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Changes
to the Computer Code and Data Collection. 1
FORMER
“SHIELDERS” SURFACE. 2
Obituaries. 4
CONFERENCES,
COURSES, SYMPOSIA.. 5
MCNPX
Workshops. 5
Year
2006 MCNP Class Schedule. 6
European
International Radiation Protection Association Congress. 7
NA-YGN
Annual Workshop. 7
30th
Annual Actinide Separations Conference. 7
Monte
Carlo User Group meeting MCNEG-2006. 8
Current
Problems of Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy
(NPAE-Kyiv 2006) 8
PENELOPE
Training Course/Tutorial 9
Practical
MCNP for the Health Physicist, Medical Physicist, and Rad Engineer 9
PHYSOR
2006. 9
ISRP-10. 10
2nd
International Symposium on Radionuclide Therapy and Radiopharmaceutical
Dosimetry. 10
ICNCT-12. 10
First
European Workshop on Monte Carlo Treatment Planning. 11
PHYTRA1. 11
ND2007. 12
International
Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2007) 13
CALENDAR.. 13
PSR-531/EEDB
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
contributed documents related to the Energy Economics Data Base (EEDB), which
was developed by United Engineers and Constructors (now Washington Group
International, Inc.) to provide representative, consistent electric power
generating station technical and cost information to the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE). The database was first assembled in 1978 and was updated
regularly for DOE from 1978 through 1990. Since 1991, Washington Group
International, Inc. has maintained the data base on a private basis, as DOE
discontinued funding at that time. The Data Base with its updates provides
the only uniformly consistent historical record of U.S. Nuclear Power Plant
costs in existence for use in analyzing cost trends, identifying future
possibilities, and establishing a benchmark against which alternatives may be
evaluated. This package contains nine documents which are related to EEDB,
but it does not contain the data base.
The documents are transmitted on a CD in a
WinZip file that contains the nine PDF files. No software, database or
executables are included with this package. References: ORNL/TM-11295,
ORNL/TM-10563, ORNL/TM-10997, and DOE/NE reports (P00531MNYCP00).
PSR-532/CEM03.01
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New
Mexico, contributed this newly frozen version of
the Monte-Carlo code system to calculate nuclear reactions in the framework
of the improved cascade-exciton model. CEM03.01 is the latest in a series of
codes including CEM2k+GEM2, CEM97, and CEM95. It is an extended and improved
version of the earlier codes. CEM03.01 considers IntraNuclear Cascade (INC),
preequilibrium, evaporation, fission, and Fermi break-up mechanisms of nuclear
reactions as well as coalescence of complex particles up to 4He from fast INC
nucleons. CEM03.01 calculates total reaction and fission cross-sections,
nuclear fissilities, excitation functions, nuclide distributions (yields) of
all produced isotopes separately as well as their A- and Z-distributions,
energy and angular spectra, double-differential cross-sections, mean
multiplicities, i.e. the number of ejectiles per inelastic interaction of the
projectile with the target, ejectile yields and their mean energies for n, p, d, t, 3He, 4He, π+, π-,
and π0. By modifying
an input variable, evaporation of as many as 60 isotopes heavier than 4He
(up to 28Mg) may also be modeled. CEM03.01 calculates reactions induced
by nucleons, pions, bremsstrahlung and monochromatic photons on not too light
targets at incident energies from ~10 MeV (~30 MeV, in the case of γ + A) up to several GeV.
CEM03.01 has been tested under Unix, Windows,
and Linux operating systems. The Windows distribution includes an executable
created by the code developer with Compaq Visual Fortran Professional Edition
6.6.0 under WindowsXP. RSICC tested the Unix version on a Sun workstation
running Solaris 9 with the Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 77 compiler. RSICC
compiled and ran test cases on an AMD Opteron under RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
(2.6.9-22.ELsmp) with The Portland Group, Inc. pgf77 6.0-5 32-bit compiler.
This executable is included in the package. The package is transmitted on a
CD which includes the report cited above and a GNU compressed tar file which
contains the CEM03.01 Fortran source files, a Linux executable, a Windows
executable, data files, and test case input and output. Reference:
LA-UR-05-7321 (2005). Fortran 77; Sun and PC (P00532MNYCP00).
RSICC began existence as the Radiation
Shielding Information Center (RSIC), an institute that can claim some fame at
having been at the center of advancing the state-of-the-art of shielding
technology and related nuclear data. Scientists and engineers cooperated with
RSICC on an international basis to move the technology forward at a faster
rate than was possible for one researcher to do alone. The results continue
to be available through RSICC, which fosters continuing cooperation and
indeed, fellowship, among the research scientists of the world. Many of the
pioneers in radiation transport and shielding research have retired; but we
learn through RSICC that for some, interest is as keen as yester-year. We
offer space in the RSICC Newsletter
for those of you who wish to let your former colleagues know that you are
still interested in scientific research and willing to share your current
activities. Contact: RSICC Newsletter,
editor, Alice Rice at riceaf@ornl.gov.
