INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCYINDC(NDS)-418
Distr.: G, NC________ __ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

INDC

INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR DATA COMMITTEE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Report on the IAEA Advisory Group Meeting on

Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres

Institute of Physics and Power Engineering
249020, Obninsk, Kaluga reg., Russia
15 – 19 May 2000

Prepared by
V.G. Pronyaev and O. Schwerer
IAEA Nuclear Data Section
Vienna, Austria

August 2000_________________________________________________________________
IAEA NUCLEAR DATA SECTION, WAGRAMER STRASSE 5, A-1400 VIENNAProduced by the IAEA in Austria
August 2000

INDC(NDS)-418
Distr. G, NC

Report on the IAEA Advisory Group Meeting on

Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres

Institute of Physics and Power Engineering
249020, Obninsk, Kaluga reg., Russia
15 – 19 May 2000

Prepared by
V.G. Pronyaev and O. Schwerer
IAEA Nuclear Data Section
Vienna, Austria

Abstract
This report summarizes the IAEA Advisory Group Meeting (AGM) on Networkof Nuclear Reaction Data Centres, hold at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering,
Obninsk, Russia, 15 to 19 May 2000. The meeting was attended by 28 participants from 13
co-operating data centres from seven Member States and two International Organizations. The
report contains a meeting summary, the conclusions and actions, progress and status reports ofthe participating data centres and working papers considered at the meeting.

CONTENTS
The Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres ……………………………….………...7
Past NRDC Meetings ……………………………………………………………………….9
List of Acronyms …………………………………………………………………………..11
Agenda………………………………………………………………………………….…13

List of Participants ……………………………………………………………………….…15
Meeting Summary……………………………………………………………………….23

Introduction…………………………………………………………………….…23

Brief Minutes……………………………………………………………….……….23

Conclusions……………………………………………………………………….…26

Actions…………………………………………………………………………….…28

Progress Reports ………………………………………………………………………….…33
P1

NNDC

……………………………………………………………………….…33

P2

NEA-DB …………………………………………………………………….…38

P3

NDS ………………………………………………………………………….…41

P4

CJD ………………………………………………………………………….…49

P5

CAJAD ……………………………………………………………………….…51

P6

CDFE

……………………………………………………………………….…53

P7

CNDC

……………………………………………………………………….…59

P8

ATOMKI …………………………………………………………………….…61

P9

RIKEN ……………………………………………………………………….…69

P 10 JCPRG ……………………………………………………………………….…71
P 11 NDC JAERI ………………………………………………………………….…75
P 12 CNPD RFNC-VNIIEF ……………………………………………………….…83
P 13 UKRNDC …………………………………………………………………….…85
P 14 KAERI/NDEL ……………………………………………………………….…91
List of Working Papers ………………………………………………………………….…95

THE NETWORK OF NUCLEAR REACTION DATA CENTRESNational, regional and specialized nuclear reaction data centres, coordinated by theInternational Atomic Energy Agency, cooperate in the compilation, exchange anddissemination of nuclear reaction data, in order to meet the requirements of nuclear data users
in all countries. A brief summary of the data centres network is given below.
The nuclear reaction data centres:
NNDC
NEA-DB
NDS
CJD

-

CAJaD

-

CDFE

-

CNDC
JAERI

-

JCPRG

-

ATOMKI-UKRNDC-CNPD-

KAERI/NDEL (KACHAPAG) -(RIKEN)

1.

-

US National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven, USA
OECD/NEA Nuclear Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
IAEA Nuclear Data Section
Centr Jadernykh Dannykh (= Nuclear Data Centre),
Obninsk, Russia
Russian Nuclear Structure and Reaction Data Centre, Moscow,
RussiaCentr Dannykh Fotojadernykh Eksperimentov (= Centre for
Photonuclear Experiments Data), Moscow, Russia
China Nuclear Data Center, Beijing, China
Nuclear Data Center of the Japan Atomic Energy ResearchInstitute, Tokai-Mura, Japan
Japan Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data Group, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, JapanATOMKI Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data Group,
Debrecen, Hungary
Ukrainian Nuclear Data Center, Institute for Nuclear Research,
Kyiv, Ukraine
Center of Nuclear Physics Data, Russian Federal Nuclear Center,
RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia
Nuclear Data Evaluation Laboratory, Korea Atomic Energy
Research Institute, Yusong, Taejon, Republic of Korea
Karlsruhe Charged Particle Group, Karlsruhe, Germany.
(Discontinued in 1982, its responsibilities were taken over by
CAJaD)
Nuclear Data Group, RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical
Research, Wako-Shi, Japan. (Discontinued in 2000)

Neutron Nuclear Data
1.aBibliography and Data Index CINDA:
Input prepared by NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS, CJD, JAERI
Handbooks published by IAEA
Online services by NNDC, NEA-DB and NDS, CJD

1.bExperimental data exchanged in EXFOR format:
Input prepared by NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS, CJD, CNDC, UKRNDC
Online services by NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS and CJD
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1.c

Data Handbooks based on EXFOR
published by NNDC (last issue in 1988)

1.d

Evaluated data exchanged in ENDF format:
NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS, CJD, CNDC, JAERI and others. Main data libraries:
BROND-2 (Russia)
CENDL-2 (China)
ENDF/B-6 (USA)FENDL-2 (IAEA)
IRDF-90, Rev. 92(IAEA)
JEF-2 (NEA)
JENDL-3 (Japan)

Online services by NNDC, NEA-DB and NDS

2.

3.

1.e

Computer retrieval services upon request of customers:
NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS, CJD, CNDC

1.f

International data evaluation cooperation coordinated by NEA-DB

Charged Particle Nuclear Data (including heavy-ion reaction data)
2.aBibliography NSR published by NNDC
Online services by NNDC, NEA-DB and NDS

2.b

Numerical data exchanged in EXFOR format:
Input prepared by CAJaD, RIKEN, CNDC, ATOMKI, NDS, NNDC, JCPRG,
NEA-DB
Online services by NNDC, NEA-DB and NDS
Coordination of compilation: CAJaD

2.c

Computer retrieval services upon request of customers:
NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS, CAJaD, CNDC

Photonuclear Data
3.a

Numerical data exchanged in EXFOR format:
Input prepared by CDFE, occasional contributions from NNDC, NDS
Online services by NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS and CDFE

3.b

Evaluated data:
Online service by NDS, CDFE

3.c

Bibiliography published by CDFE and JAERI

3.d

Computer retrieval services upon request of customers:
NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS, CDFE

8PAST NRDC MEETINGS
Obninsk, 15-19 May 2000
Vienna, 18-20 May 1999

Centre Heads + Tech.
= 15th NRDC MeetingTechnical

INDC(NDS)-418
INDC(NDS)-407

Vienna, 11-15 May 1998

Centre Heads + Tech.
= 14th NRDC Meeting

INDC(NDS)-383

Vienna, 26-28 May 1997

Technical

INDC(NDS)-374

Brookhaven, 3-7 June 1996

Center Heads + Tech.
= 13th NRDC Meeting

INDC(NDS)-360

Vienna, 2-4 May 1995

Technical

INDC(NDS)-343

Paris, 25-27 April 1994

Center Heads + Tech.
= 12th NRDC Meeting

INDC(NDS)-308

Vienna, 1-3 Sept 1992

Technical

INDC(NDS)-279

Obninsk, 7-11 Oct 1991

Center Heads + Tech.
= 11th NRDC Meeting

INDC(NDS)-262

Vienna, 13-15 Nov 1990

Technical

Memo CP-D/210

Vienna, 2-4 Oct 1989

Centre Heads + Tech.
= 10th NRDC Meeting

Memo CP-D/200

Vienna, 4-6 Oct 1988

Technical

Memo CP-D/190

Brookhaven, 27-29 Oct 1987

Center Heads + Tech.
= 9th NRDC Meeting

INDC(NDS)-204

Vienna, 7-9 Oct 1986

Technical

Memo CP-D/159

Saclay, 9-11 Oct 1985

Center Heads + Tech.
= 8th NRDC Meeting

INDC(NDS)-178

Vienna, 19-21 Sept 1984

Technical

Memo CP-D/131

Obninsk+ Moscow, 17-21 Oct 1983
Vienna, 3-7 May 1982
Brookhaven, 29.9 - 2.10.1980th

INDC(NDS)-154th

INDC(NDS)-141th

INDC(NDS)-125th

7 NRDC Meeting
6 NRDC Meeting
5 NRDC Meeting

Karlsruhe, 8-13 Oct 1979

4 NRDC Meeting

INDC(NDS)-110

Paris, 19-23 June 1978

3rd NRDC Meeting

NEA-NRDC-3 = INDC(NDS)-99

nd

Kiev, 11-16 April 1977

2 NRDC Meeting= 3rd CPND + 13th 4-C

INDC(NDS)-90

Vienna, 28-30 April 1976

2nd CPND Meeting

INDC(NDS)-77

Vienna, 26-27 April 1976

12th 4C-Meeting

INDC(NDS)-78

Vienna, 8-12 Sept 1975

CPND Meeting

INDC(NDS)-69+71

Brookhaven, 10-14 March 1975th

INDC(NDS)-68th

11 4C-Meeting

Paris, 6-10 May 1974

10 4C Meeting

INDC(NDS)-58

Vienna, 24-26 April 1974

CPND + PhotoND

INDC(NDS)-59+61

th

Moscow/Obninsk, 4-8 June 1973

9 4C Meeting

INDC(NDS)-54

Vienna, 16-20 Oct 1972

8th 4C Meeting

INDC(NDS)-51

Brookhaven, 25-29 Oct 1971
Paris, 5-9 Oct 1970
Moscow, 17-21 Nov 1969th

INDC(NDS)-41th

INDC(NDS)-28th

INDC(NDS)-16

7 4C Meeting
6 4C Meeting
5 4C Meeting

910LIST OF ACRONYMS
ATOMKI

Nuclear Research Institute, Debrecen, Hungary

BNL

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., USA

BROND-2

Russian evaluated neutron reaction data library, version 2

CAJaD

Center for Nuclear Structure and Reaction Data, Kurchatov Institute,
Moscow, Russia

CDFE

Centr Dannykh Fotojad. Eksp., Moscow State University, Russia

CENDL-2

Chinese evaluated neutron reaction data library, version 2

CENPLChinese evaluated nuclear parameter library

CINDA

A specialized bibliography and data index on neutron nuclear data
operated jointly by NNDC, NEA-DB, NDS and CJD

CJD

Russian Nuclear Data Center at F.E.I., Obninsk, Russia

CNDC

Chinese Nuclear Data Center, Beijing, China

CNPD

Center of Nuclear Physics Data at RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia

CP...

Numbering code for memos exchanged among the NRDC

CPNDCharged-particle nuclear reaction data

CRP

Coordinated Research Programme of the IAEA Nuclear Data Section

CSEWG

US Cross-Section Evaluation Working GroupCSISRS

Cross-Section Information Storage and Retrieval System,
the EXFOR-compatible internal system of NNDC

EFF

European evaluated nuclear data file for fusion applications

ENDF-6

International format for evaluated data exchange, version 6

ENDF/B-6

US Evaluated Nuclear Data File, version 6

ENSDF

Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File

EXFOR

Format for the international exchange of nuclear reaction data

FEI

Fiziko-Energeticheskij Institut, Obninsk, Russia

FENDL

Evaluated nuclear data file for fusion applications, developed by IAEA-NDS

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

IFRC

International Fusion Research Council

INDC

International Nuclear Data Committee

INIS

International Nuclear Information System, a bibliographic system

IRDF

The International Reactor Dosimetry File, maintained by the IAEA-NDS

ITER

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

JAERI

Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute11

JCPRG

Japan Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data Group, Sapporo, Japan(previously Study Group for Information Processing)

JEF

The Joint Evaluated File of neutron data, a collaboration of European NEA
member countries and JapanJENDL-3

Japanese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library, version 3

KAERI

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute

KINR

Kiev Institute of Nuclear Research

LEXFOR

Part of the EXFOR manual containing physics information for compilers

NDS

IAEA Nuclear Data Section, Vienna, Austria

NDS

The journal Nuclear Data Sheets

NEA

Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD, Paris, France

NEA-DBNEA Data Bank, Paris, France

NEANDCNEA Nuclear Data Committee

NND

Neutron Nuclear Data

NNDC

National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

NNDEN

Neutron Nuclear Data Evaluation Newsletter

NRDC

The Nuclear Reaction Data Centers

NRDF

Japanese Nuclear Reaction Data File

NSDD

Nuclear structure and decay data

NSC

Nuclear Science Committee of the NEA

NSR

Nuclear structure references, a bibliographic system

OECD

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France

PC

Personal Computer

PhND

Photonuclear data

RIKEN

Nuclear Data Group, RIKEN Inst. of Phys, and Chem. Res., Wako-Shi,
Saitama, Japan

TRANS

Name of transmission tapes for data exchange in the EXFOR system

UKRNDC

Ukrain Nuclear Data Center at KINR, Kyiv, Ukraine

USDOE

U.S. Department of Energy

VNIIEF

Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Sarov, Russia

4C...

Numbering code of memos exchanged among the four Neutron Data Centers

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IAEA ADVISORY GROUP MEETING
ON NETWORK OF NUCLEAR REACTION DATA CENTRES
15 - 19 May 2000
Institute of Physics and Power Engineering
Obninsk, Kaluga reg., Russia

AGENDAP - session with general issues
T - session with technical issues
H - session with organizational issues
L - session with host centres presentations

P.1. Opening, election of chairman
P.2. Adoption of the Agenda
P.3. Brief status reports of the centres
P.4. Brief reports on centre programmes, priorities and new tasks
P.5. Review of the General Actions of the last technical NRDC Meeting (WP2000-1)
P.6. Customer services- Conventional mail service- Offline distribution on diskettes and CD-ROMs- Telnet, FTP and Web access to the databases, data files, computer codes and reports- Network performance- Electronic publications of reports- Retrieval statistics
P.7. CINDA- CINDA-2001- CD-ROM CINDA- Distribution of CD CINDA and future of CINDA distribution/book publication;
CINDA 2000 book: publication schedule (WP2000-12 and WP2000-13)- CINDA retrievals from Web
L.1. Activity on the nuclear cross section evaluation at the CJD
T.1. EXFOR/CINDA technical matter
T.1.1. CINDA- Review of Actions A6 – A10 (WP2000-1)- Cinda quantity codes – EXFOR reaction codes (WP2000-11)
T.1.2. Dictionary system

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- Review of Actions A11 – A18 (WP2000-1)- Transformation of Dictionary 27 (MEMO CP-A/101, WP2000-14)
T.1.3. EXFOR, general- Feedback on new EXFOR Manual , including LEXFOR and EXFOR Basic- Review of Actions A19 – A27 (WP2000-1)- TRANS files exchanged (WP2000-2)
T.1.4. EXFOR coding rules and dictionary changes- Review of Actions A28 – A43 (WP2000-1)- Pending proposals (WP2000-3 – WP2000-10)
P.8. Compilation of neutron, charged particle and photonuclear data
- Conversion of Ion Beam Analysis data from R33 format in EXFOR format- INTAS proposal by for data compilation- Conversion of EXFOR 6,7, 8-series entries in 2 - 4 series
P.9. Future of nuclear databases- Platform independent database solutions- Workshop on Relational Databases for Nuclear Data, September 11-15, 2000,
BrookhavenP.10. Co-operation and co-ordination in the database program development work
- Development of new databases and libraries- Development of new solutions and retrieval programs for “old” databases- Presentation and demonstration of new program products and their full scale models- Address lists, their updating and exchange between centres, user’s profiles andelectronic distribution of documents
P.11. Session for demonstration of new nuclear data software products
P.12. General EXFOR matters- Statistics and manpower in the EXFOR compilation- Links to the databases from journal publications
H.1. Common issues of the data centres- General situation and manpower- Data compilation and backlog- New releases of the evaluated data libraries- Main tasks and participants of next NRDC meetings
P.13. Approval of Meeting’s Actions, Conclusions and Recommendations
P.14. Next Technical NRDC and full NRDC AGM Meetings

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INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY

334-F4-AG-823.4

15 May 2000

IAEA Advisory Group Meetingon the“Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres”
Institute of Physics and Power Engineering
249 020 Obninsk, Russia
15 to 19 May 2000
Scientific Secretary: Vladimir G. PRONYAEVLIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Participants:
CHINA
Mr. ZHUANG Youxiang
China Institute of Atomic Energy
P.O. Box 275-41
Beijing 102413

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+86 10 6935 7830
+86 10 6935 7008
yxzhuang@iris.ciae.ac.cn

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+36 52 417 266+36 52 416 181
tarkanyi@atomki.hu

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+81 11 386 8111
+81 11 386 8113
chiba@earth.sgu.ac.jp

HUNGARY
Mr. Ferenc T. TÁRKÁNYI
Cyclotron Department
Institute of Nuclear Research of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Bem tér 18/c, H-4026 Debrecen
P.O. Box 51, H-4001 DebrecenJAPAN
Mr. Masaki CHIBA
Faculty of Social Information
Sapporo Gakuin University
Bunkyodai 11
Ebetsu-shi, Hokkaido 069-8555

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JAPAN (continued)
Mr. Akira HASEGAWA
Nuclear Data Center
Department of Nuclear Energy System
Japan Atomic Energy ResearchInstitute (JAERI)
2-4 Shirakata Shirane
Tokai-mura, Naka-gun
Ibaraki 319-1195
Mr. Kiyoshi KATO
Division of Physics
Graduate School of Science
Hokkaido University
N10-W8, Kita-ku
Sapporo-shi 060-0810

