WONDER 2023 : 6th International Workshop On Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor applications

from Monday 5 June 2023 (12:00) to Friday 9 June 2023 (16:10)
Hôtel Aquabella d'Aix-en-Provence

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023
9 Jun 2023
AM
09:00
Microscopic and integral nuclear data measurements - Gilles Noguere (CEA Cadarache) (until 10:30)
09:00 Study of 149Sm capture and total cross sections for burnup credit applications - Athanasios Stamatopoulos (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))  
09:30 Study of (n,α) reactions of interest for nuclear energy - Aurélien CHEVALIER  
09:50 Validation of the Monte-Carlo efficiency calculation of the LOENIEv2 long counter for delayed neutron measurements - Pierre LECONTE (CEA)  
10:10 Sample Worth Measurement of Calcium Hydride - Prof. Jun-ichi Hori (Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Nuclear fission - Olivier Litaize (until 12:30)
11:00 Dependence of total kinetic energy of fission fragments as functions of excitation energy and neutron excess for U and Pu isotopes - Satoshi Chiba (Tokyo Institute of Technology)  
11:30 Revisiting prompt emission of 252Cf(SF) with focus on post-neutron fragment distributions and different correlations - Anabella Tudora  
12:00 Energy Dependence of Prompt Fission Neutron Multiplicity in the 239Pu(n, f ) Reaction - Paola Marini (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
09:00
Theory - Mikael Frosini (CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, SPRC, LEPh) (until 10:00)
09:00 Theoretical study of forbidden non-unique beta transitions - Xavier Mougeot  
09:30 Systematic large scale Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation calculations with Relativistic and Chiral interactions - Luis González-Miret Zaragoza (Université Paris-Saclay, CEA)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Evaluation of nuclear data - Helmut Leeb (TU Wien (AT)) (until 11:30)
10:30 Update of the CIELO U238 resonance evaluation to improve LWR performance with burnup and LEU lattice criticality - Roberto Capote Noy (IAEA)  
11:00 Looking for one integral reference for the (n,f) reaction in actinides above 1 MeV - Dr Ignacio Duran (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain))  
11:30 --- Lunch break ---
09:00
Evaluation of nuclear data - Roberto Capote (International Atomic Energy Agency) (until 10:30)
09:00 Contribution to the JEFF project - Carlos Paradela  
09:30 Direct radiative capture calculations on 56Fe - Georgios Gkatis  
09:50 Ongoing developments at the Decay Data Evaluation Project - Sylvain Leblond (CEA Saclay)  
10:10 Evaluation of nuclear data using the Half Monte Carlo technique - Erik Andersson Sundén (Uppsala University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sweden)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Evaluation of nuclear data - Goran Arbanas (ORNL) (until 12:30)
11:00 Progress towards the ENDF/B-VIII.1 release - Gustavo Nobre (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
11:30 A Nuclear Data Evaluation Pipeline for the Fast Neutron Energy Range - using heteroscedastic Gaussian processes to treat model defects - Dr Alf Göök (Uppsala University)  
12:00 Challenges in Nuclear Data Evaluations of Light Nuclear Systems - Helmut Leeb (Vienna University of Technology (AT))  
09:00
Processing and benchmarking - Oscar Cabellos (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) (until 09:20)
09:00 Improvements on the damage calculations using evaluated nuclear data and NJOY - Shengli Chen  
09:20
Uncertainties and covariance matrices - Grégoire Kessedjian (CEA Cadarache / IRESNE /DER / SPRC / LEPh) (until 10:50)
09:20 Target Accuracy Requirements (TAR) Exercise within WPEC/SG46 and Feedback on Nuclear Data Needs - Dr Oscar Luis CABELLOS DE FRANCISCO (Department of Energy Engineering and Instituto de Fusion Nuclear - "Guillermo Velarde", Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28006, Madrid, Spain)  
09:50 Nuclear Data Uncertainty Quantification for Reactor Physics Parameters in Fluorine-19-based Molten Salt Reactors - Sigfrid Stjärnholm (Uppsala University)  
10:20 Application of nuclear data covariance matrices to representativity calculations for fast reactors - Federico Grimaldi (SCK CEN)  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
Thermal scattering laws - Vaibhav Jaiswal (IRSN) (until 12:30)
