(Program as of 04/10/02)
Ballroom North, Monday morning
Plenary
Chair: Robert C. Little
8:30 Welcome, Introductions, Administrative Matters
9:00 Searching
for Planetary Water Using Satellite-Borne Neutron Spectrometers, William C Feldman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:30 The Texas
A&M Electron Beam Food Research Facility, Tom
A Vestal, Institute of Food Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
10:00 Romping Radioactive Sleuths - Hot Spots in Santa Fe, Jay W
Shelton, Science Department Chair,
Santa Fe Preparatory School
10:30 Radiation - The View from NCI, James Deye, Radiation Research Programs Branch, National Cancer Institute
11:00 Hadron Therapy: Past, Present and Prospects, Dan T L Jones, iThemba LABS (Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences), South Africa
Ballroom North, Monday afternoon
Space Radiation Shielding and Doses I—Measurements, Experiments and Codes
Chair: Larry Townsend, Co-chair: R. K. Tripathi
1:55 Twenty
Years of Radiation Measurements in Low-Earth Orbit, M.J. Golightly, E. Semones, T. Shelfer, M.D. Weyland, and A.S. Johnson
2:20 Radiation Shielding Optimization for Space Missions, R. K. Tripathi, J. W. Wilson, F. A. Cucinotta, J. E. Nealy, M. S. Clowdsley, and M. -H. Y. Kim
2:45 Measurements
of Neutron Production Cross Sections Relevant to Galactic Cosmic Ray Transport,
Lawrence Heilbronn, Hiroshi Iwase, Yoshiyuki
Iwata, Takashi Nakamura, and Reginald Ronningen
3:10 Break
3:30 Radiation Effects Risk Analysis and Mitigation of Carbon Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites, Richard T. Wilkins, Lovely K. Fotedar, Merlyn Pulikkathara, Harold Huff, Jerry Vera, Enrique Barrera, Robert C. Singleterry, Bashir Syed and Alice Lee
3:55 Using MCNPX for Space Applications, G. W.
McKinney, J. S. Hendricks, L. S. Waters, T. H. Prettyman
4:20 Modifications
to the HETC Radiation Transport Code for Space Radiation Shielding
Applications: A Status Report, Lawrence W.
Townsend, Thomas M. Miller, and Tony A. Gabriel
Santa Fe Room, Monday afternoon
Shielding Applications—I
Chair: Andrew D. Hodgdon
1:30 Recent
Modifications to the SKYSHINE-III Code for Use in the Analysis of Dose
Distributions Around ISFSI Dry Storage Arrays, Nolan
E. Hertel, Holger Pfeifer and Zachary J. Rose
1:55 Study of Skyshine Calculation of Spent Fuel Casks in Building, Hiroaki Taniuchi and Jun Shimojo
2:20 Influence
of the proton beam line on the shielding aspects of the MYRRHA ADS, Michèle
Coeck, Fernand Vermeersch and Hamid Aït Abderrahim
2:45 A Study of Variance Reduction Methods in MCNP4C in a Slot with a Dogleg, Frej V. Wasastjerna
3:10 Break
3:30 Simple
Calculation Method and Database of Secondary Gamma-Ray Dose Distributions in Shield
Irregularities, Toshimasa Miura,
Yoshihiro Hirao, and Osamu Sato
3:55 Estimation
of the Dose Effects of Gamma-Ray Streaming Through Cracks in the MVST
Storage/Disposal Cask, Bryan L. Broadhead
4:20 A Comparison of Skyshine Codes and Methods Applied to a Low-Level Waste Disposal Trench, Nolan E. Hertel, Jeremy E. Sweezy, J. Karl Warkentin, and J. Kenneth Shultis
Ballroom South, Monday afternoon
Health Effects of Low Dose Radiation
Chair: Ted Rockwell
1:30 Molecular
Biology and Epidemiology Contradict the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Hypothesis, Myron Pollycove
1:55 Low Level Radiation Cell Sensory and Reaction, Negative Dose Response--A Quasi-Threshold From Initiation of Radioresistance Mechanisms for both Spontaneous and Radiation Damage, Bobby E. Leonard
2:20 There was Never a Time that the Beneficial Effects of Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation were Not Known, Jim Muckerheide
2:45 Dose
Modeling for Threshold versus Linear Concepts, Stanley
E. Logan
3:10 Break
Chair: Jim Muckerheide
3:30 Radiation
Protection and the Precautionary Principle, Kenneth
L. Mossman
3:55 NCRP-136
Misrepresents the Scientific Evidence: Low-Dose Radiation is Not Harmful; Shows
Health Benefits, Theodore Rockwell
4:20 U.S.