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+81 29 282 5480
+81 29 282 5766
hasegawa@ndc.tokai.jaeri.go.jp

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+81 11 706 2684
+81 11 706 4850
kato@nucl.sci.hokudai.ac.jp

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+82 42 868 2884
+82 42 868 2636
jhchang@kaeri.re.kr

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 095 196 1612
+7 095 882 5804
chukreev@polyn.kiae.su

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 095 196 9968
+7 095 882 5804
feliks@polyn.kiae.su

Republic of KOREA
Mr. Jonghwa CHANG
Nuclear Data Evaluation Laboratory
Korea Atomic Energy
Research Institute
P.O. Box 105
Yusong, Taejon, 305-600
RUSSIA
Ms. Svetlana Yu. BABYKINA
Russia Nuclear Structure andReaction Data Centre (CAJAD)“Kurchatov’s Institute”
46 Ulitsa Kurchatova
123 182 Moscow
Mr. Feliks E. CHUKREEV
Russia Nuclear Structure andReaction Data Centre (CAJAD)“Kurchatov’s Institute”
46 Ulitsa Kurchatova
123 182 Moscow

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RUSSIA (continued)
Ms. Svetlana A. DUNAEVA
All Russian Scientific ResearchInstitute of Experimental Physics
Center of Nuclear-Physics Data
(CNPD)
RFNC-VNIIEF
607 200 Arzamas-16
Nizhni Novgorod
Mr. Stanislav A. MAEV
Institute of Physics andPower Engineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region
Mr. Vasilij N. MANOKHIN
Institute of Physics andPower Engineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region
Mr. Vladimir V. VARLAMOV
Centre for
Photonuclear Experiments Data
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Moscow State University
Vorob’evy Gory
119899 Moscow

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 831 30 45770+7 831 30 45569
dunaeva@expd.vniief.ru

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:E-mail:+7 084 399 8982
+7 095 883 3112
maev@ippe.obninsk.ru
may@obninsk.ru

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 084 399 8982
+7 095 883 3112
manokhin@ippe.obninsk.ru

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:E-mail:+7 095 939 3483
+7 095 939 0896
varlamov@depni.npi.msu.su
varlamov@cdfe.npi.msu.su

Phone:
Phone:Fax:
Fax:
E-mail:+380 44 265 3987
+380 44 265 4957
+380 44 265 1456
+380 44 265 4463
ogritzay@kinr.kiev.ua

UKRAINE
Ms. Olena O. GRITZAY
Ukrainian Nuclear Data Center
Neutron Physics Department
SC “Institute for Nuclear Research”
Prospekt Nauky, 47
Kiev-28, 03680

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Ms. Victoria McLANE
Bldg. 197D
National Nuclear Data Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
Mr. Pavel OBLOäINSKÝ
Bldg. 197D
National Nuclear Data Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:E-mail:+1 631 344 5205
+1 631 344 2806
vml@bnl.gov
nndcvm@bnl.gov

Phone:
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+1 631 344 2804
+1 631 344 2901
+1 631 344 2806
oblozinsky@bnl.gov

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
OECD/NEA Data Bank, FRANCE
Mr. Mark A. KELLETT
Nuclear Data Services
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Le Seine Saint-Germain
12, boulevard des ÎlesF-92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
Mr. Claes NORDBORG
Nuclear Science Division
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Le Seine Saint-Germain
12, boulevard des ÎlesF-92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+33 1 4524 1085
+33 1 4524 1110
kellett@nea.fr

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+33 1 4524 1090
+33 1 4524 1110
nordborg@nea.fr

Observer from the Meme Media Laboratory, JAPAN:
Mr. Yoshihide OBAYASHI
Meme Media Laboratory
Hokkaido University
N13-W8, Kita-ku
Sapporo-shi 060-0813

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:18+81 11 706 7264
+81 11 706 7808
oba@nrdf.meme.hokudai.ac.jp

Observers from the RUSSIAN Nuclear Data Centres:
Mr. Anatoly I. BLOKHIN
Institute of Physics andPower Engineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region
Mr. Igor N. BOBOSHIN
Centre for
Photonuclear Experiments Data
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Moscow State University
Vorob’evy Gory
119 899 Moscow
Mr. A.N. GREBENNIKOV
Russian Federal Nuclear Center
VNIIEF(All-Russian Scientific ResearchInstitute of Experimental Physics)
pr. Mira, 37
Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 084 399 8986
+7 095 230 2326
blokhin@ippe.obninsk.ru

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 095 939 3483
+7 095 939 0896
Boboshin@depni.npi.msu.su

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:Mr. Anatoly V. IGNATYUKInstitute of Physics andPower Engineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 084 399 8035
+7 095 230 2326
ignatyuk@ippe.obninsk.ru

Mr. Nikolaj T. KULAGIN
Institute of Physics andPower Engineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 084 399 8411
+7 095 230 2326
kulagin@ippe.obninsk.ru

Mr. Anatoly B. PASHCHENKO
Institute of Physics andPower Engineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 084 399 8411
+7 095 230 2326
pashchen@ippe.obninsk.ru

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Observers from the RUSSIAN Nuclear Data Centres (continued):
Ms. Sophiya M. TAOVAAll Russian Scientific ResearchInstitute of Experimental Physics
Center of Nuclear-Physics Data
(CNPD)
RFNC-VNIIEF
607 190 Sarov
Nizhni Novgorod
Mr. Konstantin I. ZOLOTAREVInstitute of Physics andPower Engineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 831 30 45770+7 831 30 45569
taova@expd.vniief.ru

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 084 399 5498
+7 095 230 2326
zolotarev@ippe.obninsk.ru

Observers from the UKRAINIAN Nuclear Data Centres:
Mr. Olexander KALCHENKO
Ukrainian Nuclear Data Center
Neutron Physics Department
SC “Institute for Nuclear Research”
Prospekt Nauky, 47
Kiev-28, 03680
Mr. Mercuriy VLASOVUkrainian Nuclear Data Center
Neutron Physics Department
SC “Institute for Nuclear Research”
Prospekt Nauky, 47
Kiev-28, 03680

Phone:
Phone:Fax:
Fax:
E-mail:+380 44 265 3987
+380 44 265 4957
+380 44 265 1456
+380 44 265 4463
kaltchenko@kinr.kiev.ua

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+380 44 265 3619
+380 44 265 4463
vlasov@kinr.kiev.ua

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+7 084 399 8982
+7 095 883 3112
manokhin@ippe.obninsk.ru

Local Organizer in RUSSIA:
Mr. Vasilij N. MANOKHIN
Institute of Physics andPower Engineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region

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IAEA, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Mr. Vladimir G. PRONYAEV(Scientific Secretary of the Meeting)
IAEA Nuclear Data Section
Wagramer Strasse 5
A-1400 Vienna

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+43 1 2600 21717+43 1 26007
v.pronyaev@iaea.org

Mr. Otto SCHWERER
IAEA Nuclear Data Section
Wagramer Strasse 5
A-1400 Vienna

Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:+43 1 2600 21715+43 1 26007
schwerer@iaeand.iaea.or.at

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MEETING SUMMARY
Introduction
The IAEA Advisory Group Meeting (AGM) on Network of Nuclear Reaction Data
Centres (NRDC) was held at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk,
Russia, from 15 to 19 May 2000. Twenty-eight participants of thirteen co-operating data
centres from China, Hungary, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia, Ukraine, USA, NEA and
IAEA attended the meeting. Holding the AGM in Obninsk gave possibility of wide
participation in discussions and software demonstration sessions to physicists andprogrammers from five nuclear data centres of Russia and the Ukraine.
The meeting was one in a series of biennial NRDC coordinating meetings withthe main tasks to consider the results of the data centers cooperation in maintaining, updating
and providing full-scale and user-friendly access to the common nuclear databases, to outline
the priorities of future work taking into account the interest of each center and to consider thetechnical matters of data compilation, exchange and dissemination. The main results of the
discussions are summarized in the list of conclusions and actions.
Brief Minutes
The meeting was opened by V. Pronyaev, Scientific Secretary of the AGM. A.V.
Gulevich, Deputy Director on Fundamental Researches of the hosting Institute of Physics andPower Engineering (IPPE), welcomed the participants. He introduced the main directions andresults of the scientific work in the IPPE and stressed the role of nuclear data for fundamental
research.
P. Oblozinsky was elected as the meeting chairman.
The Agenda was discussed and adopted with minor changes (see p. 13).
Status reports of the centers were presented (see pp. 33 to 93).
New priorities and tasks were discussed. They include a study of possibility ofcreation of new platform independent solutions for common nuclear databases with Web
access, development of more integrated tools for search and retrieval of bibliographic,
experimental and evaluated data with their interactive graphical visualization, and creation of
CD-ROM versions of nuclear databases with same functionality as their Web versions.
General actions from 1999 NRDC meeting were reviewed (see report INDC(NDS)407, pp.21-28). The NEA-DB report on Oracle RDB design for CINDA and EXFOR
databases was distributed (see WP2000-28).
The problems in a customer services area were discussed. The statistics of user’s
access to the databases through Web demonstrates steady growth in all data disseminating
centers. At the same time CD-ROMs present the convenient media for distribution of frozen

23versions of data files and libraries. With regular updating, they also can be used for
distribution of nuclear databases to customers with poor access to the Internet. Electronic
publications of reports and porting of documents to the Web was strongly supported. The
parameters of statistical account of data retrievals through Web were presented and discussed(see e.g. WP2000-18).
The general problems of the new CINDA-2001 system including new format, codesand data conversion to the new format were briefly discussed and the working plan wasagreed (see Conclusion C3). A new improved version of CINDA on CD-ROM developed by
NEA Data Bank was presented by M. Kellett. Distribution of CINDA on CD-ROM and thefuture of CINDA book/CD-ROM distribution was discussed (see WP2000-12 and WP200013).
Reports “Nuclear Data and Nuclear Model Development” by A. Ignatyuk and“Evaluation Activity in RNDC” by A. Blokhin were considered on session with presentationof the activity on the nuclear cross section evaluation in the hosting Russia Nuclear Data
Center.
A session on technical matters of CINDA and EXFOR databases including coding
rules, dictionaries and manuals (see WP2000-3 to WP2000-11 and WP2000-14) was chairedby O. Schwerer. The results of the discussions are summarized in Conclusions and Actions of
the meeting (see p. 26).
The procedure of conversion of Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) library prepared by IBA
community in EXFOR format was considered and agreed (see WP2000-23 and Actions A45A48). The co-operation with the communities and networks of data applied users isimportant. The joint project on development of Web sites in nuclear data centers of Russia,
Ukraine and Belarus was endorsed (see Action A6). The conversion of "area 6" and "area 7"
entries (old EXFOR entries from NEA-DB and NDS service areas) into proper entries of area
2 and 3 should be finalized by respective centers (see Action A32).
Future of nuclear data bases and needs in migration on new platform independent
relational database solutions was discussed. Preliminary results of the study “Relational
Database and Java Technology for Nuclear Data” with comparative analysis of using
different RDBMS packages for modelled database was presented by P. Oblozinsky (see
WP2000-16). The workshop on Relational Databases for Nuclear Data, September 11 – 15,
2000 was endorsed by participants. The necessity in search of non-expensive platform
independent solutions for major nuclear databases was discussed.
The work on development of new nuclear databases and libraries was discussed. V.
Varlamov presented the database of Giant Dipole Resonance Parameters and I. Boboshinpresented the Relational Nuclear Spectroscopy Database NESSY which provides advanced
retrievals (see WP2000-27). Both databases have Web access. The computer package SaBa,
containing evaluated data on cross sections and S-factors for reactions between light particles
with tools for data evaluation was demonstrated by S. Taova (see WP2000-26). A.
Grebennikov showed the opportunities of the Nuclear Data Expert’s Studio (NDX) system inprocessing and visualization of the evaluated nuclear reaction (ENDF) and nuclear structureand decay (ENSDF) data.

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The progress in using object oriented IntelligentPad software for retrieval andgraphical presentation of charged-particle nuclear reaction data was shown by Y. Ohbayashi.
The work on new CD-ROM version of JEF library was presented by M. Kellett. New
EXFOR relational database on CD-ROM with advanced retrieval system and interactive
graphical visualization of the data developed by V. Zerkin (see WP2000-15) was presented
by V. Pronyaev. The problem of updating NDS address list for distribution of reports(ADLIST) was discussed and needed actions are planned (see Actions A8 and A9).
The statistics of data compilation in EXFOR in different data centers was presented
by V. McLane (see WP2000-19) and similar statistics on incident particles was presented by
V. Pronyaev (see WP2000-22). Since 1990, the number of new EXFOR entries added to the
database is at the level 200 – 300 per year with a general tendency of a relative increase of
the number of entries for charged-particle induced and photonuclear reactions. It probably
reflects the present shift in efforts devoted to measurements of charged-particle and heavy ion
induced reaction cross sections.
A report describing a new procedure for archiving experimental data published in
Physical Review C was presented by V. McLane (see WP2000-17). The co-operating data
centers agreed to compile these data in EXFOR with first priority in accordance with theprocedure proposed (see Conclusion C6).
Issues common for data centers were discussed. The regional data centers will face ageneration shift in near future. Transfer of know-how to the new generation will be needed,
probably with simultaneous migration to new database platforms. The EXFOR datacompilation activity, a core activity of the co-operating data centers, should be increased,with high priority for the latest published data and the most important data published earlier.
Plans on new versions and releases of evaluated data libraries were reported. They will
include the release of frozen version of ENDF/B-VI library (with Release 8), freely
distributed JEF-3 library, new CENDL-3 and BROND-3 libraries and IRDF2000 file ofdosimetry reactions. The processing of evaluated data files in ACE format, most suitable forMonte Carlo transport calculations, is planned in NDS. Because of possible migration ofcommon nuclear databases in future on RDBMS, the task of coordination of this activity
through broad participation of programmers can be very important for the network.
The meeting’s Conclusions and Actions were reviewed and approved.
The next Technical NRDC meeting (CM) was planned for the second half of May
2001 in Vienna. NEA-DB offered to host the next full network meeting (AGM) in Paris, 4days, in late April or early May 2002.

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CONCLUSIONS
GeneralC1:

All centers now accept documents in Word97 format.

C2:

The next Technical NRDC Meeting is planned for the second half of May 2001 in
Vienna. NEA-DB offered to host the next full network meeting (AGM) in Paris,
which is envisaged to be held on 4 days in late April or early May 2002.

See also General Actions A1 - A14.
CINDA-2001
C3:

The steps for implementation of CINDA-2001 are summarized as follows:
1. Extract relevant information from EXFOR and convert it, as well as the present
CINDA, to CINDA-2001 format
2. For neutron data, compare this information with CINDA and add the entries notcovered by EXFOR
3. Convert Photonuclear Bibliography
4. Convert existing (old) CPND bibliographies
A first version of the file will be released after completion of the first 2 steps.
This phase is expected to be completed by the end of 2002. Thereafter, entries withmissing detailed quantities (from old CINDA) will be upgraded gradually.

See also Actions A15 - A17.
EXFOR/CINDA Dictionary System
C4:

The decision on a radical reform of dictionary 27 (Nuclides) is postponed to thenext full (AGM) meeting.
C5: From now on, only new nuclides need to be communicated by memo for addition todictionary 27. Use of an existing nuclide in an additional field will be dealt with by
NDS without announcement.
See also Actions A18 - A23.
EXFOR, general
C6:

On the NNDC project for archiving experimental data published in PhysicalReview C: All compilation centers agree to participate in this pilot project. NNDC,
as the contact center for the publisher of Phys. Rev. C, will receive the numerical data
and the text of the article from the authors and forward them to the responsible centerfor compilation which must compile it within 1 month time and return the compiled
data to NNDC by private communication. (In addition, the new entry will be put on26

the next regular TRANS file of the compiling center.) The compiling center will
inform NNDC of the accession number immediately on receipt of the data. (Compare
also Actions A34 and A35).
See also Actions A24 - A36 on general EXFOR matters.
EXFOR coding rules and dictionary codes
C7: The proposal to remove the data heading LVL-NUMB was not agreed.
C8:(On WP3) The Dubna conferences will be coded using the appropriate JINR report
codes (rather than conference codes such as 95DUBNA), with the title of theconference given in free text.

C9:

Units B/ATOM are not needed (proposal withdrawn), existing cases have been
converted to ATOMS/B.

C10: Proposed units B-MEV/SR are changed to B*MEV/SR for consistency withexisting units.
C11: All proposed new quantities (Dictionary 36) of WP6 are adopted:
PRE,AKE,LF/HF
PAR,DA/CRL
PAR,DA/CRL,G/P
EM/PAR,DA/DE
EM,TTY/DA/DE
IND/UND,PY

SEQ,DA/DA/DE,P/P/P
POL,DA/DE
POL,DA/DE,,ANA,DA/DA,P/A,DA/DA/DE,P/P/P
NN/PAR,POL/DA,,SF
PAR,DA,,IPA

C12: The new quantities for dictionary 36 proposed in WP8, WP9 and WP10 are adopted:,WID/STR
PAR,WID/STR,DA/TMP,FF,LEG/RS,WID/RED,,RMT/AMP
CUM/PAR,DA
CUM/PAR,SIG
PAR,DA,,SFC

NN/PAR,DA,,SF
21/PAR,POL/DA,,TAP
22/PAR,POL/DA,,TAP
20,POL/DA,,TAP
21,POL/DA,,TAP
22,POL/DA,,TAP
PAR,POL/DA,,SF

C13: The headings for dictionary 24 as proposed in items 2, 3 and 4 of WP7 are approved:
E-LVL-INI1, E-LVL-INI2, E-LVL-FIN1, E-LVL-FIN2+DATA-ERR1, -DATA-ERR1, +DATA-ERR2, -DATA-ERR2
E-RSL-FW(For item 1 of WP7 see Action A43).
C14: The units PART/FIS (instead of NO-DIM) are approved for all measurements ofnubar. (WP9)
See also Actions A37 - A44.

