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DOE OSTI2018

INITIAL Reactor Laboratory Irradiation Safety Calculations

The INITIAL reactor experiment being pitched to UC Davis and agreed upon by the professor teaching the course is a natural uranium neutron activation experiment in the McClellan Nuclear Research Center (MNCR) reactor. Due to the complex nature of the build up and decay of fission products in nuclear fuel, and the subsequent variety of radiation emitting nuclides, the following dose calculations are provided to ensure the safety of the experiment. These calculations are performed for both non-cadmium covered (Ex:1 - bare) and cadmium covered (Ex:2 - Cd) neutron irradiated UO 2 samples.

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DOE OSTI2018

INITIAL UC Davis Reactor Analysis Context

The INITIAL reactor experiment pitched to UC Davis and agreed upon by the professor teaching the course is a natural uranium neutron activation experiment in the McClellan Nu- clear Research Center (MNRC) reactor. Both non-cadmium covered (Ex:1 – bare) and cadmium covered (Ex:2 – Cd) experiments will be performed and analysis will ensure on gamma spectra collected from both experiments. The following provides necessary information for completing the experiment analysis. This information includes definitions, assumptions, and plots tailored to the specifics of this experiment. The content is for the students to be completing the laboratory for reference.

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DOE OSTI2018

Intel x86 Assembly

These slides will be used to teach malware analysis at various training events.

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DOE OSTI2018

Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry. Summary of UT Austin Student Capstone Research Projects

The University of Texas at Austin’s Policy Research Project (PRP), a nine-month (two semesters) capstone, is a keystone of the core curriculum at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. In PRPs, small groups of students, under the mentorship of a faculty director, take on real-world problems that require special knowledge and skill sets. PRPs expose students to challenges in formulating and executing research, and in communicating academic research and related complex data to broader stakeholder communities and decision makers. The PRP structure is an innovative and effective approach for integrating research within the teaching and training of graduate students who are preparing themselves to address important real-world problems at the intersection of society, economics, technology, and policy. The project summaries below describe seven papers developed during September 2017 – May 2018 as part of a PRP on “Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry.” Twenty graduate students, drawn from the LBJ School’s Masters in Public Affairs and Masters in Global Policy Studies programs and the Jackson School Geoscience’s Energy and Earth Resources program, participated in this PRP. Dr. Varun Rai, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the LBJ School, directed the PRP, with support from his research team including: Dr. Ariane Beck, Dr. Ashok Sekar, D. Cale Reeves, and Erik Funkhouser. Clients for the project included the U.S. Department of Energy (Casey Canfield), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Ben Hoen, Galen Barbose Joachim Seel, Naïm Darghouth, Ryan Wiser), and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Benjamin Sigrin, Eric O’Shaughnessy). The seven projects separately addressed one of the following topics: (1) low- and middle-income PV adoption, (2) modeling economic and information intervention design, (3) evaluation of DOE’s Solar in Your Community Challenge, (4) property value impacts near large-scale solar facilities, (5) solar market maturity and evolution of business models, (6) social media data for predicting PV adoption, and (7) individual-level variation in adoption of innovations. Many of the papers relied on data collected and curated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including data embedded within the annual Tracking the Sun and Utility-Scale Solar reports. Each of the seven teams in the PRP prepared a research paper. The PRP culminated with a full-day conference at UT Austin in May 2018 to present findings from the seven projects in this PRP to a broad audience of about 75 experts from academia, national labs, industry, and government from across the country.

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DOE OSTI2019

Conference Grant Report Submitted to the Office of Fusion Energy Science by the University of California, San Diego

The High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) in collaboration with the University of California San Diego (UCSD), hosted the High Energy-Density Science Summer School from July 30 – August 11, 2017 on the UC San Diego campus. The goal of the Summer School series is to introduce new talent to the breadth of the U.S. High Energy Density Science (HEDS) community through lectures, engaging workshops, and discussion sessions with leaders in academia and the national laboratories. The objectives are to inspire young scientists to pursue graduate and professional careers in the fields of high energy density science, teach them fundamental HED science and critical skills, and grant them the opportunity to network with leading academic and national laboratory researchers. Our focus was to attract promising early-career students from across the country.

