Reactors III - Camas Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations VII - Limelight C Reactor Analysis Methods VI - Boiler Monte Carlo Methods - Columbine Verification and Validation of Reactor Analysis Methods IV - Ram Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis VII - Lupine Thursday 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Awards and Closing - Limelight A & B 12 MONDAY AFTERNOON Technical Program Monday 8:00-12:15 PM Opening Plenary: A Perspective on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century - Opera House Session Organizers: Dr. Finis H. Southworth (NGNP Industry Alliance), Mark DeHart (Idaho National Laboratory) Speakers: Finis Southworth, (NGNP Industry Alliance) William Magwood IV, Director-General of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD Chris Levesque, President of TerraPower, LLC Mark Peters, Laboratory Director, Idaho National Laboratory Monday 1:30-3:35 PM Fuel Cycle Physics, Management & Optimization I - Boiler Organized by: Geoff PARKS Cambridge University and Temitope TAIWO Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Gilles YOUINOU, Idaho National Laboratory and Ashlea COLTON, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 A Multi-Batch Approach for Enhanced Plutonium Incineration in the Thorium-Based I2SLWR Design Impact of Modifications in Continuous Recycling System for U/Pu and U/TRU with Fast and Thermal Reactors on Fuel-Cycle Performance and Waste Characterization Sensitivity Analysis of the Recycling Process at the Second Stage of the PWR-ADS Fuel Cycle Optimization of Axially Independent Zons of PWR Assemblies in Full Core with Genetic Algorithms for Fresh Cycles Economy of BR2 Fuel Cycle with Gadolinium as Burnable Absorber Dan Kotlyar, Geoffrey T. Parks Hikaru Hiruta, Gilles J. Youinou, Brent W. Dixon Shengcheng Zhou, Youqi Zheng, Hongchun Wu, Liangzhi Cao Gregory M. Borza, Kostadin N. Ivanov, Tom Carter Silva Kalcheva, Edgar Koonen Diffusion Methods for Reactor Analysis - Camas Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 13 MONDAY AFTERNOON Chairs: Sebastian SCHUNERT Idaho National Laboratory and Zheng YOUQI, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 The Empirical Interpolation Method Applied to the Neutron Diffusion Equations with Parameter Dependence Unstructured Mesh, Abandonment from Diffusion Approximation in the Method of Surface Harmonics Multi-Group 1D-Reflector Modelling for EDF PWR Investigation of Diffusion Coefficient Calculation Methods for Two-Step LWR analysis Eigenvalue Problem of the Neutron Diffusion Equation with ADF and Discretized with the FVM - Application to a PWR Modelled with Unstructured Grid Helin Gong, Jean-Philippe Argaud, Bertrand Bouriquet, Yvon Maday Aleksandr Vsevolodovich Elshin Seav Er Huy Sooyoung Choi, Deokjung Lee, Kord S. Smith Alvaro Bernal, Rafael Miro, Gumersindo Verdu, Jose Enrique Roman, J. A. Bermejo Depletion Methods I - Ram Organized by: Rodolfo FERRER Studsvik Scandpower and Akio YAMAMOTO, Nagoya University Chairs: Rodolfo FERRER Studsvik Scandpower and Akio YAMAMOTO, Nagoya University 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Generalized Depletion Chain Simplification Based on Significance Analysis New Features and Capabilities in the VESTA 2.2 Monte Carlo Depletion Software FISPACT-II: an Advanced Simulation Platform for Inventory and Nuclear Observables Validation of HORUS-3D/N Against TRIPOLI4D for Core Depletion Calculations of the Jules Horowitz Reactor Implementation of Inline Equilibrium Xenon Method in RMC Code 14 Kai Huang, Hongchun Wu, Yunzhao Li, Liangzhi Cao Wim Haeck, Cochet Bertrand, Alexis Jinaphanh Jean-Christophe C. Sublet, M. Fleming, M. R. Gilbert, J.W. Eastwood, J.G. Morgan Amalia Chambon, Paolo Vinai, Christophe Demazière, Lionel Gaubert, Florence Jeury, J. Politello, Patricia Siréta Feng Yang, Gang Wang, Zonghuan Chen, Ganglin Yu, Kan Wang MONDAY AFTERNOON Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis I - Sawtooth Organized by: Cristian RABITI Idaho National Laboratory and Hany ABDEL-KHALIK, Purdue University Chairs: Hany ABDEL-KHALIK, Purdue University and Maria PUSA, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 1:30 Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification for Neutronic Calculation for ASTRID Fast Reactor Detailed Design 1:55 BERING: Data Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification for Safety Assessment Support Use of Advanced UQ Approaches to the Validation of the IRDFF Library Sensitivities and Uncertainties Due to Nuclear Data in a Traveling Wave Reactor Uncertainty Quantification of Delayed Neutron Fraction of U235 Bases Fuel Cores 2:20 2:45 3:10 Cyrille De Saint Jean, Benedicte Roque, Gerald Rimpault, Pascal Archier, Jean-Francois Vidal, Jean-Marc Palau, Jean Tommasi, Bruno Fontaine, Frederic Varaine Evgeny A. Ivanov Patrick J. Griffin, Edward J. Parma, David Vehar Nicholas W. Touran, Jinan Yang Gerald Rimpault, David Blanchet, Paul Dufay, Jean Tommasi, Guillaume Truchet Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations I - Limelight C Organized by: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cassiano DE OLIVEIRA, Unviersity of New Mexico and Mark DeHART Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Hongbin ZHANG, Idaho National Laboratory and Tuomas VIITANEN, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Application of a Probabilistic Relationship Diagram for PDE Mechanical Energy Release Evaluation after HCDA in a Sodium-Cooled SMR Neutronics Benchmark for EBR-II Shutdown Heat Removal Test SHRT-45R Impact of Radial Void Fraction Distribution on Boiling Water Reactor Lattice Physics Calculations: Application to AREVA’s Next Generation BWR fuel Assembly, the ATRIUM™ 11™ Design. Coupled MC21 and COBRA-IE Solution to VERA Core Physics Benchmark Problem #6 Coupling Serpent and OpenFOAM® for Neutronics - CFD Multi-Physics Calculations Fabrizio Gabrielli, Michael Flad, Simone Gianfelici, Rui Li, Vladimir Kriventsev, Werner Maschek, Claudia Matzerath Boccaccini, Barbara Vezzoni, Andrei Rineiski Tingzhou Fei, Barbara Vezzoni, Marco Marchetti, Willem F. van Rooijen, Youpeng Zhang Alexander S. Bennett, Nicolas P. Martin, Maria N. Avramova, Kostadin N. Ivanov Brian N. Aviles, Daniel J. Kelly, David L. Aumiller, Daniel F. Gill, Brett W. Siebert, Andrew T. Godfrey, Benjamin S. Collins, Robert K. Salko Riku Tuominen, Ville Henrikki Valtavirta, Juho Peltola, Jaakko I. Leppänen Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries I - Columbine Organized by: Luiz LEAL, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Ayman HAWARI, North Carolina State University and Go CHIBA, Hokkaido University Chairs: Michael DUNN, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Luiz LEAL, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire 15 MONDAY AFTERNOON 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Generation of Thermal Neutron Scattering Cross Sections of MgF2 Using Ab Initio Lattice Dynamics Calculations A Study of the Effects of Self-Shielding and Cross Section Library on Fast Reactor Critical Benchmarks Computational Methods Used to Process Thermal Neutron Scattering Data for Use in Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Codes Optimal Knot Reduction in Cubic Spline Interpolation of ORIGEN’s Reactor Libraries Use of integral experiments to test a new 235U evaluation for the CIELO project. Iyad I. Al-Qasir, Abdallah Qteish Huseyin Atila Ozgener, Bilge Ozgener Timothy H. Trumbull Guojun Hu, William Wieselquist Raphaelle Ichou, Nicolas Leclaire, Luiz Leal, Evgeny A. Ivanov, W. Haeck Experiments I - Lupine Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: Margaret MARSHALL, Idaho National Laboratory and Laurent CHABERT, AREVA-France 1:30 1:55 2:20 COG Validation for Foil and TLD Irradiation in a SILENE Criticality Excursion Benchmark Experiment Fast-Thermal Coupled Cores in ZPR revisited - Physical specificities and potentialities for ZEPHYR Benchmark Experiments at the TRIGA MARK II Reactor 2:45 Spectrum Index and Minor Actinide Fission Fate Measurements in Several Fast LeadBased VENUS-F Zero Power Critical Cores 3:10 Neutron Flux Distribution Measurements for BWR Control Rods in Critical Experiments 16 Soon Sam Kim, Dave Heinrichs, Rich Buck, Ed Lent, Chuck Lee Paul Ros, Pierre Leconte, Patrick Blaise, Jacques Di-Salvo Luka Snoj, Ziga Stancar, Vladimir Radulovic, Tanja Kaiba, Gasper Zerovnik, Igor Lengar, Vid Merljak, Andrej Trkov, Loic Barbot, Damien Fourmentel, Vladimir Radulovic, Christophe Destouches, Jean-Francois Villard Anatoly Kochetkov, A. Krasa, G. Vittiglio, J. Wagemans, A.G. Bianchini, V. Fabrizio, M. Carta, G. Firpo, E. Fridman, M. Sarotto, V. Becares Tsukasa Sugita, Hiroshi Matsumiya, Tsukasa Kikuchi, Kenichi Yoshioka, Satoko Tajima, Masaru Ukai, Yamato Hayashi, Tadaaki Shimazu MONDAY AFTERNOON Monday 4:00-5:40 PM Verification and Validation of Reactor Analysis Methods I - Camas Organized by: Geoff PARKS Cambridge University and Temitope TAIWO Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Thomas DOWNAR, University of Michigan and Kazufumi TSUJIMOTO, Japan Atomic Energy Agency 4:00 Solution of the OECD/NEA SFR Neutronic Benchmark Using WIMS and MONK 4:25 Verification of the 3D Method of Characteristics Solver in OpenMOC Validation of ADVANTG Best-Estimate Dose Evaluations for the NAC MAGNASTOR® Dry Storage Case Systems at Zion Validation of the SPn Depletion Schemes Of The EDF GABV2-COCAGNE Tools Using the KAIST 1A Benchmark. 