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ACTIONS
General Actions
A1:

(NDS)

Remove the RIKEN Data Centre entry from the Network document

A2:

(NDS)

Make all of the IAEA-NDS Documentation series available on the
WWW in PDF format. This may require scanning of previous paper
copiesA3:(All)

Send/give the electronic format (MS-Word or Excel) of their Centre’s
Progress Report, and any other paper distributed during the meeting
which should be included in the meeting report, to NDS before 15 June
2000.

A4:

(NDS)

(Old A2) Send the ENDF (DBMS and text libraries) to VNIIEF and
CJD.

A5:

(Lammer)(Old A3) Include the PC program package for calculation of Fission
Yield distributions by A. C. Wahl in the NDS data collection

A6:

(All)

To support the joint project of Russia, Ukraine (UkrNDC) and Belarus(Minsk-Sosny) on development of Internet site structure and web pages
for nuclear databases and related software. This support would include
establishment of contacts of project initiators with European, US andother centers and organisations interested in collaboration, cooperationor partnership in this project.

A7:(Dunaeva)

Keep other centers informed on the status of the proposed project.

A8:

(NDS)

Distribute respective parts of the ADLIST address database to othercenters for review for incorrect or outdated addresses.

A9:(All concerned) Send ADLIST corrections to NDS.

A10: (NEA-DB)

Update the NRDC web page (kept by NEA-DB) and add a page on
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

A11: (All)

Send contributions to the FAQ page to NEA-DB

A12: (NEA-DB)

Provide a link from the NRDC page to the Network document.

A13: (All)Provide a link from their home page to the NRDC page.

A14: (All)

Add Sophiya Taova's e-mail address to the distribution for CP memos:
Taova@expd.vniief.ru

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CINDA-2001
A15:(McLane, Kellett, Schwerer, Maev)
To check the Archive-Dictionary 13 codes (Reaction Type) for use in
CINDA-2001 and see if the new format in Memo CP-C/266 can thenbe adopted for CINDA-2001 using these codes as the quantity field.

A16: (All)Check the codes in Archive Dictionary 13 and send comments to
McLane and Schwerer. (Note: A listing of Archive Dictionary 13,
which is not identical to "Exfor" dictionary 13, was distributed at themeeting; it is also available from the NDS Open Area.)

A17: (McLane)

Update and distribute preliminary CINDA-2001 Manual and include
the proposal for cross referencing works with several laboratories

EXFOR/CINDA Dictionary System
A18:(Schwerer)(Old A11) Check old actions 7-13 of the 1997 NRDC meeting.

A19:(McLane)(Old A15) Send DANIEL dictionary memos to NDS

A20: (Schwerer)(Old A17) Make dictionary transmissions four times a year

A21: (Schwerer)

Put the archive dictionaries on the NDS Open area

A22: (All)Check the archive dictionaries and send comments to Schwerer

A23: (Chukreev)(On WP14:) Produce a proposal on Dictionary 27 including citing
examples and REACTION codes (SF1-4)

EXFOR, general (programs, manual, compilation)
A24: (McLane)

Investigate whether the computer program for comparing experimental
CINDA works with EXFOR is still available and send it to NDS

A25:(Old A26) Correct EXFOR processing codes to properly treat cases
where KT is given instead of an average incident particle energy (3/2)(McLane)

A26: (All)(Old A27) Check and retransmit all entries included in the list ofpending retransmissions by McLane distributed at the 1999 NRDC
meeting

A27: (All)

Send feedback on the updated EXFOR Basics Manual to McLane.

A28: (Chukreev)

Send latest version of TEST-EXF to NDS.

A29: (Dunaeva)(Old A24 on McLane) Make a benchmark test of Chukreev’s code
TEST-EXF vs. CHEX

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A30: (Tarkanyi)

Distribute updated list of references missing in EXFOR obtained in theframework of the CRP on Medical Radioisotope Production.

A31: (CPND centers) Go through this list and communicate to Tarkanyi which works
from their area of responsibility they will compile. Works not covered
this way will then be free to be compiled by others.
A32: (NEA-DB,NDS) Convert remaining 60000 and 70000 series entries to proper
EXFOR entries of area 2 and 3.
A33: (All)In view of the poor statistics for EXFOR compilation of recent works,
all centers should give higher priority to new works.

A34: (McLane)

Send a memorandum of understanding about the compilation
responsibilities resulting from the agreement with Phys.Rev.C to allparticipating centers.

A35: (Dunaeva, Chukreev) Establish contact to the publisher of Yadernaya Fizika aboutan agreement similar to the data archiving agreement between NNDC
and Phys.Rev.C.
A36: (Blokhin)

Submit his compilation of emission spectra of photonuclear reactions
to Varlamov for possible inclusion in EXFOR

EXFOR Coding Rules and Dictionary Codes
A37: (McLane)(Old A31) Check existing codes for fission quantities for possible
overlap with the case of Memo CP-C/209 and existing EXFOR entries
for necessary revisions

A38: (McLane)(Old A34) Submit LEXFOR entry on the use of RCL and RSD in SF7

A39: (McLane)(Old A36) Provide more information on the proposal containing “PN”
(prompt neutrons) in SF7 (Memo CP-C/235)

A40:(On WP4) Propose new, general way of coding cases such as theexamples in WP4 (proposed codes PAR/M+,DA,G, etc.)(All)

A41: (McLane)

Include LEXFOR entry for POL,DA/DE and POL,DA/DE,,ANA

A42: (McLane, Schwerer) Reply to the proposal on new units for dictionary 25(P/PTMEVSR etc.) given in memo CP-A/99 (reproduced in WP6, p.7)
A43: (Babykina)

Submit a counter-proposal for coding Isobaric analog states (ref. WP7,
CP-C/264) within 2 months after the meeting.

A44: (McLane)

Update LEXFOR for ,WID/STR and PAR,WID/STR

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Ion Beam Analysis Data (WP 23 by NEA-DB)
A45: (Kellett)Obtain quasi-EXFOR files from Vickridge and distribute these toappropriate centers for addition of extra information (e.g. BIB section).

A46: (All relevant centers)
Upon receipt of quasi-EXFOR files from NEA-DB, add
the required additional information to make them legal EXFOR files tobe distributed through the usual process via the NDS open area. As
time allows, any missing data which is given in the original reference
paper can be added.
A47: (Kellett)Obtain information on “standard” Rutherford cross sections andinvestigate how these can be used to produce r33 format files as output
in the ratio to Rutherford format.

A48: (NNDC, NEA-DB) Allow the r33 format to be one of the standard computational
formats for output so that the IBA community can continue to use thisformat within their simulation codes.
Software Development
A49:(All concerned) (Old A50) All centres using NNDC programmes should check the
NNDC open area 'FOURCS' for program updates. (Only importantchanges will be announced by e-mail, others have to be identified by
the version date.)

A50: (NDS)(Old A53) Investigate possibility to organize a workshop on nuclear
reaction data plotting.

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P1
NATIONAL NUCLEAR DATA CENTER
Status Reportto theAdvisory Group Meeting on
Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centers15-19 May 2000

GeneralSince the last meeting of the Nuclear Reaction Data Centers in May 2000, Mulki Bhat and Said
Mughabghab have retired. Said remains at the Center as a Guest Scientist. Pavel Oblozhinsky
has been hired as the new Deputy Head of the Center. We have also hired a full-time scientificstaff member to work on nuclear structure evaluation. There are currently 11 FTE
scientific/professional and 4 support staff. See Table I for list of visitors for this period.
Computer Facilities
NNDC is in the process of installing new Gateway Celeron 433 MHz PC’s for all staff members.
We have also acquired a Dell Poweridge 4300 Pentium III 600 MHz Windows NT server. These
are linked to the VAX Alpha using the Exceed software package.
The Alpha system has recently been upgraded to Open VMS 7.2, and the OSU HTTPD Web
Server to version 3-6B.
Bibliographies
The NSR activity has continued.
The CINDA compilation activity continues with respect to those references associated with theexperimental data compiled at the Center. In the period from June 1999 through May 2000, 4
CINDA transmissions were sent (BNL159-162).
Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data
The NNDC continues to compile neutron and charged-particle reaction data produced in the
U.S. and Canada. In the period from June 1999 through May 2000, 13 neutron data transmission
tapes (TRANS 1276-1288) and 14 charged-particle transmission tapes (C032-C039, P002, T001T005) were sent containing new and corrected entries. Work continues with a consultant from
Oak Ridge National Laboratory on entering the ORELA total cross section data of Harvey; morethan 140 data sets have been received so far in EXFOR format.
Updates to the EXFOR Manual [1] and to EXFOR Basics [2] have been issued in May 2000.
Work on the compilation of relativistic heavy-ion data has been suspended.

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Evaluated Nuclear Reaction Data
NNDC continues to coordinate the work of the Cross Section Evaluation Working Group.
ZVView has been installed on the VAX Alpha and is now used to produce the plots overlaying
the experimental data with proposed ENDF evaluations that are sent to reviewers.
ENDF/B-VI, Release 7, was distributed in April, 2000, and includes updates to the neutron andproton sublibraries; see Table 2.
Said Mughabghab, in collaboration with S.Y. Oh and J. Chang of KAERI, has updated thethermal and resonance region for 19 fission product nuclei; four of these are included in release
7.
Nuclear Structure Data
NNDC continues to publish the Nuclear Data Sheets. As of May, 2000, issues through Volume
90, #1 have been published by Academic Press.
The Sixth Edition of the Nuclear Wallet Cards [3] was issued in April and has been put up on
the NNDC Web page.
Customer Services
The use of the Telnet Online Service is decreasing, primarily due to the availability of mostdatabases on the Web. There are now about 860 active customer accounts with about 1020 users.
The number of combined retrievals from the NNDC World Wide Web, Telnet On-line Service,and FTP continues to increase exponentially, there are currently about 18,000 retrievals permonth from the combined services. A chart of Online Data Service retrievals is attached.
The following updates have been made to the NNDC Web pages.
1. Links have been established between NSR, CINDA, CSISRS, ENSDF, XUNDL, and theonline journals from Europhysics Letters and Annales de Physique (Paris) in addition to thelinks already existing to American Physical Society journals and European Journal of
Physics.
2. A new NSR-SQL Server has been added to the Web server as a test of alternatives to theexisting DBMS-based retrieval option.
3. Calculational tools for internal conversion coefficients and Log ft’s have been added.
4. An HTML/GIF MIRD output option has been added. In addition to providing HTML tables
and GIF images of the data, this option will also provide links to related information in the
CSISRS, ENSDF, NSR, and NuDat databases.
Agreement has been reached with the American Physical Society on establishing links with
Physical Review C for data given in papers submitted to that journal. Details are given in a
separate paper submitted to this meeting.

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The exchange of personnel between the NNDC and NDS to collaborate on online services
continues; see Table I for details.
References[1] V. McLane, EXFOR Systems Manual: Nuclear Reaction Data Exchange Format,
Brookhaven National Laboratory report BNL-NCS-63330 (May 2000)[2] V. McLane, EXFOR Basics: a Short Guide to the Nuclear Reaction Data Exchange Format,
Brookhaven National Laboratory report BNL-NCS-63380 (May 2000)[3] J.K. Tuli, Nuclear Wallet Cards, 6th edition (Brookhaven National Laboratory, January 2000)

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Table I.
Exchange Visits: NNDC with Other Centers
June 1999 to May 2000
VisitorViktor Zerkin,
NDS
S.Y. Oh
T.W. Burrows

Host
T. Burrows,
V. McLane
S. Mughabghab
IAEA/NDS

Duration
2 weeks
1 week
1 weeks

Topic
EXFOR CDRom, ZVView,
Web services
ENDF Evaluation
Web services

Table 2
Contents of ENDF/B-VI Release 7
Sublibrary
Neutron

Tape
154

155

Proton309

Material
Cs
134
Cs
135
Cs
134
Ba
141
Pr
149
Sm
153
Eu
154
Eu
155
Eu
160
Dy
161
Dy
162
Dy
163
Dy
164
Dy
175
Lu
176
Lu
209
Bi
243
Cm
245
Cm
246
Cm
209
Bi
133

SourceKAERI,BNL
ORNL
ORNL
ORNL
KAERI,BNL
KAERI,BNL
KAERI,BNL
ORNL
ORNL
ORNL
ORNL
ORNL
ORNL
ORNL
ORNL
ORNL
LANL
BelarusBelarusBelarus
LANL

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Evaluators
S.Y. Oh, S.F. Mughabghab
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
S.Y. Oh, S.F. Mughabghab
J. Chang, S.F. Mughabghab
S.Y. Oh, S.F. Mughabghab
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
R.Q. Wright
M.B. Chadwick, P.G. Young
V. Maslov
V. Maslov
V. Maslov
M.B. Chadwick, P.G. Young

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P2
NEA Data Bank Report to the NRDC
Obninsk, 15-19 May 2000

Introduction
The Data Bank now has a full complement of staff working on Nuclear Data topics and has
currently released the first test version of the JEFF-3 library within the JEFF community forpreliminary bench-marking and validation.
Experimental (EXFOR) and Bibliographic (CINDA) data compilation
A total of 99 EXFOR entries for neutron induced experiments, were compiled and transmitted
to the other data centres in 1999. Seventy-four (74) of these entries concerned new experiments.
More than 800 new entries were compiled into the CINDA database in 1999.
The CD-ROM version of the CINDA database has now been produced and is currently being
circulated to recipients of the IAEA book version. Extensive testing was carried out by both the
NEA and the IAEA and this helped to improve the product, but also delayed its original
distribution date.
Intermediate Energy Nuclear Data (IEND) for EXFOR
In 1999, the Data Bank received ~150 new data sets from charged particle induced experiments
and these are currently undergoing testing before being entered into the EXFOR database.
The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion Project (JEFF)Work is continuing to assemble and correct the JEFF-3.0 starter file taking into account theformat and physics errors highlighted by the Quality Assurance (QA) checks. Extensive
processing has been done using different versions of NJOY-97. This also enables the proposalof different patches to the processing code and to reveal additional errors in some evaluation
files. The situation is now quite stable and the latest version of NJOY (NJOY-97/110) is able toformally process all materials.
The production of application libraries has started, with a full set of ACE format files (for use
with MCNP) now being held at the Data Bank.
Validation work of JEFF-3.0 started in summer 1999 with a set of 20 configurations, which
covers applications such as fast assemblies as GODIVA and JEZEBEL, arrays of watermoderated fuels, and solutions of uranium and plutonium. This activity has been extended after
a limited release of an interim version of JEFF-3.0 to JEFF members, who volunteered toparticipate to this preliminary bench-marking. A second pre-release, taking into account theresults of the above mentioned tests, will be done at the JEFF meeting in May 2000.
The plan for the assembly of the Decay Data and Fission Yields files was agreed upon during thelast JEFF meeting in November 1999. The first version (April 2000) is being assembled from the38

existing new versions of the UK libraries UKPADD-6.1 and UKHEDD-2.2, complemented witha large number of French evaluations, mainly based on ENSDF and converted to ENDF-6 format
using a revised version of RADLIST. Further efforts will be needed to define the QA procedures
and to develop the checking codes for the Decay Data files. The Fission Yields section will bebased on the UKFY3 library.
The detailed documentation for the JEF-2.2 library is about to be published in time for the JEFF
meeting in May 2000. This documentation comprises historical information, the sources of datain the file, a complete report on the accuracy of JEF2.2 for a variety of applications (thermal andfast reactors, criticality, shielding...) and the list of feedback. The required improvements as
resulting from benchmarking studies are also be highlighted. The full documentation will also
be available on a CD-ROM, with links included to all of the supporting JEF and EFF documents
which are referenced therein.
In 2000 work will focus on:• Bench-marking studies.
• The production and testing of the Decay Data and Fission Yield special purpose library.
Extensions are planned to:• Incorporate intermediate energy ( 150 MeV) cross sections for the most important nuclides.
• Finalise on-going evaluation work and update the file; a new version is foreseen for the end of
2000.
JEF-PC program
The JEF-PC program continues to sell moderately well (137 copies in the last year) against thebackground of competition generated by other programs, many of which are being made available
free of charge.
The future development of JEF-PC is now well under way and it is foreseen that a first beta test
version will be available in June/July of this year. The work is being carried out by a team of
specialised programmers in order that full benefit can be made of the modern architecture
available. The new version is being written using Java and so will be platform independent andalso closely linked to the WWW allowing for communication with our servers. The user will
receive an initial set of data (on CD-ROM or DVD) and yet still have the flexibility to collectnewer data from our server. Studies have been made where the actual point-wise data stay on theserver and it is only the graphical image which is transmitted, making communication faster. This
is interesting for our WWW based plotting facility, which will contain some aspects of the new
JEF-PC.
Services to Nuclear Data Users
The Data Bank answered ~50 manual data requests in 1999. The number is diminishing year on
year as the online service becomes more readily accessible and complete. Most of the manual
requests are now for independently produced CD-ROMs which the Data Bank distribute,currently these include JENDL-3.2, JENDL/D-99 and EAF-99. There are also a number ofrequests for complete libraries as well as for copies of reports containing data.