Department of Energy Low Dose Radiation Research Program: Potential Impact on Estimation of Human
Health Risk, ChornAntone L. Brooks
4:45 High Radon Concentrations–Impact of
Ultra-Fine Radon Progeny Particles on Radiobiology Experimental Measurements,
Miner Cohort Lung Cancer Relative Risk Studies and False Inverse Dose Rate
Effect, Bobby E. Leonard
New Mexico Room, Monday afternoon
Nuclear Well Logging
Chair: Ahmed Badruzzaman
1:30 A
Tutorial on Nuclear Logging- A Subsurface Measurement Technology, Ahmed
Badruzzaman
1:55 Internal Environmental Corrections for a Carbon/Oxygen Device, L A Jacobson, J Truax, and D Durbin
2:20 Monte Carlo and Deterministic Sensitivity Calculations for Nuclear Oil-Well Logging, Marko Maucec, Ivan A. Kodeli, and Daniel L. Aldama
2:45 Oilfield
Applications of Nuclear Modeling, Ahmed Badruzzaman, Tahmina Badruzzaman, Phuong Nguyen,
Tom Zalan
3:10 Break
3:30 Expected-Value Techniques for Monte Carlo Modeling of Well Logging Problems, Scott Mosher, Marko Maucec, Jerome Spanier, Ahmed Badruzzaman, Clint Chedester, Michael Evans, and Larry Gadekan
3:55 On the Possibility of Increasing
C/O Log Sensitivity by Use of Library Least Squares-Analysis with Compound
Libraries, Robin P. Gardner and Pingjun Guo
4:20 ACTI – An
MCNPTM Data Library for Prompt Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy, Stephanie C. Frankle, R. C. Reedy, and Phillip G.
Young
Ballroom North, Tuesday morning
Nuclear Data for Shielding Applications—I
Chair: Mark E. Chadwick
8:55 Code and
Data Benchmarking with the New IAEA Photonuclear Data Library, Danas Ridikas and Peter Vertes
9:20 Complex Particle and Light Fragment Emission in the Cascade-Exciton Model of Nuclear Reactions, Stepan G. Mashnik, Arnold J. Sierk, and Konstantin K. Gudima
9:45 Systematics
of Proton- and Neutron-Induced Fission Cross Sections and Fission Product
Yields for Intermediate Energy Applications, Alexander
V. Prokofiev, Stepan G. Mashnik, and William B. Wilson
10:10 Break
10:30 Evaluation
of Double Differential Neutron Emission
Cross Sections on n + Fe-56 Reaction for Shielding of Fast and Fusion Reactor, Y.-O. Lee, C. S. Gil, D. H. Kim, and J. Chang
10:55 Double Differential Thick-Target Neutron Yields Bombarded by High-Energy Heavy Ions, Takashi Nakamura, Tadahiro Kurosawa, Takashi Kato
11:20 The 9Be(p,n)
Reaction at Low Energy, Steven M. Grimes
New Mexico Room, Tuesday morning
Accelerator Applications and Shielding—I
Chair: Waclaw Gudowski
8:30 Accelerator-Driven
Transmutation of Nuclear Wastes – an Experimental Path to a Demonstration
Facility, Waclaw Gudowski
8:55 Shielding of the Fast Core of the MYRRHA Accelerator Driven System, Th. Aoust, F. Vermeersch, E. Malambu and H. Aït Abderrahim
9:20 MYRRHA ADS: Shielding assessment for a 350 MeV, 5 mA cyclotron, F.Vermeersch, Th. Aoust, and Hamid Aït Abderrahim
9:45 Neutronic
and Radio-Protection Analysis of the TRiga Accelerator-Driven Experiment
(TRADE), Alfredo
Ferrari, Adonai Herrera-Martinez, Yacine Kadi, Veronique LaCoste, Luca
Zanini
10:10 Break
10:30 Analyses of the Dose Rates due to Activated Materials in the Collimator Section of the SNS Accumulator Ring, I.Popova
10:55 Issues of
Shielding and Activation at the Paul Scherrer Institut, Sabine Teichmann
11:20 Radiation
Transport in the LANSCE IPF Stairwell, Kenneth
A. Van Riper
Santa Fe Room, Tuesday morning
Decommissioning and Decontamination
Chair: Richard H. Meservey
8:30 Radiation Protection of Decommissioning Workers Through the Use of
Improved Technologies, Steven J. Bossart, Mark Antkowiak, and Robert Vagnetti
8:55 Implementing Effective Radiological Work at Decommissioning Reactors: Breaking Technical and Cultural Barriers, James P. Tarzia
9:20 New ALARA Technologies, Julia L. Tripp, Mark Landon, and Michael G. McKellar
9:45 Robotic
Crawler Provides Radiological Protection In Hazardous Environment, James E. Ham
and Glen B. Chronister
10:10 Break
10:30 Dose Rates Arising from the Internal Structures of the Romanian VVR-S Reactor, Daniela Ene
10:55 360 Degree
Photography to Decrease Exposure, Increase Safety and Minimize Waste, Gregory J. LeBaron
11:20 Decommissioning the CERN Large Electron Positron Collider, Marco Silari and Luisa Ulrici
Ballroom South, Tuesday morning
Advances in Deterministic and Hybrid Codes and Methods
Chair: Todd Wareing
8:55 Generalization
of Spatial Channel Theory to Three-Dimensional x-y-z Transport Computations, I. K. Abu-Shumays, M. A. Hunter, R. L.