4:50 5:15 Ben Stray, Matthew Delaney, Ben Lindley, Max Shepherd, Simon Richards, Glynn Hosking, Peter Smith Samuel C. Shaner, Geoffrey A. Gunow, Kord S. Smith, Benoit Forget Victor G. Smith, Ethan Taber, Brandon Distler Ansar Calloo, Seav Er Huy, David Couyras, Coline Brosselard, Marie Fliscounakis Transient Reactor Testing I - Ram Organized by: Javier ORTENSI and Dan WACHS, Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Javier ORTENSI, Idaho National Laboratory and Jean-Pascal HUDELOT, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives 4:00 4:25 4:50 Preliminary Modeling to Support the TREAT Hodoscope System for Fuel Motion Monitoring Thermal-Hydraulic Response of the TREAT Multi-Vessel Static Environment Test Vehicle MCNP Water Physics Scoping Study to Support LWR Accident Tolerant Fuel Testing in TREAT Scott J. Thompson, Clive H. Townsend, David Chichester Colby B. Jensen, Charles P. Folsom, Cliff B. Davis, Nicolas Eric Woolstenhulme, Heng Ban, Robert C. O’Brien, Daniel M. Wachs Connie M. Hill, John Bess, Sam Bays, Nicolas Eric Woolstenhulme, James R. Parry Depletion Methods II - Boiler Organized by: Rodolfo FERRER Studsvik Scandpower and Akio YAMAMOTO, Nagoya University Chairs: Joshua HYKES, Studsvik Scandpower and Go CHIBA, Hokkaido University 4:00 4:25 4:50 Log-Linear Substep Method for Monte Carlo Depletion Coupled Codes Use of 2sPC Depletion Scheme in UWB1 Nuclear Fuel Depletion Code for the Assessment of Burnable Absorber Fuel Design Techniques for Practical Monte Carlo Reactor Depletion Calculations 17 Dan Kotlyar, Eugene Shwageraus Martin Lovecky, Radek Skoda David P. Griesheimer, David C. Carpenter, Mark H. Stedry MONDAY AFTERNOON 5:15 Nuclide Depletion Capabilities in the Shift Monte Carlo Code Gregory G. Davidson, Tara M. Pandya, Aarno Isotalo, Seth R. Johnson, Thomas M. Evans, William Wieselquist Full Core Analysis Methods I - Sawtooth Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: Scott PALMTAG, Core Physics, Inc. and Yohei KAMIYAMA, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Neutronic Modeling of the MYRRHA Minimum Critical Core with PARCS and Serpent Reactivity Assessment of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Claddings in a Modern PWR Development of a Production MCNP CANDU 3D Full-Core Model with Practical Remedies to the Issues in Deriving Reliable Tally Results Monte Carlo Simulation on Krsko NPP Jeremy Bousquet, Armin Seubert, Kiril Velkov, Frank-Peter Weiss Troy Eckleberry, G. Ivan Maldonado Wei Shen, Jingliang Hu Dusan Calic, Andrej Trkov Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations II - Limelight C Organized by: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cassiano DE OLIVEIRA, Unviersity of New Mexico and Mark DeHART Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Richard MARTINEAU Idaho National Laboratory and Christophe DEMAZIÈRE, Chalmers University 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Sensitivity of Fuel Rod CRUD Deposition Modeling: CRUD Properties and Boundary Condition Effects Sensitivity of Fuel Rod CRUD Deposition Modeling: Feedback Effects of Neutronics and Thermal Hydraulics Neutronic Calculation of Deformed Cores: Development of a Time-Dependent Diffusion Solver in CAST3M, a Mechanics Dedicated Finite Element Code Interests of the Improved Quasi-Static Method for Multi-Physics Calculations Illustrated on a Neutronics-Thermomechanics Coupling 18 Daniel J. Walter, Brian K. Kendrick, Victor Petrov, Annalisa Manera Daniel J. Walter, Victor Petrov, Brian K. Kendrick, Annalisa Manera Cyril Patricot, Olivier Fandeur, Anne-Marie Baudron, Daniel Broc, Jean-Charles Le Pallec Cyril Patricot, Olivier Fandeur, Anne-Marie Baudron, Jean-Charles Le Pallec MONDAY EVENING POSTER SESSION Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries II - Columbine Organized by: Luiz LEAL, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Ayman HAWARI, North Carolina State University and Go CHIBA, Hokkaido University Chairs: Sedat GOLUOGLU University of Florida and Luiz LEAL, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Benchmark Tests of Newly-Evaluated Data of U-235 for CIELO Project Using Integral Experiments of Uranium-Fueled FCA Assemblies On-The-Fly Doppler Broadening of Unresolved Resonance Region Cross Sections Via Probability Band Interpolation Re-Evaluation of the Eu-154 Thermal Capture Cross-Section Based on Spent Fuel Benchmarking Studies Activation Experiments for Verification of Neutron Capture Cross Section of 237Np Using Variable Neutron Field at KURRI-LINAC Masahiro Fukushima, Yasunori Kitamura, Kenji Yokoyama, Osamu Iwamoto, Yasunobu Nagaya, Luiz Leal Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, Forrest B. Brown Steve E. Skutnik, Nathan T. Shoman Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Jun-ichi Hori, Tadafumi Sano, Takahiro Yagi, Hiroshi Yashima, Cheolho Pyeon, Shoji Nakamura, Hideo Harada Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis II - Lupine Organized by: Cristian RABITI Idaho National Laboratory and Hany ABDEL-KHALIK Chairs: Brett RAMPAL NuScale Power and Kensuke KOJIMA Japan Atomic Energy Agency 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Efficient Active Subspace Identification via MLROM Reducibility of the INL’S MAMMOTH Coupled Code System for Reactor Analysis Burn-up Sensitivity Analysis of Minor Actinide Transmutation Fast Reactor Sensitivities and Uncertainties of Reaction Rate Ratios in PWR Cells with UO2 and MOX Fuel Mohammad G. Abdo, Hany S. Abdel-Khalik Dongli Huang, Hany S. Abdel-Khalik, Frederick N. Gleicher, Congjian Wang, Cristian Rabiti Tadafumi Sano, Toshikazu Takeda Basma Foad, Toshikazu Takeda Monday 6:00-7:30 PM Poster Session Heterogeneous Multigroup Cross Sections for Fast Reactor Calculations with MCC-3/PROTEUS Michael G. Jarrett, Emily Rena Shemon, Changho Lee IAEA EBR-II Neutronics Benchmark: Impact of Modeling Options on KIT Results Barbara Vezzoni, Marco Gabrielli, Andrei Rineiski Efficacy of Hardware Threading for Monte Carlo Particle Transport Calculations on Multi- And ManyCore Systems Paul K. Romano 19 Marchetti, Fabrizio MONDAY EVENING POSTER SESSION A Progressive Incremental Adjustment Methodology for Cross-Section and Variance/Covariance Data Adjustment for Fast-Spectrum Systems Sandro Pelloni Validation of a Multi-Purpose Depletion Chain for Burnup Calculations Through TRIPOLI-4D Calculations and IFP Perturbation Method Pascal Archier, Sylvia M. Domanico, Jean-Marc Palau, Guillaume Truchet NuScale Power Software Commercial Grade Dedication for Reactor Physics Calculations and Analyses Renae N. Lenhof, Allyson K. Kitto, Brett D. Rampal, Brian Matthews, Zain Karriem Recent Development on New Monte Carlo Model for Reactor Operating Control Laurent Chabert, Simon Nicolas, Nicolas Gandoin Use of Spectral Shift to Greatly Improve Uranium Utilization in Single-Batch SMRs: Three Conceptual Designs Ben Lindley, Dan Kotlyar, Geoff Thomas Parks Control Rod Measurements by Rod Insertion Using Signal from Multiple Fission Chambers at TRIGA Reactor Igor Lengar, Vid Merljak, Marjan Kromar, Luka Snoj First Core Design tor the I2S-LWR 18-Month Cycle Dan Kotlyar, Sai Li, Geoffrey T. Parks, David A. Salazar, Fausto Franceschini, Bojan Petrovic Total Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis Code Development for Neutron-Physics Calculations Tiejun Zu, Chenghui Wan, Liangzhi Cao, Hongchun Wu Evaluation of the CASL BWR Fuel Assembly Benchmark using the TRANSLAT Lattice Physics Code with 16-Sector Fuel Cells Dean B. Jones ZPPR Benchmark Exercise using APOLLO3 Igor Zmijarevic, Tamara Martinez, Li Mao Impact of Fast Reactor Technology on U/Pu And U/TRU Continuous Recycle Fuel Cycles Nicolas E. Stauff, E. A. Hoffman, T. K. Kim, T. A. Taiwo Limited Collision Monte Carlo Method for Acceleration of Reactor Core Calculations Kendra P. Keady, Edward W. Larsen Dynamics of the TREAT Reactor Control System Vishal Patel Estimation of the Zero-Power Reactor Transfer from a 3-Dimensional Core Simulator in the Frequency Domain Christophe Demaziere, Victor Dykin Improvement of the Cross Sections Library Generation Within Full Core Configuration for 3D Neutron Calculation of OSIRIS MTR Reactor in ANUBIS V3 aith Verification and Validation Franck Lopez, Fadhel Malouch Development of an Efficient Approach to Perform Neutronics Simulations for Plutonium-238 Production David Chandler, Ronald Ellis 20 MONDAY EVENING POSTER SESSION In-Core Neutron Detectors for Characterizing High Temporal-Resolution Reactor Transients Jan Izak Cornelius Vermaak, Sophit Pongpun, Marvin L. Adams, Thomas J. Conroy Advanced Applications of Natural Gamma Ray Well Logging Tools Qingzhen Guo, Weijun Guo A Comprehensive Numerical Modelling of a Fission Chamber to be Operated over a Wide Dynamics in the Vessel of a Sodium-Cooled Reactor Philippe Filliatre, Christian Jammes Comparison of Deterministic and Monte Carlo Codes SUSD3D, Serpent and XSUSA for BetaEffective Sensitivity Calculations Ivan Alexander Kodeli, Manuele Aufiero, Winfried Zwermann Neutronic Analysis of Commercial PWR Cores Using Two Accident Tolerant Fuels Daehee Hwang, Ser Gi Hong Development of a Reactor Core Physics Analysis Code in COSINE Project Changhui Wang, Guoping Quan, Su Wang, Zhanquan Liu, Chen Yixue Xenon Stability Analysis of the NuScale Small Modular Reactor Zain Karriem, Allyson K. Kitto, Kenny Anderson Xenon 135M in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Michael J. Eades, Paolo F. Venneri Initial Verification of High-Fidelity Transport Code PROTEUS using Thermal Reactor Benchmarks Ana Jambrina Gomez, Changho Lee, Kostadin N. Ivanov Participation in OECD/NEA Benchmarks For LWRs Modelling Using SCALE6.2 Code Consuelo Gómez-Zarzuela, Antonella Labarile, Rafael Miro Miró, Carles Mesado Mesado, Teresa Barrachina, Gumersindo Verdú Verification of Adjoint-Weighted Tally Calculation Capability in MCS Yunki Jo, Deokjung Lee Research and Implementation of Hybrid Parallel Algorithm in Monte Carlo Criticality and Burnup Calculation Feng Yang, Jin-gang Liang Ding She Ganglin YU, Kan Wang Influence of Nuclear Data on Fast Reactor Calculations Friederike Bostelmann, Frank-Peter Weiss, Alexander Aures, Kiril Velkov, Winfried Zwermann, Bradley T. Rearden, Matthew A. Jessee, Mark L. Williams, Dorothea Wiarda, William Wieselquist Performance Study of a Parallel Domain Decomposition Method Nans Odry, Jean-Francois Vidal, Gerald Rimpault, Jean-Jacques Lautard, Anne-Marie Baudron Comparative Analysis of Fuel Performance Models using Sub-Channel Code CTF, and High Fidelity Fuel Performance Codes FRAPCON and BISON Faisal Zahur Raja, Michael G. Mankosa, Maria N. Avramova FW/CADIS-Omega: an Angle-Informed Hybrid Method for Deep-Penetration Radiation Transport Madicken Munk, Rachel N. Slaybaugh, Tara M. Pandya, Seth R. Johnson, T. M. Evans An Analytical Approach to Deriving Diffusion Coefficient for P0 Transport-Correction Ben C. Yee, Edward W. Larsen, Brendan Kochunas 21 TUESDAY MORNING Xenon Induced Spatial Oscillations - a Pattern Formation Approach Nir Kastin, Ehud Meron, Assaf Kolin, Shai Kinast Integrated and High-fidelity Simulation Capability of SuperMC for Fission Applications Jing Song, Liqin Hu, Pengcheng Long, Tao He, Lijuan Hao, Mengyun Yun Cheng, Huaqing Zheng, Shengpeng Yu, Guangyao Sun, Tongqiang Dang, Qi Yang, Bin Wu, Chaobin Chen, Ling Fang, Yican Wu Tuesday 8:00-9:40 AM Fuel Cycle Physics, Management & Optimization II - 8:00-9:40 - Boiler Organized by: Geoff PARKS Cambridge University and Temitope TAIWO Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Nicoloas STAUFF, Argonne National Laboratory and Marc ERNOULT, Japan Atomic Energy Agency 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 Assessment and Benchmarking with ORION and Cyclus for US Fuel Cycle Options Generation of SFR Physics Models for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Code CLASS Use of Quasi-Monoenergetic Laser Compton Scattering Beam for Enhanced Transmutation of Nuclear Waste PWR MOX Fuel Physics Models for the Dynamic Fuel Cycle Simulation Tool CLASS Jennifer L. Littell, Andrew Worrall, Eva E. Sunny, Steve Eugene Skutnik Baptiste Leniau, Fanny Courtin, Baptiste Mouginot, Nicolas Thiolliere, Xavier Doligez, Adrien Bidaud Haseeb ur Rehman, Jiyoung Lee, Yonghee Kim Fanny Courtin, Baptiste Leniau, Baptiste Mouginot, Nicolas Thiolliere, Xavier Doligez, Alice Somaini, Adrien Bidaud Noise-Based Methods Reactor Analysis - Camas Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Andrew SIEGEL, Argonne National Laboratory and Imre PAZSIT, Chalmers University 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 A New Monte Carlo Method for Neutron Noise Calculations On Causality Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Noise Using Partial Directed Coherence Analysis of Critical and Subcritical Neutron Noise Experiments in MINERVE Using Advanced Noise Techniques The Effect of the Correlation Length on the Propagation Neutron Noise Generated Inside a Core in Light Water Reactors” Nodal Methods for Reactor Analysis I - Columbine 22 Amelie Rouchon, Andrea Zoia, Richard Sanchez Dionysios A. Chionis, Abdelhamid Dokhane, Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz Erez Gilad, Assaf Kolin, Oleg Rivin, Chen Dubi, Benoit Geslot, Patrick Blaise Victor Dykin, Imre Pazsit TUESDAY MORNING Organized by: Thomas DOWNAR, University of Michigan and Kent WELTER, NuScale Power Chairs: Thomas DOWNAR, University of Michigan and Zheng YOUQI, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 Variational Nodal Method Fission-Source Iteration Acceleration using the Partitioned-Matrix Technique Microscopic Depletion with the Correction of Microscopic Cross Sections in Nodal Diffusion Code DYN3D Multi-Group GMRES Algorithm for the Exponential Function Expansional Nodal SP3 Method Nodal Diffusion Methods: Understanding Numerous Unpublished Details Yunzhao Li, Boning Liang, Hongchun Wu, Liangzhi Cao Yurii Bilodid, Dan Kotlyar, Eugene Shwageraus, Emil Fridman, Soeren Kliem Wen Yang, Hongchun Wu, Yunzhao Li, Liangzhi Cao Kord S. Smith Experiments II - Sawtooth Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory and Kazufumi TSUJIMOTO, Japan Atomic Energy Agency 8:00 Nuclear Radiation Heating Measurements in the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor 8:25 Benchmark Development for TREAT Minimum Critical Mass Core Loading to Support Validation of TREAT Operations Benchmarking of the Graphite and Fluoride Salt Insertions in LR-0 Reactor 8:50 9:15 A New Approach to Nondestructive Testing of Fuel Column under Irradiation 23 Edward Kent, Mark H. Anderson, Timothy H. Trumbull, Edwin Grant, Laura Bartol, Paul Brooks, Kyle W. Schmalzer, Reem Almehisni, Robert Agasie John D. Bess, Benjamin Chase, James Parry Evzen Losa, Michal Košál, Vojtìch Rypar, Martin Schulc, Evžen Novák, Bohumil Jánský, Martin Veškrna, Filip Mravec, Zdenìk Matìj, František Cvachovec Ekaterina Ryabikovskaya, Vitaly I. Surin TUESDAY MORNING Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations III - Limelight C Organized by: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cassiano DE OLIVEIRA, Unviersity of New Mexico and Mark DeHART Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Chang Ho LEE, Argonne National Laboratory and James DYRDA, Oranization for Economic Cooperation and Development 8:00 8:25 Three-Dimensional Modeling of Hydrogen and Hydride Distribution in Zirconium Alloy Cladding Using High-Fidelity Multi-Physics Simulations AP1000® PWR Cycle 1 HFP Depletion Simulations with VERA-CS 8:50 Simulation of Crud Induced Power Shift using the VERA Core Simulator and MAMBA 9:15 Coupled Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Calculation Code Development for Molten Salt Reactor Maria N. Avramova, Kostadin N. Ivanov, Annalisa Manera, Michael G. Mankosa, Victor Petrov, Daniel J. Walter, Richard L. Williamson, Stephen R. Novascone Fausto Franceschini, David A. Salazar, Andrew Godfrey, Shane Stimpson, Benjamin S. Collins, Cole Gentry, Mohamed Ouisloumen Benjamin S. Collins, Robert K. Salko, Scott Palmtag, Kevin T. Clarno, Jeffery R. Secker, Brian Kendrick, Shane Stimpson, Andrew Godfrey, Rosemary Montgomery Hongchun Wu, Kun Zhuang, Liangzhi Cao, Yunzhao Li, Tianliang Hu Apollo Validation - Ram Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: Zain KARRIEM, Idaho National Laboratory and Evgeny IVANOV, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 Improvement of the Verification and Validation Methodology for the New CEA APOLLO3(R) Neutronic Code Development and Validation of a New APOLLO-Based Calculation Scheme Dedicated to Isabelle1 Ex-Core Rod Irradiations in the OSIRIS MTR Reactor Validation of the New Code Package APOLLO2.8 for Accurate BWR Calculations Validation of the APOLLO2.8 Code Package for the Calculation of Effective Kinetics Parameters and the Reactivity Versus Reactor Period Relationship 24 Valentin Jouault, Jean-Marc Palau, Gerald Rimpault, Pascal Archier, Vincent Pascal, Benedicte Roque, Jean-Francois Vidal Thibault Daullé, F. Chevallier, F. Malouch Alain Santamarina Pierre Leconte, Alain Santamarina, JeanFrancois Vidal, Patrick Blaise, Guillaume Truchet TUESDAY MORNING Sub-critical systems I - Lupine Organized by: Massimiliano FRATONI University of California, Berkeley, Won Sik YANG, Purdue University and Takanori KITADA, Osaka University Chairs: Margaret MARSHALL, Idaho National Laboratory and Adimir DOS SANTOS, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 Experimental Benchmarks on Subcriticality in Accelerator-Driven System with 100 MeV Protons at Kyoto University Critical Assembly Deterministic Analyses of the Phase-I Kinetics Experiments in the KUCA Subcritical A-Core Configurations Analysis on the Effect of High Energy Neutron Source in ADS Neutronics Calculation Analysis of Subcritical PWR and AGR Cores using WIMS and PANTHER Cheolho Pyeon, Masao Yamanaka, Yoshiyuki Takahashi Fabrizio Gabrielli, Andrei Rineiski, Alberto Talamo, Mohamed Yousry Gohar, Cheolho Pyeon Youqi Zheng, Xunzhao Li, Hongchun Wu Paul Bryce, Martin Knight, Chris Eatwell Tuesday 10:10 AM - 12:15 PM Reactor Analysis Methods I - Boiler Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Chang Ho LEE, Argonne National Laboratory and Guy MARLEAU, Ècole Polytechnique de Montrèal 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Determination of the Reflector Parameter Through Data Assimilation with the COCAGNE Calculation Code Using a TRIPOLI 4 Reference Simulation on KAIST Benchmark Multilevel Quasidiffusion Method with Multiplicative Corrections For Eigenvalue Neutron Transport Problems The IRSN ORION Project: Development of New Capabilities for Neutronics Deterministic Simulations Dedicated to Safety Analysis Application of the Method of Manufactured Solutions to the 1D Sn Equation Experiment Informed Neutron Transport Model of TRIGA Irradiation Location 25 Jean-Philippe Argaud, Bertrand Bouriquet, Ansar Calloo, Edgar Luis Luke R. Cornejo, Dmitriy Y. Anistratov Sophie Pignet, Franck Bernard, Vivian Salino, Julien Taforeau, Alain Hebert, Antoine Bruneau Jipu Wang, William R. Martin, Benjamin S. Collins James B. Tompkins, Ryan G. McClarren TUESDAY MORNING Cross Section Methods for Reactor Analysis - Sawtooth Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Rachel SLAYBAUGH University of California, Berkeley and Eugene SHWAGERAUS, Cambridge University 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Use of a Line of Pincells to Refine Discontinuity Factors and Group Structure for MOX/UO2 Modelling in the Embedded Supercell Methodology Students’ Resonance Broadening to Teaching or “How To Improve Students’ Learning Using Flipped Classrooms” Embedded Self-Shielding Method Applied to Doubly Heterogeneous Fully Ceramic MicroEncapsulated Fuels Predictions of PWR Cores Using PARAGON2 Based on Ultra-Fine Energy Mesh Crosssections Library Temperature and Temperature Reactivity Feedback Sensitivity Calculations for the Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) Martin Knight, Paul Bryce, Tom Taylor Christophe Demaziere, Christian Stöhr, Tom Adawi Kang-Seog Kim, Jianwei Hu, Cole A. Gentry Mohamed Ouisloumen Dimitrios C. Kontogeorgakos, Heather M. Connaway, Dionissios D. Papadias, Arthur E. Wright Recent Developments in Monte Carlo Codes and Methods I - Columbine Organized by: Jaakko LEPPÄNEN, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Chairs: Benoit FORGET, Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Jaakko LEPPÄNEN, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Approximate Mean Free Path Based Kernel Density Estimators for Reaction Rates in Reactor Physics Problems Integrated Decay Source Capability for LargeScale Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Calculations Expanding the use of Serpent 2 to fusion applications: development of a plasma neutron source New Interpolation Capabilities for Thermal Scattering Data in Serpent 2 Delayed Neutron Emission Model for Time Dependent Simulations with the Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code – First Results 26 Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, William R. Martin David P. Griesheimer, Stephen C. Marin, Paul K. Romano, Mark H. Stedry Paula Sirén, Jaakko I. Leppänen Tuomas P. Viitanen, Jaakko I. Leppanen Ville Henrikki Valtavirta, Mohammad Hessan, Jaakko I. Leppanen TUESDAY MORNING Research and Test Reactors - Camas Organized by: Mark DeHART, Idaho National Laboratory and Benoit DIONNE, Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Benoit DIONNE, Argonne National Laboratory and Luka SNOJ, Institut ”Jozef Stefan” 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Core Design Studies for a Low-Enriched Uranium Reactor for Cold Neutron Source at NIST Neutronic Analysis of Use of HANARO fuel in WWR-SM Reactor New As-Run Neutronics Analysis for RERTR12 Fuel Foil Experiments Fast Spectrum Material’s Testing Reactor with Variable