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FW: Today's PMT Teleconference
by Grischkat, Brea 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Sorry if you did not receive Keith's cancellation below. From: Bradley, Keith S. Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 10:02 AM To: Bradley, Keith S.; Hayes, Steven L.; Pointer, William D.; Fanning, Thomas H.; Summers, Randall M.; Sadasivan, Pratap; Sun, Xin (PNNL); Khaleel, Mohammad A; Stewart, James R.; Swiler, Laura P.; Bernholdt, David Edward; Herrera, Jessica C.; Khalil, Hussein S. Subject: CANCELLED: Today's PMT Teleconference Importance: High Folks, For various reasons (including travel to the NE-7 summit) a large fraction of folks are unavailable for today's call. So we will reschedule for next Monday. Apologies for the late notice. ~Keith ************************** Keith S. Bradley, Ph. D. -- (925) 321-5790 (m); (630) 252-4685 (o)

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FW: Initial NEAMS/NRC telecon scheduled for Monday 26 March 3-5pm ET
by Peltz, James 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

All- Here is a bit more info on who will be on the call. It looks like we'll certainly be covered from the reactors point of view but Im guessing these folks may be right for fuels too since the NRC doesn't seem to separate the two areas the way we do, or maybe that's whats covered under the Division of Engineering. Either way I look forward to the call. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Rini, Brett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:08 AM To: Peltz, James Subject: RE: Initial NEAMS/NRC telecon scheduled for Monday 26 March 3-5pm ET Jim, We will have representatives from the Division of Risk Analysis, Division of Engineering, and Division of Systems Analysis. We will have the branch chief for the Probabilistic Risk Assessment Branch (Kevin Coyne), and the branch chief for the Reactor Systems Code Development Branch (Hoxie). We will also have other senior staff involved in PRA work, at a minimum. Thanks, Brett -----Original Message----- From: Peltz, James [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:01 AM To: Rini, Brett Subject: FW: Initial NEAMS/NRC telecon scheduled for Monday 26 March 3-5pm ET Hi Brett- David's email below hits the high points of what we would like to present. Im wondering if you had a better idea of who was planning to attend from your end? I don't really mean specific participants but rather the topic areas that will be there. Having a better idea of who will be on the call will help us put the finishing touches on our presentations. Thanks, Jim -----Original Message----- From: David E. Bernholdt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 12:55 PM To: Cook, Trevor; Peltz, James; Bradley, Keith S.; tautges(a)mcs.anl.gov; Clarno, Kevin T. Cc: Herrera, Jessica C.; NEAMS PMT Subject: Initial NEAMS/NRC telecon scheduled for Monday 26 March 3-5pm ET For everyone's information, we've finally closed on a time for the telecon to introduce NEAMS to the NRC. As a reminder, the point of this is help us find the right points of contact between the NEAMS program and the NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. The NRC audience will consist of representatives from the various divisions and branches of that Office. The information we need to convey to them has to do with what we're trying to accomplish and how we're going about it, and how this differs from standard practice today. The eventual outcome will be a plan for how we should engage with the NRC (people, frequency, format, etc.) on an ongoing basis to ensure that our methods and our codes do not come as a "surprise" should someone eventually pick them up and use them in some application to the NRC. In this initial meeting, we will provide an overview of the entire program and deeper dives on Reactors and Fuels. This format was chosen, to a significant extent, in order to limit everyone's time commitment for this initial encounter. Based on the overview, we will jointly discuss what additional deep dives may be useful. I've put together a draft agenda below. It is pretty simple, and I am open to suggestions as to modifications. All time slots should probably be ~20 min presentation + 10 min discussion/Q&A. The overall planned time would be 90 minutes. I'm planning a two hour block of time to provide a cushion. Acknowledging that there may be limitations on the number of people we can accommodate on the phone bridge, I think we can open this up to participation by other PMT members. If you're interested to join the call, please RSVP to me. Presenters, I think it would be good if you could circulate a draft of your presentation to the PMT and your IPSC teams for comment by Thursday or Friday of next week. DRAFT AGENDA 3:00-3:30pm ET (including Q&A) An overview of the NEAMS program Keith Bradley, National Technical Director - Motivation and high-level goals of the NEAMS program - Overview of the NEAMS program elements + Integrated Performance and Safety Codes (IPSCs) . Fuels . Reactors . Waste Forms . Safeguards and Separations + Crosscutting Methods and Tools (CMTs) . Fundamental Methods and Models (FMM) . Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification (VU) . Enabling Computational Technologies (ECT) . Capability Transfer (CT) 3:30-4:00pm ET (including Q&A) The Fuels Integrated Performance and Safety Code Kevin Clarno, Alternate Technical Lead 4:00-4:30pm ET (including Q&A) The Reactors Integrated Performance and Safety Code Tim Tautges (for David Pointer, Technical Lead) 4:30-5:00pm ET Additional discussion time, if needed ADDITIONAL NEAMS PARTICIPANTS: Trevor Cook, Jim Peltz, David Bernholdt -- David E. Bernholdt | Email: bernholdtde(a)ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Phone: +1 865-574-3147 http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~bernhold | Fax: +1 865-576-5491