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The Data Bank also continues to provide specific advice to those members using nuclear data in
all areas related mainly to nuclear energy.
The number of on-line accesses registered in 1999 was more than twenty one thousand (21,000),
as compared to ten thousand (10,000) in the previous year.
All the JEF and EFF documents have been scanned through a Character Recognition systemallowing for an automatic search capability to be performed on the entire body text of the
documents. Nearly all new documents are received electronically, which allows direct conversion
to PDF format and instant WWW availability, hence avoiding the cost of scanning documents
and the final files are also significantly smaller in size than those scanned.

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P3
Progress Report of the IAEA Nuclear Data Section(Note: This report is an extract taken from the 1999 report to the INDC
( INDC(NDS)-414))

1.

Staff and Budget
Organization chart of the Nuclear Data Section as in May 2000 is given below.

Nuclear Data Centre
Unit

Nuclear Data
Development Unit

Computer Operations
Unit

Atomic & Molecular
Data Unit

V.G. Pronyaev (Head)
Nuclear Data Physicist(04950-33-P4) (21717)

A. Trkov * (Head)
Nuclear Data Physicist(04923-33-P5) (21712)

D.W. Muir (Head)
Section Head
(04914-33-P5) (21709)

R. Clark (Head)
Atomic Physicist(04932-33-P4) (21731)

P.K. McLaughlin
Programmer Analyst(06619-33-P3) (21723)

M. Herman
Nuclear Physicist(04969-33-P4) (21713)

W. Costello
Systems Analyst(04941-33-P3) (21724)

J.A. Stephens
Atomic Physicist/
Programmer(04987-33-P3) (21729)

V. Zerkin
Nuclear Physicist/
Programmer(05069-33-P2) (21714)

R. Paviotti de Corcuera
Nuclear Data Information
Physicist(05023-33-P3) (21708)

M. O’Connell
Applications Progr.
(05124-33-G5) (21722)

M. Lammer
Asst. Nucl. Data Phys.
(05078-33-G7) (21727)

A. Scherbaum
Secretary(05115-33-G4) (21711)

K. Sheikh
Database Clerk(06499-33-G5) (21730)

E. Baumgartner
Secretary(05087-33-G4) (21710)

O. Schwerer
Asst. Nucl. Data Phys.
(05133-33-G7) (21715)
G. BushProduction Progr.
(05106-33-G5) (21725)
M. Wirtz
Secretary(05050-33-G4)(21716)* Andrej Trkov will take up his duties in the Nuclear Data Section on 11 May 2000.
The budget and staffing level of the Nuclear Data Section has been relatively stable
during the current reporting period. The authorized staff level for 1999-2000 is 18, consisting of
10 professionals (P-staff) and 8 support staff (G-staff). Of these 18 staff members, 3 (2 P-staff
and 1 G-staff) are assigned to the Atomic and Molecular Data Unit.
The previous Deputy Section Head, Pavel Oblozinsky, resigned his position effective 31 March
2000, in order to accept employment with the National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven. His

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successor, Dr. Andrej Trkov, will take up his duties in the Section on 11 May 2000. The Headof the Atomic and Molecular Data Unit Ratko Janev retired after 11-plus years of outstanding
service. His successor, Dr. Robert Clark, arrived in August 1999.
As shown in Table 1, the draft budget for 2001 is nearly unchanged in dollars. There has
been some shift of emphasis in the programme of the Section, with more resources devoted toworkshops and other user training initiatives than in the past, and there has been increased staff
activity in the development of Technical Cooperation projects. The increased dissemination of
online documents via direct download from Web has reduced the hard-copy printing
expenditures.
TABLE 1. BUDGET AND STAFF SUMMARY 1998-2001
1998
1999
2000
Authorized Staff Level
18
18
18
Actual Staff Level
19
18.1
18
Staff Cost Budget
1,600,000
1,600,000
1,550,000
Programmatic Budget
602,000
570,000
636,000
Total Budget US$
2,202,000
2,170,000
2,186,000

2001
18
18
1,643,000
573,000
2,216,000

In support of the PPAS of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, the Nuclear
Data Section produced briefing materials on several topics of interest to the review panel,including (a) the special role of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications indeveloping scientific databases which support the development of nuclear technology in Member
States, (b) the close working relationship between the nuclear data programs of the IAEA and theOECD Nuclear Energy Agency, (c) an explanation of the important role of the International
Nuclear Data Committee in providing programmatic guidance to Agency activities, and (d) the
creation of a unified Web site for our parent Division, the Division of Physical and Chemical
Sciences(NAPC),
onthe
Agency’scentralWeb
server;see
http://www.iaea.org/programmes/ripx/nd/. The NDS portion of this site containing programme
overviews, staff contact information, details of meetings, project, publications, etc. provides auseful supplement to the Section’s nuclear and atomic data dissemination sites, which continue
to be developed separately.

2.

Data Center Activities
The main objectives of the NDS Nuclear Data Center activity in 1999 were:

to collect, assess, recommend and disseminate nuclear data required in the application of
nuclear technology,

to promote the international exchange of nuclear data for applications,

to coordinate worldwide networks of national and regional nuclear reaction and nuclear
structure and decay data centers,42

to maintain manuals and software for internationally agreed database formats and exchange
procedures, andto improve the means by which the data center provides information to its users.

2.1

Nuclear Data Compilation

Nuclear reaction data compilation includes the collection of bibliographic information andprimarily experimental numerical data mainly from the NDS Nuclear Data Center’s area of
responsibility, and their compilation in the computerized formats CINDA and EXFOR.
The general purpose evaluated nuclear reaction data libraries are created under the nationalor regional programs. After international release, they are placed in the ENDF database by
NNDC, Brookhaven. Special purpose nuclear databases, data libraries and files are prepared in
the framework of the IAEA Coordinated Research Projects or national and regional programs.
They are documented by the IAEA NDS and, after checking and testing, are disseminated via
online access or off-line on diskettes and CD-ROM upon requests.

2.1.1

CINDA

There were no activities in the NDS toward the development of the new CINDA format
and the new file “CINDA2001”. Presently all CINDA operations (compilation, storage, dataexchange and retrievals/transmission to customers) continue to be performed using the old
CINDA format.
During 1999, the NDS has prepared and transmitted about 900 CINDA entries either as
direct input to the CINDA file (work in laboratories belonging to the responsibility of NDS) or
for further processing by the responsible data centres.
CD-CINDA, the CD-ROM version of CINDA including a search software developed by
the NEA Data Bank was completed in 1999. This was thoroughly tested by M. Lammer. Manysuggestion for improvements to the search software were communicated by Lammer to M.
Kellett of the Data Bank. Thus the NDS has made a considerable contribution towards thedevelopment of the CD-CINDA. The CD-CINDA could be an alternative or a supplement of thehardcopy CINDA book.
CINDA 99 was published again as a supplement to CINDA 97 and superseded CINDA 98.
Plans were developed in November 1999 together with M. Kellett (NEA Data Bank) for a joint
distribution of CINDA 2000 as a hardcopy book and a CD-ROM.

2.1.2

EXFOR

Since January 1999, two neutron-EXFOR transmissions were distributed containing newworks from China (13), Ukraine (4), Argentina (4), Brazil (1) and Australia (1). These included

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5 entries compiled at the China Nuclear Data Center which were checked and processed at NDS,
and data received from Ukraine and Argentina in a "raw EXFOR" format which were finalized
at NDS. In addition, 3 photonuclear entries were received in “ raw EXFOR” format from Brazil.
These were finalized (with help from CDFE Moscow) and transmitted on a separate EXFOR
transmission file.
Considerable time was spent in updating the common CINDA/EXFOR dictionaries and related
software originating from NNDC, and in quality control checking of EXFOR transmissions fromall participating compilation centers.

2.1.3

Evaluated Data Libraries, Files and Programs

The following Evaluated Data Libraries, Files and Programs have been updated or added
to the IAEA NDS collection (listed in chronological order of their inclusion):

JENDL-3.2 Library. Pointwise data reconstructed by JAERI at 300 K.



ENDF/B-VI Library, Release 6. It includes revisions up to September 1999. Basic andpointwise data are available online and on CD-ROM. The following materials were added,
replaced or updated: 1-H-1, 1-H-2, 6-C-0, 7-N-14, 8-O-16, 13-Al-27, 14-Si Isotopes, 15-P31, 20-Ca-40, 24-Cr Isotopes, 26-Fe Isotopes, 28-Ni Isotopes, 29-Cu-63, 29-Cu-65, 41-Nb93, 74-W Isotopes, 82-Pb Isotopes.



ENDF/B-VI Charged-Particle Sublibraries, Version: September 1999. The 1998 and 1999
updates includes complete presentation of the nuclear data for H-1, H-2, He-3, C-12, N-14,
O-16, Al-27, P-31, Ca-40, Nb-93 and isotopes of Si, Cr, Fe, Ni, Cu, W, Pb, needed fortransport, damage, heating, radioactivity and shielding applications over the incident protonenergy range from 1 to 150 MeV.



Table of Nuclear Root-Mean-Square Charge Radii, by I. Angely (June 1999), contains
bibliographic information, data selection, evaluation procedures and tables with experimental
and evaluated data .



TLAPrfl: Package for Calculation of Depth Profile for Thin Layer Activation, by G. Wallace.



PCNuDat: a PC Nuclear Data Program, by R.R. Kinsey (Release 2.7, October 1998).



EXFOR+ENDF retrieval + interactive plotting software by ZVVIEW. A tool for retrievalof integral reaction cross sections from experimental database EXFOR and major evaluateddata libraries and their graphical comparison using ZVVIEW (a package specially designed
for interactive plotting of nuclear reaction cross sections).



PHYSCO - Nuclear Structure Calculation Tools – HSICC and LOGFIT. Tools forcalculations of internal conversion coefficients and Log-ft values for beta and electron
capture decay, average beta energies, and capture fractions.

44

JENDL Dosimetry File 99 (JENDL/D-99) on CD-ROM, by JAERI. Data for 67 dosimetry
reactions in pointwise and 641-group structure form and figures of comparison between
JENDL/D-99 and IRDF-90 are given.



NMF-90. Neutron Metrology File is an integrated database for performing neutron spectrum
adjustment (unfolding) calculations. It contains four different adjustment codes, the groupstructure version of the dosimetry reaction cross section library IRDF-90/NMF-G withcovariance files, six input data sets for reactor benchmark neutron fields and a number ofutility codes for processing and plotting of the input and output data.



DROSG-2000: Neutron Source Reactions. Data files with computer codes for 56
monoenergetic neutron source reactions.



SaBa: The Library of Evaluated and Experimental Data on Charged Particles for Fusion
Applications. Evaluated and experimental data for 52 reactions with a set of data processing
procedures which provide a user-friendly interface for presentation and evaluation of crosssections.

All these files, libraries and codes are documented either in the IAEA-NDS Report series(available online) or in INDC Reports.

2.2

Nuclear Data Services: Improvement and Development
The main innovations, development and improvements in the user services in the last yearare:

About 50% of all new INDC reports have been made available on the Internet. This lowered
the printing cost by reducing the distribution of hardcopies of these reports. More than 1200
reports were downloaded by users in 1999.



A new EL series of INDC reports, published and distributed in electronic form only, wasintroduced. The hardcopies of these reports are available only on special request by the user.
Users are informed of the publication of these reports through an announcement in the
Nuclear Data Newsletter.

A new Web statistics system based on the Alpha Web server was developed. The systemprovides online monitoring and statistics reports of the retrievals from nuclear databases andaccesses to data files, programs and documents. The access rate is tabulated for various
categories such as data topics, countries and regions and is given in daily, monthly and year
time frames. The system provides information on client activity with respect to country, database accessed, etc. The system is available through the Web from any computer and at any
time.



A new multi platform software package ZVView, designed for interactive graphical displayof nuclear reaction cross sections retrieved from experimental and evaluated nuclear reaction
cross sections was released to the user community. This software and its documentation areavailable from the NDS Web page.

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

A new Web-based service was developed in collaboration with NNDC, BNL. This combines
the EXFOR and ENDF cross section retrievals on Alpha VMS with interactive plotting by
ZVView on a client’s local computer. This service is now available from the NDS Web
page.



A new NDS Web site content-navigation tool was developed. This provides “explorer” typeaccess to the most important pages, databases, libraries, files and documents. In addition, theNDS pages were enhanced with hyper-links to other sites containing important information
on nuclear data and related topics. The tool provides fast overview of NDS Web site, allows
to view information and services from various viewpoints depending on the client’s interests.

A new EXFOR CD-ROM retrieval system was developed. This is based on ACCESS-97 andis designed as a relational database. It allows flexible SQL search of information fromEXFOR dictionaries. The system is integrated with ZVView interactive plotting program.
Test version of the system was sent to the network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centers.

2.3

Nuclear Data Services: Statistics

Due to the variety of requirements from users, different media are used for user services.
These include ordinary mail for hardcopies of documents, PC diskettes and CD-ROMs, e-mails
with attached retrieved data or electronic documents, and online transfer of data retrieved by theusers themselves through the Telnet or Web interfaces.
The general statistics of user services in 1995 - 1999 is shown in Table 2. Figures are given
for three different categories. Ordinary mail includes retrievals prepared by the NDS staff uponuser requests and sent to them via ordinary mail. Online retrievals from NDS major databases
are made directly by users themselves through Telnet or Web access to the databases, libraries,
files and reports. One retrieval usually contains one homogenous piece of information. This canrepresent one report, or a set of different data retrieved from one library or database, or acomputer code or codes when they are distributed as a package. Online retrieval corresponds to
one user creating output either on hard disk or in screen mode. The number of Web accesses toother important databases, libraries programs and reports is also listed in Table 2.
Fig. 2.1 presents summary report of Web based Nuclear Data Services and includes
statistics of accesses to the NDS data and information sources for the last four years startingfrom 1997. Statistics for year 2000 is given for first three months of the year.
The following trends in the user services can be seen during the last year:The total number of offline retrievals shows a slight increase with a wider use of CDROM media for distribution.



In 1999 the number of retrievals by hardcopy decreased by 30% probably due todownloading of online documents by users themselves instead of requesting hardcopy
from NDS.

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

Most of the users prefer to use Web access because of ease of use compared to Telnet.
However the number of retrievals through Telnet is stable at around 2000 per year.

The number of Web accesses increased by about 30% in 1999 compared to 1998. The
geographic breakdown of the increase is, developing countries 14.8%, FSU countries
18.4%, East European region 6.7% and European Union 34.6%.

Table 2. NDS nuclear data retrieval and access a) statistics by year
Type of Medium
Offline retrievals b) prepared uponrequest, including:Documents (hardcopies)
Data (diskettes)
Data (CD-ROM)
Online retrievals (Telnet)
Online retrievals (Web)
Including retrievals from:
ENDF
EXFOR
CINDA
NUDAT
Web pages accessed
NGAtlas
MIRD
Thermal Neutron Capture
IRDF90-NMF90
MassesPrograms
FENDL
RIPL
Newsletters and Reports

1995
1556

1996
786

1997
1846

1998
1995

Year
1999
2290

1155
373

554
219
5688
-

1547
286
7350
40

1533
115
205
2700
4964

1060
105
420
2180
9071

-

32
3
5
3690
286
257
353
259
337
1109
279
23
787

2618
784
470
1092
6953
613
453
714
322
479
1695
580
841
1256

4820
568
498
3185
7319
1074
493
514
263
428
1769
440
962
1376

4462

-

a)

Data given in Table for Web accesses in 1997 – 1998 differ from what was given in previous reviews because
a new statistics program and database for IP addresses of ‘real users’ was used in the analysis.
b)Data for total offline retrievals in 1998 and for number of documents distributed are corrected. Number ofphysical media used for distribution (hardcopies, diskettes and CD-ROMs) may not coincide with the number
retrievals.

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Fig. 2.1 Summary statistics of the user accesses at the NDS Web server.

