American Nuclear Society
Reactor Physics Division
Presentation to the
ANS Board of Directors
Dr. Ronald J. Ellis, Chair
November 12th, 2014 - Anaheim, California
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RPD
The mission of the Reactor Physics Division is to:
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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
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RPD Governance
Executive 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)
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Executive Committee:
2015
Sandra Dulla
David Orr
Mark Pierson
2016
Melissa Hunter
Moussa Mahgerefteh
Bojan Petrovic
Jaakko Leppänen
2017
Anna Erickson
Gianluca Longoni
Russell Stachowski
Guy Marleau
Includes International and Young Member Representatives
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Board Liaison: Samuel Brinton (MIT)
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RPD Governance
Standing Committees
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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)
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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
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RPD Governance Communications
• RPD website (http://rpd.ans.org/)
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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
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RPD Membership Trends
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2031
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Peak (June)
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Approx 18%
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Students
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RPD Membership
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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.
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RPD Contributions to ANS
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ANS Position Statements
#48 Preserving Experimental Benchmark Work
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Participation with Other Professional Societies
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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
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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.
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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 Analysis
ANS/ANS-19.3.4 Thermal Energy Deposition Rates in Reactors
ANSI/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 Measurements
ANSI/ANS-19.6.1 Reload Startup Physics Tests in PWRs (Latest Version)
ANSI/ANS-19.10 Pressure Vessel Fluence Calculations
ANSI/ANS-19.11 Moderator Temperature Coefficients in PWRs
ANSI/ANS-5.1
Decay Heat Power in Light Water Reactors (Revised, soon to be
released).
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RPD Contributions to ANS
ANS Reactor Physics Standards (continued)
PROPOSED STANDARDS:
ANS-19.8
ANS-19.9
ANS-19.12
Fission Chain Yields
Delayed Neutron Parameters
Nuclear Data for Radioisotope Production
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RPD Services to Membership
• Professional Development
– PHYSOR 2012 Workshops (10)
– PHYSOR 2014 Workshops (10)
• Recognition/Awards
– Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award:
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– 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
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RPD Services to Membership
• 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.
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RPD Services to Membership
• Blair Bromley (AECL) facilitated and analyzed a Survey of RPD
members in 2013 (150 participants, 8% of RPD membership).
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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.
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President’s reception should last 2.5 hours.
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RPD Services to Membership
• 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.
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RPD Services to Membership
• 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-resultsrecommendations-20131016-v1.pdf
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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.
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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
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Summary Future Focus Areas
• Maintain strong technical programs (large, active
program committee).
• Continue student support
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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.
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