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Experimental and Mathematical Physics
Consultants, Gaithersburg,
Maryland, contributed a newly
compiled PC version of CEPXS/ONELD 1.0. The Lahey
Fortran 90 Compiler release 4.50i was used to create the included PC
executables that can be run under either Windows XP or Windows 2000.
Executables in the previous release were compiled with F77L-EM/32 Fortran
compiler, Version 5.01, and are incompatible with current Windows operating
systems.
This code system was originally developed at
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, and Sandia
National Laboratory, Albuquerque,
New Mexico. CEPXS generates cross
sections to be input to ONELD, a one-dimensional coupled electron-photon
transport code. ONELD is a discrete ordinates code that uses
linear-discontinuous spatial differencing and diffusion-consistent weighted
diamond angular differencing. The equations are solved via source iteration
with S 2 synthetic acceleration of the inner iterations. References:
SAND89-1685 (October 1989), SAND89-1661 (September 1989), LA-9184-M, Rev.
(December 1989), SAND89-2211 (July 1990). Fortran 77; VAX, Cray, and PC 586. The
VAX version includes a few lines of C. All of these versions are distributed
on one CD as C00544MNYCP02.
For archival purposes, RSICC is releasing a
PC version of TRAC PF1, which performs best estimate analyses of
loss-of-coolant accidents and other transients in pressurized light water
reactors. The program can also be used to model a wide range of thermal
hydraulic experiments in reduced scale facilities. Models employed include reflood, multi-dimensional two-phase flow, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, generalized heat transfer,
and reactor kinetics. Note that the NRC no longer supports the TRAC codes but
currently develops and maintains the TRACE code system, which is the
TRAC/RELAP Advanced Computational Engine.
TRAC-PF1 was developed on a CDC computer at
Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1980’s. The PC version of TRAC PF1 was
converted at Comissao Nacional
de Energia Nuclear (CNEN), Rio
de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil).
It was submitted September 1989 and released “as is” by the ESTSC July 1993;
it was later transferred to RSICC and re-released in November 2005 for
archival purposes. No modifications were made to the code package at either
ESTSC or RSICC. Records indicate that the PC version ran on an 80386 PC under
DOS 3.2 using the SVS (Silicon Valley Software) Fortran 77 compiler. No
executables are included in the package. The package is transmitted on a
CD-ROM in a WinZIP file, which includes Fortran
source, sample problems, control information, and auxiliary information.
References: NUREG/CR-3567 (LA-9944-MS) (February 1984), NUREG/CR-3280
(LA-9704-M) July 1983, and LA-TIA-TN-82-1 (June 1982). Fortran 77 for IBM PC
XT and AT (P00481IBMPC00).
Francis Kam,
76, died November 15, 2005. He was a scientist at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory for more than 20 years and made significant contributions to the
American Society for Testing and Materials. He also made important
contributions to various international activities sponsored by the
International Atomic Energy Agency and the United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. In the early to mid 1960’s Frank was involved in the development
and documentation of several computer codes (including O5R) used for neutron
transport. He and Kylene Franz developed a
code named ACTIFK to analyze the collision tapes from the O5R computer code
which wrote user selected types of events such as boundary crossings and real
collisions to a tape for later analysis. He was also involved in calculations
of the SNAP reactor shielding benchmarks.
Graydon Duane Whitman died December 3,
in Knoxville, Tennessee. Grady was a Manhattan Project
veteran of ORNL, arriving in 1944 through an Army Corps of Engineers
assignment. He went on to become an operations supervisor on the Aircraft
Reactor Experiment, the forerunner of the Molten Salt Reactor. He managed and
participated in a number of seismic analyses of gaseous diffusion plants and
managed the Experimental Gas Cooled Reactor activities at ORNL.
Professor Tatiana “Tanya” Anotolievna Germogenova, April
10, 1930 – February 27, 2005
 We
regret the passing of Tatiana Germogenova, an
authoritative scientist in the field of mathematical study of the linear
transport equation. She was also investigations organizer, originator and
manager of the Linear Transport Theory Group of the Keldysh
Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM) of the Academy of Sciences.
She is best known to RSICC for the many ways she sought to open lines of
communication between the scientific communities of our respective countries,
while under the former Soviet Union and
continuing into the Russian era. She died in Moscow February 2, 2005.
Germogenova began
working on transport theory problems in a post graduate course in the Physical
Department of Moscow State University under Prof. E.S. Kousnetsov.
In 1956, she joined the KIAM staff. Her PhD thesis (1972) was dedicated to
boundary problems of the transport equation and local properties of its
solutions.