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P4
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR DATA CENTRE (CJD)
Progress Reportto IAEA Advisory Group Meeting on the “Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres”
15-19 May 2000
Obninsk

1. The compilation into EXFOR is on steady level. Since June 1999 to March 2000 five
TRANS 4114-4118 were prepared and sent to other Network centres. The tapes contained 79
ENTRY ( 30 new and 49 old).
2. Last year the RNDC WWW-site was created with information about RNDC
publications and national evaluated data libraries. Unfortunately we have lost some information
on WWW-site because of failure of the computer disk with WWW-pages. Now the work is inprogress to restore the information. At the present time the abstracts of Voprosy Atomnoi Nauki
i Tekhniki (VANT), series Yadernye Konstanty (Nuclear Constants), catalogues of the libraries
BROND-2 and ADL-3 are placed on the RNDC WWW-site. In the nearest future the catalogue
of MENDL-2 library will be placed.
However, sometimes it is difficult to provide steady access to our WWW-site. It is atechnical problem and connected with the present structure of IPPE local network. Some work
is made to change the situation to the better.
3. Main efforts of the RNDC is directed on analysis and evaluation of the nuclear data fordifferent applications. We take into account practical requirements in the nuclear data for reactor
and accelerator transmutation of actinides, for activation and radiation damage of materials forthe fission and fusion reactors.
The work on comparison and analysis of the evaluated nuclear data from available
libraries are continued. As a result of this comparison we inform nuclear data community throughreport publication or directly the responsible Nuclear Data Centres. For example, together withJapanese Nuclear Data Center we analysed the threshold reaction data from JDOS/D-99 and
JENDL-3.2, agreed the methods of selection of more reliable data, discussed the results and inmany cases came to agreed conclusion about discrepancies revealed and the way to improve thedata. As far as the foreign evaluated data libraries are used in our country for some applications
we have a great interest that the data from these libraries would be improved.
4. Last time the (n,2n) and (n,3n) reactions for 150 fission products were evaluated andincluded in the group constant system BNAB. The evaluation was made also of the thresholdreactions leading to production of the long-lived radioactive isotopes as a result irradiation of thesteel containing V, Ti, Cr, Fe, Ni.
5. The specialists of our Theoretical Division together with specialists from VNIIEF(Sarov) continue the work in the frame of the ISTC project, the objective of which ismeasurement, analysis, calculation and evaluation of the production cross sections and spectraof gamma-rays for set of the structural and technological materials such as C, Al, Na, isotopesof Si, Cr, Fe, Nb, Zr, Pb, Bi. Simultaneously the calculation and consistent evaluation of all otherneutron reactions for the same isotopes are made. These evaluated data are used for formation49

of the full files for the isotopes mentioned.
Together with the full files for minor actinides (Np-237, Am-241, Am-243, Cm-242, Cm243, Cm-244) evaluated three years ago we intend to include all the files for the isotopes
mentioned (about 25) into version 3 of BROND library.
Having in mind that the work of formation of many files does not completed and sometime is needed for the testing of all these files on the basis of integral experiments and model
calculations we can not fix the exact date of release of the new BROND library version.
6. The work on improvement of specialised libraries is continued. Atlas on fission
product yields was prepared. The new version of the photonuclear data library BOFOD-99 library
was made.
7. In 1999 the following works on nuclear data evaluations were published:
V.N.Manokhin, Some considerations concerning 58-Ni(n,a) reaction. In: Voprosy Atomnoi
Nauki i Tekhniki, ser. Yadernye Konstanty, 1, 1999, p.39.
A.V.Ignatyuk, A.I.Blokhin, V.P.Lunev, V.N.Manokhin, G.Ya.Tertychnyj, V.A.Tolstikov,
K.I.Zolotarev, Evaluation of neutron cross sections for 241,-243 Am. In: Voprosy Atomnoi
Nauki i Tekhniki, ser. Yadernye Konstanty, 1, 1999, p.25.
V.N.Manokhin, N.Odano, A.Hasegava, Consistent evaluation of (n,2n) and (n,np) reaction
excitation functions for some even-even isotopes using empirical systematics. Report JAERI (inpress).
A.I.Blokhin, A.S.Badikov, A.V.Ignatyuk, V.P.Lunev, V.N.Manokhin, G.Ya.Tertychnyj,
K.I.Zolotarev, Evaluation on neutron cross sections for 242-244 Cm. In: Voprosy Atomnoi Nauki
i Tekhniki, ser. Yadernye Konstanty, 2,1999, p.53.
A.I.Blokhin, N.N.Buleeva, V.V.Vozyakov, M.V.Mikhailyukova, S.M.Nasyrova, BOFOD-99:
Recent status of evaluated photonuclear data. In: Voprosy Atomnoi Nauki i Tekhniki, ser.
Yadernye Konstanty, 2,1999, p.95.

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P5
Nuclear Structure and Reaction Data Center
Kurchatov’s Institute, Moscow
F.E. Chukreev, S.Yu. Babykina
Progress Reportto IAEA Advisory Group Meeting on Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centers15-19 May 2000, Obninsk, Russia

Our EXFOR activity had two main directions:
Compilation for A-library.
After Vienna-99 Technical meeting A046 and A047 TRANSes were prepared. The
TRANes contains monitor reaction data, astrophysical data and corrections of some old entries.
Astrophysical data compilation will be continued in this year. We would like to compile
Bochum’s group publications. The group published very many papers regarding to stellar energy
sources. The measurements of Bochum’s group are well grounded.
Team work with the NEA Data Bank.
New 180 entries were prepared after Vienna-99 Technical Meeting. Some entries wetransmitted for T-Library, but majority of prepared entries will be included in O-library. The
entries contain differential and integral data oriented for nuclear waste transformation andmedical applications.
B-Library correction is finished, but we are waiting very many remarks because EXFOR
rules are changing constantly. The library will be put in PRELIM after the meeting, if ourmeeting will not adopted new essential changing for EXFOR.
WEB access to catalogue of ICPND was created on CDFE site (depni.npi.msu.su) by
combined efforts of CAJAD and CDFE. More detail information on the item can be found in
CDFE’s progress report. We have plan to include another partial catalogues (may be, neutron
production cross-section or isomeric ratios) with suitable data. The content of the site is discussed
now. At the site we plan to put calculated internal conversion probabilities for isomer transitionsof low energies, less than 3 KeV. The data were not published. Only short report, which contains
calculation method, was published. The data are needed to analyze conversion electron spectraon outer atomic shells. Similar spectra are very useful to understanding interatomic interactions
in solid states.
About some difficulties of our users:
These difficulties can be divided into two groups.
First group. We constantly have questions from our users on type of the data, which arepresented in EXFOR. They arise at the people, which try to build models of nuclear reactions,which produced by particles with intermediate energies, when the products are far from a valley51

of stability. Lack of the exact information about a type of the measured cross section and detailsof experiment create these questions, in many cases.
Moreover, there are cases, when the authors of the publication incorrectly specify type ofmeasured cross section (CUM or IND) or incorrect sequence of isomeric states are presented.
These mistakes are connected, as to incompleteness of information about radioactive processeson the moment of the publication of research, or with direct mistakes of the authors. It is valid,
when in an experiment the cross sections of formation of several tens nuclides are determined,
the authors not always have an opportunity in details to analyze genetic connections of obtained
products. This task is not always simple. It is enough to mention, for example, Tb-150, which
formation in the ground state can be only CUM/M-, and in isomeric state is IND only. In ourpractice there are some cases, when the authors, not only Russian, asked to check up correctness
them IND and CUM before the publication of results.
The second source of similar difficulties is unwillingness of the users to study LEXFOR.
They have enough work without it. Therefore they require the "redundant" information. From ourcolleagues, we have remarks constantly, that the redundant information complicates work of thesearch programs. It is certainly correct, but the absence of the redundant information complicateswork of the users.
Whose interests to us are more important? My opinion, that interests of our users.
Second group. The experimentalists have another problems. The development ofexperimental technique of measurements of cross-sections short-lived nuclides has given rises
new difficulties. In many cases from measurements of gamma-spectra to determine cross section
is impossible, as decay scheme is unknown.
It especially frequently meets for odd nuclides. Let’s consider, for example, 188-Au. Its
half-life is 8.8 minutes, and product of its decay is 188Pt. Now in ITEP, where the measurements
of production cross sections short-lived nuclides are adjusted, the measurements for 188-Au andlot of other isotopes are made. But the determination of cross-section is impossible, because therelative probability gamma radiation is known only. It, in turn, is connected with absence ofmeasurements of probability of decay to ground state of a daughter nucleus. Sometimes wemanage to help the experimentalists, but in most cases it appears impossible.
The experimentalists, who study radioactive transformations, similar problems do not
disturb. Their efforts are directed on search of bands, superdeformation and other interesting
characteristics. And such "trivial" characteristic, as probability of transitions between the groundstates remains outside of a field of their interests.
Therefore we address to our colleagues, which can influence on financial distribution forradioactive processes investigations, to take into account needs of modern experiment andtheories of nuclear reactions. They could ask the experimenters to not neglect definition of the"trivial" characteristics of radioactive decays.

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P6
The IAEA NRDC Network MSU INP CDFE Nuclear Data Activities
I.N.Boboshin, A.V.Varlamov, V.V.Varlamov, E.M.Ivanov, N.S.Markov,
M.E.Stepanov, V.V.Chesnokov
Progress Reportto the IAEA Advisory Group Meeting (15 - 19 May 2000, Obninsk, Russia)
on the “Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres”

This report contains the short review of the works carried out by the CDFE concern the
IAEA NRDC Network activities for the about one year period of time from the IAEA Technical
NRDC Meeting (18 - 20 May 1999, Vienna, Austria) till now and the description of the main
results obtained.
1. The new CDFE EXFOR TRANS M029 has been produced and transmitted to the
IAEA NDS. The TRANS contains 2 retransmitted (M0067 and M0431) and 17 new (Annex 1)
ENTRYs (M0596 - M0612) with 73 data SUBENTs.
2. The third version of Evaluated Photonuclear Data Library EPNDL3 included(Annex 2) altogether 21 evaluated photonuclear reaction cross sections for 6 (20,22Ne, 54,56Fe,
58,60
Ni) materials has been produced /1, 2/ in addition to 2 previously developed libraries
EPNDL1 and EPNDL2 in accordance with the program of work of the IAEA Research Contract
N 8839/R2 and transmitted to the IAEA NDS.
As a whole the CDFE EPNDL (EPNDL1 - EPNDL3) library includes now altogether 61
evaluated photonuclear reaction cross sections for 26 materials.
The new simple phenomenological model (SPM) developed for calculation of giant dipole
resonance decay channels competition has been used /2/ for iron and nickel various photonuclear
reaction cross section evaluation.
The three year Contract N 8839 has been completely finished, the Final Report has been
sent to the IAEA.
3. TheCDFE
photonuclear
data
bases
put
upon
the
Web-site(http://depni.npi.msu.su/cdfe) before have been upgraded significantly by adding a new data
to existed data bases and software improvement:• in addition to the data collection of the CDFE data base "Giant Dipole ResonanceParameters" published before /3/ as the Table "Parameters of the giant dipole resonances"
213 new entries and 234 new reaction cross sections have been added; the last data baseversion includes now altogether 1530 entries and 1080 various photonuclear reaction crosssection EXFOR data sets are available now in forms of both table and graph;• the new CDFE Web-site Search Engine has been produced for the data base "Giant Dipole
Resonance Parameters" using the MySQL data base management system (DBMS) insteadof former hypertext data presentation: the search for reaction target nucleus Z and A
parameters, reaction designation (combination of initial and outgoing particles), GDR
position energy, absolute cross section value and integrated cross section value, reference
and/or year, first author name, and correspondent EXFOR SUBENT number is possible now
for this data base;• the new CDFE Web-site Search Engine is now under construction (MySQL data base53

•management system (DBMS)) for complete Photonuclear Data Index for period of time1955 - 1998 in accordance with the Actions and Recommendations of the IAEA Advisory
Group /4/: the search for reaction target nucleus Z and A parameters, reaction, incident
particle energy, measured or deduced quantity, reference, year, and first author name would
be possible for this data base;a new charge-particle integral reaction cross sections catalogue produced in accordancewith Actions and Recommendations of the IAEA Advisory Group /5/ in co-operation with
the CAJAD (Dr. F.E.Chukreev) has been put upon the CDFE Web-site using the hypertext
data presentation; the first version of the Search Engine (MySQL DBMS) has been realised:
the search for reaction target and product nucleus Z and A parameters, reaction designation(combination of initial and outgoing particles), initial particle energy range, andcorrespondent EXFOR SUBENT number is possible now for this data base.

4. The relational nuclear spectroscopy data base NESSY (New ENSDF Search
SYstem) produced before /6/ for PC and compatible computers has been put upon the CDFE
Web-site using the MySQL DBMS:- configuration on both search conditions and output information is not limited;- automatic formation of tables containing the search parameters can be included into thecommon query configuration:- Query_1 (ENSDF) ⇒ Result_1,- Query_2 (Result_1) ⇒ Result_2,- and so on;- requests are posed by means of both values and the relations between them;- arithmetical and other operations over searched values are possible.
5. All needed /7, 8/ CDFE contribution texts and correspondent data sets for the IAEA
Handbook on Photonuclear Data have been prepared in accordance with the program of workof the IAEA Co-ordinated Research Program "Compilation and Evaluation of Photonuclear Data
for Applications".

References
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6.

V.V.Varlamov, M.E.Stepanov. The Giant Dipole Resonance Decay Main Channels Analysis andPhotoneutron and Photoproton Reaction Cross Sections Evaluation for 20,22Ne. MSU INP Preprint-9940/598, Moscow, 1999.
S.S.Borodina, A.V.Varlamov, V.V.Varlamov, B.S.Ishkhanov, V.I.Mokeev, S.I.Pavlov. 54,56Fe and58,60
Ni (γ,n), (γ,p), (γ,np), and (γ,2n) Reaction Cross Sections Evaluation Using the Model of the GDRState Decay Channel Competition Phenomenological Description. MSU INP Preprint -2000-6/610,
Moscow, 2000.
A.V.Varlamov, V.V.Varlamov, D.S.Rudenko, M.E.Stepanov. Atlas of Giant Dipole Resonances.
Parameters and Graphs of Photonuclear Reaction Cross Sections. INDC(NDS)-394, IAEA NDS,
Vienna, Austria, 1999.
Ed. by V.G.Pronyaev and O.Schwerer. Co-ordinatrion of the Nuclear Reaction Data Centers. Reporton an IAEA Advisory Group Meeting (11 - 15 May 1998, Vienna, Austria). INDC(NDS)-383, IAEA
NDS, Vienna, Austria, 1998.
Ed. by O.Schwerer and H.D.Lemmel. Co-ordination of the Nuclear Reaction Data Centres. Report onan IAEA Advisory Group Meeting (3 - 7 June 1996, Brookhaven, USA), INDC(NDS)-360, IAEA NDS,
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and Evaluation of Photonuclear Data for Applications” (23 - 26 June 1998, Los-Alamos, USA).
INDC(NDS)-384, IAEA NDS, Vienna, Austria, 1998.
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Spectroscopy Data Base. Nucl.Instr. and Meth., A369 (1996) 113.

Annex 1. CDFE EXFOR TRANS M029 contents (new ENTRYs)
ENTRY’s Number

Amount of DATA TABLEs

M0596
M0597
M0598
M0599
M0600
M0601
M0602
M0603
M0604
M0605
M0606
M0607
M0608
M0609
M0610
M0611
M0612

5
12
4
16
2
4
2
4
2
3
2
4
2
3
2
4
2

Total: 17

Total: 73

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ENDF/B
FORMAT
20
Ne

MAT

MF

MT

LINES

1
1020
3
1020
3
1020
3
1020
22
Ne
1022
1
1022
3
1022
3
54
1
Fe
2654
3
2654
3
2654
3
2654
3
2654
56
1
Fe
2656
3
2656
3
2656
3
2656
3
2656
58
1
Ni
2858
3
2858
3
2858
3
2858
3
2858
60
1
Ni
2860
3
2860
3
2860
3
2860
3
2860
ORIGINAL LINE COUNTFINAL LINE COUNT

451
4
28
103
451
4
103
451
4
16
28
103
451
4
16
28
103
451
4
16
28
103
451
4
16
28
103

108
45
23
34
87
20
30
74
12
9
10
14
75
13
10
10
13
72
13
9
10
14
72
13
10
10
14

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REACTION

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0 γ,p
0
0 γ,n
0 γ,p
0
0 γ,n
0 γ,2n0 γ,np
0 γ,p
0
0 γ,n
0 γ,2n0 γ,np
0 γ,p
0
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0 γ,2n0 γ,np
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The MSU INP CDFE
Programme, Priorities and Tasks
for 2000 - 2001

The MSU INP CDFE main tasks for the 2000 - 2001 period of time remain the following:••••

photonuclear data compilation (using EXFOR) and evaluation (using ENDF);
Photonuclear data Index appropriate annual additions;relational nuclear structure data base NESSY upgrade and improvement;
charge particle reaction data cooperation with CAJaD.

The new nuclear data processing tasks are concerned to putting upon the CDFE Web-sitesome new charge particle reaction data bases in accordance with CDFE - CAJaD cooperation.
The main priority for 2000 - 2001 is the CDFE Web-site improving.

The 2000 - 2001 programme of work is the following:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Photonuclear Data Index addition for 1999 - 2000 production and adding to theappropriate Web-site data base;
Photonuclear Data Index Search Engine switching on;
new photonuclear data EXFOR TRANS M030 production;
increasing the data base “Parameters of Giant Dipole Resonances” amount of entries
and correspondent EXFOR data sets;
switching on the appropriate EXFOR data sets to the CDFE - CAJaD charge particle
reaction cross section catalogue;
relational nuclear structure data base NESSY upgrade using the new ENSDF version;Web-site relational data base NESSY Search Engine improvement (realization of all(majority at least) NESSY’s availabilities in Web);put upon the CDFE Web-site some new charge particle reaction data in accordancewith CDFE - CAJaD cooperation.