Martz, and J. M. Risner
9:20 Finite
Element-Spherical Harmonics Solutions of 3D Shielding Problems with Cranked
Ducts, Cassiano
de Oliveira, Matthew Eaton, Sabu Shadahtullah and Paul Warner
9:45 An
Automated Deterministic Variance Reduction Generator for MCNP Shielding
Applications, John C. Wagner
10:10 Break
10:30 Radiation
Transport through Complex Shield Penetrations in Accelerator Environments, Franz X. Gallmeier
10:55 Developing
an Expert System for Preparing an Effective Mesh Distribution for the SN
Method in the Parallel Environment, Apisit
Patchimpattapong and Alireza Haghighat
Ballroom North, Tuesday afternoon
Space Radiation Shielding and Doses II —Solar Particle Events
Chair: L. Heilbronn
1:30 Comparisons
of Solar Particle Dose Calculated Using the Dynamic Geomagnetic Cutoff Rigidity
Model With Spacecraft Dosimetry Data, D.F.
Smart and M.A. Shea
1:55 Prediction of Solar Particle Event Dose Time Profiles Using Dose Rate Measurements, John S. Neal and Lawrence W. Townsend
2:20 Interplanetary Crew Doses From Large Solar Particle Events: Variations Among Different Bone Marrow Sites, J. Hoff, L. Townsend, and N. Zapp
2:45 Dose
Evaluation of a Proposed Mars Habitat Module from a Worst Case Solar Particle
Event, Daniel L. Stephens, Jr, Jennifer L.
Hoff, Lawrence W. Townsend
3:10 Break
Doses in Aircraft—I
Chair: David Bartlett
3:30 Recent
Results from Measurements of the Energy Spectrum of Cosmic-Ray Induced Neutrons
Aboard an ER-2 Airplane, Paul Goldhagen and
John W. Wilson
3:55 Particle
Fluences and Doses at Aircraft Altitudes -A Comparison of FLUKA-Predictions
with Experimental Data, Stefan Roesler, Wolfgang Heinrich, and Hans Schraube
Ballroom South, Tuesday afternoon
Transport Codes in Medical Physics
Chair: Bernadette Kirk
1:55 Application
of Monte Carlo Methods in Molecular Targeted Radiation Therapy, C. Hartmann Siantar, M-A. Descallel, G. DeNardo, and
D. Nigg
2:20 Development of Advanced Multi-Modality Radiation Treatment Planning Software, David W. Nigg and C. Hartmann Siantar
2:45 Medical Applications of DOORS, Richard A. Lillie
3:10 Break
3:30 Medical
Physics Applications of MCNPTM, Elizabeth
C. Selcow and Tim Goorley
3:55 Medical
Applications of the MCNPX Code, Laurie
Waters, John S. Hendricks, H. Grady Hughes, Gregg W. McKinney and Edward C.
Snow
4:20 Computational Dosimetry Methods for Brachytherapy: Current Role and Future Prospects, Jeffrey F. Williamson
Santa Fe Room, Tuesday afternoon
Shielding Applications—II
Chair: David R. Anderson
1:30 Radiation
Shielding Considerations for Drinking
Water Facilities Using an Irradiation Treatment Process, Stuart K. Cole, William J. Cooper, R. R.
Brey, and A. J. Weidman
1:55 Shielding Calculations and Verifications for the New Radiation Instrument Calibration Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Gerald L. George, David T. Seagraves, and Richard H. Olsher
2:20 A Comprehensive Study of the nTOF Background at CERN, A. Ferrari, C. Rubbia, V. Vlachoudis
2:45 Nuclear
Analysis of ITER, H. Iida, L.Petrizzi, V.