The important cycle of Germogenova’s
work deals with actual problems of atmospheric optics. She proved that the
set of physically realizable states of polarized light in the Stokes-Poincare representation is a cone in an appropriate
functional space of 4-dimensional vector-functions (1978). This property was
used for strict formulation of both the “non-negativity” property of the
scattering matrix and the mathematical theory of the characteristic equation
for the polarized light transport equation. She also derived the set of
asymptotic approximations for transport problems in optically thick
inhomogeneous finite size regions (1961).
Germogenova’s
results in the study of the method of averaged fluxes for acceleration of inner
iterations convergence (1968-1969), Fourier analysis of stability of the WDD
scheme, accuracy and stability analysis of the family of weighted nodal
schemes (1994), and eigenfunctions of the finite
moments method analysis (1996) are interesting and important. Under her
guidance, a set of Russian codes (ROZ, ROZ-W, RADUGA, KASKAD-S and KATRIN)
were developed for 1D, 2D, and 3D transport calculations for a serial
computer. Much of her work was classified, not in the public domain but was
recognized in 1987 when she was awarded the Soviet State Prize.
Prof. Germogenova
participated in a number of international meetings on transport theory, was
co-organizer of the Joint Workshop on Numerical Transport Theory (November
1961) at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the
International Symposium on Numerical Transport Theory (May 1992) at Moscow
State University, Moscow, Russia. She was also a member of the Transport
Theory and Statistical Physics Editorial Board.
Germogenova is
followed as Manager of KIAM Linear Transport Group by her colleague and
friend, Dr. Andrei M. Voloschenko (volosch@kiam.ru).
Germogenova was
versatile – student swimming titleholder at MSU, expert skier, boating and
mountaineer enthusiast and a connoisseur of classical music. She is survived
by her husband, Yuri Dnestrovski, a Professor at
MSU. Both he and her son are plasma physicists associated with the TOKOMAK at
Kurchatov Institute. Her daughter is a hydrobiologist. She is also survived by four
grandchildren, two of whom are students at Moscow State
University.
Betty F. Maskewitz
CONFERENCES, COURSES, SYMPOSIA
RSICC attempts to keep its users and
contributors advised of conferences, courses, and symposia in the field of
radiation protection, transport, and shielding through this section of the newsletter. Should you be involved
in the planning/organization of such events, feel free to send your
announcements and calls for papers via
email to riceaf@ornl.gov with
“conferences” in the subject line by the 20th of each month. Please include
the announcement in its native format as an attachment to the message. If the meeting is on a website, please include
the url.
Every attempt is made to ensure that the
links provided in the Conference and Calendar sections of this newsletter are correct and live. However, the
very nature of the web creates the possibility that the links may become unavailable. In that case, please
call or mail the contact provided.
MCNPX Workshops
Lead
Teachers: Drs. John Hendricks, Gregg McKinney, Laurie Waters
Organizer:
HQC Professional Services
Contact: bill@mcnpxworkshops.com
Information: http://mcnpxworkshops.com and MCNPX homepage: http://mcnpx.lanl.gov
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2006 Schedule
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January 9–13
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Introductory
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Las Vegas, NV
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March 27–31
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Intermediate
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Cape Town, South Africa
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June 12–16
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Introductory
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Santa Fe, NM
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MCNPX is packed with new and exciting
plotting features, including numerous mesh tally options which can be
superimposed on your geometry plot and plotted within the MCNPX run,
eliminating the need for post-processing and costly additional plotting
package(s). You can plot particle flux, tracks, dosage, and energy
deposition as well as source points and many others.
The
workshops include hands-on instruction, generally on PC Windows
machines. Subject to participant
export approval from the MCNPX beta test team, participants will be able to access the Fortran 90 version of MCNPX
2.4, the LA150 (150 MeV) cross-section data for
over 40 isotopes for incident neutrons and protons and 12 for
photonuclear interactions, and a notebook of viewgraphs.
Follow-up
consultation for class participants will be provided.
The classes are taught by experienced MCNPX
code developers and instructors. More information on code versions and
capabilities is available at MCNPX Workshops web site http://mcnpxworkshops.com.
Only a few
places are still available for the January 2006 workshop. To register go to http://mcnpxworkshops.com/regform.html.
ANS
RP&S Division Biennial Topical Meeting
The
American Nuclear Society Radiation Protection and Shielding Division Biennial
Topical Meeting will be held April 3–6, 2006, at the Pecos
River Village
in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The conference will open with
a keynote address by Dr. Glenn Knoll. Other outstanding plenary speakers will
include Dr. Kenneth Shultis, Dr. Cassiano de
Oliveira and other special speakers.