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China Nuclear Data Center (CNDC) Status Report
Zhuang Youxiang
1. General Situation
1.1 Evaluation
The major work at CNDC during 1996~2000 is the accomplishment of CENDL-3(China Evaluated Nuclear Data Library, version 3).
In order to set up CENDL-3, the calculating codes for fissile, structure material andfission product nuclides, and calculating method and code have been established andimproved; systematics research on input parameters of fission product nuclei has been
done; some evaluated method and codes have also established and improved, including
adjustment of consistency between natural element and its isotopes, plot and process of
double differential cross sections and so on; adjustment method and code for energybalance of a complete data set have been researched and compiled.
CENDL-3 contains about 200 nuclides. Among them, the data of 157 nuclei will be
newly or reevaluated: fissile nuclei 15 (233~239U, 237Np, 238~242Pu, 241,242Am), structurematerial nuclei 34 (natural elements Ni, Cu, Zr, Hf, Pb and their isotopes, 23Na, NatSi), lightnuclei 3 (6,7Li, 9Be), and fission product nuclei 105 (for example, 85,87,NatRb,
136,138,140~144
Ce). Most evaluations of them have been finished. The remainder will be doneby the end of 2000.
1.2 Calculation
The UNF program system has been established. This code system includes UNF, SUNF,
NUNF, CUNF, FUNF and GUNF. With the useful tools mentioned above the nuclides
calculated are about 160 for the CENDL-3.
In the theoretical model the nuclear structure effect is taken into account for multiparticle emission processes. The calculated data include the discrete levels not only for theneutron emission but also for the charged particle emission. The gamma production data
can also be calculated. Since the recoil effect is taken into account exactly to maintain theenergy balance both in C.M.S. and L.S. in the model, so the energy balance is fully
satisfied in the output files. The recoil effect can expanse the spectra of the outgoing
secondary particle. If the recoil effect were not taken into account, the spectra would haveunreasonable shapes.
Since the method of the double differential cross sections have been developed, so thatthe file-6 data for all of kind composed particle emissions can be obtained.
A new model has been developed for calculating all kind of reaction cross sections anddouble differential cross sections for neutron induced reactions on light nuclei. Therefore
the file-6 can given in CENDL-3. The LUNF code is developed, in which the reaction
mechanisms of processes and three-body breakup processes are involved.

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2. Future work, manpower and priorities
2.1 Future work
The CENDL-3 will be accomplished by the end of 2000. Therefore the future work is
multi-group constant generating and validation of CENDL-3, and much improvements will
be made in microscopic data.
2.2 Staff
There are 17 senior scientists at CNDC. They are engaged in various work:
Neutron data evaluation - 5;
Nuclear theory and calculation - 4;
Charged particle and photonuclear data - 1;
Nuclear structure and decay data - 1;
Fission product yield - 1;
Parameter library - 1;
EXFOR, CINDA, Data format - 1;
Data service, library management - 1;
Group constant generating - 1;
Validation - 1.
2.3 Priorities
Due to the requirement of the international exchanges and financial limit, CNDC would
like to enhance the co-operations on neutron, charged particle and photonuclear data with
IAEA nuclear data section and other centers. This is the top priority for CNDC.
3. Publications“Communication of Nuclear Data Progress” (CNDP) has been published for 22 issues
by CNDC and Atomic Energy Press science 1989, and it has also been distributed by IAEA
Nuclear Data Section as an INDC document.

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Progress Report
NRDC Meeting (15 - 19 May 2000 Obninsk, Russia)
Charged Particle Nuclear Data Group, ATOMKI, Debrecen
F. Tárkányi, S. Takács, F. Szelecsényi, F. Ditrói, A. Fenyvesi. L. Andó

GeneralThe Debrecen Nuclear Data Group is working in the Institute of Nuclear Research of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI) in Debrecen (Hungary). Main field of the activity
is the measurement, compilation and application of the low and medium energy charged particle
induced nuclear reaction cross section data. The group is dealing with the all aspects of the CP
cross section data i. e. measurement, compilation, evaluation and practical application. Direct
experiences collected during the applications help in selection of the important tasks and complex
investigation of the problems. The measurements and the compilations are carried out in broad
range of international collaborations with cyclotron laboratories in Germany (INC, FZ Jülich),
in Belgium (VUB Brussels), in Finland (Turku PET Center), in Japan (Tohoku University) andwith theoretical groups in Russia (IPPE, Obninsk), China (CNDC, Bejing) to obtainrecommended data.

Reference Charged Particle Cross Section Data Base for Medical Radioisotope Production
In the last period most of the nuclear data activity was connected to preparation of theReference Data Base for medical isotope production. The data base contains 22 monitor reactions
to monitor beam parameters of light bombarding particles, 16 reactions to produce single gamma
diagnostic radioisotopes and 10 reactions for production of most commonly used PET isotopes.
The Debrecen group took a significant part in the CRP, regarding the compilation of the nuclear
data, the connected new experiments (see list of references), and finally the preparation of thetechnical document and in the electronic version of the database on the IAEA Web server.
A significant part of the results of the new measurements is already have been published(see references) or under publication. From our point of view the following conclusions andremarks can be deduced on the whole program, on the present status and on the future
improvement of the data base:• There are already numerous request for the data base, which underline the importance of thework.
• According to our knowledge it was the first attempt to produce a CP cross section data basefor medical applications, which resulted in slower evaluating procedure.
• There was a fairly good collaboration between different contributors.
• It was repeatedly stated, that the status of the experimental data base of the charged particle
induced reactions is poor.
• It was found, that a significant part of the experimental data still not compiled into the
EXFOR.
• A very significant effort was done to produce the database, but the “quality” of the result isstill far from the ideal one (and from the possibilities).

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The program, and the number of the evaluated reactions were too ambitious for the available
limited time.
It was practically impossible to use the results of the model codes to produce recommendeddata.
In case of several reactions no recommended data can be given without new experiments.

For the future work the following recommendations can be given on the basis of the collected
experiences and conclusions:• Further experimental data are necessary in case of several important reactions.
• The quality of the database can be significantly improved by continuation of the evaluation
process with fewer contributors.
• According to our opinion the evaluation process need to be continue immediately, because
on the basis of the present results better quality data can be obtained , even with moderate
additional effort. After one or two year nobody can remember the details, and the original
data files can be cleared. Finally, due to the improved performance, better and more uniform
evaluation can be done.
• The correction process requires about one- or two year works from one experimental and one
theoretical group.
• The missing works have to be compiled into the EXFOR base.

Activity for development of other CP nuclear data base
Nearly thousand CP accelerators are working on different applications using activation
method. On the basis of the broad range application of the cyclotron on industrial and medical
field - in agreement with other groups- we came to the conclusion, that there are several other,non energy related, application fields, where the direct or indirect application of CP crosssection data are important. It seems to be worthwhile to develop new dedicated CP data bases andto improve the existing ones:• Extension and improvement of the database to monitor beam parameters is needed, and to
put into WEB as separate database would be necessary.
• Extension and improvement of the existing data base for production of diagnostic
radioisotopes (SPECT, PET), and putting into WEB as separate data base together withtherapeutic radioisotopes(see next).
• Development of new data base for production of therapeutic radioisotopes and putting into
WEB in common file with diagnostic radioisotopes. The application of the radioisotopes forradiation therapy is becoming more and more important. According to the last prognoses itwill be one of the most prosperous field of the application of the radioisotopes in nuclear
medicine. No attempt was made to compile and to evaluate the existing experimental database, to see the status of the data, to propose new measurements and to produce
recommended data base.
• Development of a new data base for standard cross section, and activation curve for wear,
erosion and corrosion measurement using Thin Layer Activation technique(TLA). The database can accelerate and make more easier and economic the calibration process. From otherside it can help significantly in the planing phase for optimization of the irradiation
circumstances. The list of the possible nuclear reaction is very numerous, but in the practice
only limited nuclear reaction are used. Taking into account, that the most widely used62•equipments are based on metals and on plastics, out of them the metals can be easily labeledwith radioisotopes of acceptable half life. The status of the cross section data on metals are
not so bad, therefore both the necessity, and the possibility underline the real developmentof the data base. Some preliminary attempts already was made to develop standard data on
this field as a part a IAEA CRP, but the published results contain contradictory data withother earlier experimental results
The existing data base for production of diagnostic radioisotopes contains the main
production reaction, and the disturbing reactions on the same target isotope. No compilation
and recommendation exist for the disturbing reactions on other stable isotopes of the sameelement. This side reactions are especially important when the target element is not monoisotopic and/or the enrichment of the target is not satisfactory. The price of the enrichedisotopes is strongly depended on the enrichment and on the real composition of the target
material. The reliable cross sections allows to calculate with high accuracy of the yields bothfor the main reaction and for the unnecessary side reactions. Therefore the extension of theexisting data base for production of medical radioisotopes with the contributing reactions
on other stable isotopes of the same target element is also very important.

Regarding the above mentioned fields the compilation of the existing data has been
started, in spite of the well known fact, that they are projects for more manpower and forbroader cooperation.

Activity to prepare a “user guide” for measurement and application of integral charged
particle cross section data
There is a broad range of the methods for measurement and application of charged
particle cross section data in practice. The methods of measurements and the possible error
sources are published mainly in old volumes of journals of basic sciences, usually unavailable
for the users. The precise descriptions of a method of applications of cross section data are evenin worst situation, because the definition of the quantities is not so strict, and different groups
have different “habits” for application of the nuclear data. It was recognized during the
preparation of the TECDOC of the Medical Isotope Production File, that there is disagreement
even between the contributing compilators, in the question of the type of data to propose. Thelong list of reactions and the limited time did not allow us to prepare a user guide for the fieldof medical isotope production and CP beam monitoring. Our group has made already some steps
in this direction. We have started drafting such a guide in the field of isotope production for
medicine, CP activation analysis and Thin Layer Activation corrosion studies, but the task is not
simple.

New measurements to complete CP data bases
In collaboration with other international laboratories we are participating in a systematic
study of low and medium energy range cross sections in the field of:• Production of radioisotopes for medical diagnostic.
• Production of radioisotopes for therapy.
• Commonly used reactions for thin layer activation technique.

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Commonly used monitor reactions and intercomparisions.
Confirmation of experimental data base measured by Levkovski.

The list of the investigated reactions is based on the requirement of every day practiceof the collaborating institutes, and on the problems obtained during compilations and data
evaluations. The most of the new data are published in international journals (see references).

Compilation in EXFORThe Debrecen CP Nuclear Data Group are collecting and compiling the CP cross section
data measured in Debrecen and Jülich. In the last year this activity was temporary suspended, due
to the overload by the evaluation program. With finishing the “first version” of the Medical
Isotope Data base, the compilation process was restarted in this May. We hope that the missing
work from Debrecen and Jülich will be compiled to the end of this year.

Nuclear data services
The Group continue to distribute compiled experimental charged particle data at low
a medium energies for special request, needed mainly on non-energy related applications(medical isotope production, TLA, etc).

Staff
The staff consist of six “professional” physicist, working in different applications at the
Debrecen cyclotron, and only in-part time (and with different intensities) on data compilations
and other data oriented work. The main problem is, the lack of programmer and/or technician
support , to put and to check the compiled data.
Addresses:
Office address:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences(ATOMKI)
Bem tér 18/c, Debrecen, H-4026, Hungary
Tel: +36 52 417 266
Fax: +36 52 416 181
E-mail address:
F. Tárkányi
tarkanyi@atomki.hu
S. Takács
takacs-s@atomki.hu

64Publications on nuclear data in the last three year
Fenyvesi A., Merchel S., Takács S., Szelecsényi F., Tárkányi F., Qaim S. M.: Excitation
functions of natNe(3He,x)22,24Na and natNe(alpha,x)22,24Na processes: Investigation of productionof 22Na and 24Na at a medium-sized cyclotron.
Radiochimica Acta 79 (1997)207
Scholten B., Takács S., Kovács Z., Tárkányi F., Qaim S. M.:
Excitation functions of deuteron induced reactions on 123Te: Relevance to the production of 123I
and 124I at low and medium sized cyclotrons.
Applied Radiation and Isotopes 48 (1997)267
Takács S., Tárkányi F., Sonck M., Hermanne A., Sudár S.:
Study of deuteron induced reactions on natural iron and copper and their use for monitoring
beam parameters and for thin layer activation technique.
Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry. Proceedings of the 14th International
Conference. Denton, Texas November 1996. Eds:
J.L.Duggan, I.L.Morgan. AIP Conference Proceeding 392. Woodbury, New York, AIP 1(1997)659
Takács S., Sonck M., Scholten B., Hermanne A., Tárkányi F.:
Excitation functions of deuteron induced nuclear reactions on natTi up to 20 MeV for monitoring
deuteron beams.
Applied Radiation and Isotopes 48 (1997)657
Takács S., Sonck M., Azzam A., Hermanne A., Tárkányi F.:
Activation cross section measurements of deuteron induced reactionsof natNi with special reference to beam monitoring and production of 61Cu for medical purpose.
Radiochimica Acta 76 (1997)15
Tárkányi F., Takács S., Heselius S. -J., Solin O., Bergman J.:
Static and dynamic effects in gas targets used for medical isotope production.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research "A" 397 (1997)119
Ditrói F., Ali M. A., Tárkányi F., Mahunka I.:`
Investigation of the 3He induced reactions on natural Ti for the purpose of activation analysis andnuclear implantation.
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology. Trieste, 19-24 May, 1997.
Conference Proceedings. Ed.: G. Reffo, A. Ventura, C.
Grandi. Vol.2. Bologna, Italian Physical Society 59 (1997)1746
Fenyvesi A., Takács S., Merchel S., 3HW G., Szelecsényi F., Molnár T., Tárkányi F., Qaim S. M.:
Excitation functions of charged particle induced reactions on neon: relevance to the productionof 22,24Na and 18F.
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology. Trieste, 19-24 May, 1997.
Conference Proceedings. Ed.: G. Reffo, A. Ventura, C.
Grandi. Vol.2. Bologna, Italian Physical Society 59 (1997)1707

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Hermanne A., Sonck M., Takács S., Szelecsényi F. 1, Tárkányi F.:
Influence of secondary neutrons on cross section determination of proton and deuteron induced
reactions on natNi targets.
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology. Trieste, 19-24 May, 1997.
Conference Proceedings. Ed.: G. Reffo, A. Ventura, C.
Grandi. Vol.2. Bologna, Italian Physical Society 59 (1997)1262
Scholten B., Hohn A., Takács S., Kovács Z., Tárkányi F., Coenen H. H., Qaim S. M. :Cross section measurements relevant to the production of medically interesting positron emitting
radioisotopes 120gI and 124I.
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology. Trieste, 19-24 May, 1997.
Conference Proceedings. Ed.: G. Reffo, A. Ventura, C.
Grandi. Vol.2. Bologna, Italian Physical Society 59 (1997)1634
Sonck M., Takács S., Szelecsényi F., Hermanne A., Tárkányi F.:
Excitation functions of deuteron induced nuclear reactions on natMo up to 21MeV: an alternativeroute for the production of 94m,99mTc and 99Mo.
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology. Trieste, 19-24 May, 1997.
Conference Proceedings. Ed.: G. Reffo, A. Ventura, C.
Grandi. Vol.2. Bologna, Italian Physical Society 59 (1997)1637
Szelecsényi F., Takács S. 1 + , Fenyvesi A., 6] FV=7iUNiQ\L)Heselius S. -J., Bergman J.,
Boothe T. E.:
Study of the 197Au(p,pn)196ml,m2,gAu and 197Au(p,n)197mHg reactions and their application for
proton beam monitoring in radioisotope production.
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology. Trieste, 19-24 May, 1997.
Conference Proceedings. Ed.: G. Reffo, A. Ventura, C.
Grandi. Vol.2. Bologna, Italian Physical Society 59 (1997)1483
Tárkányi F., Oblozinsky P.:
Development of reference charged particle cross section data base for medical radioisotope
production.
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology. Trieste, 19-24 May, 1997.
Conference Proceedings. Ed.: G. Reffo, A. Ventura, C.
Grandi. Vol.2. Bologna, Italian Physical Society 59 (1997)1629
Sonck M., Hermanne A., Szelecsényi F., Takács S., Tárkányi F.:
Study of the natNi(p,x)57Ni process up to 44MeV for monitor purposes.
Applied Radiation and Isotopes 49 (1998)1533
Szelecsényi F., Boothe T. E., Takács S., Tárkányi F., Tavano E.:
Evaluated cross section and thick target yield data bases of Zn+ p processes for practicalapplications.
Applied Radiation and Isotopes 49 (1998)1005
6] FV=Hamkens W., Takács S., Tárkányi F., Coenen H. H., Qaim S. M.:
Excitation functions of 14N(d,t)13N and 14N(d,alpha n)11C reactions from threshold to 12.3 MeV:
radionuclidic purity of 15O produced via the 14N(d,n)15O reaction.

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Radiochimica Acta 80 (1998)59
Szelecsényi F., Takács S., Tárkányi F., Sonck M., Hermanne A.:
Study of production possibility of no-carrier-added 186Re via proton induced reaction on tungsten
for use in radiotherapy.
Synthesis and applications of isotopically labelled compounds 1997. Proceedings of the Sixth
International Symposium, Philadelphia, USA, 14-18 Sept.,
1997. Eds: J.R. Heys, D.G. Mellilo. Chichester, etc., John Wiley and Sons 0 (1998)701
Tárkányi F., Kovács Z., Andó L., Szelecsényi F., Takács S.:
Production of 123I at small cyclotrons.
2nd School and Workshop on Cyclotrons and Applications. 15-19 March, 1997, Cairo, Egypt.
Eds.: M.N.H.Comsan and Z.A.Saleh. Cairo, Nuclear
Research Centre, Atomic Energy Authority 0 (1998)230
Hermanne A., Szelecsényi F., Sonck M., Takács S., Tárkányi F., Van den Winkel P. : New crosssection data on 68Zn(p,2n)67Ga and natZn(p,xn)67Ga nuclear reactions for the development of areference data base.
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 240 (1999)623
Hermanne A., Sonck M., Takács S., Szelecsényi F., Tárkányi F.:
Excitation functions of nuclear reactions induced by alpha particles up to 42 MeV on natTi formonitoring purposes and TLA.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research "B" Beam Interactions with Materials andAtoms 152 (1999)187
Hermanne A., Sonck M., Takács S., Szelecsényi F., Tárkányi F.:
Monitoring of alpha-beam properties by the natTi(α,x)51Cr reaction: New measurements andcritical compilation.
Proceedings of 15th International Conference of Accelerators in Research and Industry. Denton,
Texas, 1998. Eds: J.L.Duggan, I.L.Morgan. New
York, Woodbury. AIP Conference Proceedings 475 1 (1999)239
Sonck M., Takács S., Szelecsényi F., Hermanne A., Tárkányi F.:
Excitation function of deuteron induced nuclear reactions on natMo and 100Mo(90%) up to 50
MeV: an alternative route for the production of 99Mo.
Proceedings of 15th International Conference of Accelerators in Research and Industry. Denton,
Texas, 1998. Eds: J.L.Duggan, I.L.Morgan. New
York, Woodbury. AIP Conference Proceedings 475 2 (1999)987
Takács S. , Azzam A., Sonck M., Szelecsényi F., Kovács Z., Hermanne A., Tárkányi F. :Excitation function of 122Te(d,n)123I nuclear reaction: production of 123I at a low energy cyclotron.
Applied Radiation and Isotopes 50 (1999)535
Takács S., Szelecsényi F., Tárkányi F., Sonck M., Van hoyweghen J., Hermanne A.: The use ofcross section data for monitoring charged particle beam parameters.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their applications. Caen,
France, 14-19 June, 1998. Eds.: E. Baron, M. Lieuvin.

