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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE meeting focuses on Marshall Islands’ legacy activity
The Department of Energy Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security (EHSS) held its annual meeting this month with the government of the Marshall Islands. The two-and-a-half-day meeting, in Honolulu, Hawaii, focused on ongoing cooperative efforts and programs related to the legacy of U.S. nuclear weapons testing from the 1940s and 1950s. The United States began cleanup operations on the islands in the 1970s.
Technical Session
Tuesday, September 16, 2025|8:00–9:40AM CDT|Grand Salon AB
Session Chair:
Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Ashley Raster (Sandia)
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Validation of Modern Nuclear Data Processing in SCALE
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Jesse M. Brown (ORNL), Travis M. Greene (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Cihangir Celik (ORNL)
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Neutron Transmission Measurements in Support of the Validation of the ENDF/B-VIII.1 Heavy Paraffinic Oil TSL
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Devin Barry (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Rapp (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Brian Epping (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Amelia Trainer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Quantification of Integral Benchmark Sensitivities to 1D and 2D Thermal Scattering Cross Sections
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (ORNL), Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL)
Temperature-Dependent Benchmark Testing for H2O and D2O Using Experiments Performed with the New IPEN/MB-01 Setup
9:00–9:10AM CDT
Luiz Leal (ORNL), Adimir dos Santos (ORNL), Travis Greene (ORNL), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL), Kemal Remic (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian (ERIC), Vaibhav Jaiswal (ASNR), Ulysses D'Utra Bitelli (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Mitsuo Yamaguchi (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Hugo Rodrigues Landim (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Fernando de Castro Junqueira (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Gregorio Soares de Sousa (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Michelangelo Durazzo (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Elita Urano (IPEN/CNEN-SP)
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