Workshops
will be offered on April 2 and 6, both morning and afternoon. These
continuing education classes with the time and location are listed in the
conference website.
There will
be no charge to those registered for the conference for any of the workshops,
although pre-registration is requested. Attendance at the conference will
provide continuing education credits for various technical certifications
depending on the degree of participation by the attendee.
Tours will be offered of the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant (WIPP), a licensed and operating deep geological repository for transuranic waste. The actual number of visitors WIPP can
accommodate will depend on operational conditions and the work schedule of
the facility. The WIPP site is a federal facility and advance notice will be
required for a site visit so early registration is strongly encouraged.
The
Trinity Site is also available to the general public independent of the
conference on Saturday, April 1, 2006. The Trinity Site is the location of
the world’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon.
The call
for papers, program and contact information for the conference can be found
at http://www.ans-rpsw-carlsbad.com/.
The National Council on Radiation Protection
and Measurements (NCRP) will hold its 2006 Annual Meeting April 3–4, at the
Crystal City Marriott in Arlington,
Virginia. The April 26,
1986, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power
plant near Kiev in the Ukrainian Republic
of the Former Soviet Union was the worst nuclear power accident in history.
Large numbers of people were contaminated in the Ukraine
Republic, Belarus
Republic, Western Russia, Western
Europe, and Scandinavia. More than 200,000
people in the Ukraine and Belarus Republics
were evacuated and resettled as a result of significant fallout from the Chernobyl accident.
On the twentieth anniversary of this
disastrous event, the 2006 NCRP Annual Meeting will provide a comprehensive
retrospective review and analysis of the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident on human health
and the environment. Topics to be discussed by international experts include:
· the
initial release, distribution and migration of radiation from Chernobyl;
· efforts
to clean up, contain and dispose of radionuclides
released by the accident;
· health
effects observed in emergency responders and cleanup workers;
· exposures
and health effects among populations living close to, and distant from, the Chernobyl reactor site;
· lessons
learned from the Chernobyl accident, including improved nuclear safety
procedures, better preparedness for future nuclear accidents, and more
effective management and mitigation of human health consequences of such
events; and
·
international perspectives on the future use
of nuclear technology and nuclear power in comparison with other power
sources.
The program and registration for the meeting
can be accessed at http://www.ncrponline.org/dates.html.
This
two-day training course on neutron spectra unfolding will be held April 7–8,
2006, in Cape Town, South Africa. The training course
is organized by the Neutron Radiation department of the Physikalisch-Technische
Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany. Additional support is
provided by EURADOS. The course is intended for those who do spectrometry in
neutron or mixed neutron/photon fields and need to analyze their data using
unfolding procedures; emphasis is on practical aspects of unfolding.
A series
of lectures in the morning sessions will provide an introduction to unfolding
as well as allow for discussions on the theory of unfolding. In the afternoon
sessions participants will work on specific examples at PC-workplaces using
the UMG software package provided by PTB (UMG: Unfolding with GRAVEL and
MAXED, currently distributed by NEA as code package NEA-1665 and by RSICC as
code package PSR-529). We will focus on Bonner sphere measurements for our discussion
of few-channel unfolding, and on liquid scintillation spectrometer (NE213)
measurements for our discussion of multi-channel unfolding.
The number
of participants will be restricted due to the limited number of PC-workplaces
available. Therefore, you should register as soon as possible. For on-line
registration and further information please visit the website at: http://www.ptb.de/utc2006/. Contact: Burkhard Wiegel, PTB, email Burkhard.Wiegel@ptb.de The fee for the course is 800 Euro and
includes a CD with a complete set of notes and unfolding software, as well as
refreshments.
DATES:
17–21 July 2006 (4.5 days)
FEE:
$1,450 per person
PLACE: The
MESA Complex, Room 130, University
of New Mexico-Los
Alamos Campus
Monte Carlo
type calculations are ideally suited to solving a variety of problems in
radiation protection and dosimetry. The Los Alamos MCNP™ code is a general
and powerful Monte Carlo transport code for
photons, neutrons, and electrons, and can be safely described as the
“industry standard.” This course is aimed at the HP, medical physicist, and rad engineer with no prior experience with Monte Carlo techniques. The focus is almost entirely on
the application of MCNP™ to solve a variety of practical problems in
radiation shielding and dosimetry. The intent is to “jump start” the student
toward using MCNP™ productively. With a little practice and study of the
examples, many will find they are able to solve problems that have, in the
past, been out of reach.