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Bristol and Philadelphia, Institute of Physics Publ. 0 (1999)246
Ditrói F., Tárkányi F., Ali M. A.:
Investigation of deuteron induced nuclear reactions on niobium.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research "B" Beam Interactions with Materials andAtoms 161 (2000)172
Hermanne A., Sonck M., Takács S., Tárkányi F.:
Experimental study of excitation functions for some reactions induced by deuterons(10-50 MeV) on natural Fe and Ti.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research "B" Beam Interactions with Materials andAtoms 161 (2000)178.
Tárkányi F., Szelecsényi F., Takács S., Hermanne A., Sonck M., Thielmans A., Mustafa M.
G. , Shubin Yu., Yhuang Zouxiang:
New experimental data, compilation and evaluation for the natCu(α,x)66Ga, natCu(α,x)67Ga andnat
Cu(a,x)65Zn monitor reactions
Nucl. Instr. Meth. B (in print)
Ditrói F., Tárkányi F., Ali M. A., Andó L., Heselius S.-J., Shubin Yu., Zhuang Youxiang,
Mustafa M. G.:
Investigation of 3He-induced reactions on natural Ti for nuclear analytical and radionuclide
production purposes
Nucl. Instr. Meth. B. (in print)
Szelecsényi F., Tárkányi F., Takács S., Hermanne A., Sonck M., Shubin Yu., Mustafa M.G.,
Zhuang Youxiang:
Excitation function for the natTi(p,x)48V nuclear process: evaluation and new measurements forpractical applications
Nucl. Instr. Meth. B.(submitted)
Takács S., Tárkányi F., Szelecsényi F., Sonck M., Hermanne A., Mustafa M. G., Shubin Yu.,
Zhuang Youxiang
New cross section and intercomparision of deuteron monitor reaction on Al, Ti, Fe, Ni and Cu(in preparation) will be submitted to Nucl. Instr. Meth. B
Dóczy R., Takács S., Tárkányi F., Scholten B., Qaim S. M.:
Possibility of production of 81Rb via the 80Kr(d,n) reaction at a small cyclotronRadiochemica Acta (in print)

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P9
RIKEN Nuclear Data Group
IAEA Advisory Group Meetingon Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centers
Obninsk, Kaluga reg., Russia,
15-19 May 2000
Y. Tendow
First of all, to our regret, we have to inform you all the member of NRDC network that our
RIKEN Nuclear Data Group cannot be helped to discontinue its main activities as a group fromthis fiscal year (from April) on. Our group belongs to the Radiation Laboratory in RIKEN. Since
last year the Radiation Laboratory had been receiving a review on its activities and organizationon the occasion of the retirement of the laboratory head. As a conclusion, our Nuclear Data
Group could not keep up adequate budget and manpower. We think we cannot be helped towithdraw from the membership of NRDC network. It is a great pleasure for us we could do alittle contribution to the enrichment of the EXFOR database for this long term. We would liketo express our great thanks to many people in IAEA NDS and all of the NRDC members for theirconstant support and encouragement.
RIKEN Nuclear Data Group has joined the NRDC network in 1983 in charge of collecting andcompiling the charged particle nuclear reaction cross section data. In the first place, we limited
our objectives to the production cross sections for twenty typical radioisotopes of medical use:
11
C, 13N, 15O, 18F, 28Mg, 52Fe, 67Ga, 68Ge, 74As, 77Br, 82Br, 77Kr, 81Rb, 82mRb, 111In, 123Xe, 127Xe,
123 124
I, I, and 125I. Afterwards, we have a little widened the scope of collection to other importantnuclides left off the EXFOR master file. Since our first TRANS had been transmitted in 1984,
we have continued to compile EXFOR entries R001 through R053 containing a total of 479
subentries as shown in Table 1.
We also have continued the mass-chain evaluation and compilation of ENSDF for a long term.
A part of this work (A = 129 evaluation) will be continued personally from this time on.
NSR compilation of Japanese secondary sources will also be continued only for this fiscal
year.
Compilation of 1999 secondary sources published in Japan has been carried out last year. A totalof 97 works from seven Annual Reports has been compiled into NSR files and will be sent to the
NNDC.
RIKEN Accelerator Progress Report 1998
JAERI-TANDEM, & V.D.C. Annual Report 1998
JAERI-TIARA Annual Report 1998
RCNP Annual Report (Osaka Univ.) 1998OULNS Annual Report (Osaka Univ.) 1998
UTTAC Annual Report (Univ. Tsukuba) 1998
CYRIC Annual Report (Tohoku Univ.) 1998

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32(reports)
18
2
18
16
5
6

Table 1

Entry Number
R001
R002
R003
R004
R005
R006
R007
R008
R009
R010
R011
R012
R013
R014
R015
R016
R017
R018
R019
R020
R021
R022
R023
R024
R025
R026
R027
R028
R029
R030
R031
R032
R033
R034
R035
R036
R037
R038
R039
R040
R041
R042
R043
R044
R045
R046
R047
R048
R049
R050
R051
R052
R053
Total

Subentries
Comment
16 Mass dependence of production σ for Xe isotopes
2 Excitation func.for I-123
2 Yield for Xe-123
5 Excitation func.for (α, n), (α, 2n) reactions
5 Production σ for Xe isotopes
2 Yield for I-123
5 Yield curves for I-121,123,125 production
2 Yield for I-123
4 Yield curves for Cs-123, Xe-123, I-123
2 Excitation func.for C-11
10 σ(θ) for C-12(He-3, α)C-1124 σ(θ) for C-12(p, d)C-11
20 σ(θ) for N-14 levels
24 σ(θ) for C-11,12, Mg-23,24, Si-27,28, Ca-39,40, Cr-49,50 levels
47 σ(θ) for (He-3, α) reactions
15 σ(θ) for (He-3, α) reactions
4 Relative yields for Be-7, B-10 production
3 Excitation func.for C-11, Be-7
37 σ(θ) for B-11, C-11,13, N-13,15, O-15,16,17, F-17 levels
17 σ(θ) for (p,d) reaction residuals C-11, N-13, O-15, Ca-39, Zr-89 levels
14 Excitation func.for C-11, O-15, Si-27, Ni-57
10 σ(θ) for (He-3, d) , (He-3, α) reactions
4 Excitation func.for F-18 production
3 Excitation func.and yields for I-123
11 Excitation func.for C-11, Be-7, Li-6
3 Excitation func.for C11
2 Yields for N-13
22 σ(θ) for O-15 levels through (α, n) reaction
5 Excitation func.for Rb-81, Kr-81m
3 Yields for Br-76,77
2 Yields for Rb-81g, m production
4 Yields for Br-75,77 production
9 Yields for Br-75,77 production
5 Yields for Ge-68,69, Zn-65, Co-57 production
void
Deleted10 Excitation func.for As-71,72,73,74, Ge-68,69, Ga-66,67, Zn-65
9 Excitation func.for Ge-66,67,68, Ga-66,67
9 Excitation func.and yields for Cl-38, Cu-61,64,67, Ga-66
13 Excitation func.for Ga-65,66,67,68, In-109,110,111, Cd-109
3 Relative yields for Ga-66,67 production
14 Excitation func.for Zn-64(He-3, X) reactions
9 Excitation func.for (d, p), (d, 2n) reactions
2 Excitation func.and absolute σ for O-16(p, α)N-13 reaction
4 Excitation func.for B-10, O-16, F-19(He-3, X) reactions
7 Excitation func.for Ca-40,42,43,48(d, X) reactions
2 Excitation func.for As-75(d, X) reactions
2 Excitation func.for Zn-68(p, 2p) reaction
5 Excitation func.for Mo-92,100(α, p), (α, n) reactions
5 Excitation func.for Cd-116(α, X), (He-3, X) reactions
4 Excitation func.for Au-197(d, xnyp) reactions
void
Deleted10 Excitation func.for Ho-165, Er-164,167(α, X) reactions
28 Excitation func.for (he-3, X), ( α, X) reactions
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P 10
Japan Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data Group(JCPRG)
Progress Report to the NRDC Meeting
May 15-19, 2000
The Executive Committee of JCPRG
General
In 1999, we have carried out the following businesses:
1. Compiling the CPND(Charged Particle Nuclear Reaction Data) produced In Japan with
the NRDF(Nuclear Reaction Data File) format,
2. Translating the NRDF data into the EXFOR data,
3. Making retrieval systems using internet and the InteligentPad for the CPND in both of
NRDF and EXFOR,
4. Distributing the CPND and promoting utilization in Japan.
5. Shift of the NRDF system from computer of the Hokkaido University Computer Center
to UNIX system of the Laboratory Workstation.
In 1999 much of our effort was concentrated on the third and fifth subjects mentioned
above. The details of the work will he reported later. This year (2000), we will complete a newelectric editor system for compiling and inputting the NRDF data and a revised version of the
EXFOR translation system.
NRDF Data Compiling Activity
In 1998 we newly compiled l4 entries (457 tables, 1.2 MB) based on the data obtained withthe accelerators in Japan. Their data were produced in the following institutes:• Tohoku Univ.(CYRIC)-1 entry• KEK(Tanashi Accelerator)-4 entries• Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka Univ. (RCNP)-6 entries• RIKEN Accelerator-3 entries
By March of 2000 the amount of the compiled data has reached 25,567 tables of about
72.66 MB. Our aim is to store all data produced with Japanese accelerators in the NRDF
database.

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EXFOR Translation from NRDF
In 1999, we made the TRANS E018 file which included 8 entries translated from NRDF
data. For these entries sent to IAEA on May of 1999, we received some comments on June. After
studying the comments, we had the conclusion that it is necessary to update the translation system
based on the EXFOR archival dictionary and the new compilation rules of EXFOR. However,a new version of the transition system has not yet completed. Therefore, the E018 entries
including some troubles are still in a pending stage.
In 2000 we plan to complete the revised translation system on the workstation. By using
the new translation system, we are expecting to make EXFOR data files from NRDF datasmoothly.
Customer Services
Retrieval services of NRDF and EXFOR data are available by using computers in the
Hokkaido University Computing Center. In addition to these services, the WWW homepage(http://nucl.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~nrdf/index.html) has been opened to public. In order to extend the
NRDF data service, we have started to make a developed retrieval system based on theIntelligentPad.

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ANNEX: Organization and members of JCPRG
Advisory committee:
Yasuhisa ABE (Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto Univ.)
Yoshinori AKAISHI (Institute for Nuclear Study, Tokyo Univ.)
Yasuo AOKI (Tsukuba Univ.)
Junsei CHIBA (National Institute for High Energy Physics)
Masayasu ISHIHARA (Tokyo Univ.)
Ichiro KATAYAMA (Institute for Nuclear Study, Tokyo Univ.)
Mituji KAWAI (Kyushu Univ.)
Akira HASEGAWA (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute)Tetsuo NORO (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka Univ.)
Shunpei MORINOBU (Kyushu Univ.)
Hajime OHNUMA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Hikonojo ORIHARA (Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, Tohoku Univ.)
Teijiro SAITOH (Tohoku IJniv.)
Hajime TANAKA (Sapporo-Gakuin Univ.)
Yoshihiko TENDO (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
Koichi OKAMOTO (Nihon Univ.)
Kiyoshi KATO (Hokkaido Univ.)
Executive committee:
Kiyoshi KATO (Chairman, Hokkaido Univ.)
Akira OHNISHI (Hokkaido Univ )Shigeto OKABE (Hokkaido Univ.)
Toshiyuki KATAYAMA (Hokusei-Gakuen Univ.)
Yoshuharu HIRABAYASHI (Hokkaido Univ.)
Hiroshi NOTO (Hokusei-Gakuen Univ.)
Masaki CHIBA (Sapporo-Gakuin Univ.)
Sigeyoshi AOYAMA (Kitami Institute of Technology)
Secretariat:
Hitomi YOSHIDA (Hokkaido Univ.)
Office address:
Division of Physics, Graduate School of Science,
Hokkaido University
Kita-10 Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810
Tel: +81-11-706-2684, Fax: +81-11-706-4926
E-mail: nrdf@nucl .sci .hokudai .ac.jp73Working Staff:(1) Data compiling:
Hirokazu TEZUKA (Tohyo Univ.)
Takahisa KOIKE (KEK)Yuka AOKI (RIKEN)
Shigeyoshi AOYAMA (Kitami Institute of Technology)
Naoyuki ITAGAKI (RIKEN)
Yuichi HIRATA (Hokkaido Univ.)
Nozomi YABUSAKI (Hokkaido Univ.)
Masayuki AIKAWA (Hokkaido Univ.)
Akinori ISSHIKI (Hokkaido Univ.)
Takayuki MYO (Hokkaido Univ.)
Naohiko OTUKA (Hokkaido Univ.)(2) Data input:
Takako ASHIZAWA (Hokkaido Univ.)
Hitomi YOSHIDA (Hokkaido Univ.)
Working Staff of Transformation from NRDF to EXFOR:
Masaki CHIBA (Sapporo-Gakuin Univ.)
NRDF System Maintenance:
Akira OHNISHI (HokkaidoUniv.)
Working Staff of Making a Data-base based on IntelligentPad:
Yoshihide OHBAYASI (Hokkaido Univ.)
Hiroshi MASUI (Hokkaido Univ.)
Working Staff of Making a Compiling Editer System:
Hirokazu OHMI (Hiokkaido Univ.)

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P 11
Present Status of JENDL Project
Akira Hasegawa
Nuclear Data Center
Japan Atomic Energy Research InstituteHasegawa@ndc.tokai.jaeri.go.jp

1. JENDL-3 revision 3 (JENDL-3.3: General Purpose File )The second revised version of JENDL-3 (JENDL-3.2) was released in June 1994. It-5contains the data for 340 nuclides in the energy range from 10 eV to 20 MeV. The ENDF-6
format was adopted. The pointwise files were also constructed at 0 K and 300 K by using
RESENDD, RECENT, LINEAR and SIGMA1.
Though JENDL-3.2 gives much better evaluated data than JENDL-3.1, JENDL-3.2 has nocovariance matrices. We recognize importance of the covariance matrices. A new working grouphas been organized in Japanese Nuclear Data Committee (JNDC) for studying of evaluation
method of the covariance matrices. To meet the requests from FBR reactor projects, several
materials have being compiled by this group.
The benchmark tests have shown that JENDL-3.2 gave much better prediction of various
reactor characteristics than JENDL-3.1, though some problems have been pointed out. Up to
now a lot of experiences has been piled up. To reflect these feedback information to JENDL-3.3,
a new task force was organized to summarize the problems of JENDL-3.2 at April 1996. A
report indicating the direction of revision for JENDL-3.2 was submitted to JNDC by the group
after one year survey. It was approved by the steering committee of JNDC at March 1997.
The data improvement of JENDL-3.2 has been started at April 1997. JENDL3.3 will be
published as a consolidated new version of JENDL by JAERI NDC (Nuclear Data center) withthe cooperation of JNDC (Japanese Nuclear Data Committee) in FY2001. It’s main features arefollowings:
1) Covariance data supplemented for major elements such as major actinides, structural
materials and main coolants for the applications of FBR, LWR and Fusion reactors, to enable
the estimation of quantitative contribution of nuclear data uncertainty to design accuracy orsafety margin. No covariance data were supplied up to the JENDL-3.2.
2) New material evaluations such as Er for burnable poisons in LWR high burn-up applications.