Khripunov, F. Wasastjerna, S. Sato, and G. Ruvutuso
3:10 Break
3:30 Advanced Methodology For Dose Rate Calculation of ITER-FEAT, L. Petrizzi, H. Iida, P. Batistoni, U. Fischer, Y. Morimoto
3:55 Analytical
Method for Neutron Bulk Shielding Calculation in a Medium Energy Accelerator
Facility, Takashi Kato and Takashi Nakamura
4:20 DARHT: Integration of Shielding Design and Analysis with Facility Design, Richard Boudrie, Thomas Brown, Walter Gilmore, James Downing, Jr., Donald McClure, Christine Nelson, E. Alan Wadlinger, and Martha Zumbro
New Mexico Room, Tuesday afternoon
Developments in NDA/NDE Systems and Techniques
Chair: Raymond T. Klann
1:30 Emerging
Problems in Strategic Arms Control Technology, MAJ Thomas Cartledge
1:55 Development of Coated Gallium Arsenide for Neutron Detection Applications, Raymond T. Klann, Charles L. Fink, Douglas S. McGregor, and Holly Gersch
2:20 A Versatile New Sensor for Pu Assay and Independent Measurements of Neutrons and Gamma Rays, A. P. Belian, M. C. Browne, W. Clay, W. Geist, H. Nguyen, K. Ianakiev, D. Mayo, S. Panowski, and P. Russo
2:45 Application
of a 2D Spectroscopic Gamma-Ray Imager to the Assay of a Dynamic In-Process Inventory
of Plutonium, K.D. Veal, D.H. Beddingfield,
T.E. Ricketts, M.K. Romero, and P.A. Russo
3:10 Break
3:30 Testing the Plutonium Isotopic Analysis code FRAM with various CdTe detectors, Duc T. Vo and Phyllis A. Russo
3:55 A
Geometrically Weighted Frisch Grid Semiconductor Radiation Detector for Gamma
Ray Spectroscopy, Douglas S. McGregor and Robert L. Metzger
4:20 A Cadmium
Zinc Telluride Array Spectrometer for Treaty Confidence Building Measurements, Robert L. Metzger and Kenneth A. Van Riper
4:45 Radionuclide Depth Distribution by Collimated Spectroscopy, Kenneth A. Van Riper, Robert L. Metzger, and Kimberlee J. Kearfott
Ballroom North, Wednesday morning
Nuclear Data for Shielding Applications—II
Chair: Richard A. Lillie
8:30 Development
of 150-MeV Neutron and Proton Reaction
Data for the CINDER'90 Transmutation Code, W.B.
Wilson, M. Blann, M. B. Chadwick, T.R. England, P.D. Ferguson, S.G. Mashnik and
R.E. Prael
8:55 Aspects in Decreasing the Differences between Multigroup and Continuous Energy Structure Calculations in Shielding Applications, F. A. Alpan and A. Haghighat
9:20 NJOY99/2001: New Capabilities in Data Processing, Robert E MacFarlane
9:45 ENDF/B-VI
Coupled Photon-Electron Data for Use in Radiation Shielding Applications, Dermott E.
Cullen and Robert E. MacFarlane
10:10 Break
10:30 HILO2k: Transport Cross Sections for Neutron Energies to 2 GeV, Richard A. Lillie, Franz X. Gallmeier, and Jeffery O. Johnson
10:55 ENDF66: A
Continuous-Energy Neutron Data Library for MCNP4C, Joann M. Campbell, Stephanie C. Frankle,
and Robert C. Little
11:20 Modifications
to Bugle Library Generation Procedures and Their Impact on Shielding
Calculations, F. A. Alpan and A. Haghighat
11:45 MCJEF22NEA.BOLIB
and MCB63NEA.BOLIB: ENDF/B-VI.3 and JEF-2.2 Cross Section Libraries for the
MCNP Monte Carlo Code, Massimo Pescarini,
Roberto Orsi, Anatoly Blokhin and Valentin Sinitsa
Santa Fe Room, Wednesday morning
Radiological and Environmental Dosimetry and Assessment
Chair: Michael Momeni
8:30 Genetic
Algorithm Dose Minimization for an Operational Layout, Steven L. McLawhorn, Drew E.
Kornreich, and Donald J. Dudziak
8:55 Progressive Decommissioning Procedure: Assessment of Radiation Doses from Disposal of 11e.(2) Byproduct Materials, Michael H. Momeni
9:20 Environmental Release of Radioactive Material Evaluating the Dose Consequences of Progeny Ingrowth and Decay During Transport, Bradley J. Schrader
9:45 Environmental
Radiological Monitoring of the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility Remediation
Project, Lawrence E. Haskell and Timothy A.
