Technical Workshop on Fuel Cycle Simulation

From Wednesday July 19th, 2017 though Friday July 21st, 2017, the second annual Technical Workshop on Fuel Cycle Simulation will be held at the University of South Carolina, hosted by ERGS. This workshop will broadly cover nuclear fuel cycle simulators, with tracks to be announced soon. There is no registration fee for TWoFCS. All are welcome to attend.

News
Workshop Schedule
Model Development & Fidelity
Fuel Cycle Scenarios
Validation, Verification, & Uncertainty Quantification
General

July 19th, 2017 - Notes

Opening Welcome

Anthony Scopatz – presentation

Purpose and history of the workshop

Anthony Scopatz
presentation

User interface introduction

Yarden Livnat
presentation

Fuel Composition Transition Modeling

Ross Hays
presentation

Discussion on Driving Deployment with Demand

Kathryn Huff
presentation

Discussion

Break

Preliminary studies for ASTRID-like SFR implementation in the CLASS code

Léa Tillard
presentation

Model Performance Analysis

Baptiste Mouginot
presentation

Discussion

Lunch

Analysis of reprocessing options for medium sized nuclear fleets

Aris Villacorta Skarbeli
presentation

Scenario Analysis of PT‑HWR Used Fuel Management for Once-Through Thorium Fuel Cycles

Dan Wojtaszek
presentation

Retrospection – Next Generation FCS Missions and Use Cases

Brent Dixon
presentation

Discussion

A global and flexible model for Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors in electro-nuclear scenarios

Marc Ernoult
presentation

Fuel cycle of LEU-fueled denatured molten salt reactor

Ondrej Chvala
presentation

Fuel Cycle Options Campaign Transition Analysis

Ed Hoffman
presentation

Discussion

Break

Breakout Sessions

July 20th, 2017 - Notes

Between heterogeneity and cooperation: the (electronuclear)scenario as a ‘boundary object’ for decision-making?

Stéphanie Tillement
presentation

Energize: An interactive evaluation tool for engaging the general public with energy decision making

Lindsay Shuller-Nickles
presentation

Discussion

Scenarios with COSI6: Optimization, Uncertainty and Beyond

Guillaume Krivtchik
presentation

Consequences of a calculation an error in Harvard’s report on The Economics of Reprocessing vs. Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Adrien Bidaud
presentation

Discussion

Break

Uncertainties and sensitivities study methods applied to the dynamic fuel cycle

Jean-Baptiste Clavel
presentation

Confidence Improvement Effort

Baptiste Mouginot
presentation

Discussion

Lunch

A Mutlivariate Analysis of Mixed Oxide Based Nuclear Scenarios

Abdoul-Aziz Zakari-Issoufou
presentation

Study of plutonium reprocessing in PWR with the CLASS tool

Nicolas Thiolliere
presentation

Discussion

Rickshaw

Robert Flanagan
presentation

Visualization of Simulation Results

Brent Dixon
presentation

Discussion

Break

Breakout Sessions

July 21th, 2017 - Notes

Valuable Lessons from Fuel Cycle Code Comparisons

Bo Feng
presentation

Simulation Tool Benchmarking and Verification

Brent Dixon
presentation

Discussion

Break

Recipe vs. Model

Baptiste Mouginot
presentation

Integrating Physics-Based Depletion into Fuel Cycle Simulation: When, How, and Why

Steve Skutnik
presentation

Cross section versus recipes for fuel cycle transition analysis using ORION

Joshua Peterson-Droogh
presentation

Discussion

Lunch in place

Lunch in place: Yarden Livnat summary

Lunch in place: Concluding marks

Lunch in place: Next steps

Conference Format
TWoFCS will be a truly technical workshop. Unlike a traditional meeting,
  • Talks will be 10 minutes with 5 minutes for talk specific questions.
  • Following talks there will be 30-45 minutes of session chair led discussion on the topic.
  • Dedicated note takers will be available for the meeting minutes.
  • The workshop will have all-hands discussions and topic-specific parallel tracks.
The purpose of the submitted abstracts should be to spark a discussion on a particular topic, answer questions from the attendees on the speaker's topic, and enable communal decision making on what areas of research are challenging or interesting.

