American Nuclear Society Reactor Physics Division Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Dr. Ronald J. Ellis, Chair November 12 th, 2014 - Anaheim,

American Nuclear SocietyReactor Physics Division

Presentation to theANS Board of Directors

Dr. Ronald J. Ellis, ChairNovember 12th, 2014 - Anaheim, California

11/12/2014 1RPD Presentation to ANS Board

RPD

The mission of the Reactor Physics Division is 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

Encourage improvement in basic physical data Support testing of tools and data in reactor

experiments


RPD GovernanceExecutive Committee Structure

• Officers:Chair: Ronald Ellis (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)Vice-Chair: Pavel Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University)Treasurer: Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse)Secretary: Arzu Alpan (Westinghouse)

• Executive Committee:2015 2016 2017Sandra Dulla Melissa Hunter Anna EricksonDavid Orr Moussa Mahgerefteh Gianluca LongoniMark Pierson Bojan Petrovic Russell Stachowski

Jaakko Leppänen Guy MarleauIncludes International and Young Member Representatives

• Board Liaison: Samuel Brinton (MIT)


RPD Governance Standing Committees

• Program– Alexander Stanculescu (Idaho National Laboratory)

• Honors and Awards– Dimitrios Cokinos (Brookhaven National Lab)

• Scholarship– Ben Forget (MIT)

• Standards– Dimitrios Cokinos (Brookhaven National Lab)

• Website (Vice-Chair)– Pavel Tsvetkov (Texas A&M)

• Nominating (Past Chair)– Mark DeHart (Idaho National Laboratory)

• Goals/Membership (Vice-Chair)– Pavel Tsvetkov (Texas A&M)


RPD Governance

• Bylaws – Updated on October 6th, 2014– http://rpd.ans.org/bylaws.html

• Rules– Updated June 12th, 2013– http://rpd.ans.org/rules.html

• Succession Planning Status– 4-year rotation of officers– Contested election of Secretary each year– Preferred succession for officers

• Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-Chair, Chair– 11 additional At-large members on the Executive Committee for 3-year

terms• 1-year Tactical Plan – Updated Annually in June• 5-year Strategic Plan – Updated Annually in June


RPD Governance Communications

• RPD website (http://rpd.ans.org/)– EC and PC Meeting Minutes & Contact Info– Newsletters– Tactical and Strategic Plans– Rules and Bylaws– Topical Meeting Info– Chair and Committee member messages– Awards and Scholarships (soon)– Fellow Recognition (soon)– Technical Meetings

• A Facebook Group Page was established for RPD: currently nearly 500 members

• Semi-annual newsletters• Broadcast e-mails to publicize panel and special sessions,

Topical meetings, Standards news, and recognition


RPD Membership Trends


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• Peak (June) membership

• Approx 18% of ANS

• Students represent ~30%

RPD Membership


RPD Finances

• The RPD financial status is excellent– Our balance allowed us to invest $30,000 as our 1st year

contribution to the 2nd RPD endowed (undergraduate) scholarship

– The 2015 projected balance is $38,566 (which considers the $30,000 allocation for the 2nd RPD scholarship, and a $70,750 balance carried over to this year).

– The projected member allocation income is $3,816, based on August 2014 membership statistics.

– We continue to support ANS student conferences and student travel to national meetings at $5,000 annually.

– We invest $1,000 annually in our website development efforts.

911/12/2014 RPD Presentation to ANS Board

RPD Contributions to ANS• ANS Position Statements

#48 Preserving Experimental Benchmark Work

• Participation with Other Professional Societies– Class 3 sponsor of PHYTRA-2 conference 2011(Morocco)– PHYSOR 2012 Topical (Knoxville, TN): CNS, KNS, ENS, ASME, MNS, AESJ– PHYSOR 2014 Topical (Kyoto, TN): CNS, KNS, ENS, ASME, MNS, AESJ– PHYSOR 2016 Topical (Sun Valley, ID): CNS, KNS, ENS, ASME, MNS, AESJ– ANFM 2015 co-sponsored by FCWMD

• Non-Meeting Publications– Members frequently contribute to Journals

• PHYSOR 2010, NSE Special Issue• ANFM 2009, Progress in Nuclear Energy Special Issue• PHYSOR 2012, Two Special Issues planned• PHYSOR2014 will have a special edition JAEA release.

• Standards– There are a total of 12 existing and proposed standards: 9 existing and 3 proposed.


RPD Contributions to ANS

ANS Reactor Physics Standards

It should be pointed out that the existing standards - those designated with the prefix ANSI (American National Standards Institute) are generating substantial revenue for the Society.