We begin with Jean-Claude
Nimal of France, an RSICC supporter since 1965.
Jean-Claude Nimal
made a 1965 orientation visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with
Jean Rastoin and Pierre Lafore, his superiors in the Shielding Laboratory,
CEA/CEN/Fontenay aux roses (SEPP). Nimal had learned of RSICC’s mission and
was interested in Monte Carlo techniques (SANE and SAGE), and discrete
ordinates (NIOBE) and the UNC neutron cross section data library, all early US technology.
A few years later, Nimal returned to ORNL/RSICC bringing his Monte Carlo code
system, TRIPOLI, as a contribution to the US shielding
community. He was assisted in the workshop by Enrico Sartori of the OECD/NEA
Data Bank and Therese Vergnaud and Jean Gonnard of CEA/CEN/Saclay. Exchanges
of personnel through the years furthered the cooperation, with Jean Gonnard
in RSICC, Noel Cramer in Saclay, and Enrico Sartori and other NEA Data Bank
personnel visiting ORNL/RSICC.
Christian Devillers followed Lafore as
manager of the Shielding Laboratory at Fontenay, which was later moved to
CEA/CEN/Saclay. When Devillers joined the Safety Department at Fontenay,
Nimal succeeded as manager of the Shielding Laboratory, leading the group
until retiring five years ago. He was succeeded by Cheick Diop.
Nimal cites the most important developments
of the Shielding Laboratory under his management as follows.
A) Monte Carlo techniques, currently TRIPOLI 4. This
methodology is used for shielding, benchmark and sensitivity studies, and
core and criticality calculations as reference methods.
B) The line-of-sight point attenuation kernel
method with the MERCURE series of codes. Some improvements were made to the
buildup factor determinations versus chemical compositions of multilayer
shields.
C) PEPIN and DARWIN codes are used for
fission product calculations and activation determinations. DARWIN
is coupled with TRIPOLI
to insure dismantling calculations.
D) The 1-D SN code SNID including probability
tables was developed.
CEA requires retirement at the age of 60.
Both Nimal and his wife Bernadette, a research member of the Shielding
Laboratory, retired in 2001. They have two children: son Oliver and daughter
Isabelle. Isabelle lives near Paris
and has two children, Arthur (5 years) and Louise (two). Oliver has an infant
daughter, Clementine, and lives in Brest, in Brittany. Jean-Claude
and Bernadette remain in their home in Fontenay aux Roses for seven months of
the year and live in Brittany near Brest and Quimper
during the school holidays. While Bernadette enjoys her grandchildren and
does volunteer work with young children, Nimal remains busy in several
activities.
He is a scientific advisor to CEA at Saclay
and takes care of fission product evaluation and Monte
Carlo methods. He is also an OECD/NEA consultant and works at
home on the NAIADE experiment reassessments and interpretations. NAIADE was
the French facility used during 1960-1970 to find the two group diffusion
constants and the removal cross sections for shielding calculations. The
shield mockup reproduced in the NAIADE facility the reactor configuration
(the work was in association with Pierre Lafore, Jean Rastoin, Michel Lott,
Jacques, and Georges Manent, in Fontenay aus Roses). Many calibrated
dosimeters gave the fission equivalent flux, intermediate flux and thermal
equivalent flux. These experiments were never interpreted using Monte Carlo calculations. Nimal has undertaken a fine
calculation of the NAIADE fission plate power and an interpretation of the
experimental results using TRIPOLI
4 and ENDF/B/VI R4 Library. The work, consuming much of Nimal’s time, is a
contribution to the SINBAD data
base.
In his spare time, Nimal paints in
watercolors and is taking a course in painting.
Through the years as RSICC staff members
interacted with the international scientific community, it was my privilege
to be a guest of the Shielding Laboratory many times. We worked hard but we
always had a home party. Nimal’s contribution, each time, was his ‘home-made’
liver paté – the best I have ever tasted!
Jean-Claude Nimal
can be reached at jcb.nimal@club-internet.fr.
Betty Maskewitz
Armen
A. Abagyan, a long term friend and supporter of the Radiation Shielding
Information Center (RSIC), the forerunner of RSICC, died November 18, 2005 in
Moscow at the
age of 73. In his later years, Abagyan served as deputy general director for
scientific policy for Rosenergoatom and general director of VNIIAES, the
Russian Institute for nuclear power plant operations and also served as
professor and corresponding member of the Russian Academy
of Sciences. He first became known to RSICC while attending the 1967 Harwell
Shielding Conference.
As head of theoretical and experimental
shielding programs in the Physics and Power Engineering Institute (PPEI) in
Obninsk, Kaluga Region, USSR,
Abagyan hosted my first RSICC Orientation Visit to the USSR June
22-27, 1969. This visit resulted in exchange and discussions of USA-USSR
experts in fields related to fast breeder reactor research.