Energy Spectra to Support Advanced Reactors Program and Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program R&D Feasibility Investigation of Application of MPACT to Core Design Studies of NBSR-2, a Heavy Water Reflected, Heterogeneous LEU Research Reactor Zeyun Wu, Robert E. Williams Lara Peguero, Todd Palmer Margaret Marshall, Misti A. Lillo Jonathan B. Scherr, Pavel V. Tsvetkov Bryan D. Eyers Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis III - Lupine Organized by: Cristian RABITI Idaho National Laboratory and Hany ABDEL-KHALIK Chairs: Qiong ZHANG, Baker Hughes and Wei SHEN, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Fission Product Yields Covariance Generation Methodologies and Uncertainty Propagation Using the URANIE Platform A New Method for Removing Systematic Errors in Cross Section Adjustment for Accurate Estimation of Minor-Actinide Transmutation in Fast Reactors Variance Reduction Factor Calculations for Neutronics Parameters of Accelerator-Driven System Comparison of Fission Yield Perturbation Methodologies on Nuclide Composition of a PWR UO2 Fuel Assembly Thermal-Hydraulic Uncertainty Propagation in a Main Steam Line Break Scenario 27 Nicholas Terranova, Pascal Archier, Olivier Serot, David Bernard, Cyrille De Saint Jean, Marco Sumini Toshikazu Takeda Go Chiba, W.F.G. van Rooijen, T. Endo, C.H. Pyeon Olivier Leray, Luca Fiorito, Dimitri Rochman, Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, A. Stankovskiy, G. Van den Eynde Emilio Castro Gonzalez, Maria Avramova, Diana Cuervo, Nuria Garcia Herranz TUESDAY MORNING Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations IV - Limelight C Organized by: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cassiano DE OLIVEIRA, Unviersity of New Mexico and Mark DeHART Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Scott PALMTAG Core Physics, Inc. and Ville VALTAVIRTA, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 A Novel Tightly Coupled Method for Reactor Transient Simulations On Steady-State Multiphysics Stability and Related In-Core Fuel Management Capabilities in DONJON5 Internal Coupling of the Code DYN3D with the USNRC Code TRACE - First Results Coupled Neutronics and Heat Transfer in Accident Tolerant Composite Matrix Nuclear Fuels A Preconditioning Algorithm for JFNK Method Applied to Multi-Physics Calculations Jaron P. Senecal, Wei Ji Vivian Salino, Alain Hebert Jose Angel Gonzalez-Vargas, Victor Hugo Sanchez, Javier Jimenez Christopher G. Morrison, Wei Ji, Jaron P. Senecal Jianan Lu, Jiong Guo, Han Zhang, Fu Li Advanced Multidimensional Reactor Kinetics Methods I - Ram Organized by: Sedat GOLUOGLU, University of Florida, Gilles YOUINOU, Idaho National Laboratory and Wilfred VAN ROOIJEN, University of Fukui Chairs: Todd PALMER, Oregon State University and Wilfred VAN ROOIJEN, University of Fukui 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Assessment of the CABRI Transients Power Shape by Using CFD and Point Kinetics Codes Operational Readiness of the Rattlesnake Multidimensional Transport Code Implementation of the Improved Quasi-Static Method in Rattlesnake/MOOSE for TimeDependent Radiation Transport Modelling Preparation of a Neutron Transport Data Set for Simulations of the Transient Test Reactor Facility Research in Support of TREAT Kinetics Calculations Using Rattlesnake/BISON Coupling Within MAMMOTH 28 Jean-Pascal Hudelot Barry D. Ganapol, Mark D. DeHart, Frederick N. Gleicher, Abderaffi Ougouag, Javier Ortensi, Richard C. Martineau Zachary M. Prince, Jean C. Ragusa, Yaqi Wang Javier Ortensi, Yaqi Wang, Benjamin A. Baker, Sebastian Schunert, Frederick N. Gleicher, Mark D. DeHart, Alexandre Laurier, Alain Hebert Mark D. DeHart, Javier Ortensi, Frederick N. Gleicher, Yaqi Wang, Sebastian Schunert TUESDAY AFTERNOON Tuesday 1:30-3:35 PM Reactor Analysis Methods II - Boiler Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Florent Heidet, Argonne National Laboratory and Akio YAMAMOTO, Nagoya Univeristy 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Leakage Correction of Homogenized FewGroup Constants through Functionalization on Leakage Fraction Comparison of 1-D/1-D Fusion and 1-D/1-D Hybrid Methods in a Two-Dimensional Transport Problem: Numerical Results Problem Formulation of Numerical Reactivity Measurement Simulation Development of Two-Step Reactor Physics Analysis Procedure for Advanced High Temperature Reactors Construction of Optimized Experimental Responses in Support of Model Validation via Physics Coverage Mapping Methodology Young Suk Ban, Han Gyu Joo Seungsu Yuk, Nam Zin Cho Nurbol Zhylmaganbetov, Sergey Shevchenko Cole A. Gentry, G. Ivan Maldonado, KangSeog Kim Dongli Huang, Hany S. Abdel-Khalik Fast Reactors I - Camas Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Massimiliano FRATONI University of California, Berkeley and Bruno MERK, University of Liverpool/National Nuclear Laboratory 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Fast Reactor Diagrid and Axial Expansion Models for the Diffusion Equation Calculation Methodology Assessment to Detect Localised Perturbation In Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors with Ex-Core Instrumentation Monte Carlo Analysis Of SNEAK-12A Core Disruption In Liquid-Metal Fast Breeder Reactors – the Path For Innovative Severe Accident Studies In ZPR Development of a Fast Reactor for Minor Actinides Transmutation - Improvement of Prediction Accuracy for MA-Related Integral Parameters based on Cross-section Adjustment Technique A Search for Theories Enabling Analyses of Spatial Effects in Highly Coupled SFR Cores 29 Armin Seubert, Kiril Velkov Vasudha Verma, Carl Hellesen, Christian Jammes, Philippe Filliatre, Staffan Jacobsson Svärd Marat Margulis, Patrick Blaise, Erez Gilad Kenji Yokoyama, Shuhei Maruyama, Kazuyuki Numata, Makoto Ishikawa, Toshikazu Takeda Maxence Maillot, Jean Tommasi, Gerald Rimpault TUESDAY AFTERNOON Depletion Methods III - Ram Organized by: Rodolfo FERRER Studsvik Scandpower and Akio YAMAMOTO, Nagoya University Chairs: Rodolfo FERRER, Studsvik Scandpower and Dan KOTLYAR, University of Cambridge 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Burnable Poison Designs for a Soluble-BoronFree Civil Nuclear Marine PWR Core Validation of CASMO5 Gadolinium Depletion Analysis Evaluation of the Effect of Burn-Up on Neutron Flux and Reaction Rate Distributions in the TRIGA Mark II Reactor Solution of the BEAVRS Benchmark Using CASMO-5 / SIMULATE-5 Code Sequence High-Fidelity Heat Deposition Analysis for the High Flux Isotope Reactor Syed Bahauddin Alam, Benjamin A. Lindley, Geoffrey T. Parks Yusuke Kuroda, Tsuyoshi Ama, Takashi Yoshii Žiga Štancar, Luka Snoj, Loic Barbot Valentyn Bykov, Alexander Vasiliev, Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz Eva E. Sunny, Benjamin Betzler, David Chandler, Germina Ilas MCNP Validation and Applications - Sawtooth Organized by: Thomas DOWNAR, University of Michigan and Kent WELTER, NuScale Power Chairs: Forrest BROWN Los Alamos National Laboratory and Eric DUMONTEIL, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Validating MCNP5 Libraries And Predicting The Accuracy In Calculating The Effective Multiplication Factor (Keff) As A Function In Moderator To Fuel Ratios Energy Deposition Prediction Calculations Using MC21 And MCNP for Calorimeters of Various Materials in the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor An Analytic Benchmark of Neutron Free-Gas Scattering Using Continuous-Energy Cross Sections in MCNP6 Verification of Solid Body Geometries in MCATK Fission Neutron Multiplicity in MCNP6 Criticality Calculations Karim Mahmoud Hossny Edwin J. Grant, Laura Bartol, Timothy H. Trumbull, Paul P. Wilson, Robert J. Agasie, Wes Culberson, Jeff Radkte, Edward Kent, Paul Brooks, Mark H. Anderson Matthew A. Gonzales, Anil K. Prinja, Forrest B. Brown, Brian C. Kiedrowski Travis J. Trahan, Jesse Giron, Jeremy E. Sweezy Mario I. Ortega, Michael E. Rising, Forrest B. Brown, Anil K. Prinja Validation Facilities - Lupine Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: John BESS , Idaho National Laboratory and (TBD) 1:30 1:55 Serpent Stereolithography Modeling of the GIACINT Critical Assembly Experimental Facility Development of a Verification Benchmark Suite for the ATR Reactor Physics Upgrade 30 Alberto Talamo, et al. Barry D. Ganapol, Dave W. Nigg TUESDAY AFTERNOON 2:20 2:45 3:10 FFTF Passive Safety Test Data for Benchmarks for New LMR Designs Verification Methodology and Procedure of JSNT-S The 2D Static Benchmark Calculations for the SAFARI-1 Research Reactor Core Characterisation David W. Wootan, A. M. Casella Guang Chun Zhang, Tangpei Cheng, Yuang Guang Fu, Deng Li Lesego Ernest Moloko, Julien Politello, Jacques Di Salvo, Corinne D’Aletto Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations V - Limelight C Organized by: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cassiano DE OLIVEIRA, Unviersity of New Mexico and Mark DeHART Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Ville VALTAVIRTA, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Cross Section Homogenization Technique for Transient Calculations Studsvik’s Tools for the Analysis of Reactivity Transients IAEA CRP on HTGR Uncertainties: Comparison of Ex. I-2c Nominal Results and Coupling with the PHISICS/RELAP5-3D Core Model for Ex. II-1 Development of Multiphysics Tools for Fluoride-Cooled High Temperature Reactors Enhanced Fidelity Depletion for Molten Salt Reactors Kevin Dugan, Igor Zmijarevic, Sanchez Gerardo M. Grandi, Jerry L. Judd Richard Pascal Nicolas Rouxelin, Gerhard Strydom, Kostadin N. Ivanov Manuele Aufiero, Massimiliano Fratoni Daniel Wooten, Massimiliano Fratoni Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries III - Columbine Organized by: Luiz LEAL, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Ayman HAWARI, North Carolina State University and Go CHIBA, Hokkaido University Chairs: Yuxuan LIU, University of Michigan and (TBD) 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 On Methods for Conversion to Multipole Formalism Verification of the On-the-Fly Thermal Scattering Sampling Method for Bound Hydrogen in Light Water Neutron Data Adjustment Based on Integral Critical Experiments on the BFS-Facility With Different Neutron Spectrum Multigroup Data Processing for the Embedded Self-Shielding Method in SCALE First Principles Molecular Dynamics Implementation in Thermal Neutron Scattering Analysis Tuesday 4:00-5:40 