11:20 Advancements in Validation of TSLs through Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Transmission Measurements - Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
11:50 Evaluation of thermal neutron scattering law of nuclear-grade isotropic graphite - Dr Shinsuke Nakayama (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
12:10 Experimental Validation of Thermal Neutron Scattering Law Data for Innovative Reactor - Prof. Jun-ichi Hori (Kyoto University, Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
12:00
Registration (until 14:00)
14:00
Introduction (until 14:30)
14:00 Welcome - Dr Olivier Serot (CEA)  
14:10 Overview of CEA Research Institute for Nuclear Systems for Low-Carbon Energy Production - Ruggieri Jean-michel (CEA, IRESNE)  
14:30
Microscopic and integral nuclear data measurements - Carlos Paradela (until 16:00)
14:30 Recent Nuclear Data Activity at the RPI Gaerttner LINAC Center - Prof. Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)  
15:00 Total and Double Differential Scattering Cross-Section Measurements of Isotropic Graphite - Dr ATSUSHI KIMURA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
15:30 Experimental setup of the $^{239}$Pu neutron capture and fission cross-section measurements at n_TOF, CERN - Adrian Sanchez Caballero (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Microscopic and integral nuclear data measurements - Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) (until 17:50)
16:30 $^{50,53}$Cr(n,$\gamma$) cross section measurement at n_TOF - Pablo Perez Maroto (Universidad de Sevilla)  
16:50 Toward the improvement of the 238U level scheme thanks to γ-spectroscopy - Carole CHATEL (CNRS/IPHC/DNR)  
17:10 Measurement of 242Pu(n,f) in the [1;2MeV] energy range - Ludovic MATHIEU (CNRS)  
17:30 Investigation of (n,x) reactions with enriched Ge targets at 15.7 MeV at the upgraded facility of NCSR “Demokritos” - Sotirios Chasapoglou (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:20
Nuclear fission - Satoshi Chiba (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (until 15:10)
14:20 Investigation of the structure of $^{235}$U(n$_{th}$,fission) prompt gamma energy spectrum by FIFRELIN - Tatsuhiko Ogawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
14:50 FIRST RESULTS ON 235U(NTH,F) INDEPENDENT ISOTOPIC FISSION YIELDS USING PROMPT GAMMA RAYS AT FIPPS - Pierre Herran  
15:10
Theory - Rémi Bernard (CEA) (until 16:00)
15:10 Microscopic prediction of gamma-ray strength function - Mikael Frosini (CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, SPRC, LEPh)  
15:40 Fisrt study of the 235U multi-chance fission with the FIFRELIN code - Mathias Sabathé (CEA)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Theory - Rémi Bernard (CEA) (until 17:10)
16:30 Assimilating fission-code FIFRELIN using Machine Learning. - Guillaume Bazelaire  
16:50 Fundamentals and progress of theoretical models for the evaluation of photonuclear reaction data in CNDC - Yuan Tian (China Institute of Atomic Energy)  
12:45 --- Visit of CEA Cadarache Center ---
19:30 --- Conference dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Evaluation of nuclear data - David BERNARD (CEA) (until 14:50)
14:00 Advancing the theory of nuclear data evaluations - Goran Arbanas (ORNL)  
14:30 study of (n,2n) reaction cross section of fission product based on neural network and decision tree models - Xiaodong Sun (China Institute of Atomic Energy)  
14:50
Uncertainties and covariance matrices - Grégoire Kessedjian (CEA Cadarache / IRESNE /DER / SPRC / LEPh) (until 15:40)
14:50 Development of a new module to process covariances in the IRSN nuclear data processing code GAIA - Pierre Sole (IRSN)  
15:20 Producing uncertainties and covariance matrix from intermediate data using a Monte-Carlo method. - Greg HENNING  
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Processing and benchmarking - Oscar Cabellos (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) (until 17:40)
16:00 Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC): An Information Analysis Center for Nuclear Science - Timothy Valentine (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
16:30 Integrated, Automated, and Reproducible Nuclear Data Processing at the NEA - Daniela Foligno (OECD/NEA)  
17:00 Preliminary investigation of nuclear data sampling for the new Monte Carlo code TRIPOLI-5® - Coline Larmier  
17:20 Recent development in the GALILÉE-1 processing code - Cédric Jouanne (CEA Saclay)  
12:30
Conclusion -Dr Olivier Serot (CEA) (until 12:40)
12:40 --- Lunch break ---