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Initial NEAMS/NRC telecon scheduled for Monday 26 March 3-5pm ET
by David E. Bernholdt 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

For everyone's information, we've finally closed on a time for the telecon to introduce NEAMS to the NRC. As a reminder, the point of this is help us find the right points of contact between the NEAMS program and the NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. The NRC audience will consist of representatives from the various divisions and branches of that Office. The information we need to convey to them has to do with what we're trying to accomplish and how we're going about it, and how this differs from standard practice today. The eventual outcome will be a plan for how we should engage with the NRC (people, frequency, format, etc.) on an ongoing basis to ensure that our methods and our codes do not come as a "surprise" should someone eventually pick them up and use them in some application to the NRC. In this initial meeting, we will provide an overview of the entire program and deeper dives on Reactors and Fuels. This format was chosen, to a significant extent, in order to limit everyone's time commitment for this initial encounter. Based on the overview, we will jointly discuss what additional deep dives may be useful. I've put together a draft agenda below. It is pretty simple, and I am open to suggestions as to modifications. All time slots should probably be ~20 min presentation + 10 min discussion/Q&A. The overall planned time would be 90 minutes. I'm planning a two hour block of time to provide a cushion. Acknowledging that there may be limitations on the number of people we can accommodate on the phone bridge, I think we can open this up to participation by other PMT members. If you're interested to join the call, please RSVP to me. Presenters, I think it would be good if you could circulate a draft of your presentation to the PMT and your IPSC teams for comment by Thursday or Friday of next week. DRAFT AGENDA 3:00-3:30pm ET (including Q&A) An overview of the NEAMS program Keith Bradley, National Technical Director - Motivation and high-level goals of the NEAMS program - Overview of the NEAMS program elements + Integrated Performance and Safety Codes (IPSCs) . Fuels . Reactors . Waste Forms . Safeguards and Separations + Crosscutting Methods and Tools (CMTs) . Fundamental Methods and Models (FMM) . Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification (VU) . Enabling Computational Technologies (ECT) . Capability Transfer (CT) 3:30-4:00pm ET (including Q&A) The Fuels Integrated Performance and Safety Code Kevin Clarno, Alternate Technical Lead 4:00-4:30pm ET (including Q&A) The Reactors Integrated Performance and Safety Code Tim Tautges (for David Pointer, Technical Lead) 4:30-5:00pm ET Additional discussion time, if needed ADDITIONAL NEAMS PARTICIPANTS: Trevor Cook, Jim Peltz, David Bernholdt -- David E. Bernholdt | Email: bernholdtde(a)ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Phone: +1 865-574-3147 http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~bernhold | Fax: +1 865-576-5491