Runyon
10:10 Break
10:30 Ecological Half-lives of Cs-137 in Fishes, Michael Paller
10:55 Modeling
Variability and Uncertainty Associated with Inhaled PuO2 for the
Stochastic Intake Paradigm, James Aden, Pamela Longmire, and Bobby R. Scott
11:20 A
Comparison of Calculated Photon Dose to Extremity Tissues and Dosimeters, J.A. Sattelberger
New Mexico Room, Wednesday morning
Accelerator Shielding and Applications—II
Chair: Laurie Waters
8:30 Projectile Dependency of Radioactivities of
Spallation Products Induced in Copper, Hiroshi
Yashima, Hiroshi Sugita, Takashi Nakamura, Yoshitomo Uwamino, Sachiko Ito, and Akifumi
Fukumura
8:55 Transmutation Studies for Tungsten and Mercury Targets with the CINDER'90 Code, P. D. Ferguson, W. B. Wilson, I. Remec, and F. X. Gallmeier
9:20 Worker Dose from Nitrogen-13 for the DARHT Second Axis, Richard Boudrie, Thomas Brown, Mark Chadwick, Donald McClure, Christine Nelson, Morgan White and Martha Zumbro
9:45 Study of
Radiation Damage of the Nd-Fe-B Permanent Magnets, Panakkal K. Job, Julie M. Alderman, Rodger C. Martin, and Cathy M.
Simmons
10:10 Break
Accident and Source Term Analyses
Chair: Karl Warkentin
10:30 A Discussion of Training and Resources Available for Radiation Incident First Responders, S. L. Gogol and P. Hypes
10:55 Source
Term Analysis of Severe Accident Sequences for 1000 MWe Plant in Korea, S. Y. Park and D. H. Kim
11:20 Dose
Impact From Increased Control Room Inleakage at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power
Plant, Gerard E. Gryczkowski
11:45 Impact of Utilizing Alternate Source Term vs. TID Source Term in Control Room Unfiltered Inleakage Dose Assessments, J. L. Bostelman, and T. J. Heames
Ballroom South, Wednesday morning
Shielding Benchmarks Part I—High Energy
Chair: Enrico Sartori
8:30 Measurements
of High Energy Neutrons Penetrated Through Concrete Shields Using the Self-TOF,
NE213 and Activation Detectors, Takashi Nakamura, Michiya Sasaki, Eunjoo Kim, Tomoya
Nunomiya, Noriaki Nakao, Tokushi Shibata, Yoshitomo Uwamino, Sachiko Ito and
Akifumi Fukumura
8:55 Deep Penetration Experiment of Neutrons Produced by 800-MeV Proton Beam Through Concrete and Iron at ISIS, T. Nunomiya, N. Nakao, P. Wright, T. Nakamura,E. Kim, T. Kurosawa, S. Taniguchi, M. Sasaki, H.Iwase, Y. Uwamino, T. Shibata, S. Ito, and David R. Perry
9:20 Benchmark Study for Charge Deposition by High Energy Electrons in Thick Slabs, I. Jun
9:45 Measurement
of Neutron Energy Spectra behind the Lateral Shield of the High Energy Electron
Beam Dump, S.Taniguchi, M.Sasaki,
T.Nunomiya, H.Iwase, S.Yonai, T.Nakamura, S.H.Rokni, J.C.Liu, S.Roesler, K.Kase
10:10 Break
Shielding Benchmarks Part II—Standards
10:30 Validation Suites for MCNP™, Russell D. Mosteller
10:55 SINBAD
Benchmark Mission and Recent Activities, H.