Communication channels were established for
RSICC interaction with Soviet scientists and engineers in fields of radiation
transport and shielding.
Abagyan
continued an interest in the RSICC mission through the years and encouraged
continuing interaction between USSR/Russian scientists and engineers. I was
privileged to be welcomed to the USSR
and later to Russia
by Abagyan on each of later visits to his country. -Betty F. Maskewitz
Robert Lee Clarke died December 22, 2005.
Clarke began his career as a nuclear physicist for Atomic Energy of Canada at
Chalk River
after earning his doctorate in physics at McGill University.
He was also a physics professor at Carleton
University. Much of his
research was in medical physics, and he helped develop an advanced ultrasound
machine which is currently undergoing trials at the Institute
of Cancer Research at the Royal Marsden
Hospital in England.
Robert Dory died in Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
January 29, 2006. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin
where he specialized in mathematical physics, particle accelerators, and
fusion energy. He joined the research team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
in 1964 and retired in 1994 where he had been the section head for plasma
physics and theory and computing in the Fusion Energy Division.
Paul Govaerts died January 25, 2006.
He began his career at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK/CEN) in 1974
in radiation protection and health. He became the general manager in 1995 and
also served as an honorary professor at the University of Louvain.
Dr. E. Marcia. Katz, a retired University of Tennessee
professor, died March 1 in an automobile accident in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dr. Katz was the first female nuclear engineering doctoral student at the
University of Tennessee (UT) and the university's first female professor in
the engineering college.
Katz earned
her bachelor's degree from Purdue
University. She continued
her academic career by earning her master's degree in 1972 and a doctorate in
1974 at UT; three years later she joined the faculty. Among the many awards
she received for teaching and research during her years at the university
were the Allen and Hoshall Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1993. She was
a finalist for the position of university president in 2004.
During brief
breaks from her teaching obligations, she did research for both the
Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. In 1985
she served on U.S. Sen. Jim Sasser’s staff, and she was a White House Fellow
with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1994. As a member of the
UT faculty, she was especially interested in academically at-risk freshmen
and was an undergraduate and graduate student advisor in the nuclear
engineering department, according to her colleague and long-time friend, H.L.
Dodds, head of the department. Professor Dodds also commented on the
brilliance of Dr. Katz’ intellect and general knowledge in addition to her
engineering expertise. Specifically, on long bus trips with students to
Student Conferences, Dr. Katz would frequently compete with all of the
students on the bus simultaneously in a game of Trivial Pursuit, and she
usually won. She was truly an exceptional person.
Dr. Katz was
a member of the American Nuclear Society since 1969 and was active in many of
the committees and professional groups—Meetings, Proceedings and Transactions
Committee; Publication Steering Committee; Professional Development and
Accreditation Committee; and Student Activities. She was also active in the local Oak
Ridge/Knoxville Section of the ANS.
Wolfgang Müller, an ANS member since
1966, died January 22, 2006. As a reporter he covered economics, science and technology
for German print and broadcast media. He reported on the first UN
International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in 1955. He
then went on to serve from 1956 to 1984 as editor of Atomwirtschaft-Atomtechnik, the leading German nuclear magazine.
Following his retirement he worked on a three-volume history of nuclear
energy in Germany.
The third volume was published in 2004.
David R. (Dave) Vondy died March 30,
2006. He was a W.W. II veteran of the U. S. Navy. He joined the research team
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1958 and retired in 1986. Much of Vondy’s
later work at the laboratory was in reactor core analysis, particularly with
the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor program. Along with Tom Fowler and
others, Vondy was a major developer of several multigroup diffusion theory
codes (VENTURE,
BURNER, CITATION,
VALE,
EXTERMINATOR2, and the BOLD-VENTURE
code system) used in reactor analysis.
An error-mode extrapolation procedure he developed for use in his
codes has been incorporated in the DORT and TORT
discrete ordinates radiation transport codes.
He also developed special codes for thermal hydraulics analysis
(PEBBLE and THR TH), for control rod positioning (RODMOD), and for
perturbation analysis (PERTUBAT).
Former
colleague, Felix C. Difilippo, shares some of his experience with Vondy and
his work. “We used the code developed by Dave: VENTURE. My first models were
extensions of his earlier models. Even before, in the 70’s and in Argentina,
I used the EXTERMINATOR code, also developed by Dave, to compute
reactivities, prompt decay constants and the distribution of prompt and
delayed neutrons of importance to understand pulsed neutron experiments
(which) I was doing at that time. Working in the then Neutron Physics
Division I interacted with Dave from 1983 until 1986; our offices were near
so we used to talk a little bit—he was always very cooperative with any
questions about the use of VENTURE.”
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.
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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June 12–16
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Introductory
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Santa Fe, NM
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July 17–21
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Intermediate
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Bologna, Italy
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July 31–Aug 4
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Intermediate
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West Point, NY
USA
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Sept 18–22
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Intermed./Adv.