PM 31 Pablo P. Ducru, Vladimir Sobes, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith Andrew T. Pavlou, Wei Ji, Forrest B. Brown Olga Nikolaevna Andrianova, Gleb Borisovich Lomakov, Vladimir Nikolaevich Koscheev, Gennady Nikolaevich Manturov Mark L. Williams, Dorothea Wiarda, KangSeog Kim, Matthew A. Jessee J. L. Wormald, A. Singhal, A. A. Petersen, Ayman I. Hawari TUESDAY AFTERNOON Fuel Cycle Physics, Management & Optimization III - Boiler Organized by: Geoff Parks, Cambridge University and Temitope Taiwo, Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Jorge NAVARRO, Idaho National Laboratory and Liangzhi CAO, Xi’an Jiaotong University 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Fuel Cycle Analysis of Multi-batch Operation of a Denatured Molten Salt Reactor Generation of Cross Sections for Use in Transition Analysis Using ORION Portable Reactor Data Library Interpolation Via Self-describing ORIGEN Libraries Integrated Software Tools for Radiation Damage, Activation and Transmutation Studies in Advanced Nuclear Systems Kien Ngoc Trinh, Geoffrey T. Parks, Dan Kotlyar, Carlo Fiorina Joshua L. Peterson, Andrew Worrall, Eva E. Sunny, William Wieselquist, Robert Gregg Nicholas C. Sly, Steve Eugene Skutnik, William Wieselquist Ilya Sergeevich Kuptsov, Andrei Andrianov, Yury Korovin, Artem Dogov, Leonid Svetlichnyy Reactor Analysis Methods III - Sawtooth Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Chang Ho LEE, Argonne National Laboratory and Evgeny IVANOV, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Pin-by-Pin Reactor Core Analysis Based on a NEM-based Two-level Hybrid CMFD Algorithm Coupling Sjöstrand and Feynman Methods in Prompt Neutron Decay Constant Analyses Key Neutronic Parameter for Commissioning Reactor APOLLO3®: CEA/DEN Deterministic MultiPurpose Code for Reactor Physics Analysis Seongho Song, HwanYeal Yu, Yonghee Kim Alberto Talamo, et al. Laurent CHABERT, Eric Duchemin, Clement Huot-Marchand, Particia Sireta Didier Schneider, Florence Dolci, Franck Gabriel, Jean-Marc Palau, Matthieu Guillo, Baptiste Pothet Transient Reactor Testing II - Ram Organized by: Javier ORTENSI and Dan WACHS, Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Javier ORTENSI, Idaho National Laboratory and Ronald Ellis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 4:00 4:25 CABRI Facility: Upgrade, Refurbishment, Recommissioning and Experimental Capacities TREAT Multi-SERTTA Neutronics Design and Analysis Support 4:50 Treat Irradiation Vehicle Designs, Capabilities, and Future Plans 5:15 Calculation of the TREAT Minimum Critical Core with MAMMOTH and Serpent 32 Jean-Pascal Hudelot John D. Bess, Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme, Connie M. Hill, Robert C. O’Brien, Samuel E. Bays Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme, John D. Bess, C.B. B. Davis, G.K. Housley, C.B. B. Jensen, R.C. C. O’Brien, D.M. Michael Wachs Anthony Lewis Alberti, Todd S. Palmer, Javier Ortensi, Mark David DeHart TUESDAY AFTERNOON Sub-critical systems II - Camas Organized by: Massimiliano FRATONI University of California, Berkeley, Won Sik YANG, Purdue University and Takanori KITADA, Osaka University Chairs: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Imre PAZSIT, Chalmers University 4:00 4:25 4:50 Reactivity Measurements in Subcritical Systems Analysis and Burnup Modeling of the GEM*STAR Accelerator-Driven System Analysis of the External Source Modeling in a Subcritical Reactor Leticia Negrao Pinto, Adimir dos Santos, Eduardo Gonnelli William J. Walters, Alireza Haghighat, Bruce Vogelaar, Katherine K. Royston Zafar Iqbal Zafar, Myung Hyun Kim Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis IV - Lupine Organized by: Cristian RABITI Idaho National Laboratory and Hany ABDEL-KHALIK Chairs: Hany ABDEL-KHALIK, Purdue University and Hyung Jin SHIM, Seoul National University 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Quantification of the SCALE 6.1 Eigenvalue Uncertainty Due to Cross-Section Uncertainties for Exercise I-1 of the IAEA CRP on HTGR Uncertainties. Uncertainty Analysis of Assembly and Core-Level Calculations with Application to CASMO-4 and SIMULATE-3 IAEA Coordinated Research Program on HTGR Uncertainty Analysis: Results of Exercise I-1 Model and the Application of the RPT Method Direct Evaluation of Nuclear Data Uncertainty Propagation in Pebble-Bed HTR Core Vishnu Visvanathan Naicker, D Maretele, F Reitsma, F Bostelmann, G Strydom Maria Pusa Wonkyeong Kim, Frederik Reitsma, Deokjung Lee Lidong Wang, Jiong Guo, Fu Li, Chen Hao, Kostadin N. Ivanov, Pascal Nicolas Rouxelin Advanced Multidimensional Reactor Kinetics Methods II - Limelight C Organized by: Sedat GOLUOGLU, University of Florida, Gilles YOUINOU, Idaho National Laboratory and Wilfred VAN ROOIJEN, University of Fukui Chairs: Sedat GOLUOGLU, University of Florida and Wilfred VAN ROOIJEN, University of Fukui 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Development of Kinetic Model for MHI Lattice Physics Code Calculation and Research of Neutron TimeSpatial Kinetics on Accelerator Driven SubCritical System Models and Methods for the Representation of Decay and Photon Heat in Spatial Kinetics Calculations Application of TDKENO to TREAT Temperature-Limited Transients 33 Yohei Kamiyama, Kazuki Kirimura, Kazuya Yamaji, Shinya Kosaka, Hiroki Koike Xu Li, Yu Hong, Hu Yun, Wang Xinzhe Dominic Caron, Sandra Dulla, Piero Ravetto, Laura Savoldi, Roberto Zanino Justin Paluch, Dustin R. Popp, Hannah Morbach, Victoria Graham, Mark David Dehart, Sean Morell, Sedat Goluoglu WEDNESDAY MORNING Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries IV - Columbine Organized by: Luiz LEAL, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Ayman HAWARI, North Carolina State University and Go CHIBA, Hokkaido University Chairs: Rachel SLAYBAUGH University of California, Berkeley and (TBD) 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Importance of the Neutron Flux Information to the Evaluation of Thermal Neutron Capture Cross Section and Resonance Integral of Minor Actinides Parameterized Representation of Macroscopic Cross Section in Burn-Up Cycles Investigation of Fast Neutron Induced Fission of 238U: Theory and Experiments The Fast Neutron Induced Fission Cross Section of 240, 242Pu Kazuhito Mizuyama, Nobuyuki Iwamoto, Osamu Iwamoto Thiago Freitas Belo, João Claudio B. Fiel F.-J. Hambsch, A. Tudora, D.L. Duke, F. Tovesson F.-J. Hambsch, P. Salvador Castiñeira, S. Oberstedt, A Göök, M. Vidali Wednesday 8:00-9:40 AM Fuel Cycle Physics, Management & Optimization IV - Boiler Organized by: Geoff Parks, Cambridge University and Temitope Taiwo, Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Fausto FRANCESCHINI, Westinghouse Electric Company and Erez GILAD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 High Conversion Th-U Fuel Cycle for Current Generation of PWRs Fuel Cycle Analysis Using Bright-lite in the Cyclus Simulator HCSMR Fuel Assembly Optimization with APOLLO2 and URANIE CODES Helium Generation Within Reactor Internal Components of Fluence Benchmark Models Using Coupled RAMA-SCALE 34 Daniela Baldova, Emil Fridman, Eugene Shwageraus Cem Bagdatlioglu, Robert R. Flanagan, Erich A. Schneider Denis Janin, Michel Soldevila, Siegfried Douce, Marcus Seidl, Gilles Arnaud, Frederic Damian, Christine Poinot, Rafael Macian-Juan Ethan C. Taber, Victor G. Smith, Eric N. Jones WEDNESDAY MORNING Reactor Dosimetry - Camas Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: John BESS , Idaho National Laboratory and Tuomas VIITANEN, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 CASMO-5 Analysis of Reactivity Worths of Burnt PWR Fuel Samples Measured in LWRPROTEUS Phase II Interpretation of Local Flux Measurements for Reactivity Prediction Developing a Fast Neutron Beam Capability in MASURCA: Spectrum and Intensity Evaluation Benchmarking of Fission and Activation Rate in VVER-1000 Mock-Up in LR-0 Reactor Peter Grimm, Mathieu Hursin, Gregory Perret, Daniel Siefman, Hakim Ferroukhi Sandra Dulla, Siew Sin Hoh, Piero Ravetto, Paolo Saracco Marco Sumini, Luca Dioni, Brian Stout, Robert P. Jacqmin Michal Kostal, Vojtech Rypar, Evzen Losa, Martin Schulc, Davit Harutunyan, Marie Svadlenkova, Jan Milcak, Michal Sunka Full Core Analysis Methods II - Columbine Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: Zain KARRIEM, Idaho National Laboratory and Sophie PIGNET, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 Reproduction of a Power Azimuthal Disbalance Using Data Assimilation: Application to Twin Experiments First Evidence of the Pivotal Motion (Tilting Mode) of The Core Barrel in the Ringhals-4 PWR Development of Generic Inserts Methodology Rod Internal Pressure Quantification and Distribution Analysis Using FRAPCON Coline Brosselard, Bertrand Bouriquet, Matthieu De Sequeira, Hadrien Leroyer, David Couyras, Jean-Philippe Argaud Cristina Montalvo, Imre Pazsit, Henrik Nylén, Victor Dykin Baocheng Zhang, Brian R. Coulter, Boyan D. Ivanov Ryan Bratton, Matthew A. Jessee, William Wieselquist, Kostadin N. Ivanov Experiments III - Sawtooth Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: David NIGG, Idaho National Laboratory and Laurent CHABERT, AREVA-France 8:00 8:25 Research of Radioactive Properties of Geopolymers Carried Out at the LVR-15 Nuclear Research Reactor A Scrutinized Analysis on the Power Reactivity Loss Measurement in MONJU 35 Zdena Lahodova, Ladislav Viererbl, Michal Koleska, Tomas Cernousek, Zbynek Cerny Hiroshi Taninaka, Yasufumi Kishimoto, Tetsuya Mouri, Shin Usami WEDNESDAY MORNING 8:50 Analysis of Material Buckling Experiments Performed in the MASCURA Facility in Support of the Astrid SFR Prototype Core Balance Gerald Rimpault, Paul Dufay, Virginie Huy Advanced and Small Modular Reactor Designs I - Limelight C Organized by: Massimiliano FRATONI University of California, Berkeley, Won Sik YANG, Purdue University and Takanori KITADA, Osaka University Chairs: Massimiliano FRATONI University of California, Berkeley, and Frederik REITSMA, International Atomic Energy Agency 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 Coupled Neutronic-Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of a Small FHR Core with Pin-Type Fuel Assemblies Preliminary Design of Boron-Free Small Modular Pressurized Water Reactor Benchmark Calculations of the MHTGR-350 MW Core using Explicit Modeling Approach of RMC Impact of Control Rod Position and Homogenization on Sodium Void Effect