Hunter, E. Sartori and I. Kodeli
11:20 Implementation
of IAEA Photonuclear Data Compilations to the RTS&T General-Purpose
Transport Code, Test Calculations of Photoneutrons Emission from Surface of
Uranium Sphere Irradiated by 28 MeV Electrons, I.I. Degtyarev and A.I. Blokhin
Ballroom North, Wednesday afternoon
Doses in Aircraft---II
Chair: Marco Silari
1:55 Investigation of Radiation Doses at Aircraft
Altitudes during a Complete Solar Cycle: DOSMAX- A collaborative Research
Programme, David Bartlett, Denis O’Sullivan, Peter Beck, Jean Francois Bottollier-Depois, L. Lindborg, Luigi
Tommasino, and Frank Wissmann
2:20 Measurement of Cosmic Radiation Dose During a Round-the-Globe Commercial Flight Originating from Sydney, Australia, Bhaskar Mukherjee
2:45 Monitoring of the Cosmic Radiation at IBERIA Commercial Flights: One Year Experience of In-flight Measurements, J.C. Sáez, A.M. Romero, R. Rodriguez, J.L. Muñiz, R. Dominguez-Mompell, F.Merelo, J. Ruano
3:10 Break
3:30 Microdosimetric
Measurements Aboard Civil Aircrafts, Rudolf
E. Grillmaier and Stefan Gerdung
3:55 Aircrew
Radiation Exposure Measurements throughout the Solar Cycle, Brent J. Lewis, Leslie G.I. Bennett, Anna Rae Green,
Alyne Butler and Mike McCall
4:20 Analysis
of the Long Term Dosimetry Results Obtained During Commercial Aircraft Flights,
Spurny Frantisek and Datchev Tsvetan
Ballroom South, Wednesday afternoon
Radiation Shielding and Protection in Radiation Therapy
Chair: Wayne Newhauser
1:55 Shielding of Proton Therapy Facilities - A Review of Recent Advances, Wayne D. Newhauser, Uwe Titt, and Dale T. Dexheimer
2:20 Shielding Effectiveness of an 18 MeV Medical Accelerator’s Hanging Door, Jeffrey K. Tays, Nolan E. Hertel, and Joseph Ting
2:45 Selected
Radiation Safety Issues at Proton Therapy Facilities, Janet M. Sisterson
3:10 Break
3:30 Prospective Treatment Planning for Invasive Special Procedures: A Bilateral Transureteral Stent Placement in a Pregnant Patient, Robert L. Metzger and Kenneth A. Van Riper
3:55 Monte
Carlo Evaluation of Neutron Contamination in High-Energy Photon Therapy Beams, Irena Gudowska, Waclaw
Gudowski, and Mariusz Kopec
Santa Fe Room, Wednesday afternoon
Shielding Applications—III
Chair: John C. Wagner
1:55 Design
and Initial Testing of an Ex-Core Fast Neutron Irradiator for the UMass-Lowell
Research Reactor, John R. White, Areeya
Jirapongmed, Leo Bobek, and Thomas Regan
2:20 Analysis of Dose Rates During Replacement of Manipulators in the FFTF IEM Cell, Joseph V. Nelson
2:45 An Evaluation of 150 MWe Liquid Metal Reactor Shielding Design, Jong Kyung Kim, Chang Ho Shin, Gi Hwan Kim, and Yeong Il Kim
3:10 Break
3:30 Shielding
Study For Fast-Burst Reactor Building, Brian
G. Rees and Richard Malenfant
3:55 Simple Visualization Techniques Used to Optimize the Shielding Configuration of a Reactor on Mars, Randy A. Schwarz and Andrew Prichard
4:20 Simple
Method for Spatial Source Distribution Calculation in Vessel Fluence Analysis, B. J. Moon, J. H. Baik, H. R. Hwang
New Mexico Room, Wednesday afternoon
SOURCES Computer Code: Progress and Applications
Chair: Erik F. Shores
1:30 Present
State of the SOURCES Computer Code, Erik F.
Shores
1:55 Application of the Sources Code in Nuclear Safeguards, D.H. Beddingfield
2:20 Dose Estimates of Alternative Plutonium Pyrochemical Processes, Drew E. Kornreich, Joseph W. Jackson, Stephen T. Boerigter, William A. Averill, and Joseph H. Fasel
2:45 Calculation
of a Simulated Neutron Source, Robert I Scherpelz
and W. Karl Pitts
3:10 Break
3:30 New Neutron Source Algorithms in the ORIGEN-S Code, I. C. Gauld, E. F. Shores and R. T. Perry
3:55 Dose
Rates from Plutonium Metal and Beryllium Metal in a 9975 Shipping Container, Steven J. Nathan
4:20 Alpha-n
Reactions and Energy Deposition From Thin Layers of Actinide Containing
Material, R.T. Perry
New Mexico Room, Thursday morning
Dose Assessment Technology and Detectors
Chair: Robert Metzger
8:30 Radiation
Litmus Paper, Deidre M. Johns, Joseph A.
D’Allesio, Kimberly S. Sheafe, and Benjamin P. Warner
8:55 Development of High Sensitive Phosphorus-compound CaSO4:Dy (KCT-300), J. L. Kim, J. S. Yang, J. I. Lee, S. Y. Chang
9:20 Application
of a Genetic Algorithm for the Unfolding Neutron Energy Spectra Produced by
Particle Accelerators, Bhaskar Mukherjee
9:45 Low Background Gamma Spectrometry for Environmental Radioactivity, T. M. Semkow, P. P. Parekh, C. D. Schwenker, A. J. Khan, A. Bari, J. F. Colaresi, O. K. Tench, G. David, and W. Guryn
10:10 Break
Dose Conversion Factors
Chair: Richard Brey
10:30 Neutron
Dosimetry – Application of the New Coefficients from the ICRP 60 to Workplaces
for Plutonium Reprocessing at the CEA Valduc, Ph.
