American Nuclear Society Reactor Physics Division

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American Nuclear SocietyReactor Physics Division

• Presentation to the
• ANS Board of Directors
• Baard Johansen
• November 17, 2004
• Washington, DC

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RPD Mission

• The Reactor Physics Division has been organized
  to
• promote the advancement of theoretical, applied
  and experimental research in reactor physics,
• seek a better understanding of reactor physics,
• seek a better understanding of reactor operations
  and in-core fuel management through the
  development and application of fundamental tools,
• improve basic physical data,
• test both tools and data in reactor experiments.
• Technical meetings and papers are encouraged and
  supported.
• Key Priorities
• Technical Program Henry / Greebler Scholarship
• Honors and Awards Standards
• International Participation Student Support

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RPD Governance

1. Executive Standing Committees
2. Membership
3. Budget
4. Division Planning (Strategic Plan, Succession
   Plan)
5. Communications (Web, Newsletter)

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RPD Executive Committee

• Chair Baard Johansen Westinghouse Electric
  Company
• Vice-Chair Jess Gehin ORNL
• Treasurer Benjamin Rouben AECL
• Secretary Farzad Rahnema Georgia Tech
  University
• EC (2005) Gray Chang INEEL
• Etsuro Saji TEPCO
• Temitope Taiwo ANL
• EC (2006) Atul Karve, Global Nuclear Fuel
• Brian Aviles KAPL
• Jeff Borkowski Studsvik
• EC (2007) Jeffrey Bradfute Westinghouse
  Electric Company
• William Charlton Texas AM University
• Juan-Luis Francois Universidad Nacional
  Autonoma de Mexico
• Board Liason Bertrand Barré COGEMA
• Demographics Industry 46 Natl Lab 31
  University 23
• Non-US 23

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RPD Standing Committees

• Program Ivan Maldonado, U. Cincinnati (
  transitioned from Jess Gehin, ORNL, in 03)
• Honors Awards Dimitrios Cokinos, BNL
• Standards Dimitrios Cokinos, BNL
• Scholarships Phillip Finck, ANL
  (transitioned from Kord Smith in 04)
• Goals Planning, Phillip Finck, ANL
  (past-Chair)
• Membership, Nominating
• Website Farzad Rahnema, Georgia Tech U.

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RPD Membership Trend
Added 101 students 45 professionals in 2003

• Overall, RPD membership has increased by 37 in
  5 years

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RPD Demographics

• 53 represented by Students, Utility and National
  Lab
• Since 02, added 92 students, 28 Natl Lab, 15
  educators lost 15 Utility members

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RPD Budget
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RPD Planning

• 5 Year Operational Plan
• Overhauled in 2002 to align with ANS 5-year Goals
  documents
• 5 year goals updated annually each June, since
  2002
• 1 Year Tactical Plan
• Updated twice per year
• Prior year plans (2002 2003) retained as
  appendices
• Latest update includes as appendices
• RPD Vitality Measures
• Succession Plan for Officers and Committees
• Secretary contested election of 2 candidates,
  preferably from EC or TPC
• Secretary then progresses through Treasurer -gt
  Vice-Chair -gt Chair roles
• Technical Program chair recently reassigned,
  following 1 year transition period to allow new
  chair to train and assure continuity

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RPD Communications

• Website Newsletter areas of weakness for past
  two years
• Website
• Updated in past month to include
• EC Meeting Minutes
• 5 Yr Operational Plan and 1 Yr Tactical Plan
• Officer and Committee contact list
• Website redesign planned for 1st half of 2005
• Newsletter
• Winter 2004 Newsletter submitted (last newsletter
  was Spring 2002)
• Committed to issuing 2 newsletters per year

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RPD Contributions to ANS

• ANS Position Statements
• RPD is not responsible for position statements
• Participation with Other Professional Societies
• Society Leadership
• Non-Meeting Publications (ANS Standards)

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RPD Participation with Other Professional
Societies

• In 2003
• Established formal agreement with MC Division to
  split the Division profits from our RPD and MC
  topical meetings (75 to host / 25 to
  co-sponsor)
• Co-sponsored MC 2003 topical meeting
• Endorsed AESJ/ANS ANP2003/GENES4 topical
• Endorsed CNS 6th Intl Conf. on Simulation
  Methods in Nuclear Engineering
• In 2004
• Co-sponsoring MC 2005 topical meeting
• Awarded RPDs PHYSOR 2006 topical meeting to
  Canadian Nuclear Society

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RPD Society Leadership

• In 2003 and 2004
• Attended 100 of Professional Divisions Committee
  workshops and meetings
• Attended 100 of National Program Committee
  meetings
• 50 attendance by Officers/Executive Committee

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RPD Standards(Dmitrios Cokinos, ANS-19
Subcommittee Chair)