in CFV-Type SFR Hassan Mohamed, Dan Kotlyar, Geoffrey Thomas Parks, Yaniv Shaposhnik Jiwon Choe, Deokjung Lee, Ho Cheol Shin Shichang Liu, Zhen-an Wang, Ding She, Jingang Liang, Kan Wang Mikael Erik Andersson, David Blanchet, Henrik Nylén, Robert P. Jacqmin Validation of Kinetics Methods - Ram Organized by: Thomas DOWNAR, University of Michigan and Kent WELTER, NuScale Power Chairs: Zeyun WU, National Institute of Standards and Technology and (TBD) 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 Validation of a RELAP5-3d Point Kinetics Model of TREAT Control Rod Insertion Method Analysis - Dynamic vs. Static Reactivity The Determination of Reflector Kinetic Parameters Through Rossi-Alpha Experiments in the IPEN/MB-01 Reactor Verification of the Time-dependent Transport Code TDKENO with the Monte Carlo Code KENO-VI 36 Cliff B. Davis, Nicolas Eric Woolstenhulme Vid Merljak, Marjan Kromar, Luka Snoj, Andrej Trkov Eduardo Gonnelli, Leticia Negrao Pinto, Adimir dos Santos, Ricardo Diniz Zander Mausolff, Mark D. DeHart, Sedat Goluoglu WEDNESDAY MORNING Validation of Thermal/Hydraulic Methods - Lupine Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: Hongbin ZHANG Idaho National Laboratory and Fabrizio GABRIELLI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 A first approach of TAPIRO ThermalHydraulics Definition Model, by RELAP and TIESTE-MINOSSE Codes. Reactivity and Mass Flow Rate Transient Analysis Validation of the HEM and Moody Critical Flow Models in POLCA-T Phase II of the EBR-II SHRT-45R Benchmark Study - TerraPower’s SAS4A/SASSYS-1 Results Neutronics/Fuel Thermomechanics Coupling in the Framework of a REA (Rod Ejection Accident) Transient Scenario Calculation Giancarlo Bianchini, Mario Carta, Valentina Fabrizio, Orlando Fiorani, Carlo Parisi, Alfonso Santagata Milan Tesinsky, Jonathan Wang, Ulf Bredolt Ethan A. Bates, Bao Truong, Lakshana R. Huddar Jean-Charles Le Pallec, Nkonga, Nicolas Crouzet Katherine Mer- Wednesday 10:10 AM-12:15 PM Reactor Analysis Methods IV - Boiler Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Zeyun WU, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Yunzhao LI, Xi’an Jiaotong University 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 On Using Grasshopper Add-On for CAD to MCNP Conversion Implementation of Coarse-Mesh Nonlinear Diffusion Acceleration for Hexagonal Geometry in CASMO5 KMacs, a Modular Adaptable Core Simulator Fourier Analysis of Iteration Schemes for KEigenvalue Transport Problems with FluxDependent Cross Sections Error Due to Angular Discretization in the Discrete Ordinates Approximation of the Transport Equation in Two-Dimensional Cartesian Geometry 37 Bor Kos, Luka Snoj Rodolfo M. Ferrer, Lulu Li, Joel D. Rhodes Matias Zilly, Matthias Kuentzel, Alexander Aures, Volker Hannstein, Kiril Velkov, Andreas Pautz Brendan M. Kochunas, Edward W. Larsen Xiaoyu Hu, Yousry Y. Azmy, Camila B. Picoloto, Anderson Tres, Liliane B. Barichello WEDNESDAY MORNING Burn-up Credit and Spent Fuel Measurements - Limelight C Organized by: Dale LANCASTER, NuclearConsultants.com and Mark DeHART Idaho National Laboratory ”Chairs: John WAGNER, Idaho National Laboratory and Jean-Christophe SUBLET, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority” 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Validation of Monte Carlo Burnup Calculation for Thai Research Reactor Dose Rate Analysis in a High Capacity Nuclear Spent Fuel Storage System using the MAVRIC Code Validation of WIMS/PANTHER PWR Fuel Reactivity Depletion using the BEAVRS Benchmark Flux Map Data Study on the Impacts of Burn-up Measurement Errors on the Discharge Burn-up Distribution of PB-HTR Effects of Control Blade History, Axial Coolant Density Profiles, and Axial Burnup Profiles on BWR Burnup Credit Chanatip Tippayakul, Somkit Chowchanglag Agustin Abarca, Alvaro Bernal, Rafael Miro, Gumersindo Verdu Reece Daniel Harrison, Gareth Startin, Ben Lindley, David Powney, Geoff Parks, Paul Hutt Bing Xia, Jiong Guo, Fu Li Brian J. Ade, William J. Marshall, Stephen M. Bowman, Jesus S. Martinez Gonzalez Recent Developments in Monte Carlo Codes and Methods II - Columbine Organized by: Jaakko LEPPÄNEN, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Chairs: Alireza HAGHIGHAT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Zhang PENG, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Expanding the Use of Serpent 2 to Fusion Applications: Shut-Down Dose Rate Calculations Monte Carlo Sensitivity and Uncertainty Calculations with Continuous-Energy Nuclear Covariance Data Testing Advanced Methods For Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis in the Monte Carlo Code Serpent MCNP6 GENXS Option Expansion to Include Fragment Spectra of Heavy Ions A Cumulative Migration Method for Computing Rigorous Transport Cross Sections and Diffusion Coefficients for LWR Lattices with Monte Carlo 38 Jaakko I. Leppanen, Toni Kaltiaisenaho Dong Hyuk Lee, Hyungjin Shim, Chang Hyo Kim Manuele Aufiero, Massimiliano Fratoni Leslie Kerby, Stepan G. Mashnik, Jeffrey S. Bull Zhaoyuan Liu, Kord S. Smith, Benoit Forget WEDNESDAY MORNING Verification and Validation of Reactor Analysis Methods II - Sawtooth Organized by: Geoff PARKS Cambridge University and Temitope TAIWO Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Wei SHEN, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 Benchmark Progress Towards TREAT M8CAL Core Loading to Support Validation of TREAT Operations Analysis of the MIT BEAVRS Benchmark Using the DRAGON5/PARCS Code Sequence OPAL Reactor Calculations using Reactor Physics Code Serpent Validation and Verification of the MPACT Code Lessons Learned from a VVER Benchmark Modeling John D. Bess, Benjamin Chase, James Parry Julien Taforeau, Vivian Salino Lance Maul, George Braoudakis, Mark Ho, Guan Heng Yeoh Thomas J. Downar, Brendan M. Kochunas, Benjamin Collins Ondrej Novak, Ondrej Chvala Modeling and Simulation for Nonproliferation and Safeguards - Camas Organized by: Sean MORREL,L Idaho National Laboratory and Todd PALMER, Oregon State University Chairs: Sean MORRELL, Idaho National Laboratory and and Silva KALCHEVA, Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie/Centre d’Étude de l’énergie Nucléaire (SCK-CEN) 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 New Model for Parametric Analysis of Fuel Debris Criticality Using Cherenkov Light to Quantify Reactor Kinetics Parameters and Infer Fissile Material Inventory for Nuclear Nonproliferation Development of a Scintillator Detector Response Post Processing Tool for MCNP Output A Generalized Method for Fissile Mass Characterization using Short-Lived Fission Product Gamma Measurements Advanced Tools Based on a Multiple Objective Framework for Proliferation Risk and Resistance Assessments Marc Ernoult, Kotaro Tonoike Thomas V. Holschuh, Wade R. Marcum, David L. Chichester, Scott M. Watson, Sean R. Morrell M. T. Andrews, C. R. Bates, E. A. McKigney, C. J. Solomon, A. Sood Justin R. Knowles, Steve Eugene Skutnik, David Glasgow, Roger Kapsimalis Ilya Sergeevich Kuptsov, Andrey A. Andrianov SCALE Validation - Lupine Organized by: Thomas DOWNAR, University of Michigan and Kent WELTER, NuScale Power Chairs: Benoit DIONNE, Argonne National Laboratory and Friederike BOSTELMANN, Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) 10:10 10:35 Verification and Validation of New Unmodified SCALE PWR Lattice Templates Use of Polaris and PARCS to Predict Cycle Depletion for Three Mile Island Unit One Cycles One and Two 39 Nathan T. Shoman, Steven E Skutnik Peter Yarsky WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 11:00 11:25 11:50 Validation of Polaris, PARCS, and TRACE Against DIMPLE S01a Benchmark Neutronic Analysis of the APR1400 Reactor with SCALE and Serpent Reactor Physics Codes - Power Distribution Validation of Polaris and PARCS Against Otto Hahn Second Core Zero Power Experiment Benchmark Peter Yarsky, Carl Thurston Mohamed A. Elsawi, Zainab Alnoamani Peter Yarsky, Raymond Skarda, Thomas Boyle Advanced and Small Modular Reactor Designs II - Ram Organized by: Massimiliano FRATONI University of California, Berkeley, Won Sik YANG, Purdue University and Takanori KITADA, Osaka University Chairs: Renae LENHOF, NuScale Power and Frederik REITSMA, International Atomic Energy Agency 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:50 New Small Long-Cycle PWR Core using Particle Burnable Poisons for Boron-Free Operation Evaluation of the Safety and Breeding Performance of a Heterogeneous Fuel Assembly Design for a Metal Fueled SFR A Molten Salt Reactor Study for the Transmutation of all German Transuranium in the Frame of the Nuclear Phase Out Lattice Physics Sensitivity Studies for Thorium-Based Fuels in Pressure Tube Heavy Water Reactors Analysis of Reverse Flow Restriction Device to Prevent Fuel Dryout During Boiling Water Reactor Instability Hoseong Yoo, Ser Gi Hong, Dae hee hwang, Ho Cheol Shin Bruno Rudi Merk, K. Devan, A. Bachchan, D. Paul, P. Puthiyavinayagam, G. Srinivasan Bruno Rudi Merk, Litskevich Dzianis Blair P. Bromley, Owen Collins, Ashlea Colton Majdi Ibrahim Radaideh, Tomasz Kozlowski, Yousef M. Farawila Wednesday 1:30-3:35 PM Reactor Analysis Methods V - Limelight C Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Sonat SEN, Idaho National Laboratory and Frederik REITSMA, International Atomic Energy Agency 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 A New Stochastic Acceleration Scheme for the Monte Carlo Method On the Characteristics of Transfer Matrix of Generalized Modified Power Method Improved Resonance Self-Shielding Method Considering Resonance Scattering Effect On the Iterative Convergence of the Integral Transport Matrix Method in Two-Dimensional Geometry for the Diamond Difference Method Acceleration of Discrete Ordinates Calculations using Parallel Partial Current Rebalance Algorithm and Algebraic Multigrid Solver 40 Inhyung Kim, Yonghee Kim Peng Zhang, Hyunsuk Lee, Deokjung Lee Sooyoung Choi, Changho Lee, Deokjung Lee Dylan Hoagland, Yousry Y. Azmy, R. Joseph Zerr Tangpei Cheng, Zeyao Mo, Junxia Wei, Guangchun Zhang, Huayun Shen, Li Deng WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Fast Reactors II - Camas Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Florent HEIDET, Argonne National Laboratory and Valentyn BYKOV, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Passive Safety Characteristics of Stationary Liquid Fuel Fast Reactor (SLFFR) Development of the DARWIN3-SFR