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NEAMS PMT Telecon
by Bradley, Keith S. 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

PMT Teleconference: Date: March 19, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM EST Contact Information: (800) 857-1810; passcode 80655 AGENDA: Item Lead Roll Call Bradley Code Names for Quarterly Report Bradley April PI Meeting Funk Added Items PMT

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Updated NE-7 Summit AMSO Intro Slides
by Larzelere, Alex 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Everyone, Last shot - thanks for the feedback last weekend and I used that to update my slides. Please take a look at these to make sure I am accurately telling the story of the NE-7 code portfolio. Also, please look at the last slide. I want to use this as a "call the arms" for the experimentalists to start thinking about what they must do to create data that we can use to build and validate our simulation tools. Have a great weekend! Regards, Alex ________________________________________________ Alex R. Larzelere Office of Nuclear Energy (NE-71) U.S. Department of Energy 202-586-1906 Alex.Larzelere(a)nuclear.energy.gov<mailto:[email protected]>

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NEAMS PMT Telecon-Monday, March 19
by Herrera, Jessica C. 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

[cid:[email protected]] PMT Teleconference: Date: March 19, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM EST Contact Information: (800) 857-1810; passcode 80655 AGENDA: Item Lead Roll Call Bradley Codes names for quarterly report Bradley April PI Meeting Funk Added Items PMT

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NEAMS PMT Telecon
by Bradley, Keith S. 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

PMT Teleconference: Date: March 19, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM EST Contact Information: (800) 857-1810; passcode 80655 AGENDA: Item Lead Roll Call Bradley Codes names for quarterly report Bradley April PI Meeting Funk Added Items PMT

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NE Reactor Technology Summit Presenation
by Larzelere, Alex 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Everyone, As many of you know - on Tuesday, March 20th, NE-7 will be holding its annual Reactor Technology Summit. Unfortunately, we are very spaced constrained and therefore attendance is limited to invitees only (and yes they have already gone out and you know who you are). I have attached the agenda for the meeting and as you will see I have 15 minutes for an introduction. That will be followed by a two hour panel that will be run by Trevor Cook. The panel will consist of four speaker: * Dave Pointer to talk about reactor simulation * Steve Hayes to talk about fuels simulation * Jess Gehin to talk about how CASL is interacting with industry and the NRC * Paul Turinsky to talk about Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (Paul's name might be a place holder. If he cannot make it the CASL folks will arrange for another rep) So - here is when I finally get to my request. Attached is a first draft of my introductory presentation. As you will see, it talks about three main product lines (fuels, reactor, and systems) and five codes that are needed to span those products and support the interfaces. I also have a couple of examples of their uses and end up with a discussion about V&V, UQ. On the last slide, I plan to make a "call to arms" for the experimentalists in the room. The point is (as we have heard many times) that experiments are critical to AMSO being successful. I also want to make the point that we might need to think about different experiments or at least to do them differently. So - please look over the attached slides and let me know if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. Given that I only have 15 minutes, this is going to be brief. Hopefully I will be able to provide some context for the panel session that will follow me. Thanks for the help. Regards, Alex ________________________________________________ Alex R. Larzelere Office of Nuclear Energy (NE-71) U.S. Department of Energy 202-586-1906 Alex.Larzelere(a)nuclear.energy.gov<mailto:[email protected]>