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Santa Fe, NM
USA
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Oct 30–Nov 3
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Intermediate
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Tokyo, Japan
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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.
To register go to http://mcnpxworkshops.com/regform.html.
Year 2006 classes will
showcase the latest release of MCNP, Version 5. All classes provide
interactive computer learning with time available to discuss individual
questions and problems with MCNP experts. While MCNP supports a number of
platforms, LANL class computers are usually PCs. The class fee includes a notebook with all
class viewgraphs and handouts, dinner the first evening, and snacks and
refreshments provided during class breaks. Registration and the most current
information can be found at http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/x5/MCNP/classinformation.html.
For information regarding the class in Japan - Contact: Dr. Tadakazu Suzuki
- Research Organization for Information Science & Technology (RIST),
(phone 029-282-8309,6335, fax 029-282-4282, email tadakazu@tokai.rist.or.jp, http://www.rist.or.jp/nucis).
Introductory classes are for people who have little or no experience
with MCNP. This class surveys the features of MCNP so the beginning user will
be introduced to the capabilities of the program, and will have hands-on
experience at running the code to solve simple problems. Course topics
include Basic Geometry, Source Definitions, Output (Tallies) Specification
and Interpretation, Advanced Geometry (repeated structures specification),
Variance Reduction Techniques, Statistical Analysis, Criticality, Plotting of
Geometry, Tallies, and Particle Tracks, and Neutron / Photon / Electron
Physics.
Advanced classes are for people with MCNP experience who want to extend
their knowledge and gain depth of understanding. Most areas of MCNP operation will be
discussed in detail, with emphasis on Advanced Geometry, Advanced Variance
Reduction Techniques, and other Advanced features of the program. Time will
be available to discuss approaches to specific problems of interest to
students.
The Second European International Radiation
Protection Association (IRPA) Congress, organized by the French Society for Radiation
Protection (SFRP), will be held in Paris,
May 15–19, 2006. The European Congress is a global forum on the radiological
protection field and will provide a unique opportunity to present papers and
participate in debate on subjects which will determine the future of this
specialty, ranging from the scientific data and questions about biological
radiation effects, to the regulation and practice of radiation protection.
Details about the conference and registration information are available from
the website at http://www.irpa2006europe.com/.
The North American Young Generation in
Nuclear (NA-YGN) is offering its Annual
Workshop May 16–17, 2006, in San
Francisco, California.
This professional development workshop theme is “Innovate & Rejuvenate:
Act Today, Change Tomorrow” and will include on the program:
·
New Nuclear Plants:
Inside and Out An up-to-date
overview of new reactor designs and what it would take to build them.
·
The West Side Story California faces unique concerns in our
nuclear industry. This panel will help shed light on the various issues.
·
Addressing Security
Concerns at University Research Reactors A breach in security or just media hype?
Join this panel to hear how the industry addressed the public’s concerns.
·
Spreading the
Passion at the Grass-roots Level: NA-YGN Local Chapter Updates Need inspiration or ideas? Check out what
our NA-YGN local chapters are doing.
·
Six Sigma: Sizing Up
the Industry Find out how
data-driven methodologies can have huge returns on investments in nuclear and
non-nuclear organizations.
·
A Walk Down Memory
Lane Learning from our
industry’s history helps us continue to be primed for our future.
·
Passing the Torch: A
Knowledge Transfer Workshop
What’s the best way to share information from one generation to the
next? Join together to explore a growing industry issue.
·
Stanford
Linear Accelerator
Center Tour
Interested in checking out particle physics research, the giant
detectors required to observe subatomic particles and Klystron Gallery, the
world’s longest building? We’ve arranged a tour on Thursday morning, May 18.
Complete workshop information and
registration forms are available at http://www.na-ygn.org/pd/workshop.shtml.
The Environmental and Molecular Science
Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington,
will host the 30th Annual Actinide Separations Conference May 22–25, 2006.
Papers are being solicited for the conference topics which are:
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aqueous separations, including solvent
extraction and ion exchange;
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pyrochemical technologies;
·
process development for waste management
activities;
·
plutonium and fissile material disposition
activities;
·
waste disposal technologies, including waste
acceptance criteria for disposal sites;
·
advanced nuclear fuel process development and
treatment;
·
materials characterization;
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homeland security;
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speciation;
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medical isotopes; and
·
research and development activities associated
with fission products.
Details about the conference may be obtained
from Cal Delegard (calvin.delegard@pnl.gov),
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, MS P7-25, Richland, WA
99352 (phone 509
376-0548, fax 509 372-3861). The registration deadline is April 27.
This year’s Monte Carlo User Group Meeting
MCNEG-2006 will take place at City University, London.
on May 25–26, 2006. MCNEG is the user group meeting for everybody interested
in the use of Monte Carlo simulation for
radiation transport calculations. Users of all Monte
Carlo codes, including BEAM, MCNP, Penelope, EGS4, FLUKA, etc.,
as well as deterministic codes and home-made codes, are encouraged to attend
our meetings. One-page presentation abstracts in electronic form may be
submitted to r.price@city.ac.uk by May 1, 2006.