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DOE OSTI2018

Solar Tarining for Design Professionals

The Building Codes Assistance Project (BCAP) at the Trust for Conservation Innovation (TCI – now renamed “Multiplier”) partnered with the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to develop and deliver solar training workshops and reference materials to teach building design professionals (individuals involved professionally in architecture or building engineering) about the benefits and technical requirements of incorporating photovoltaics into their building designs. The goal of the project was to eliminate barriers to widespread solar acceptance and support strong growth in the solar sector. These workshops were delivered to design professionals in twenty-two cities, representing a range of small to large design firms. Participants were given pre- and post-training evaluations to gauge effectiveness of the training, and a three-month follow-up survey was used to study whether these workshops assisted in increasing the probability that a designer would incorporate photovoltaics into their building designs. This project produced a trained, experienced, and enthusiastic network of solar trainers and trained almost 600 design professionals. Project also created multiple long-lasting resources to help architects and engineers add solar expertise to their list of qualifications. This includes a full, online training course available long-term for continuing education credit from AIA University. The program was endorsed by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and ASHRAE, the project partners. The trainings were accepted for continuing education credits from the International Codes Council, the AIA and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

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The Hopkins Microbiology Course

For 10 years, (2008-2018), DOE supported the four-week, intensive summer course in Microbiology at the Hopkins Marine Station. This course builds upon the inquiry-driven teaching tradition introduced by C. B. van Niel in his renowned Hopkins Microbiology Course taught in the 1950s and 1960s. The distinguishing aspect of this Hopkins Microbiology Course is the unique integration and application of conceptual ideas and experimentation of microbial physiology, ecology, population genetics and experimental evolution in a cohesive study of the environment. In traditional University curricula, courses in microbial physiology, genetics, ecology and evolution are taught distinctly from each other often competitively and without much cross-referencing. Each field has its own theories, thinking, and vocabulary, but the synthesis and assimilation of these clearly related aspects of microbial life is often lacking. This Hopkins Microbiology Course is not bound to adhere to such a strict curriculum. Therefore, we have assembled an international expert team specializing in physiology, ecology, and evolution to develop a coherent picture of how to understand microbe’s function in nature and the principles of what constitutes Microbial Diversity, how it is generated, and how it is maintained.

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DOE OSTI2019

Alliance Project: Secure Control Systems for the Energy Sector

The Alliance Project addresses Area of Interest 4: Secure Remote Access for the Energy Sector, by combining physical and cyber access under one cybersecurity access system. The Alliance Project built on the successful completion of the Lemnos and Padlock Project (DOE-Funded Project started in 2007 and 2010) and researched and developed a solution for an Ethernet Security Gateway with the functionality required to integrate the physical access control cyber system and interface with legacy and new proximity card readers used for physical access requests. This project focused on securing and enhancing the cyber system the physical access control system operates on. The team tested and demonstrated the system solution on the SEL campus. Currently the physical access cyber system is completely separate from the cyber access control cyber system. With a single system industry benefits include: (1) Single system to learn and teach employees; (2) Single system that collects and alerts on logs and events simplifying incident response plans and NERC CIP compliance; (3) Unifies trust management to a single system reducing the potential errors in privilege escalation or revocation; (4) Provides a stronger cybersecurity platform the physical access control system operates on. Today they are mostly plain text protocols and little cyber awareness; (5) Integration of physical access awareness allows the cyber system to react and adjust. In some cases, the cyber access can be enhanced with authorized physical access and other cases the cyber access can be more restricted with unauthorized physical access; and (6) Enables the utility to establish as large or as small a physical access control system as they require. One example would be when a utility shares a substation with a neighbor utility and can’t rely on the substation door for the physical access control. The Alliance technology enables them to lock equipment racks simply with no scalability issues because it stands on the cyber security infrastructure which is already highly scalable.

