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FW: [Neams-srldrship] Draft cover email to announce the FY12 Planning Budget
by Versluis, Rob 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

All, Below are the available allocations ($K) to each program element for the FY12 planning budget, $17.9 million in total, agreed to by the AMSO Leadership Council (AMSO Feds plus Keith Bradley and Hussein Khalil). "Available" means after NEUP and SBIR/STTR contributions have been taken out. The Leadership Council requests that you prepare planning packages for your program element (WBS element) in accordance with these amounts in time for presentation at the PMT WP Planning Meeting in Denver on July 12-13. Fuels, incl $700 for UFD $6,090 Reactor, incl $500 for R7 $4,770 Waste $250 SafeSeps $250 FMM $1,450 CT $500 VU $1,300 ECT $1,080 Management $970 Reserve $1,240 Total $17,900 This planning budget reflects the following considerations: * In FY12, NEAMS will be funded as a line item in the Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies (NEET) program budget. Unlike in FY11, there will be no directed allocations from other programs to NEAMS. Having said that, there may be programs that see value in collaborating with NEAMS on a voluntary, cost-shared basis. Discussions along these lines have produced mixed results at the management level, but we believe this to be a viable collaboration model that is likely to catch on. * While the actual FY12 budget will not be known until appropriation legislation is passed, we will use the President's budget as the basis for planning. Additional guidance from Congressional marks will be forthcoming in the coming months. * These planning numbers are also appropriate for the (very likely) case of a Continuing Resolution (CR), come October 2011. The FY11 final available NEAMS budget (after NEUP and SBIR/STTR) was a little over $21.5 million, so planning to $17.9 million will get us in the ballpark. * In FY12 NEAMS will place its focus on fewer topics. This reflects budget realities as well as comments from NE-5 and NE-7 program and line management. Even so, there is a strong desire to provide at least minimal funding to each program element to enable cost-shared collaboration with NE and non-NE programs who wish to do so (e.g., Waste and SafeSeps). * In anticipation of the forthcoming Blue Ribbon Commission recommendations, we are directing the AMP Fuels IPSC team to include modeling of used-fuel phenomena important for long term storage to their scope (UFD). * We are engaged in discussions with various stakeholders and pre-NEAMS code development teams to determine how the NEAMS effort should be structured to provide the best leverage to the LWR/SMR, NGNP/VHTR, and ARC reactor modeling and simulation program activities. We are directing the SHARP Reactor IPSC team to include a cost-shared R7 code development effort in their planning as well as incorporate some of the VHTR simulation team formerly supported by NGNP to their scope Robert Versluis, PhD - tel: 301-903-1890 mob: 202-834-2292 *****************************************************************

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Deep Burn Monthly Highlights April 2011
by Hulsey, Ana A. 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

Attached is ORNL/TM-2011/125, the April 2011 Report, "Coated Particle Fuel and Deep Burn Program". This report will be posted soon to the Deep Burn Website, http://www.ms.ornl.gov/deep_burn/monthlyreports.shtml Thanks, Ana Hulsey for Lance L. Snead and Bill Wiffen Ana Hulsey Program Assistant, Advanced Reactors Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1 Bethel Valley Road B-159 Building 4500S Oak Ridge TN 37831-6140 Tel (865) 574-3955 Fax (865) 241-3650

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PICSNE for FY12 planning packages
by Versluis, Rob 24 May '11

24 May '11

PICSNE is the unified PICS/FCPICS program tracking system that we will use for FY12. Most of you have been briefed on PICSNE but attached is a presentation on PICSNE to refresh your memory and to share with WP managers and others involved in approving WPs. As a start, you are expected to use the Planning Package module for the FY12 planning. You will receive an email from Allegheny, the new contractor (was PRC before), with the new URL. PICSNE will use your present UN but will provide a new PW. Robert Versluis, PhD - tel: 301-903-1890 mob: 202-834-2292 ***********************************************************************

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Reference Spreadsheet
by Funk, Dan 23 May '11

23 May '11

All: Attached is the reference FY 12 planning spreadsheet promised during today's PMT call. It is structured in an "IPL" format based on the preliminary FY 12 planning inputs you provided recently; it attempts to prioritize your inputs within three tiers: funded activities in a $17.9M "available-funding" scenario; unfunded activities in a "low-funding" scenario (+$16.4M); and additional unfunded activities in a "high-funding" scenario (additional +$14.5M) - so in effect the entire $47M scope is shown. 1) This spreadsheet is a only a guess, but hopefully an educated guess. It helps you see how your inputs were interpreted and digested, and how they sorted with AMSO management priorities. There could be things we missed or misunderstood; there might be differences in priorities/assumptions. Our dialogue on this spreadsheet and its basis will help come to agreement on any such issues; and this will hopefully be helpful in developing your planning packages. 2) This spreadsheet reflects, to some extent, the integration of NEAMS elements. Most of the provided IPSC numbers for needed CMT support were consistent with CMT inputs, but in a couple of cases it appeared IPSC amounts were greater. This is something to look at and maybe adjust. Not shown is the "ownership" of R7 by the Reactor IPSC, or the "ownership" of UFD by the Fuels IPSC. Also, both Fuels and Waste should probably discuss the unfunded UFD activity shown under the Waste IPSC, to ensure that scope is considered. 3) $17.9M is a the appropriate funding level to begin planning to; however, projected available funding could change, as we learn more from House marks and subsequent decisions. This IPL formatted spreadsheet is intended to be a living document, and can help us efficiently adjust to changes in priority or projected available funding. This spreadsheet is not intended to be prescriptive for the detailed activities (within a program element for the specified allocation) - we do want to understand your decision-making process/logic for what you end up recommending. And we must work within the $17.9M boundary, and resulting program element allocation (within the guidance sent out earlier today). Hope this is a helpful document. Again, many thanks for your excellent inputs! R/ Dan Funk Dan Funk Mobile # 240-678-8458 NE-71 [cid:[email protected]]