This year’s guest speakers include:
Dr Habib Zaidi of Geneva
University Hospital,
who will address “Monte Carlo
in nuclear imaging systems” and “Quantitative imaging and dosimetry for
targeted radiation therapy,” and
Dr Alfredo Ferrari, CERN and Developer of the
Fluka code (TBC), who will talk on “The development functionality of FLUKA
and its use for proton and C-ion therapy.”
Full details are available on our website at http://www.mcneg.org.uk/MCNEG06.htm
or via e-mail from the organizer, Dr. Robert
Price, Associate Dean (Research), School of Allied Health Sciences, City
University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB (phone +44 (0)20 7040 5670,
email r.price@city.ac.uk).
 The organizing committee
for Current Problems of Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy
(NPAE-Kyiv 2006) invites your participation in the conference which will
take place May 29–June 03, 2006, at the Institute of the Post-diploma
Education (http://www.ipe.univ.kiev.ua)
of Kyiv National University.
The program will include invited talks and scientific presentations on the
following topics:
·
Collective processes in atomic nuclei
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Nuclear reactions and processes with exotic
nuclei
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Rare nuclear processes
·
Relativistic nuclear physics
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Neutron physics and physics of nuclear
reactors
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Problems of atomic energy and future reactors
·
Applied nuclear physics and technique of
experiments
Details and forms related to the meeting are
available at the website (http://www.kinr.kiev.ua/NPAE_Kyiv2006/)
or you may contact Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospect Nauky, 47, Kyiv,
03680, Ukraine (phone +38 044 525 39 49, fax +38 044 525 44 63, email NPAE-Kyiv2006@kinr.kiev.ua).
The next PENELOPE training course/tutorial will
be held from 4–7 July 2006, at the Facultat de Fisica (ECM), Universitat de
Barcelona, Diagonal 647, 08028 BARCELONA,
Spain. This
course is addressed to researchers in radiation physics and its applications.
The main objective is to provide participants with a detailed description of
the 2006 version of PENELOPE,
with an ample perspective on Monte Carlo
methods for simulation of electron/photon transport. The reliability of the
interaction models and the accuracy of the numerical methods and
approximations implemented in the code will be discussed. Examples of
simulation results and benchmark comparisons with experiment will be
presented. The course will include practical sessions on the use of the
generic main programs, PENCYL (cylindrical geometries) and PENMAIN (quadric
geometries), and on the design of the main program for specific applications.
Details and registration information can be found at http://www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/penelope2006.html.
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
The Los Alamos MCNP code is a general and powerful Monte
Carlo transport code for photons, neutrons, and electrons. MCNP
can be safely described as the “industry standard” with more than 600
person-years of development effort behind it. It is supported on a variety of
platforms and is now accessible to health physicists, medical physicists, and
rad engineers using desktop or laptop personal computers. This 4.5 day course
introduces the basic concepts of Monte
Carlo, demonstrates how to put together an MCNP
input file, and illustrates some health and medical physics applications of
the code. No prior knowledge of Monte
Carlo is assumed.
All of the input and output files for the class demonstrations will be
provided for self-study on a diskette. The course will focus on providing a
practical boost toward learning the program and guiding the student toward
useful applications. Extensive practice sessions are scheduled using a personal
computer in class.
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, email: dseagraves@lanl.gov. Technical questions may be directed to Dick
Olsher, 505-667-3364; email dick@lanl.gov.
Richard H. Olsher
 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 several 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 the 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
2nd International Symposium on Radionuclide Therapy and
Radiopharmaceutical Dosimetry will take place in conjunction with the annual
congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) in Athens, Greece,
September 30–October 4, 2006. As a separate track within the EANM congress
this symposium will bring together disciplines concerned with
radiopharmaceutical dosimetry and radionuclide therapy stimulating
interdisciplinary scientific discussion. The EANM Dosimetry and Therapy
Committees and colleagues from the MIRD committee of the SNM will join to
coordinate the scientific committee and program for the meeting. All
organizational matters will be handled by the EANM secretariat and congress
office. Conference topics include:
·
Clinical: mIBG and peptides
·
Clinical: Radioimmunotherapy
·
Clinical: Thyroid, bone pain palliation &
miscellaneous
·
Dosimetry: Data Collection Methods /
Dosimetric Models / Pharmacokinetics
·
Dosimetry: Quantitative Analysis and Treatment
Planning / Dosimetry for Clinical Trials
·
Biological and Long-Term Effects / Animal and
in-vitro Studies
·
Miscellaneous
The link to current information about the
symposium can be found at http://eanm06.eanm.org/programme/prog_isrtrd.php?navigationId=19&sessNavigationId=63.