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NEAMS PI actions for NEUP Liason Activities
by Peltz, James 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Dear NEAMS PI members- As most of you are aware, the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) has announced its program selections for FY 11 and we now performing the full proposal review for FY 12. Both NEUP and NEAMS recognize all of the hard work that you do to make both of our programs successful and we would like to express a sincere thank you for your continued support. Attached you will find 3 files and instructions for obtaining the pdfs for the full proposals: 1. NEUP selected project list FY 09_11 V3-The spreadsheet contains 6 tabs. The first three tabs attempt to "bin" the projects as they line up to the IPSC (vertical axis) and phenomenological effect and/or crosscut (horizontal axis). The last three tabs list the high level details of the project (title, PI, funding etc.) for FYs 09-11. The 09 and 10 "selection table and title tabs" should look familiar since they were used to identify candidate projects of interest for these years. The FY 11 selection table and title contains the entire listing of projects that were funded and you will receive instructions in a separate email from your NEAMS lead regarding further actions for this tab. 2. I know its not convenient but I the only way to get the lot of pdf files past the DOE firewall was to use a separate email account. You will receive another email with these files after this one. The actual assignments are contained within the "selection table and title" tabs from the spreadsheet mentioned above. 3. My previous email to PMT members regarding FY 11 NEUP guidance dated 10/05/11-You should have received an email from your program lead or representative laboratory PMT member last fall which provided specific guidance for costing the direct funding that was provided for liaison activities in FY 11. In FY 12 direct funding has not been specifically allocated; however, all work packages contain boiler plate NEUP verbiage to support these same sorts of activities. The original scope of work contained within each work package obviously has priority however we believe that NEAMS could greatly benefit by supporting a small level of effort to leverage the large number of funded projects across the portfolio. (This email also contains the previous NEUP selected project list as well as the NEAMS NEUP Integration Plan). 4. NEUP Presentation that I gave at the PMT meeting in ABQ (1/25/11). This presentation outlines the process as a whole and outlines the status of the integration efforts. If you have any questions about the overall process please review this and the Integration Plan. Action: 1. Please identify and review the full proposals from my other email. 2. You have been given online access to all the identified projects you expressed an interest in reviewing and now have the full proposal which in most cases was not previously available on the NEUP website. Please review the project(s) documents in their entirety and decide whether or not you would be interested in contacting the PI for further discussions and/or data exchanges. 3. Complete this assessment and provide your recommendations (positive or negative) to me and your NEAMS lead by COB 3/12. 4. Do not contact NEUP PI. In most cases, NEAMS does not have the oversight authority for engaging the PI directly. Once I have a confirmed listing I will then engage NEUP and applicable NE program POC to allow first contact as well as a provide more detailed instructions on the expectations for the interaction. Again, your assistance is greatly appreciated, and feel free to contact me or your NEAMS lead should you have additional questions and/or comments. Jim James Peltz Advanced Modeling and Simulation Office (NE-71) O: (202) 586-7564 C: (202) 731-6781

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Re: [Neams-pmt] [EXTERNAL] NE Q1 Report to management
by Versluis, Rob 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

We look for planned achievements that we think are significant, have meaning to the audience of senior NE managers and directors, and put the program in a favorable light. We tend to look at M2s first but we don't ignore M3s. When we recommend to a WP Manager to advance an M3 to an M2, it usually means that it could be a candidate for such visibility. Rob From: Stewart, James R [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 6:58 PM To: Versluis, Rob Cc: Swiler, Laura Painton; Peltz, James; Cook, Trevor; Bradley, Keith S. Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [Neams-pmt] NE Q1 Report to management Thanks Rob. I was wondering on Slide 18 why a VU milestone wasn't included - did you only report M2's there? (and since we don't have one we didn't get included?) We didn't elevate one of our M3's to an M2 but will do that if it helps us and you with reporting on our work. Thanks, Jim From: "Versluis, Rob" <ROB.VERSLUIS(a)nuclear.energy.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 15:15:37 -0500 To: NEAMS PMT <neams-pmt(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Neams-pmt] NE Q1 Report to management Attached is an extract of the Q1 finance and performance report presented to NE senior management. The slides show the FY12 priorities of the various programs with which we interact (I have left out other programs) as well as the projected spend curves. All programs are dead on spending to date (end of Jan) because the baseline that was put in place in Feb used actuals for the pre-Feb spend plan. Robert Versluis, PhD - tel: 301-903-1890 mob: 202-834-2292 *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Neams-pmt mailing list Neams-pmt(a)lists.mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/neams-pmt

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