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FW: FMM priority
by Peltz, James 23 May '11

23 May '11

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Sun, Xin (PNNL) Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:45 PM To: Peltz, James Subject: FW: FMM priority Jim, can you please help me post it? I am having trouble with the ANL site, see below. I think it is because our email address got changed to pnnl.gov so the ANL site does not recognize me anymore. I will need to update my membership there... Thanks, Xin Your mail to 'Neams-pmt' with the subject FW: FMM priority Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/confirm/neams-pmt/62077a0f1bf7ee8b6055621… From: Sun, Xin (PNNL) Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 10:39 AM To: neams-pmt(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov Subject: FW: FMM priority From: Khaleel, Mohammad A Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:48 PM To: James Peltz; Neams-srldrship(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov Cc: Sun, Xin (PNNL) Subject: Re: FMM priority Thanks, Jim. Please find attached excel sheet with FMM priorities. Regards, Moe On 5/11/11 7:52 PM, "James Peltz" <james.peltz(a)nuclear.energy.gov> wrote: Team- Moe sent this to me yesterday. He also sent 4 individual drafts to each IPSC. Fuels and safe seps blessed them today. I will forward the individual emails but would assume the consolidated list captures all of them. I will review in more detail in the morning. Moe/Xin please send the final consolidated list ASAP. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Khaleel, Mohammad A To: Peltz, James Sent: Tue May 10 07:07:46 2011 Subject: FMM priority Hi Jim- I'm still working on a unified document that I intent to send to you today as we discussed yesterday. FYI attached is the FMM priority and the input/guidance I received from the IPSCs. Regards, Moe

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FW: FMM priority
by Sun, Xin (PNNL) 23 May '11

23 May '11

From: Khaleel, Mohammad A Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:48 PM To: James Peltz; Neams-srldrship(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov Cc: Sun, Xin (PNNL) Subject: Re: FMM priority Thanks, Jim. Please find attached excel sheet with FMM priorities. Regards, Moe On 5/11/11 7:52 PM, "James Peltz" <james.peltz(a)nuclear.energy.gov> wrote: Team- Moe sent this to me yesterday. He also sent 4 individual drafts to each IPSC. Fuels and safe seps blessed them today. I will forward the individual emails but would assume the consolidated list captures all of them. I will review in more detail in the morning. Moe/Xin please send the final consolidated list ASAP. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Khaleel, Mohammad A To: Peltz, James Sent: Tue May 10 07:07:46 2011 Subject: FMM priority Hi Jim- I'm still working on a unified document that I intent to send to you today as we discussed yesterday. FYI attached is the FMM priority and the input/guidance I received from the IPSCs. Regards, Moe

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Special NEAMS PMT Call
by Peltz, James 23 May '11

23 May '11

When: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada). Where: (888) 790-9159; passcode 75185 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Weekly
by Peltz, James 23 May '11

23 May '11

All- Please send any weekly entrees that you may have ASAP. Thanks, Jim James Peltz Advanced Modeling and Simulation Office (NE-71) O: (202) 586-7564 C: (202) 731-6781

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Reminder: Special Session of NEAMS PMT telecon on Today at 1 p.m.
by Herrera, Jessica C. 23 May '11

23 May '11

PMT: A special session of NEAMS PMT telecon will be held today at 1 p.m. EDT. ______________________________________________________ PMT Teleconference: Date: Today Time: 1:00 PM EDT Contact Information: (888) 790-9159; passcode 75185 _______________________________________________________ Thank you, Jessica Herrera Nuclear Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Bldg. 208 Argonne, IL 60439 phone: 630-252-5242 fax: 630-252-4007 email: jherrera(a)anl.gov

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Special Session of NEAMS PMT telecon on Monday May 23, 2011
by Herrera, Jessica C. 19 May '11

19 May '11

PMT: A special session of NEAMS PMT telecon will be held on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 1 p.m. EDT. ______________________________________________________ PMT Teleconference: Date: May 23, 2011 Time: 1:00 PM EDT Contact Information: (888) 790-9159; passcode 75185 _______________________________________________________ Thank you, Jessica Herrera Nuclear Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Bldg. 208 Argonne, IL 60439 phone: 630-252-5242 fax: 630-252-4007 email: jherrera(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>

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