 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. One of the highlights of the
presentations will be the report of results from our Japanese NCT teams of
clinical trials on brain, skin and head and neck tumors. Results of recent
treatments on liver and lung cancers will also be reported. These treatments
have been carried out using a combination of BSH and BPA which have yielded
successful results. The most up-to-date information as well as registration
and submittal information can be found at the conference website: http://icnct-12.umin.jp/index.html.
 The European Workgroup on MCTP (EWG-MCTP) is
sponsoring the First European Workshop on Monte Carlo Treatment Planning,
October 22–25, 2006, in Gent,
Belgium. The
conference theme is “Introduction of MCTP into the Clinic.” The workshop will
offer the opportunity for scientists to exchange information, to develop new
ideas and initiate international collaborative programs on the exciting and
fast developing research domain of Monte Carlo
treatment planning. This workshop will also provide an overview of the
current state of the art to clinical physicists who are thinking of
introducing MCTP into their clinic.
The venue of the meeting is “Het Pand,” a
former Dominican monastery located in the historical centre of the city. The
oldest parts of the building date from the 13th century and houses some
valuable collections of the University such as the Museum for the History of
Medicine and the ethnographical and archaeological collections.
Scientific sessions will consist of general
talks and poster presentations. The research topics covered will be the
following:
·
Industry – MCTPS
·
4D MCTP
·
General multipurpose codes
·
Dosimetry
·
Photon MCTP
·
Electron MCTP
·
Proton MCTP
·
Brachytherapy MCTP
·
Clinical studies
·
MC in optimisation
·
Portal dosimetry
Inquiries may be sent to N. Reynaert, Lab for
Standard Dosimetry Gent, Gent University –FANC, Proeftuinstraat 86 – B-9000
Gent, BELGIUM (phone + 32 9 264 66 48, fax + 32 9 264 66 96, email nick.reynaert@ugent.be). Details and
updated information can be found at http://www.ewg-mctp.ugent.be/.
The First International Conference on Physics
and Technology of Reactors and Applications (PHYTRA1), will be held March
14–16, 2007, in Marrakech City,
Morocco. This
is the first International Conference organized by the Moroccan Association
for Nuclear Engineering and Reactor Technology “GMTR” after a series of three
national conferences. The objective is to provide scientists and engineers
from different countries an opportunity to present their recent work in
reactor physics and nuclear technology. Industrial vendors may exhibit their
products and innovations in different domains related to reactor physics and
nuclear technology. The PHYTRA1 conference will also be a celebration for the
operation of the first research reactor (TRIGA Mark II) in Morocco which
is expected to be commissioned in 2006.
Conference topics include:
·
Deterministic and Monte Carlo Transport Theory
Methods
·
Reactor Core and Lattice Physics Methods
·
Physics and Computational Methods for Advanced
Reactors
·
Reactor Theory and Reactor Concepts
·
Neutron Kinetics and Dynamics
·
Criticality and Safety Analysis
·
Fuel Loading Optimization and Fuel Design
·
Nuclear Data Analysis and Methods
·
Computer Codes and Benchmarks
·
Computational Methods for Research Reactors
·
High Temperature Reactor Physics and Methods
·
Reactor Thermal Hydraulics
·
Radioactive Waste Management
·
Research Reactor Utilization
·
Reactor Dosimetry and Reactor Shielding
A one-page abstract should be sent by June 15, 2006, via email, to Pr. A.
Jehouani, Faculty of Sciences SEMLALIA, Dept. of Physics, University Cadi
Ayyad- Marrakech Morocco (email phytra@ucam.ac.ma or jehouani@ucam.ac.ma, fax 212-44-43-74-10) or Pr. L.
Erradi, GMTR President, Mohammed V Agdal University, Faculty of Sciences,
Department of Physics, B. P. 1014 RABAT Morocco (email erradi@fsr.ac.ma or fax 212-0-37-77-89-73)
http://www.ans.org/meetings/index.cgi?c=c.
The International Conference on Nuclear Data
for Science and Technology will be held April 22–27, 2007, in Nice, France.
The conference is organized by the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA)
under the auspices of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). The General
Chairs are B. Bigot, Haut commissaire à l'Énergie Atomique and L. Echávarri,
NEA Director-General. Abstracts should be submitted by September 2006 on the following topics:
·
Nuclear structure and decay data
·
Experimental facilities and detection
techniques
·
Nuclear data measurements and analysis
·
Nuclear theories, models and data evaluation
·
Standards
·
Evaluated nuclear data libraries and
processing
·
Validation, benchmarking of evaluated data
·
Integral experiments
·
Uncertainties quantification
·
Data dissemination and international
collaboration
·
Fission energy applications
·
Accelerator-related applications
·
Fusion technology applications
·
Dosimetry and shielding applications
·
Safeguards and security
·
Space, cosmic-ray applications, radiation
effects on electronics
·
Astrophysics and cosmology applications
·
Medical and environmental applications
The most current information will be posted on the website at
http://www-dapnia.cea.fr/Sphn/nd2007
/site_nd2007/ and questions or comments may be addressed to nd2007@cea.fr.