• Standard Topic Status
• ANS 5.1 Decay Heat Revision under
  review by N-17
• ANS 19.1 Nuclear Data Sets Undergoing
  revision
• ANS 19.3 Reactivity Reaction Rates Revision
  under review by N-17
• ANS 19.3.4 Thermal Energy Generation R2002
  
• ANS 19.4 Documentation for RP Measurements R2000
• ANS 19.5 Requirements for RP Measurements R1984
• ANS 19.6.1 Reload Physics Startup
  Test Revision under review by N-17
• follow-on revision ongoing
• ANS 19.11 Moderator Temperature
  Coefficient R2002
• Under Development
• ANS 19.8 Fission Chain Yields
• ANS 19.9 Delayed Neutrons
• ANS 19.10 Fast Neutron Fluence Draft under
  review by ANS-19

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RPD Services to Membership

1. Professional Development
2. Scholarships
3. Peer Recognition/Awards
4. Student Support

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RPD Professional Development

• OECD/USNRC BWR Turbine Trip Benchmark workshop
  (PHYSOR 2002, Oct 2002)
• MCNP workshop (PHYSOR 2004, April 2004)
• Generation-IV all-day seminar (PHYSOR 2004, April
  2004)
• Special panel sessions at ANS National meetings
  on Current Topics for Reactor Engineers (2 in
  2002, 1 in 2004, 1 in 2005) to increase
  utility participation

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RPD Scholarship(Phillip Finck, Chair)

• Henry / Greebler scholarship awarded annually,
  recently in amount of 3500
• May be granted to any full-time student attending
  North American college or university
• Henry family matching contribution of 10,000
  pending
• Current endowment at 81,000
• Endowment forecast to be fully endowed at
  101,000 by year-end - two years ahead of RPD
  goal.
• RPD will have contributed 32,500 since 2001
• RPD considering creating a 2nd scholarship in 2006

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RPD Recognition/Awards(Dimitrios Cokinos, Chair)

• Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award
  initiated in 1990, with Dr. Wigner as the first
  recipient
• Recent Wigner Award winners
• 2004 Richard Hwang, ANL
• 2003 Paul Turinsky, NC St
• W. Stacey, GA Tech
• 2002 Noel Corngold, California Institute of
  Technology
• 2001 Dan Cacuci, University of Karlsruhe
• 2000 M. M. R. Williams, University of London
• Wigner Award Lecture Series created lead paper
  at Reactor Physics General session at National
  meeting
• RPD Best Paper Award given at each National
  meeting

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RPD Student Support

• Since 2001, RPD has annually disbursed
• 1500 to ANS Student Conference
• 500 to Student Travel to National Meetings
• 5 Yr Operational Plan includes commitment to
  maintain at least this level of funding

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RPD Meetings

1. National Meeting Participation
2. Topical Meetings

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RPD Technical Program ANS National
Meetings(Ivan Maldonado, Chair)

• Year Sessions Papers
• 2002 Annual Meeting 41 panel 33
• 2002 Winter Meeting 31 panel 27
• 2003 Annual Meeting 6 42
• 2003 Winter Meeting 51 panel 34
• 2004 Annual Meeting 41 panel 26
• 2004 Winter Meeting 6 44
• 6070 papers contributed per year at RPD sessions
• RPD goal to have 3 standard sessions plus at
  least 2 special sessions per meeting (including
  panel on Current Topics for Reactor
  Engineers)

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RPD Technical Program Class I/II Topical
Meetings

• RPD Profit Non-US
• 1998 PHYSOR 98 Long Island 6,866 50
• 2000 PHYSOR 2000 Pittsburgh 12,759 43
• 2002 PHYSOR 2002 Seoul, Korea 8,138 53
• 2003 Adv. in Fuel Mgmt III Hilton Head,
  SC 3,167
• 2004 PHYSOR 2004 Chicago 7,968 52
• 2006 PHYSOR 2006 Vancouver, Canada ---
  ---
• RPD co-sponsors MCD topical meetings in
  odd-numbered years, and MCD co-sponsors the
  PHYSOR conferences (75/25 profit split)
• RPD seeks to award every 3rd PHYSOR meeting to a
  non-North American host
• RPD goal to have gt40 non-US participation at
  PHYSOR

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Summary

• RPD Vitality Measures highlighted 2 gap areas
• Succession Planning (YELLOW) plan was created
  and included in 5 Yr Operational Plan document
  (10/8/04)
• Communications (RED) Website updated
  (10/26/04) Winter 2004 Newsletter submitted
  (11/12/04) with plan to issue two/yr
• Areas of Success will continue to be RPDs future
  priority
• Technical Program (National, PHYSOR)
• Henry / Greebler Scholarship
• Honors and Awards
• Standards
• International Participation
• Student Support