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DOE OSTI2019

Leadership Development Experience

I spent this last summer working as a student researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Under the mentorship of Joseph Smidt, a staff scientist and deputy group leader at the lab, I helped develop a chemistry network that will eventually be used to test how important chemicals like water and methane formed in the early universe. While such work is relatively obscure to the general public, it could be potentially very important in the scientific community, particularly if predictions from our simulations agree with astronomical observations. Such work would help to validate our cosmological models in addition to teaching us much about how the building blocks of life were seeded in our own solar system.

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DOE OSTI2019

Municipal Portfolio Performance and Policy Opportunities

A wide range of policy tools are in place to enhance energy efficiency in the built environment. However, the lion’s share of today’s energy savings opportunities have to do with energy consumption in existing buildings currently in operation. Many of the policy tools in play, including energy codes, have little to no effect on these existing buildings. New tools and resources are needed to bring existing buildings up to higher levels of energy performance. This project was focused on building a replicable framework, complete with open-source software tools and resources, to empower cities around the country to significantly enhance the energy performance of their own existing buildings and identify opportunities for future improvements. These issues were addressed through the evaluation of the performance of the municipal building stock and policy environments of four mid-size cities: Eugene, Oregon; Providence, Rhode Island; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Tacoma, Washington. The project team worked closely with these cities to help city staff lead by example and create actionable, implementation-focused strategic energy plans for their own municipal building portfolios and to evaluate and improve city policies. A major focus throughout has been replicability and knowledge transfer (“teaching them to fish” rather than doing the work for the city).

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DOE OSTI2020

Trait Vs. Skill: Individual Differences -- Survey Questions

This document is UUR survey questions for use in an exploratory express LDRD experiment. The purpose of the study is to understand if people overestimate their performance only in some situations or some people are more prone to it do to an underlying trait. To investigate our aims, we must use 3 experimental tasks: two domain general (an English grammar task a logic task) and a domain specific task (a science & technology questionnaire). The reason we are using these tasks is to see if people overestimate their abilities on tasks they are more familiar with (grammar and logic) but not on domains in which they are more specialized (science and technology). To understand the traits and characteristics of our participants, we are using 7 well-validated assessments from the field of psychology. All questionnaires are available for research and teaching purposes. Citations for all materials have been included.

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DOE OSTI2020

Phase I Closeout Report: Invoking Artificial Neural Networks to Measure Insider Threat Mitigation

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) conducted this study to explore the effectiveness of commercial artificial neural network (ANN) software to improve insider threat detection and mitigation (ITDM). This study hypothesized that ANNs could be "trainee to learn patterns of organizational behaviors, detect off-normal (or anomalous) deviations from these patterns, and alert when certain types, frequencies, or quantities of deviations emerge. The ReconaSense ANN system was installed at UT's Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory (NETL) and collected 13,653 access control data points and 694 intrusion sensor data points over a three-month period. Preliminary analysis of this baseline data demonstrated regularized patterns of life in the facility, and that off-normal behaviors are detectable under certain situations -- even for a facility with anticipated highly non-routine, operational behaviors. Completion of this pilot study demonstrated how the ReconaSense ANN could be used to identify expected operational patterns and detect unexpected anomalous behaviors in support of a data-analytic approach to ITDM. While additional studies are needed to fully understand and characterize this system, the results of this initial study are overall very promising for demonstrating a new framework for ITDM utilizing ANNs and data analysis techniques.

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DOE OSTI2020

SEE LANL: Student Educational Experience at LANL [PowerPoint]

SEE LANL is designed to provide university students a hands-on nuclear safeguards training course based on the courses given to all IAEA inspectors. It aims to encourage networking and collaborations between university students/professors and laboratory staff, introduce students to the variety of safeguards-related technical work at LANL and provides early-career technical staff an opportunity to teach. Further details on the program are provided.

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Modern Software Engineering and Research [Slides]

The goals of this teaching workshop are for the learners to leave with a broad view of University curriculum, successes and limitations, and the state of industry; an awareness of grand challenges in software engineering; and an awareness of current approaches to address those challenges.

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X-ray CT Scans - Bats (Set 6)

A collection of x-ray computed tomography scans of Myotis keaysi pilosotibialis specimens from Texas A&Ms Biodiveristy Research and Teaching Collections.

