2017 Annual Meeting

RPSD Presentations – San Francisco, CA, June 11-15, 2017

RPSD: General

• Reconstructing Solar Particle Event Spectra from Absorbed Dose Measurements, Amir A. Bahadori, Jeremy A. Roberts (Kansas State.), Martin Kroupa (Leidos), Dan J. Fry (NASA Johnson Space Center)
• Initial Modeling of Urban Search Measurements, Douglas E. Peplow, Mathew W. Swinney, Gregory G. Davidson, Andrew D. Nicholson, Bruce W. Patton (ORNL)
• Characterization of NORM in an Urban Environment using HPGe Measurements and MCNP6 Simulations, Mathew W. Swinney, Douglas E. Peplow, Andrew D. Nicholson (ORNL)
• Absolute Dosimetry Model of the University of Washington Clinical Neutron Therapy System (CNTS), Gregory Moffitt (Univ. Utah), Robert Stewart, George Sandison (Univ. Washington), Tatjana Jevremovic (Univ. Utah)
• Validation of Methodology to Simulate Gamma Doses from Historical Weapons Tests, Thomas M. Miller, Bruce W. Patton (ORNL)
• Latent Effects of Radiation on Li-ion Batteries in Robots, Chuting Tan, Nicholas H. Bashian, Chase W. Hemmelgarn, Wesley J. Thio, Daniel J. Lyons, Yuan F. Zheng, Lei R. Cao, Anne C. Co (Ohio State)

Computational Tool for Radiation Protection and Shielding

• Neutron & Gamma Correlations using CGM in MCNP 6.2.0, C. A. Anderson, G. W. McKinney, J. R. Tutt (LANL)
• New Features of TRIPOLI-4® Version 10, The TRIPOLI-4® Project Team: Fadhel Malouch, Emeric Brun, Cheikh Diop, François-Xavier Hugot, Cédric Jouanne, Yi-Kang Lee, Fausto Malvagi, Davide Mancusi, Alain Mazzolo, Odile Petit, Jean-Christophe Trama, Thierry Visonneau and Andrea Zoia (CEA)
• Testing Nesting DXTRAN Spheres for Neutron Transport in Air, M. L. Fensin, K. C. Kelley, J. S. Hendricks, B. W. Cox, J. T. Goorley, S. S. McCready (LANL)
• Speed and Memory Improvements to MCNP6 Delayed-Gamma Line Treatment, J. R. Tutt, G. W. McKinney (LANL) [presentation not available online]
• Using the MCNP6.2 Correlated Fission Multiplicity Models, CGMF and FREYA, Michael E. Rising, Avneet Sood (LANL)
• Enhanced Monte Carlo Simulation of the Voxel Phantom Lattice Submersed in a Contaminated Air Environment, Ken Veinot (Easterly Scientific & Y-12 National Security Complex), Shaheen A. Dewji, Mauritius Hiller (ORNL), Keith Eckerman, Clay Easterly (Easterly Scientific)

Highlights of RPSD-2016 / ICRS-13 – I

• Improvements in Electron-Photon-Relaxation Data for MCNP6, H. Grady Hughes and David A. Dixon (LANL) [presentation not available online]
• Activation Calculation for the Dismantling and Decommissioning of a Light Water Reactor Using MCNP™ with ADVANTG and ORIGEN-S, Luc Schlömer, Sven Tittelbach, Peter-W. Phlippen, Roger Vallentin (WTI GmbH), Bernard Lukas (EnBW Kernkraft GmbH)
• Generation of an Activation Map for Decommissioning Planning of the Berlin Experimental Reactor-II, Nicole Guilliard, Janis Lapins, Wolfgang Bernnat (Univ. Stuttgart – IKE)
• Neutron-Gamma Flux and Dose Calculations in a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), Mariya Brovchenko, Benjamin Dechenaux (IRSN), Kenneth Burn, Patrizio Console Camprini (ENEA), Isabelle Duhamel (IRSN), Arthur Peron (Contractor)

Highlights of RPSD-2016 / ICRS-13 – II

• Evaluation of RAPID for a UNF Cask Benchmark Problem, Valerio Mascolino, Alireza Haghighat (Virginia Tech), Nathan J. Roskoff (Virginia Polytechnic Inst and State Univ.)
• Radiological Shielding Design for the Neutron Backscattering Spectrometer EMU, Mark Ho, T. Ersez, F. Esposto, N. R. de Souza (ANSTO)
• Feasibility Study on Real-Time γ-Ray Spectrum / Dose Measurement System, Mina Kobayashi, Fuminobu Sato, Isao Murata (Osaka Univ.)
• Using the MCNP Taylor Series Perturbation Feature (Efficiently) for Shielding Problems, Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL)

Neutronics Challenges of Fusion Facilities – I

• Overview of Nuclear Integration Activities for Mitigation of Radiation Loads to ITER Superconducting Magnets, Raul Pampin, Dieter Leichtle, Marco Fabbri (Fusion for Energy), Rafael Juarez, Aljaz Kolsek (UNED), Michael Loughlin, Neil Mitchell, Eduard Polunovskiy (ITER), Shanliang Zheng (CCFE)
• Investigations into Alternative Radiation Transport Codes for ITER Neutronics Analysis, Andrew Turner (UK Atomic Energy Authority)
• Development of the Advanced D1S for Shutdown Dose Rate Calculations in Fusion Reactors, Rosaria Villari, Davide Flammini, Fabio Moro (ENEA), Luigino Petrizzi (European Commission)
• Development of Fusion Neutronics Methodology, Software, and Testing Facility in FDS Team, Yican Wu, Jing Song, Pengcheng Long, Liqin Hu, Chao Liu, FDS Team (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Simulation of the Prompt Dose Environment in the NIF during High Yield Shots, Hesham Y. Khater, Sandra Brereton (LLNL)

Neutronics Challenges of Fusion Facilities – II

• Integration of the ITER Tokamak C-Model with the Building Model, Jinan Yang, Stephen C. Wilson, Scott W. Mosher (ORNL)
• How to Reduce Shutdown Dose Rates in ITER Diagnostics Equatorial Ports, R. Juarez (UNED), J. Guirao (ITER Organization), A. Kolsek (UNED), Kochergin (Fircroft Engineering Services Ltd.), G. Pedroche, A. J. López-Revelles (UNED), V. Udintsev, L. Bertalot (ITER Organization), M. Ivantsky Budker (Inst. of Nuclear Physics), A. Zonkov, A. Alexandrov (Project Center ITER), J. Sanz (UNED), M. Walsh (ITER Organization) [presentation not available online]
• ITER Neutronic Challenges for Upper Port 14, Jonathan P. Klabacha, Brian C Linn, Russell E. Feder (PPPL)
• Neutronics Analysis for ITER Diagnostic Generic Upper Port Plug, A. Serikov (KIT), L. Bertalot (ITER Organization), U. Fischer (KIT), R. Juarez (ETSII-UNED), M. Walsh (ITER Organization)