Please adjust your talk format to meet the goals of a discussion-oriented workshop.

The outcome of this workshop will a compiled document of the presentations and associated discussions. Attendees will be invited to participate in a publication of a high-level summary paper following the workshop.

Dates to Remember

March 3rd, 2017
Call for Abstracts
May 3rd, 2017
Final Submission deadline for abstracts
May 5th, 2017
Notification of abstract status
May 10th, 2017
Announcement of conference schedules
July 19th - 21st, 2017
Workshop Dates
Location
The venue for the meeting will be the Ernest F. Hollings Library on the University of South Carolina Columbia campus.

Organizers

These are the people responsible for the workshop.

Dr. Anthony Scopatz
Professor

Anthony Scopatz is currently an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Nuclear Engineering program in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is a computational physicist and long time Python developer. Anthony holds his BS in Physics from UC, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Mechanical / Nuclear Engineering from UT Austin. A former Enthought employee, he spent his post-doctoral studies at the FLASH Center at the University of Chicago in the Astrophysics Department. Then he became a Staff Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Maidson in Engineering Physics. Anthony’s research interests revolve around essential physics modeling of the nuclear fuel cycle, and information theory & entropy. Anthony is proudly a fellow of the Python Software Foundation and has published and spoken at numerous conferences on a variety of science & software development topics.



Dr. Kathryn Huff
Professor

Dr. Kathryn D. Huff is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering and and a Blue Waters Assistant Professor with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow with both the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California - Berkeley.



Dr. Robert Flanagan
Postdoctoral scholar

Robert Flanagan is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of South Carolina in the Nuclear Engineering program. Robert holds a BS in Physics from University of Buffalo. Before pursuing higher education, Robert worked in risk assessment and radiation protection for the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station. He then went on to earned a Masters and Ph.D. from the Mechanical / Nuclear Engineering department of University of Texas Austin. Robert spent most of his graduate career studying fuel cycle modeling, reactor simulation, and user interface design. His current research involves continuing to develop his reactor simulation software and researching advanced nuclear fuel cycles.



Dr.-Ing. Paul, P.H. Wilson
Professor

Paul Wilson is the Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the University of Wisconsin-Madison‘s Department of Engineering Physics, and Faculty Director of the Advanced Computing Initiative. His research interests focus on developing improved tools for computational modeling of complex nuclear energy systems, with applications in radiation shielding, nuclear waste management, nuclear non-proliferation and energy policy. Paul joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor in August 2001 as part of the Energy Systems and Policy Hiring Initiative. Paul currently serves on the Program Committee of the Energy Analysis and Policy Graduate Certificate , the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin Energy Institute and the Governance Committee of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.



Dr. Baptiste Mouginot
Assistant scientist

Baptiste Mouginot received his PhD from the University of Paris Sud-XI in 2011. During his PhD, he studied nuclear structure. He joined the Experimental Research on Data Reactors and Energy (ERDRE) group of Subatech Laboratory (CNRS/IN2P3, University of Nantes, Ecoles des Mines de Nantes) in 2012 as a postdoc, then as a research scientist. He was involved in the study on Accelerator Driven System. He started and led the development of a fuel cycle tool for the CNRS, called CLASS. He initiate the development of fuel fabrication model and cross section predictor for the CLASS tool, and has been a key developer of the polynomial regression and neural network methods for fuel fabrication models in CLASS. Mouginot joined the Cyclus development team at UW-Madison in October 2015.



Ryan Hodge
Research assistant

Ryan Hodge is an undergraduate Computer Science student at the University of South Carolina, originally hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a member of the South Carolina Honors College, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of USC's satirical newspaper. He joined the ERGS team in 2015 as an Research Assistant, and is currently working on code generation for the HDF5 backend of Cyclus. During his time at USC, Ryan has also been awarded a research internship with the Open Orbiter program at the University of North Dakota, where he developed the concept and simulation of an agent-based cybersecurity system for spacecraft.