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DOE OSTI2020

KENO V.a Primer: Performing Calculations using SCALE’s Criticality Safety Analysis Sequence (CSAS5) with Fulcrum

The SCALE code system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is widely used and accepted around the world for criticality safety analyses. The well-known KENO V.a three-dimensional Monte Carlo criticality computer code is one of the primary criticality safety analysis tools in SCALE. The KENO V.a primer is designed to help a new user understand and use the SCALE/KENO V.a Monte Carlo code for nuclear criticality safety analyses. It assumes that the user has a college education in a technical field. There is no assumption of familiarity with Monte Carlo codes in general or with SCALE/KENO V.a in particular. The primer is designed to teach by example, with each example illustrating two or three features of SCALE/KENO V.a that are useful in criticality analyses. The primer is based on SCALE 6.2 and 6.3, which includes the Fulcrum graphical user interface (GUI). Each example uses Fulcrum to provide the framework for preparing input data and viewing output results. Starting with a Quickstart section, the primer gives an overview of the basic requirements for SCALE/KENO V.a input and allows the user to quickly run a simple criticality problem with SCALE/KENO V.a. The sections that follow Quickstart include a list of basic objectives at the beginning that identifies the goal of the section and the individual SCALE/KENO V.a features that are covered in detail in the sample problems in that section. Upon completion of the primer, a new user should be comfortable using Fulcrum to set up criticality problems in SCALE/KENO V.a. The primer provides a starting point for the criticality safety analyst who uses SCALE/KENO V.a. Complete descriptions are provided in the SCALE/KENO V.a manual. Although the primer is self-contained, it is intended as a companion volume to the SCALE/KENO V.a training and documentation. The SCALE manual and training schedule are available at https://scale.ornl.gov. The primer provides specific examples of using SCALE/KENO V.a for criticality analyses; the SCALE/KENO V.a manual provides information on the use of SCALE/KENO V.a and all its modules. The primer also contains an appendix with sample input files. In addition, this primer, its errata and sample inputs are also available at https://code.ornl.gov/scale/primers/kenova.

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KENO-VI Primer: Performing Calculations using SCALE’s Criticality Safety Analysis Sequence (CSAS6) with Fulcrum

The SCALE code system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is widely used and accepted around the world for criticality safety analysis. The well-known KENO-VI three-dimensional Monte Carlo criticality computer code is one of the primary criticality safety analysis tools in SCALE. The KENO-VI primer is designed to help a new user understand and use the SCALE/KENO-VI Monte Carlo code for nuclear criticality safety analysis. It assumes that the user has a college education in a technical field. There is no assumption of familiarity with Monte Carlo codes in general or with SCALE/KENO-VI in particular. The primer is designed to teach by example, with each example illustrating two or three features of SCALE/KENO-VI that are useful in criticality analysis. The primer is based on SCALE 6.2 and 6.3, which includes the Fulcrum graphical user interface. Each example uses Fulcrum to provide the framework for preparing input data and viewing output results. Starting with a Quickstart section, the primer gives an overview of the basic requirements for SCALE/KENO-VI input and allows the user to quickly run a simple criticality problem with SCALE/KENO-VI. Each following section begins with a list of basic objectives identifying the goal of the section and the individual SCALE/KENO-VI features covered in detail in the section’s sample problems. Upon completion of the primer, a new user should be comfortable using Fulcrum to set up criticality problems in SCALE/KENO-VI. The primer provides a starting point for the criticality safety analyst who uses SCALE/KENO-VI. Complete descriptions are provided in the SCALE/KENO-VI manual. Although the primer is self-contained, it is intended as a companion volume to the SCALE/KENO-VI training and documentation. The SCALE manual and training schedule are available at https://scale.ornl.gov. The primer provides specific examples of using SCALE/KENO-VI for criticality analysis; the SCALE/KENO-VI manual provides information on the use of SCALE/KENO-VI and all its modules. The primer also contains an appendix with sample input files. In addition, this primer, its errata, and sample inputs are also available at https://code.ornl.gov/scale/primers/kenovi/.

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