Course
content: Extensive interactive practice sessions are conducted on a personal
computer. Topics will include an overview of the MCNP™ code and the Monte
Carlo method, input file preparation, geometry, source definition, standard
MCNP tallies, interpretation of the output file, exposure and dose rate
calculations, radiation shielding, photon skyshine, detector simulation and
dosimetry. Students will be provided with a comprehensive class manual and a
diskette containing all of the practice problems. This course has been
granted 32 Continuing Education Credits by the AAHP (2005-00-003), and 4.5 CM
points by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. The course is offered by
the Health Physics Measurements Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Registration
is available online at: http://drambuie.lanl.gov/~esh4/mcnp.htm. Make checks (U.S. dollars on a U.S. bank ) payable to the University
of California and mail with name,
address, and phone number to: David Seagraves, Mail Stop J573, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Group HSR-4, MCNP Class, Los Alamos, NM 87545.
Inquiries
regarding registration and class space availability should be made to David
Seagraves, 505-667-4959, fax: 505-665-7686, e-mail: dseagraves@lanl.gov. Technical questions may also be directed
to Dick Olsher, 505-667-3364; e-mail: dick@lanl.gov.
Please
note that this course is separate from and independent of the courses being
offered by the MCNP and MCNPX Teams at LANL.
Richard H. Olsher
PHYSOR 2006
The
Canadian Nuclear Society has announced that the ANS Reactor Physics Topical
PHYSOR-2006, “Advances in Nuclear Analysis and Simulation,” will be held in Vancouver, BC,
Canada, Sept.
10–14, 2006. The meeting is sponsored by the Reactor Physics Division of the
ANS and co-sponsored by a host of international societies. The conference
will be held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Vancouver.
You are
invited to visit the meeting website at http://www.cns-snc.ca/physor2006/ to obtain updated information and to download a
copy of the call for papers. The conference chair is Benjamin Rouben, FCNS
Manager, Reactor Core Physics Branch, AECL Sheridan Park (phone 905-823-9060
x 4550, fax: 905-822-0567, email: roubenb@aecl.ca). The technical program co-chair is Ken Kozier, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), Chalk
River Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada K0J 1J0 (Phone:
+1-613-584-8811 + ext.5059, email: physor2006@aecl.ca).
The 10th International Symposium on Radiation Physics
(ISRP-10) will be held at University
of Coimbra, Portugal,
17–22 September 2006. This event is organized jointly by the International
Radiation Physics Society (IRPS) and the Physics Department of Coimbra University. The meeting is devoted to current
trends in radiation physics research and will include a series of plenary
talks given by prominent international researchers. The symposium in Coimbra is the latest in a
series of triennial symposia which began in Calcutta
in 1974 and continued in Penang (1982), Ferrara (1985), São
Paulo (1988), Dubrovnik (1991), Rabat (1994), Jaipur (1997), Prague (2000) and Cape
Town (2003). A 2½ day Workshop on the Use of Monte Carlo Techniques
for Design and Analysis of Radiation Detectors will be held immediately prior to ISRP-10
(15–17 September 2006).
More information on the Symposium, the
associate Workshop, as well as on the venue, can be found at http://pollux.fis.uc.pt/isrp10.
The Twelfth International Congress on Neutron
Capture Therapy (ICNCT-12) will be held October 9–13, 2006, in Takamatsu, Kagawa,
Japan. The
meeting is sponsored by the International Society for Neutron Capture Therapy
(ISNCT) with the society president, Yoshinobu
Nakagawa of the Kagawa National Children's Hospital, acting as chairman of
the organizing committee. The meeting will focus on the many significant
developments that have been made in neutron capture therapy in biology,
medicine, chemistry, medical physics and engineering, and clinical trials.
The most up-to-date information can be found at the conference website: http://icnct-12.umin.jp/index.html.
CALENDAR
January 2006
MCNPX Introductory Workshop, Jan. 9–13, 2006, Las Vegas, NV.
Contact: Bill Hamilton (phone 806-928-6021, email bill@mcnpxworkshops.com, url http://mcnpxworkshops.com).
International Conference on Application of
Radio-tracers in Chemical, Environmental and Biological Sciences (ARCEBS 06),
Jan. 23–27, 2006, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Contact: Susanta Lahiri
at arcebs06@saha.ac.in.
Seminar and Training on Scaling, Uncertainty and 3D
Coupled Code Calculations in Nuclear Technology, Jan. 23–Feb. 10, 2006,
School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona,
Spain.
Registration deadline is December 12, 2005. Contact: 3dsuncop2006@ing.unipi.it (url: http://dimnp.ing.unipi.it/3dsuncop/).
