Professional Women in ANS and Women in Nuclear Mixer

Thursday 5:30-6:30pm, Sponsored by Duke Energy

The Professional Women in ANS (PWANS) and Women in Nuclear (WiN) Region III will be having a mixer at the hotel on Thursday evening 5:30pm-6:30pm. The mixer will be an opportunity for professionals and students to meet, mingle and establish relationships that can be further developed throughout the conference. Attendees do not have to be current members of PWANS or WiN nor is participation limited to women.

The mentoring golf tournament will be held Thursday morning.

For course information see this flyer.

• An entrance fee of $30 must be paid by all applicants with conference registration, though we anticipate that students will be reimbursed.
• Includes greens fee, breakfast, lunch at the turn, and one cart rental per pair.
• Please bring clubs if possible (club rental may be up to $40).
• 18 holes, everyone starts at same time, 9:00 am. Lasts max 6 hours.
• 4-Man Scramble style play
• Teams of 4 based on student-mentor interests and skill-level.

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory tour

Sunday 10:00-3:00

Attendees will have the option of attending a tour of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The NSCL is a world leader in rare isotope research, as well as fundamental nuclear science, nuclear astrophysics, and accelerator physics. The lab operates two superconducting cyclotrons, one of which was the world's first cyclotron to use superconducting magnets and the other is the highest-energy continuous beam accelerator in the country.

Cook Nuclear Power Plant tour

Sunday 7:00-5:00

Alternately, on Sunday the attendees have the option of a tour of Cook Nuclear Power Plant, located on 650 acres along Lake Michigan's eastern shore near Bridgman, Michigan. Cook is a two unit Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR) power plant owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. The plant is an integral part of the regional economy, providing employment for 1000 people and electricity for over one and one half million homes. Conference attendees on the tour will see the Cook Energy Center as well as plant facilities. The tour highlights include the opportunity to simulate operations in the reactor control room and learning how to properly don radiation protection suits.

Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion Technology for Space Exploration

Friday 10:45-12:15

Experts from the Idaho National Laboratory, Center for Space Nuclear Research, and NASA will present current research and applications for existing space nuclear technology as well as the missions enabled by envisioned systems.

PARCS Workshop: Nuclear Reactor Simulation

Taught by the developers, Prof. T. Downar and his group

This two and half hour workshop will discuss the methods and conduct hands on applications of the U.S. NRC advanced reactor simulation code PARCS, which is currently used by over 50 analysis and research groups around the world for the analysis of Light Water, Heavy Water, Gas, and Sodium Reactors. The workshop will begin with a discussion of the multigroup nodal neutronics methods in PARCS and the methods used to parameterize multigroup cross sections from the various lattice physics codes. The discussion will include the various thermal-fluids codes currently coupled to PARCS to include the U.S. NRC LWR codes RELAP5, TRACE, and the HTR thermal-fluids code AGREE.

Applications will include:

• Analysis of the OECD/NEA PWR control rod ejection benchmark
• Analysis of the OECD/NEA PWR Main Steam Line Break benchmark
• Analysis of the OECD/NEA PBMR-400 benchmark

The students are encouraged to bring their own laptop in order to participate in the applications.

MAVRIC Tutorial: New Shielding Methods in SCALE

Taught by the developer, Dr. Douglas Peplow

This three-hour demonstration/tutorial will highlight the automated variance reduction capabilities of the MAVRIC sequence using several simple example shielding problems. To optimize a given tally, MAVRIC first computes an importance map and biased source distribution based on the results of approximate discrete ordinates calculations using the new Denovo SN code. The importance map and biased source are then used by the Monte Carlo functional module Monaco to compute that tally much more efficiently than an analog calculation.

Examples will include:

• calculating dose near a spent fuel cask,
• calculating a dose contour map from an array of storage casks, and
• calculating the doses at the detectors of a criticality accident alarm system.

This last example uses a fission distribution computed by KENO-VI as the source term for MAVRIC. Registered SCALE users are welcome to bring their own laptop and follow along.

Workshop on Irradiation Testing and Planning

Presented by Idaho National Laboratory, Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility

A workshop on the basics of executing and planning of irradiation experiments. This workshop is intended to give current and future scientists and engineers an introduction and an appreciation of the process by which irradiation experiments are planned and executed. The following topics will be covered:

• Basics of irradiation damage and corrosion in reactor materials and nuclear fuels
• Introduction to irradiation test reactors and their capabilities
• Basics of experiment planning, design, and conduct
• Basics of post-irradiation examination

The intended audience is for current/future materials scientists or nuclear engineers interested in design, fabrication, irradiation, and post-irradiation examination of nuclear fuels and materials.