Fuel Cycle Tool for Decay Heat Calculations in New Generation Fast Reactors Long-Life Small Modular Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Core Design with Breed-And-Burn Strategy Impact of Energy Capacity Growth on Continuous Recycle Fuel Cycles Based on Fast Critical Reactors Axial Fuel Rod Expansion Model in Nodal Code DYN3D for SFR Application Tian Jing, Yeon Sang Jung, Won Sik Yang Claire Vaglio-Gaudard, Pierre Bellier, Laurent Buiron, Sebastien Lahaye, Jean-Francois Lebrat, Philippe Miranda, Benedicte Roque, Aime Tsilanizara Jinsu Park, Taewoo Tak, Jiwon Choe, Yongjin Jeong, Deokjung Lee, T. K. Kim Florent HEIDET, Taek Kyum Kim, Temitope A. Taiwo Evgeny Nikitin, Emil Fridman Verification and Validation of Reactor Analysis Methods III - Columbine Organized by: Geoff PARKS Cambridge University and Temitope TAIWO Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Brendan KOCHUNAS, University of Michigan and Piero RAVETTO, Politecnico di Torino 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 Reactor Physics Benchmark Suite Development for Nuclear Analysis Codes and Methods Validations in Traveling Wave Reactor Applications Validation of Decay Heat Evaluation Method Based on FPGS Code for Fast Reactor Spent MOX Fuels Neutronic Assessment of TRISO Particle Fuels in a Small Fluoride Salt-Cooled HighTemperature Reactor Validation of MOSRA-SRAC for Burnup of a BWR Fuel Assembly Verification and Validation of the Tetrahedral Grid Radiation Transport Code THOR Based on the Advanced Test Reactor Benchmark 41 Zhiwen Xu, Mark S. Onufer, Nicholas W. Touran Shin Usami, Yasufumi Kishimoto, Hiroshi Taninaka, Shigetaka Maeda Hassan Mohamed, Benjamin Andrew Lindley, Geoffrey Thomas Parks, Jaakko I. Leppanen Kensuke Kojima Raffi A. Yessayan, Yousry Y. Azmy Sebastian Schunert, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Recent Developments in Monte Carlo Codes and Methods III - Sawtooth Organized by: Jaakko LEPPÄNEN, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Chairs: David GRIESHEIMER, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory and Jaakko LEPPÄNEN, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 10:10 10:35 11:00 11:25 11:40 Improved Weight Window Variance Reduction for Coupled Radiation Monte Carlo Transport Calculations The Mutual Information of the Fission Source in Eigenvalue Calculations Equipping OpenMC for the Big Data Era Using Normality Tests to Assess the Validity of Monte Carlo Confidence Intervals Recent Advancements of Reactor Monte Carlo Code RMC David P. Griesheimer, Brian Robert Nease Brian C. Kiedrowski, Charles D. Corbin William R. Boyd, Paul Romano, Sterling Harper Thomas M. Sutton, Jason Haverkamp Kan Wang, Jingang Liang, Shichang Liu, Xiaotong Shang, Xiao Fan, Yi Shu Qiu, Feng Yang, Qicang Shen, Ganglin Yu Finite Element Methods for Reactor Analysis - Boiler Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Sebastian SCHUNERT, Idaho National Laboratory and Liliane BARICHELLO, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 A Flexible Nonlinear Diffusion Acceleration Method for the First Order Eigenvalue Sn Equations Discretized with Discontinuous FEM Least-Squares PN Formulation of the Transport Equation Using Self-Adjoint-Angular-Flux Consistent Boundary Conditions Asymptotic Preserving Least Square PN Methods of Transport Equation Hybrid Pn-Sn Calculations with SAAF for the Multiscale Transport Capability in Rattlesnake Comparisons of the Finite-Element-withDiscontiguous-Support Method to ContinuousEnergy Monte Carlo for Pin-cell Problems Sebastian Schunert, Yaqi Wang, Javier Ortensi, Frederick N. Gleicher, Benjamin A. Baker, Mark D. DeHart, Richard C. Martineau Vincent Laboure, Yaqi Wang, Mark D. DeHart Weixiong Zheng, Ryan G. McClarren Sebastian Schunert, Yaqi Wang, Mark D. DeHart, Richard C. Martineau Andrew T. Till, Milan Hanus, Jijie Lou, Jim E. Morel, Marvin L. Adams Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis V - Lupine Organized by: Cristian RABITI Idaho National Laboratory and Hany ABDEL-KHALIK, Purdue University Chairs: Andrea ALFONSI, Idaho National Laboratory and Maria PUSA, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 1:30 Impact of Nuclear Data Uncertainties on the Performance of the Advanced Burner Reactor 42 Nicolas E. Stauff, J. Shi, G. Aliberti, T. S. Sumner, K. Ivanov, T. K. Kim WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 The Contribution of Cross-section Uncertainties to Pebble Bed Reactor Eigenvalues Results: IAEA Cooperative Research project Phase I Standalone Neutronics The Bumpy Road to Code Validation Including Correlations A Perturbation Analysis Scheme in WIMS Using Transport Theory Flux Solutions OECD/NEA Intercomparison of Deterministic and Monte Carlo Cross-Section Sensitivity Codes Using SNEAK-7 Benchmarks Frederik Reitsma, Wonkyeong Kim Elisabeth Peters, Maik Stuke, Fabian Sommer Glynn Hosking, Tim Newton, Peter Smith, Richard Hiles, Ben Lindley Ivan Alexander Kodeli, Victor Mastrangelo, Evgeny A. Ivanov, Alexander Aures, Winfried Zwermann, Manuele Aufiero, Yannick Peneliau, Kostadin N. Ivanov, Enrico Sartori Advanced and Small Modular Reactor Designs III - Ram Organized by: Massimiliano FRATONI University of California, Berkeley, Won Sik YANG, Purdue University and Takanori KITADA, Osaka University Chairs: Renae LENHOF, NuScale Power and Ronald Ellis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1:30 1:55 2:20 2:45 3:10 In-Core Fuel Management Optimization for Breed-and-Burn Reactors with 3D Fuel Shuffling Analysis of the Coolant Density Reactivity Coefficient in LFRS And SFRS via Monte Carlo Perturbation/Sensitivity Hot Assembly and Whole-Core ThermalHydraulic Analysis of a High Power Density Marine Core with Neutronic/ThermalHydraulic Coupling Neutronic Performance of High Power Density Marine Propulsion Cores using UO2 and Micro-Heterogeneous THO2-UO2 Duplex Fuels Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated Fuel for Space Reactor Applications Jia Hou, Staffan A. Qvist, Ehud Greenspan, Roger Kellogg Manuele Aufiero, Michael V. Martin, Massimiliano Fratoni, Emil Fridman, Stefano Lorenzi Syed Bahauddin Alam, Geoffrey T. Parks, Benjamin A. Lindley Syed Bahauddin Bahauddin Alam, Benjamin A. Lindley, Geoffrey T. Parks Benjamin R. Betzler, Jeffrey Powers Wednesday 4:00-5:40 PM Full Core Analysis Methods III - Boiler Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: Benjamin CHASE, Idaho National Laboratory and Wei SHEN, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission 4:00 4:25 4:50 High Flux Isotope Reactor Core Analysis - Challenges and Recent Enhancements in Modeling and Simulation Investigation of the Bias Coming from Spectrum Corrections in the Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Transients Void Reactivity (Cmn) Coefficients as Indicators of Boiling Water Reactor Stability 43 Germina Ilas, Benjamin R. Betzler, David Chandler, Eva E. Sunny Christophe Demaziere Victor Dykin, Christophe Demaziere WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 5:15 Development of Hodoscope-Reactor Core Model for TREAT Transient Testing Logan M. Scott, Samuel E. Bays Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations VI - Limelight C Organized by: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cassiano DE OLIVEIRA, Unviersity of New Mexico and Mark DeHART Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Manuele AUFIERO, University of California, Berkeley and Christophe DEMAZIÈRE, Chalmers University 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Stability and Near-Optimal Underrelaxation of Coupled Reactor Physics Calculations Assessment of Pellet-Clad Interaction Indicators in Watts Bar Unit 1 Using VERA Assessment of Thermal Hydraulic Feedback Models Analysis of Large Core Neutronics by the Monte Carlo Method Coupled with Thermal Hydraulics Justin M. Pounders Shane Stimpson, Jeffrey Powers, Kevin T. Clarno, Roger P. Pawlowski, Ryan Bratton Aaron M. Graham, Benjamin S. Collins, Robert Salko, Scott Palmtag, Thomas J. Downar Nicole Simone Guilliard, W. Bernnat, J. Lapins, W. Zwermann, I. Pasichnyk, Y. Perin, K. Velkov Reactor Operation and Control - Sawtooth Organized by: Katherin GOLUOGLU, Syzygy Solutions and Akira TOKUHIRO, Purdue University Chairs: Yousry GOHAR, Argonne National Laboratory and (TBD) 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 On-Line Monitoring Analysis of BEAVRS Benchmark using NECP-ONION Dead Time Corrections using the Backward Extrapolation Technique Self-Monitoring Fission Chamber: Theoretical Groundwork Development of Reactor Control Algorithm for Thai Research Reactor Zhuo LI, Hongchun Wu, Liangzhi Cao, Chao Tian, Dingyong Chen Chen Dubi, Benoit Geslot, Patric Blaise, Assaf Kolin, Hannaia Attedgui, Erez Gilad Zsolt Elter, Philippe Filliatre, Gregoire de Izarra, Christian Jammes, Imre Pazsit Chanatip Tippayakul, Saensuk Wetchagarun Nodal Methods for Reactor Analysis II - Camas Organized by: Thomas DOWNAR, University of Michigan and Kent WELTER, NuScale Power Chairs: Kang-Seog KIM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Marjan KROMAR, Institut ”Jozef Stefan” 4:00 4:25 4:50 Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Variational Nodal Method for PWR Pin-by-pin Calculation and Control Rod Cusping Effect A Hybrid Constant Spectral Nodal Method for Multigroup X,Y-Geometry Sn Eigenvalue Problems Investigation of Rehomogenization in the Framework of Nodal Cross Section Corrections 44 Yongping Wang, Hongchun Wu, Yunzhao Li Davi Jose M. Silva, Hermes Alves Filho, Ricardo C. Barros Matteo Gamarino, Daniele Tomatis, Aldo Dall’Osso, Danny Lathouwers, Jan Leen Kloosterman, T.H.J.J. van der Hagen WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 5:15 A Hybrid Nodal P3/SP3 Axial Transport Solver for the MPACT 2D/1D Scheme Shane Stimpson, Benjamin S. Collins, Ang Zhu, Yunlin Xu Nuclear Data, Evaluations & Libraries V - Columbine Organized by: Luiz LEAL, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Ayman HAWARI, North Carolina State University and Go CHIBA, Hokkaido University Chairs: Paul ROMANO, Argonne National Laboratory and Go CHIBA, Hokkaido University 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Neutron Thermalization in Liquid FLiBe Study of Neutron Scattering in Light Water in Mistral Experiments Carried Out in EOLE Reactor at CEA Cadarache A New R-Matrix Evaluation for 16O from Thermal to 6 MeV Impact of Nuclear Data Uncertainties on Criticality Calculations