February 2006
German Atomic Forum Winter Meeting, Feb. 8–9, 2006, Berlin. Contact: Anette Wiederhold, dbcm GmbH, Conference Office WT 2006, Kamillenweg
16-18, D-53757 Sankt Augustin,
Germany.
(fax 49-0-2241-9389712, email Annette.wiederhold@dbcm.de).
Waste Management 2006 (WM’06) Feb. 26–Mar. 2, 2006, Tucson, AZ. Contact: WM
Symposia, Inc., P.O. Box 35340,
Tucson, AZ 85740 (phone 520-696-0399, fax
520-615-8997, www.wmsym.org).
March 2006
HEART Conference, March 6–10, 2006, Santa Clara, CA. Contact: Technical Program
Chair, Dennis Breuner (phone 858-720-7072, email dbreuner@titan.com).
TopNux: Securing the
Future—The Role of Nuclear Energy, March 21–23, 2006, London, England.
Contact: Dionne Bosma, ENS (phone 32-2-505-3054,
fax 32-2-502-3902, email Dionne.boxma@euronuclear.org).
MCNPX Intermediate Workshop, March 27–31, 2006, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact: Bill
Hamilton (phone 806-928-6021, email bill@mcnpxworkshops.com,
url http://mcnpxworkshops.com).
April 2006
NCRP 2006 Annual Meeting April 3–4, 2006, Arlington,
Virginia. URL: http://www.ncrponline.org/dates.html.
14th Biennial Topical Meeting of the ANS Radiation
Protection and Shielding Division, April 3–6, 2006, Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Contact: Dr. Chuan-Fu Wu (phone: 505-234-7552, email chuan.wu@wipp.ws) or Mr. Russell McCallister (phone 505-234-7395, russell.mccallister@wipp.ws) http://www.ans-rpsw-carlsbad.com/.
Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical
Chemistry (MARC VII), April 3–7, 2006, Kona, Hawaii.
Contact: B. Stephen Carpenter, General Chair, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr.,
Stop 1090, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
(phone 301-975-4119).
Two-day training course on neutron spectra unfolding,
April 7–8, 2006, Cape Town,
South Africa.
Contact: Burkhard Wiegel,
PTB, email Burkhard.Wiegel@ptb.de
or http://www.ptb.de/utc2006/.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management
Conference (2006 IHLWM), April 30–May 4, 2006, Las Vega, Nevada.
Contact: Daniel B. Bullen, General Chair, Exponent,
185 Hansen Court, Suite 100,
Wood Dale, IL 60191
(phone 630-274-3223, fax 630-274-3299, email dbullen@exponent.com).
June 2006
ANS Annual Meeting, “A Brilliant Future: Nexus of
Public Support in Nuclear Technology,” June 4–8, 2006, Reno, Nevada.
URL: http://www.ans.org/meetings/index.cgi?c=n.
MCNPX Introductory Workshop, June 12–16, 2006, Santa Fe, NM.
Contact: Bill Hamilton (phone 806-928-6021, email bill@mcnpxworkshops.com, url http://mcnpxworkshops.com).
EXRS 2006–European Conference on X-Ray Spectrometry,
June 19–23, 2006, Paris, France. Contact: exrs2006@cea.fr, http://www.nucleide.org/exrs2006/.
September 2006
PHYSOR-2006, “Advances in Nuclear Analysis and
Simulation,” Sept. 10–14, 2006, Vancouver,
BC, Canada.
Contact: Ken Kozier,
Technical Program Co-Chair, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), Chalk
River Laboratories, Chalk River,
Ontario, Canada
K0J 1J0 (Phone:
613-584-8811 ext.5059, email: physor2006@aecl.ca, web http://www.cns-snc.ca/physor2006/).
Workshop on the Use of
Monte Carlo Techniques for Design and Analysis of Radiation Detectors, Sept.
15–17, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.
Contact: workshop@lipc.fis.uc.pt
(http://pollux.fis.uc.pt/isrp10/workshop/index.htm),
ISRP-10, Sept. 17–22, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal. Contact: isrp10@pollux.fis.uc.pt (http://pollux.fis.uc.pt/isrp10).
November 2006
ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo,
“Securing the Future in Times of Change,” Nov. 12–16, 2006, Albuquerque, NM.
Contact: Robert W. Kuckuck (phone 505 667 5101, email bobkuck@lanl.gov) http://www.ans.org/meetings/index.cgi?c=n.
September 2007
ICENES2007, Istanbul.
Contact: http://www.icenes2007.org/
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