The committee for the 13th International
Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2007) has issued a call
for papers for the conference to be held June 3–8, 2007, at Gazi University
in Istanbul.
The main objective of ICENES is to provide a
broad review and discussion of various advanced, innovative and
non-conventional nuclear energy production systems to scientists, engineers,
industry leaders, policy makers, decision makers and young professionals who
will shape future energy supply and technology. ICENES 2007 will also open
the forum to innovative non-nuclear technologies, such as hydrogen energy,
solar energy, deep space exploration, etc. with an emphasis on unthinkable ideas with a sound
scientific-technical basis. The program will include invited papers,
submitted contributions in oral and poster sessions, as well as an industrial
exhibition and social tours. Topical areas include:
·
Advanced Fission Systems
·
Fusion Energy Systems
·
Accelerator Driven Systems
·
Exotic Nuclear Reactor Concepts
·
Transmutation and Fuel Cycle
·
Co-Generation and Non-Electricity Production
Applications
·
Generation IV Reactors
·
Space Power and Propulsion
·
Deep Space Exploration, general
·
Nuclear Hydrogen Production
·
Radiation Protection & Shielding
·
Hydrogen Energy, general including non-nuclear
applications
·
Solar Energy
·
Other Alternative Energies
·
Societal Issues
The official language of the conference will
be English. Authors should submit abstracts of 300–500 words to abstract@icenes2007.org for review
by the Program Committee. Abstracts
should include sufficient information to explain and support the new and
significant results to be presented in the proposed paper. The topical area appropriate to the
abstract and the name and address of the author to whom correspondence should
be addressed must be clearly stated at the top of the first page. Abstracts
may be submitted in “pdf” or “doc” format via e-mail by September 22, 2006. Authors will be notified by November 17,
2006. The deadline for full papers is March
2, 2007. The proceedings will be produced on an interactive CD-ROM with
an ISBN registration number. A selection of ICENES 2007 papers will be
published in a special edition of the journal Energy Conversion & Management. Scientific and technical
inqueries may directed to Prof Dr. Sümer Şahin, Gazi University 06500
ANKARA/TURKEY (phone +90 (312) 212 43 04, fax +90 (312) 212 43 04, email sumersahin@icenes2007.org).
Updated information will be posted to http://www.icenes2007.org/.
April 2006
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management
Conference (2006 IHLWM), April 30–May 4, 2006, Las Vegas, 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)
http://www.ans.org/meetings/index.cgi?c=t.
May 2006
39th Annual National Conference on Radiation
Control, May 7–10, 2006, Detroit,
Michigan. Contact: http://www.crcpd.org/2006annualmeeting.asp.
2nd European International Radiation
Protection Association (IRPA) Congress, May 15–19, 2006, Paris, France.
Contact: Technical Secretary, COLLOQUIUM, 12, rue de la Croix-Faubin, F-75557
Paris cedex 11 – France (phone +33 (0)1 44 64 15 15, fax +33 (0)1 44 64 15
16, email irpa2006@colloquium.fr)
http://www.irpa2006europe.com/.
Annual Meeting on Nuclear Technology, May 16–18, 2006, Aachen, Germany.
Contact: dbcm GmbH, phone 49-02241-93897-23, fax 49-02241-93897-12, email jk@dbcm.de.
30th Annual Actinide Separations Conference, May 22–25,
2006, Richland, Washington. Contact: Cal Delegard, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory, P.O.
Box 999, MS P7-25, Richland, WA 99352 (phone 509 376-0548, fax 509
372-3861, email calvin.delegard@pnl.gov).
Monte Carlo User Group Meeting MCNEG -2006, May 25–26,
2006, City University,
London.
Contact: Dr Robert Price,
Associate Dean (Research), School of
Allied Health Sciences, City University,
Northampton Square,
London EC1V OHB
(phone +44 (0)20 7040 5670, email r.price@city.ac.uk).
http://www.mcneg.org.uk.
Current Problems of Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy
(NPAE-Kyiv2006), May 29–June 03, 2006, Kyiv,
Ukraine.
Contact: Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospect Nauky, 47, Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine
(phone +38 044 525 39 49, fax +38 044 525 44 63, email NPAE-Kyiv2006@kinr.kiev.ua) http://www.ipe.univ.kiev.ua.
WIN Global 2006, May 30–June 1, 2006, Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada.
Contact: WIN Coordinator, Carol Berrigan (phone 202-739-8050, email clb@nei.org) http://www.win-2006.org/Win/.
June 2006
53rd Annual Meeting of the Society of
Nuclear Medicine, June 3–7, 2006, San
Diego, California.