EXISTING STANDARDS:

ANSI/ANS-19.1 Nuclear Data Sets for Reactor Design Calculations (Revision)ANSI/ANS-19.3 Steady State Neutronics Methods for Power Reactor AnalysisANS/ANS-19.3.4 Thermal Energy Deposition Rates in ReactorsANSI/ANS-19.4 Acquisition and Documentation of Power Reactor Physics Reference

Measurements for Nuclear Analysis Verification (Revision in preparation)ANSI/ANS-19.5 Requirements for Reference Reactor Physics MeasurementsANSI/ANS-19.6.1Reload Startup Physics Tests in PWRs (Latest Version)ANSI/ANS-19.10 Pressure Vessel Fluence Calculations ANSI/ANS-19.11 Moderator Temperature Coefficients in PWRsANSI/ANS-5.1 Decay Heat Power in Light Water Reactors (Revised, soon to be released).


RPD Contributions to ANS

ANS Reactor Physics Standards (continued)

PROPOSED STANDARDS:

ANS-19.8 Fission Chain Yields

ANS-19.9 Delayed Neutron Parameters

ANS-19.12 Nuclear Data for Radioisotope Production


RPD Services to Membership

• Professional Development– PHYSOR 2012 Workshops (10)– PHYSOR 2014 Workshops (10)

• Recognition/Awards– Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award:– – In 2011 was awarded to Prof Nils Göran Sjöstrand (Chalmers)

– Special session in his honor at PHYSOR 2012

– In 2013, awarded to Prof. Augusto Gandini, Univ. of Rome– In 2014, awarded to Prof Emeritus Elmer Lewis (Northwestern)

– Presentation of plaque at start of Plenary Session at ANS 2014 National Meeting (Anaheim)

– RPD Best Paper Award given for each ANS meeting



• Student Support• “Henry/Greebler Graduate Scholarship” fully endowed.

Currently awarded annually as a graduate student scholarship:

– 2013 Recipient: Timothey Burke (UM)– 2014 Recipient: Ryan Kelly (TAMU)

• New RPD endowed “Rudi Stamm’ler Undergrad Scholarship” is expected to award to the first recipient in 2015.

• We continue to support ANS student conferences and student travel to ANS national meetings at $5,000 annually.



• Blair Bromley (AECL) facilitated and analyzed a Survey of RPD members in 2013 (150 participants, 8% of RPD membership).

• 35 multiple choice questions, with opportunity for comments.

The following are a summary of the survey results:• Cost of attending ANS meetings needs to come down

Aim for $500 early registration fee for ANS members. Identify cities/venues with economical hotels and flights.

• President’s reception should last 2.5 hours.



• Avoid too many parallel sessions and wasted time slots.

Use 20-minute time slots instead of 25. Run technical sessions until 5 pm (or later in some

special cases). Consolidate smaller technical sessions. Run a Monday evening poster session (6 to 8:30) with

refreshments and cash bar. Distribute sessions/papers evenly throughout week,

including the full use of Thursday afternoon.



• Avoid/reduce panel discussions without publications (i.e., papers); schedule panels after 4 pm.

• Reduce page charges to $20, or zero.

For more details and survey results, see:

http://rpd.ans.org/pdf/survey-results-recommendations-20131016-v1.pdf





RPD Meeting Participation

• Class I, II, and III Topical Meetings– PHYSOR (Class II, bi-annual with almost 50% international)

• PHYSOR 2012 in Knoxville, TN• PHYSOR 2014 successfully held in Sept/Oct in Kyoto, Japan. • PHYSOR 2016 selected to be held in Sun Valley, ID, in May 2016.

– M&C (Class II, Co-sponsor in non-PHYSOR years)• M&C 2013 in Sun Valley, ID• M&C 2015 to be held in Nashville, TN (tri-conf with SNA and MC 2015)

– ANFM (Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management, Class II ~every 6 years)• ANFM V (2015) in Hilton Head, SC from March 29-April 1.• Co-sponsored by FCWMD.


Summary Areas of Success

• Technical Programs (National, PHYSOR, ANFM and Workshops)

• Standards Support• International Participation• Long-term Steady Growth of Membership (some recent

dropoff, similar to ANS, but should improve)• Two Fully-Endowed Scholarships• Student Support (conferences and travel)• Increased involvement of young members and students


Summary Future Focus Areas

• Maintain strong technical programs (large, active program committee).

• Continue student support– Travel to conference– Student conference support– Henry/Greebler graduate scholarship– Rudi Stamm’ler undergraduate scholarship

• Increase support for YMG• Increase website update frequency and content• Maintain newsletters on schedule.• Improved use of recognition through Wigner Awards

and Fellow nominations.


Documents

American Nuclear Society Reactor Physics Division Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Dr. Ronald J. Ellis, Chair November 12 th, 2014 - Anaheim,