Crovisier, B. Tournier, C. Itie, B. Asselineau, H. Muller, J.E. Groetz, J. Piot, and
A. Chambaudet
10:55 Neutron
Effective Dose and the Influence of Adipose Tissue, R. Wayne Simpkins and Nolan E. Hertel
11:20 Calculation
of Internal Dose Conversion Factors for Selected Spallation Products, H.Wooten, N. Hertel, T. Andrade, R. Guillmette, and K.
Eckerman
11:45 External Dose Conversion Factors from Finite Airborne Radioactive Plumes, Michael H. Momeni
Stiha Room, Thursday morning
Repository and Waste Management Applications
Chair: Brian Broadhead
8:55 Shielding
Evaluations of Waste Package Designs, Georgeta
Radulescu and Jabo S. Tang
9:20 Shielding Characteristics of Various Materials on PWR Waste Packages, Jabo S. Tang
9:45 Radiolytic Production of Nitric Acid Outside A 21-PWR Waste Package, Jabo S. Tang and Georgeta Radulescu
10:10 Break
10:30 Final
Results of the WIPP RH TRU Facility Shielding Analysis, Robert B. Hayes, Curtis A. Chester, and Anne E. Strait
10:55 Facts and Frictions in TRU Waste Management, Roger L. Huchton and Andrew Montoya
11:20 Environmental
Impact of Lion (Lithium Induced Optimization of spent Nuclear fuel) Process, Yongsoo Hwang, Junghwa Park, Chungsok Seo, Heesung
Shin, and Seongwon Park
Coronado Room, Thursday morning
The Off-Site Source Recovery Project at Los Alamos
National Laboratory
Chair: Leroy E. Leonard
8:55 Reducing
Orphan Nuclear Stock Pile: An Overview
of Efforts by the Off-Site Source Recovery Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Leroy E. Leonard
9:20 WIPP Compliant Packaging for Large Transuranic Sealed Sources, J. Andrew Tompkins
9:45 Design, Development and Testing of Neutron Shielded Pipe Component Assemblies, Michael W. Pearson and Philip W. Noss
10:10 Break
10:30 Development
and Certification of a Special Form Capsule for Sealed Sources to Facilitate
Transportation and Storage as Special Form Material, Danny A. Martinez, Cristy L. Abeyta, Leroy E. Leonard, J. Andrew Tompkins,
Shelby J. Leonard
10:55 Shielding Analysis of Neutron Emitting Sealed Sources in S100 Pipe Component Overpack/TRUPACT-II Geometries Using MCNP Transport Code and Empirical Measurements, R.T. Perry, T.H. Brown, and J.A. Tompkins
Santa Fe Room, Thursday morning
Advances in Monte Carlo Codes and Methods
Chair: Dermott E. Cullen, Co-chair: Lawrence J. Cox
8:30 Status of
the VIM Monte Carlo Neutron/Photon Transport Code, Roger N. Blomquist
8:55 MCNP Version 5.0, Lawrence J. Cox, Thomas E. Booth, Judith F. Briesmeister, Forrest B. Brown, Jeffery S. Bull, Gregg C. Giesler, Russel D. Mosteller, R. Arthur Forster, Richard E. Prael, Elizabeth C. Selcow, Avneet Sood
9:20 TART: Monte Carlo Radiation Transport in Industrial Applications, Dermott E. Cullen
9:45 Progress
and Applications of FLUKA, Paola R. Sala
10:10 Break
10:30 New MCNPX Developments, J. S. Hendricks, G. W. McKinney, L. S. Waters, H. Grady Hughes, and Edward C. Snow
10:55 MCNPX
Running Parallel under PVM, Franz X.
Gallmeier
11:20 Development
of Heavy Ion Transport Monte Carlo Code, Hiroshi
Iwase, Tadahiro Kurosawa, Takashi Nakamura, Nobuaki Yoshizawa, and Jun Funabiki
11:45 Current Status of the RTS&T Code,
Experimental and Calculated Neutron
Production from Thick Targets by Intermediate-Energy Proton Irradiation, I.I.