Contact: ITS/SNM, Suite
400, 108 Wilmot
Road, Deerfield, IL 60015-5124
(phone 800-424-5249, fax 800-521-6017, url www.snm.org).
ANS Annual Meeting, “A Brilliant Future: Nexus of Public
Support in Nuclear Technology,” June 4–8, 2006, Reno, Nevada. Contact: http://www.ans.org/meetings/annual/.
International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power
Plants (ICAPP ’06), June 4–8, 2006, Reno,
Nevada. Contact: Samim Anghaie,
Univ or Florida, 202 NSC, Gainesville, FL 32611-8300 (phone 352-392-8653, fax
352-392-8656, email anghaie@ufl.edu).
Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials for the Next
Generation Nuclear Reactors, June 4–8, 2006, Reno, Nevada.
Contact: Lance L. Snead, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge,
TN 37831-6140
(phone 865-574-3560, fax 865-574-9942, email sneadll@ornl.gov).
27th Annual Conference of the Canadian
Nuclear Society and student conference, June 11–14, 2006, Toronto, Ont. Contact Canadian Nuclear
Society email cen-snc@on.aibn.com or
rul www.cns-snc.ca.
MCNPX Introductory Workshop, June 12–16, 2006, Santa Fe, NM.
Contact: Bill Hamilton (phone 806-928-6021, email bill@mcnpxworkshops.com) 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/.
International Conference on Research Reactors in the 21st
Century, June 20–22, 2006, Moscow.
Contact: Igor Kabanov, NIKIET, P.O.B. 788, Moscow,
101000 Russia
(phone 7-263-7388, fax 7-975-2019, email nikiet@nikiet.ru).
EPRI International Low-Level Waste Conference and
ASME/EPRI Radwaste Workshop, June 26–30, 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Contact: Linda Nelson, PLAN Ahead (phone 518-374-8190, email lnelson@nycap.rr.com).
July 2006
US
WIN Meeting (WIN 2006), “Leadership, Education and Outreach in the 21st
Century,” July 16–18, 2006, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Contact: WIN
Coordinator, Carol Berrigan (phone 202-739-8050, email clb@nei.org) http://www.winus.org.
47th Annual Meeting of the Institute of
Nuclear Materials Management, July 16–20, 2006, Nashville, Tennessee.
Contact: INMM (phone 847-480-9573, fax 874-480-9282, email inmm@inmm.org).
14th International Conference on Nuclear
Engineering (ICONE 14), July 17–20, 2006, Miami, Florida.
Contact: Kim Punter (email punterk@asme.org).
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) 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).
2nd International
Symposium on Radionuclide Therapy and Radiopharmaceutical Dosimetry, Sept.
30–Oct. 4, 2006 Athens, Greece. The url is http://eanm06.eanm.org/programme/prog_isrtrd.php?navigationId=19&sessNavigationId=63
October 2006
12th International Congress on Neutron
Capture Therapy (ICNCT-12), October 9–13, 2006, Takamatsu,
Kagawa, Japan. Contact: ICNCT-12
Secretariat, Association for Nuclear Technology in Medicine, 2 Masumoto Bldg.,
1-8-16 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, JAPAN (phone 81-3-3504-3961, fax
81-3-3504-1390, email ICNCT2006@antm.or.jp)
http://icnct-12.umin.jp/.
First European Workshop on Monte Carlo Treatment
Planning, Oct. 22–25, 2006, Gent,
Belgium.
Contact: N. Reynaert, Lab for Standard Dosimetry Gent, Gent University –FANC,
Proeftuinstraat 86 – B-9000 Gent, BELGIUM (phone + 32 9 264 66 48, fax + 32 9
264 66 96, email nick.reynaert@ugent.be)
http://www.ewg-mctp.ugent.be/.
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.
March 2007
First International Conference on Physics and
Technology of Reactors and Applications (PHYTRA1), March 14–16, 2007, Marrakech City, Morocco. Contact: Pr. A.
Jehouani, Faculty of Sciences SEMLALIA, Dept. of Physics, University Cadi
Ayyad- Marrakech Morocco (email phytra@ucam.ac.ma
or jehouani@yahoo.com, fax 212 44 43
74 10) or Pr. L. Erradi, GMTR President, Mohammed V Agdal University, Faculty
of Sciences, Department of Physics, B. P. 1014 RABAT Morocco (email erradi@fsr.ac.ma or erradi@hotmail.com, fax
212-0-37-77-89-73).
June 2007
ICENES 2007, June 3–8, 2007, Istanbul. Contact: Prof Dr. Sümer
Şahin, Gazi University 06500 ANKARA/TURKEY Contact: Prof Dr. Sümer
Şahin, Gazi University 06500 ANKARA/TURKEY (phone +90 (312) 212 43 04,
fax +90 (312) 212 43 04, email sumersahin@icenes2007.org,
url http://www.icenes2007.org/).
ANS Annual Meeting, June 24–28, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts.
Contact: http://www.ans.org/meetings/.
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