of the Very High Temperature Reactor Critical Assembly Benchmark Y. Zhu, Ayman I. Hawari Juan Pablo Scotta, Gilles Noguere, David Bernard, Cyrille De Saint Jean, Ignacio Marquez Damian Luiz C. Leal, Evgeny A. Ivanov, Cecil Lubitz, Royce Sayer Friederike Bostelmann, Hans R. Hammer, Gerhard Strydom, Kiril Velkov, Winfried Zwermann Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis VI - Lupine Organized by: Cristian RABITI Idaho National Laboratory and Hany ABDEL-KHALIK, Purdue University Chairs: Andrea ALFONSI, Idaho National Laboratory and Kenji YOKOYAMA, Japan Atomic Energy Agency 4:00 4:25 4:50 5:15 Scalable Algorithms for Uncertainty Quantification of Multi-Physics Light Water Reactor Problems with Feedback Effects Uncertainty Quantification for Full-core Steady-state PWR Core Simulation with SCALE and PARCS MCNP6.1 + JANIS Method to Generate P1 Sensitivity Coefficient Data to Identify ICSBEP Experiments Sensitive To Angular Scattering Validation of SIMULATE-3k Against SPERTIII RIA Experiments with Quantification of Nuclear Data Uncertainties 45 Bassam A. Khuwaileh, Paul J. Turinsky Haining Zhou, Matthew A. Jessee, Andrew M. Ward, Thomas J. Downar Ian P. Hill, James Dyrda, Nicolas Soppera Abdelhamid Dokhane, Gerardo M. Grandi, Olivier Leray, Dimitri Alexandre Rochman, Hakim Ferroukhi, A. Pautz THURSDAY MORNING Advanced and Small Modular Reactor Designs IV - Ram Organized by: Massimiliano FRATONI University of California, Berkeley, Won Sik YANG, Purdue University and Takanori KITADA, Osaka University Chairs: Nicholas TOURAN TerraPower and (TBD) 4:00 A Versatile Coupled Thermal-Fast Irradiation Test Reactor 4:25 Modeling and Simulation of the Start-Up of a Thorium-Based Molten Salt Reactor Thorium RBWR Physics 4:50 5:15 Multi-Physics, Multi-Scale Modeling of the Xe100 Pebble Bed Reactor Gilles J. Youinou, Sonat Sen, Roald Wigeland, Massimo Salvatores, Giuseppe Palmiotti, David J. Hill, Paul Henslee, Hans D. Gougar, Phillip J. Finck Benjamin R. Betzler, Jeffrey Powers, Andrew Worrall Phillip M. Gorman, Massimiliano Fratoni, Jasmina L. Vujic, Ehud Greenspan Eben J. Mulder and Zen Wang Thursday 8:00-10:05 AM Experiments IV - Sawtooth Organized by: John BESS Idaho National Laboratory, Arzu ALPAN, Westinghouse Electric Company and Cheolho PYEON, Kyoto University Chairs: George IMEL Idaho State University and Luka SNOJ Institut ”Jozef Stefan” 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 9:40 Experimental Validation of Control Rod Reactivity Worth and Fission Rate Distributions for the CROCUS Reactor Experimental Validation of A Monte Carlo Based Toolbox for Self-Powered Neutron and Gamma Detector Simulation in the OSIRIS MTR Validation of the Fast and Thermal Neutron Flux Profiles in the Advanced Test Reactor for the AGR-3/4 Experiment Physics Validation Measurements for HighlyReactive Experiment Packages In the INL Advanced Test Reactor Study of Experimental Core Configuration of the Modified STACY for Reactivity Worth Measurement of MCCI Products 46 Adolfo Rais, Mathieu Hursin, Gregory Perret, A. Pautz Loic Barbot Vladimir Radulovic, Christophe Destouches, Jean-Francois Villard, Veronique Dewynter-Marty, Fadhel Malouch, Franck Lopez James W. Sterbentz David W. Nigg, Joseph W. Nielsen Satoshi Gunji, Kotaro Tonoike, Kazuhiko Izawa, Hiroki Sono THURSDAY MORNING Fast Reactors III - Camas Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: Nicoloas STAUFF, Argonne National Laboratory and Gérald RIMPAULT, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 9:40 Validation of the Newly Implemented 3D TDTMOC Solver of APOLLO3 Code on a Whole 3D SFR Heterogeneous Assembly Recent Progress in the V&V of the New CEA APOLLO3® Code : Advanced SFR/LWR Assembly Calculations Experimental Validation of the New Code Package APOLLO3-SFR Against ZPPR-10a Experiment for Critical and Voided Configurations New Reference APOLLO3 Calculation Scheme for Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors: from Sub-Assembly to Full-Core Calculations SIMMER/PARTISN Analyses of EBR-II Shutdown Heat Removal Tests Pascal Archier, Jean-Marc Palau, JeanFrancois Vidal, Simone Santandrea, Daniele Sciannandrone Jean-Marc Palau, Pascal Archier, JeanFrancois Vidal, Benedicte Roque, Vincent Pascal, Gerald Rimpault, Fabien Auffret, Didier Schneider, Valentin Jouault Benedicte Roque, Axel Rizzo Pascal Archier Vincent Pascal Pascal Archier, Jean-Marc Palau, JeanFrancois Vidal, Vincent Pascal, Gerald Rimpault, Benedicte Roque, Simone Santandrea Barbara Vezzoni, Marco Marchetti, Lena Andriolo, Fabrizio Gabrielli, Xue-Nong Chen, Claudia Matzerath Boccaccini, Andrei Rineiski, Werner Maschek, Koji Morita, Tatsumi Arima Multi-Physics Reactor Simulations VII - Limelight C Organized by: Wei JI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cassiano DE OLIVEIRA, Unviersity of New Mexico and Mark DeHART Idaho National Laboratory Chairs: Frederick GLEICHER, Idaho National Laboratory and Marjan KROMAR, Institut ”Jozef Stefan” 8:00 VERA Benchmarking Results for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 1 Cycles 1-12 8:25 VERA Benchmarking Results for Krško Nuclear Power Plant Cycle 1 8:50 First Steps Towards a Coupled Code System for Transient Calculations Coupled CASMO5-VIPRE Analysis of NonUniform Void Distributions in BWR Lattices 9:15 47 Andrew Godfrey, Benjamin S. Collins, KangSeog Kim, Jeffrey Powers, Robert K. Salko, Shane Stimpson, William Wieselquist, Kevin T. Clarno, Jess C. Gehin, Scott P. Palmtag, Robert O. Montgomery, Rose Montgomery, Daniel R. Jabaay, Brendan M. Kochunas, Thomas J. Downar, Nathan A. Capps, Jeffrey R. Secker Andrew Godfrey, Matthew A. Jessee, Shane Stimpson, Benjamin S. Collins, Thomas M. Evans, Marjan Kromar, Fausto Franceschini, David A. Salazar Christian Reiter, Harald Breitkreutz, Anton Röhrmoser, Winfried Petry Joshua Hykes, Gerardo M. Grandi, Rodolfo M. Ferrer, Joel D. Rhodes THURSDAY MORNING Reactor Analysis Methods VI - Boiler Organized by: Thomas SUTTON, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Deokjung LEE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Chairs: David NIGG, Idaho National Laboratory and Eugene SHWAGERAUS, Cambridge University 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 9:40 Development and Optimization of Weight Window technique in RMC code On the Mechanisms of Large Amplitude Power Oscillations in BWRs Reducing 3D MOC Storage Requirements with Axial On-the-Fly Ray Tracing Analysis of Pressurized Water Reactor Pin-byPin Homogenization GENESIS - A Transport Solver in ThreeDimensional Heterogeneous Geometry Based on the LEAF Method Xiao Fan, Kan Wang, Guohui Zhang Carsten Lange, Dieter Hennig Geoffrey A. Gunow, Samuel C. Shaner, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith Zhang Bin, Hongchun Wu, Yunzhao Li, Liangzhi Cao Akio Yamamoto, Akinori Giho, Yuki Kato, Tomohiro Endo Monte Carlo Methods - Columbine Organized by: William MARTIN, University of Michigan and Yousry AZMY, North Carolina State University Chairs: Qiong ZHANG, Baker Hughes and Hyung Jin SHIM, Seoul National University 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 9:40 Continuous Temperature Representation in Coupled OpenMC/MOOSE Simulations Extension of Modified Power Method to MultiDimensional Monte Carlo Simulations The Application of JMCT to HZP of BEAVRS Neutron Streaming Investigations with Classic and Hybrid Monte Carlo Variance Reduction Methods for the AGN-211-P Research Reactor in Basel Computing Adjoint-Weighted Parameters with Reactor Monte Carlo Code RMC Matthew S. Ellis, Derek R. Gaston, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith Peng Zhang, Hyunsuk Lee, Deokjung Lee Dunfu Shi, Li Gang, Zhang Baoyin, Li Rui, Hu Zehua, Fu Yuanguang Efstathios Vlassopoulos, Valentyn Bykov, Daniel Siefman, Benjamin Volmert, Manuel Pantelias Yishu Qiu, Kan Wang, Massimiliano Fratoni Verification and Validation of Reactor Analysis Methods IV - Ram Organized by: Geoff PARKS Cambridge University and Temitope TAIWO Argonne National Laboratory Chairs: Benjamin COLLINS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Maria PUSA, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 8:00 8:25 Re-Analysis of the RRR/SEG Fast Thermal Coupled Facility Analysis of NCA Tungsten Critical Experiment by New Monte Carlo Code 48 Andrew Hummel Hanjoo Kim, Kiho Kim, Sooyoung Choi, Hyunsuk Lee, Deokjung Lee THURSDAY MORNING 8:50 9:15 9:40 OECD-NEA Expert Group on Multi-Physics Experimental data, Benchmarks and Validation Analyses of AP1000 First Core with Direct Whole Core Calculation Codes Analysis and Interpretation of the KUCA ADS Benchmarks with Deterministic Analysis Codes James Dyrda, Phillip J. Finck, Nigel (Jim) T. Gulliford, jean-pascal hudelot, Upendra Singh Rohatgi, Timothy E. Valentine Hyunsik Hong, Young Suk Ban, Han Gyu Joo, David A. Salazar, Fausto Franceschini Willem F. van Rooijen, Go Chiba, Tomohiro Endo, Cheolho Pyeon Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis VII - Lupine Organized by: Cristian RABITI Idaho National Laboratory and Hany ABDEL-KHALIK, Purdue University Chairs: Cristian RABITI, Idaho National Laboratory and Kenji YOKOYAMA, Japan Atomic Energy Agency 8:00 8:25 8:50 9:15 9:40 Nuclear Data Uncertainty Propagation Analysis for PWR Depletion Calculation Development of DRAG-MOC: a Tool for the Study of Uncertainty Analysis Through the Deterministic OpenMOC Transport Code Criticality Uncertainty Calculations on Manufacturing Random Parameters for the Benchmark Problem Multistep Input Reduction for High Dimensional Uncertainty Quantification Verification of the New Implementations in SHARK-X For Reactivity Coefficients and Relative Reactivity Worth UQ Thursday 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Awards and Closing - Limelight A & B 10:30 11:00 11:30 11:40 Awards and Special Recognition Meeting Summary Announcements for M&C 2017 Other 49 Liangzhi Cao, Chao Yang, Tiejun Zu, Hongchun Wu Augusto Hernandez Solis, Henrik Sjostrand, Erwin Alhassan, Petter Helgesson Gill Soo Lee, Taesuk Hwang Paul W. Talbot, Congjian Wang, Cristian Rabiti Mathieu Hursin, Dan Siefman, Gregory Perret, Peter Grimm, Andreas Pautz Exhibition Hall Map 1 Idaho National Laboratory 2 Idaho National Laboratory 3 Studsvik 4 TerraPower 5 Argonne National Laboratory 6 Oak Ridge National Laboratory 7 Westinghouse 8 University of Michigan 9 Varian Medical Systems 10 Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology 11Unassigned 12 Idaho National Laboratory