Degtyarev, O.A. Liashenko, I.A. Yazynin, A.I. Blokhin, and V.I. Belyakov-Bodin
Coronado Room, Thursday afternoon
Shielding Applications—IV
Chair: Nolan E. Hertel
1:55 Monte
Carlo Shielding Analysis for Spent Candu Fuel Transport Cask, Cristina Alice Margeanu, Petre Ilie, Liviu Tuturici,
and Tatiana Angelescu
2:20 Development and Evaluation of A Neutron-Photon Shield For Transuranic Waste Containers, Roger Wishau, Julio Castro, and Roger Huchton
2:45 MCNP4C Photon Dose Calculations Compared to Measurements, Andrew Hodgdon and Jo Ann Pelczar
3:10 Break
3:30 A
Discussion of the Shielding Characteristics of the HI-STORM 100 Dry Cask Storage
System, Everett L Redmond II and Vince
Bilovsky
3:55 Measured and Calculated Dose Rates Around the HI-STORM 100 Dry Cask Storage System, Everett L Redmond II and Mark Marionneaux
4:20 MACNOS:
An Easy-to-Use Optimization Method for Radiation Shielding Design Based on
Genetic Algorithm, B. S. Kim, J. H. Moon and
C. S. Kang
Santa Fe Room, Thursday afternoon
Visualization and User Interface
Chair: Randy A. Schwarz
1:30 ORIGEN-ARP:
A New Windows PC Package for ORIGEN Users, Stephen M. Bowman, James E. Horwedel, Ian C. Gauld,
and D. L. Barnett
1:55 ESPN: SAS4 Shielding Processor for SCALE, Stephen M. Bowman and James E. Horwedel
2:20 Creation and Viewing of MCNP/MCNPX Meshes and Grid Tally Data in Moritz, Kenneth A. Van Riper
2:45 Current
Status of the MCNP Visual Editor, Randy
Schwarz and Leland L. Carter
3:10 Break
3:30 Fission Source Visualization for Criticality Problems Using Collision Density Plots, Christopher J. Gesh and Randy A. Schwarz
3:55 An
Efficient Technique for Constructing Realistic Curved Penetrations in MCNP
Using VisEd, Robert B. Hayes
4:20 MCNP Visualization Tools: Bridging the Gap Between Binary and Biology, Todd P. Jenkins
4:45 The Basic
Concepts of Geometry Modelling and CAD-Interface in RTS&T Code, O.A. Liashenko and I.I. Degtyarev
New Mexico Room, Thursday afternoon
Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiation Medicine
Chair: Tim Bohm
1:30 Prospects
for Efficient Brachytherapy Dose Calculations using DANTSYS/PARTISN Discrete
Ordinates Transport Code, Jeffrey F.
Williamson and George M. Daskalov
1:55 Dosimetry of Permanent Prostate Implants Using Monte Carlo Calculations, Tim D. Bohm, Paul M. DeLuca Jr., Larry A. DeWerd
2:20 A Conceptual Design of a Filter and Collimation System for Boron Enhanced Fast Neutron Therapy, Jeremy E. Sweezy, Nolan E. Hertel and Arlene J. Lennox
2:45 Simulation
of a CT-Scan Device with PENTRAN Using the New Regional Angular Refinement Technique,
Gianluca Longoni and Alireza Haghighat
3:10 Break
3:30 Optimization of Epithermal Neutron Field
for Accelerator-based
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy, Shunsuke
Yonai, Hiroshi Yashima, Mamoru Baba, Takashi Nakamura, and Takao Aoki
3:55 Improving
Existing BNCT Radiation Dosimetry by Use of Registered 18F-BPA PET and T1
Weighted MRI images, M.K. Khan, L.F. Miller,
A. Abdul-Raheem, G.W. Kabalka, and T.F. Nichols
4:20 Gamma-Quanta
and X-Ray Reflector, Gueorgui P. Gueorguiev
Stiha Room, Thursday afternoon
Transportation, Storage and Shielding of Radioactive Sources
Chair: R. T. Perry
1:30 Shielding
Design for a Plutonium Oxide Storage Room, Erik
F. Shores
1:55 Neutron and Photon Effective Dose Equivalent Rate Calculations for the Repackaging of TRU Waste, J.A. Sattelberger
2:20 A Possible Neutron Source Storage Cask, J. P. Johnson and E. F. Shores
2:45 Working
Together on Environmental Programs: A Case Study of the Transportation Resource Exchange Center (T-REX) Website, Mary E. White
3:10 Break
3:30 Object-Oriented Process Modeling for Material-at-Risk Estimation, Drew E. Kornreich and Richard F. Farman
3:55 Validation of Neutron and Gamma Dose Rate Calculations Around Spent Fuel Casks, R. de Wouters, Ph. Maes O. Ergo and J.-P. Wouters