753) Adoption of isotope evaluation policy rather than natural element evaluation policy. Up to
JENDL-3.2 for natural elements JENDL was prepared by natural element evaluation policy,i.e., for the transport calculations in nuclear reactors, natural elements data are recommended
to use and for the dosimetry or activation applications isotope evaluations are recommended
to use. We want to keep this isotope evaluation policy as far as possible, for some elements,
however, we have to make natural element file due to maintaining the evaluation accuracy.
4) Among others, addition of gamma-ray production data for the materials needed in Fusion
applications.
5) Individual Evaluationa. Heavy Nuclides (Modified Cross-sections)
A simultaneous evaluation of fission cross-section of U-233, U-235, U-238, Pu-239, Pu-240
and Pu-241 was made. A least squares method was applied to selected absolute and relative
measurements on the fission cross sections. Covariance matrices of the experimental data wereconstructed from the uncertainty information reported in the references.
U-233: URR(Un-Resolved Resonance), (n,2n), (n,3n) and nu.
U-235: RR(Resolved Resonance) (Leal new evaluation), URR, (n,2n), (n,3n), (n,4n), nu andfission spectrum evaluated by multi-mode fission model.
U-238: (n,2n),(n,3n),(n,4n), capture in MeV range, partial level inelastic scattering.
Pu-240:RR, URR, (n,2n),(n,3n),(n,4n) and partial level inelastic scattering.
Pu-242:RR(fission width), (n,2n),(n,3n) and partial level inelastic scattering.
Problem of neutron emission spectrum is solved by GNASH+GAMFIL calculation.
Capture cross section in MeV rage is calculated by newly developed code DSD calculating of
Direct/Semi-Direct Capture cross-sections.
b. Medium Mass Nuclides
Na: inelastic cross section (Geel + TNG code calculation).
Ti-46,47,48,49,50: threshold reaction, gamma production, elastic scattering angular
distributions.
V: RR, total cross section above 100 keV by Geel data and gamma production data.
Cr-50,52,53,54: RR and gamma production data.
Fe-54,56,57,58: RR, total, capture in MeV range calculated by TNG including pre-equilibrium
capture.
Co-59: RR, total, gamma-production.
Ni-58,60,61,62,64: inelastic, threshold reaction, neutron emission spectra using SINCROS code.
Nb-93: capture gamma reflecting pre-equilibrium.
W-182,183,184,186: RR, threshold reaction, gamma production data.
Er-162,164,166,167,168,170: Complete new evaluation reflecting newly obtained measured
data by TIT.
The data will be released after the review including vast range benchmarks for all of thereevaluated nuclides.

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2. JENDL Special Purpose Files
The following special purpose files other than JENDL-3.3 general purpose file are being
developed in Japan. Their status is given below.

JENDL Fusion FileJENDL Fusion File(JFF) was released at March 1996 to provide precise double-differential
neutron and charged particle emission data by using MF6 representation of the ENDF-6 format.
19
27
55
The evaluation was made for the data of H, D, Li, Be, C, N, O, F, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn,
59
75
93
209
Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, As, Zr, Nb, Mo, Sn, Sb, W, Pb and Bi. For H, D, Li, N and O, the dataof JENDL-3.2 are directly adopted. The revision works for the nuclides excepting the light mass
ones have been performed by the SINCROS-II code system which consists of GNASH,
DWUCK, CASTHY and several auxiliary programs. Those results are examined by comparing
with DDX measured at Tohoku and Osaka Universities. For the data of light mass nuclei,
individual evaluation has been done. A lot of nuclides are adopted as FENDL-2 from this file.
Complete version of JFF96 was released in the FY98.

JENDL Actinide File
-5

This file will provide the data of about 90 nuclei in the actinide region from 10 eV to 20
MeV. Data for about 60 nuclei will be taken from JENDL-3.2 with some modification. We needcomplete new evaluation work for about 30 nuclei. Up to now the evaluations have been
completed for U-235, U-236, U-238, Np-235, Pu-237, Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241, Pu-244,
Pu-246, Am-242, Am-242m, Am-243, Cm-240, Cm-241, Cm-242, Cm-243, Cm-244, Cm-245,
Cm-246, Cm-247, Cm-248, Cm-249, Cm-250, Bk-247.
Since 1994, International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) project for Measurements
and Evaluation of miner actinide nuclei has been started at Institute of Physics and PowerEngineering (IPPE, Obninsk Russia, #304), V.I. Khlopin Radium Institute (KRI, St.Petersburg
Russia, #183) and Radiation Physics and Chemistry Problem Institute (RPCPI, Minsk Belarus,#b-03). After that the forth project started to measure fission cross-sections of minor actinides
in medium energy range, i.e.,1 to 200 MeV by .St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI
St.Petersburg, #609) And a new project of actinide nuclear data evaluation for Th cycle started
this April (RPCPI, Minsk Belarus, #B-404). The results obtained by these projects will bereflected in JENDL Actinide File. The file release will be envisaged in FY2001 material-bymaterial bases. Summary record about ISTC is given in Appendix A.

JENDL Dosimetry FileThe working group on dosimetry in JNDC which is working for JENDL Dosimetry Filehas been published a new file. The cross section data for more than 20 reactions was revised andtheir covariance matrices were replaced with new ones. Integral tests were also made. The file
was released in FY99 as JENDL-D99 and the data are also released with a CD-ROM. Contents
are 67 reactions with pointwise and 641 group structures data.

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JENDL Activation Cross Section File
Evaluation and compilation work for JENDL Activation Cross Section File has been
completed and released in March 1996 as JENDL-A96. This first version stores the data for 233
nuclei and 1246 reactions. Final report is under preparation. Revision of the files is foreseen near
future for the feedback information from the ad hoc group for threshold reaction evaluation
working group.

JENDL High Energy Files
The evaluation of data for high energy neutrons and protons has been initiated in JNDC.
They will make data files for neutrons and protons up to 50 MeV and about 3 GeV.

The former files will be used for the IFMIF project which JAERI participates. The
evaluation of neutron data up to 50 MeV has been made for almost all necessary nuclides. The
evaluation results for neutron are being reviewed. After review, the data will be combined withJENDL Fusion File or JENDL-3.2 below 20 MeV. The file release will be envisaged in FY2000.
The latter files will be used for design of accelerators, transmutation systems of high-level
waste, medical applications and so on. The evaluations of Al, Si, Cr, Ni, Cu, Pb and Bi isotopes
were made for neutron and proton induced reactions up to 3 GeV. The neutron nuclear data forhydrogen are also completed. These data will be reviewed. The file release will be envisaged
starting at FY2000.

JENDL PKA/KERMA File
This file stores the spectra of primary knock-on atoms (PKA) and KERMA factors. The
data to be stored are created from the data files(JENDL High Energy File) up to 50 MeV madefor the IFMIF project. A couple of processing codes to create the file from evaluated nuclear data
file, by using the effective single particle emission approximation, have been developed andtested.
The test compilation has been performed from JENDL Fusion File for the 69 isotope data
except light mass nuclei below 20 MeV. The file release will be made in FY2000.

JENDL Photonuclear Data File
2
12
14
16
23
24,25,26
The evaluation has been finished for 46 isotopes; D, C, N, O, Na,
Mg, 27Al,
40,48
28,29,30
46
51
52
55
54,56
59
58,60
63,65
90
93
92,94,96,98,100
Si,
Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn,
Fe, Co,Ni,
Cu, Zr, Nb,
Mo,
133
160
182,183,184,186
197
206,207,208
209
235,238
Cs, Gd,W, Au,
Pb, Bi and
U in the gamma-ray energy range
up to 140 MeV. Their compilation in the ENDF-6 format and the critical review are in progress.
The file will be released in FY2000.

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3. Other Activity Relating to Nuclear Data
1) The 1999 Symposium on Nuclear Data
The 1999 Symposium on Nuclear Data was held at Tokai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic
Energy Research Institute (JAERI), on 18th and 19th of November 1999. Japanese Nuclear Data
Committee and Nuclear Data Center, JAERI organized this symposium. In the oral sessions,presented were 18 papers on keynote address, nuclear data measurement for long-lived RI andin medium energy region, status of JENDL, international session and other topics. In the poster
session, presented were 46 papers concerning experiments, evaluations, benchmark tests and online database on nuclear data. Those presented papers are compiled in the proceedings published
as JAERI-conf 2000-005, INDC(JPN)-183/U (2000). Total of 157 attendees including 17
foreigners, 102 outside JAERI were gathered.

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Fig.1 Expected Contents of JENDL Actinoid File
208

Tl
Pb
210
Bi
210
Po
222
Rn
223
Ra
224
Ra
225
Ra
226
Ra
228
Ra
225
Ac
226
Ac
227
Ac
227
Th
228
Th
229
Th
230
Th
231
Th
232
Th
233
Th
234
Th
229
Pa
230
Pa
231
Pa
232
Pa
233
Pa
230
U
231
U
232
U
233
U
210

K
K
K
K
K
J3
J3
J3
J3
K
J3
J3
J3
J3
J3
J3
J3
K
J3.3
J3
J3
K
K
J3
J3
J3
J3
J3.3

234

U
U
236
U
237
U
238
U
234
Np
235
Np
236
Np
237
Np
238
Np
239
Np
236
Pu
237
Pu
238
Pu
239
Pu
240
Pu
241
Pu
242
Pu
244
Pu
246
Pu
247
Pu
241
Am
242
Am
242m
Am
243
Am
244
Am
244m
Am
240
Cm
241
Cm
242
Cm
235

J3
J33A
J33A
TN, J3J3.3A
J33A
TN, J3I
J3
M TN,J3J3J3N J33AM J33A
J33A
J3.3A
J3.3A
M J3
N J33AJ33A
M J3
M J33AM J33AM J33A
J3
J3
L J33A
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Appendix A. Summary of ISTC project that JAERI participated with some funds, relating
to the JENDL Actinide File
Objective: Improvement of minor actinide data for transmutation projects using actinide burnerreactors or accelerator driven spallation neutron sources. The data needed are for 237, 238Np, 238,
242
Pu, 241, 242g, 242m, 243Am and 242, 243, 244, 245, 246Cm. The corresponding data for most importantcross sections should be obtained on the basis of ISTC.
ISTC projects:
l “Measurements of the fission neutron spectra for minor actinides”. V.I.Khlopin Radium
Institute (KRI St.Petersburg Russia, # 183-p), 1995-1997.
High precision measurements of the fission neutron spectra for spontaneous fission of Cm-244,-246, Pu-240 -242, and that for thermal induced fission of Cm-243, -245
l “Measurements and analysis of basic nuclear data for minor actinides”. Institute of Physics
and Power Engineering (IPPE Obninsk, #304-p), 1995-1996.
Precise measurements of the fission cross sections of Cm-243, -244, -245, -246, -247, -248m,
Am-242m, Pu-238.
Measurements of fission product yields for Np-237.
Measurements of inelastic scattering and prompt fission neutron spectra for Np-237.
Measurements of delayed neutron yields and it’s 6-group constants for Np-237 fast neutron
fission.
Critical comparison between evaluated data for BROND-2, JENDL-3 and ENDF/B-VI anddeduction of recommended values.
l“Evaluation of actinide nuclear data”. Radiation Physics and Chemistry Problems Institute(RPCPIMinsk Belarus, # b-03), 1995-1998.
Complete new evaluations of neutron cross sections for Cm-243, -245 -246, Am-241, 242, 242m,
243, Np-238, Pu-238, -242.
l“Neutron induced fission cross-sections of some actinides heavy nuclei in energy region 1200 MeV. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI St.Petersburg, #609), 1996-1999.
Measurements of neutron fission cross-section of U-233, U-238, Np-237, Th-232, Pu-239, Pb
and Bi in the energy range up to 200 MeV.
Relative measurements to U-235 fission with accuracy 3-10%.
Evaluation of above listed cross section for neutron and proton induced fissions in the energy
range 20-200 MeV.
Other ISTC Project relating to Nuclear Data:l“Benchmark Data on Gamma-ray Production For Fusion Application”, Institute of Physics
and Power Engineering (IPPE Obninsk, #731), 1997-2000
Measurements and evaluations of the benchmark data on gamma-ray production cross sectionin the fast neutron induced reactions for materials that are most important for fusion power
applications.
Measurements anticipated are 32 structure materials at 14 MeV. (For 1st year: Li-6,-7, B-10,-11,
C, N, O, Al, Si, Fe, Cu, Mo,W, Pb were measured.). The data will be available in EXFOR

81Format.
Evaluations in ENDF-6 Format will be made for most important 20 nuclides.
l“Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Yields of Residual Product Nuclei Produced In
thin Targets Irradiated by 100-2600 MeV protons”, Federal Scientific Center of Russia
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP Moscow, #839), 1997-2000.
Residual product nuclei measurements from spalation by high energy proton beam for thin targetsof 182W, 183W, 184W, 186W, 232Th, natU, 99Tc, 59Co, 63Cu and 65Cu . The proton energies are 100,
150, 200, 800, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600 and 2600 MeV.
To get the reference data to check the simulation code such as LAHET, ALICE, QMD, etc.
l

“Nuclear Physics Investigation Aimed at the Solution of Weapon Plutonium Conversion andLong-lived Radioactive Wastes Transmutation Problems ”, Russia Federal Nuclear Center
All-Russia Scientific Research of Experimental Physics (VNIIFF Sarov, #1145), 1998-2000.
Measurements of the cross sections necessary for the transmutation technologies and electronuclear energy production system on the basis of high-current proton accelerator.
Cross sections of a wide range of isotopes for minor actinides of Np, Pu, Am and Cm in the fastand intermediate neutron spectra.
Thermal cross section for neutron induced fission and radioactive capture of Np-238(T1/2 = 2.12d).
Spectra of fast fission neutrons from Th, U, Np and Pu by 40-200 MeV protons.
l“Evaluation of actinide nuclear data”, Radiation Physics and Chemistry Problems Institute(RPCPI Minsk Belarus, # B-404), 2000-2002.
Complete new evaluations of neutron cross sections for Th-232, Pa-231,Pa-233, U-232, U-233,
U-234 up to 20MeV.
New evaluations of neutron cross sections for U-238 and Pu-239 up to 150 MeV.

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Center of Nuclear-Physics Data (CNPD) RFNC-VNIIEF
Status report on the IAEA Advisory Group Meeting, May 15-19,2000
S.A. Dunaeva
Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIIEF
Russia, 607190, Sarov, Nizhnij Novgorod region, pr. Mira 37
The tasks of the center are:• compilation of the experimental nuclear data;• cross section estimation of the nuclear reactions;• upgrade and establish software for operation with nuclear data;• distribution of the nuclear data;• creation of the task-oriented databases.
Compilation.
At the last year we are still correcting and transferring data from our library to EXFOR
format and compiling new experimental works.
Data compilation and correction have been made using VMS operating system with thehelp of the NNDC software.
A total of 89 EXFOR entries for charged particle induced experiments were compiled andtransmitted to the other data centers at 1999. Unfortunately we could not make last TRANS withcorrections. We continue work up all corrections and new entries.
Also we work in collaboration with NNDC at the T series data compilation.
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cross sections of the inelastic interaction of the 14 MeV neutrons with C, O, Mg, Al, Fe, Cu, Zr,
Mo, W and Pb nuclei according to the ISTC project #731.
Evaluation.
7KH WRWDOFURVVVHFWLRQHYDOXDWLRQRIWKHMeV neutrons of the inelastic interaction with
Al, Fe, Cu, 11B, 10B and Pb nuclei was done according to the ISTC project #731. The results werediscussed on the International Conference on Radiation Shielding in Japan.
Also the cross section adoption of the charged particles interaction with Be, B and O nuclei
was done. The results we re published in the "Nuclear Constants" series, VANT.
Data distribution.
Nuclear data were distributed in the other institutes. Most of them are from Russia or
Former Soviet Union.
Software.
At the last year a new version of the EXFOR and NSR software were installed. Previously
the NSR software used only for the whole data exchange. In this situation the exchange isavailable only by DEC-tape. But this way is the old one. In the age of Internet we may transmit
data by it and add databases in time. But it is difficult to transmit the whole database and it isn’tneed. We discussed this problem with David Winchell from NNDC, who is developer of thissoftware. We reached the agreement with David, about transmission of the new software. New
version of the NSR software supports partly addition of the database only by new data. We

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appreciate David for help, supporting and submitting new software to our Center. Now wehaven’t problems with the current updating NSR database.
We continue developing the software for supporting evaluated databases in the Windows
NT. About this software we discuss separately with it demonstration on the computer.
Task-oriented databases
At The December 1999 electronic version of the experimental and evaluated data on
charged particles for fusion application (SaBa) was submitted to IAEA. Sohpia Taova will
demonstrate it on the computer and tell about it developing in details.
At the November 1999 database for Customs application was developed in our Center. It
contains the most important information that customers need for checking of the radioactive andfissionable materials that go across the state border. Customs documentation and control forradioactive fission materials are the objects of this database.
The data from ENSDF about radioactive nuclei energy levels were included in the databaseas a part of information that is needed to customers in their work.
We plan to organize section on our institute site for these databases.
Staff
Five persons are working on the tasks in part-time. Next year ISTC project 1145 will befinish and our main problem now is to continue it.

1. Yu.Ya. Nefedov, V.I.Nagornyj, V.I.Semenov. R.A.Orlov, A.E.Shmarov. Results ofmeasurements of gamma-production cross-sections and spectra inelastic interaction of 14
MeV neutrons with nuclei C, O, Mg, Al, Fe, Cu, Zr, Mo, W Pb. Report abstract of Ninth
International Conference on Radiation Shielding, October 17-22,1999,Tsukuba, Japan, p.230.
2. A.G.Zvenigorodskij, M.S. Shvetsov, A.M. Shvetsov, M.V. Savin, Yu.Ya. Nefedov.
Evaluation of gamma production cross-section for inelastic neutron interactions with Al andPb nuclei.Report abstract of Ninth International Conference on Radiation Shielding, October
17-22,1999,Tsukuba, Japan, p.228.
3. A.G.Zvenigorodskij, A.Livke, M.S. Shvetsov, M.V. Savin, Yu.Ya. Nefedov. Evaluation of
gamma production cross-section for inelastic neutron interactions with iron nuclei. Report
abstract of Ninth International Conference on Radiation Shielding, October 1722,1999,Tsukuba, Japan, p.234.
4. L.M. Lazarev, B.M.Dzjuba, A.G. Zvenigorodskij, S.Skidan. Evaluated data and astrophysicalS-factor of the p,γ reaction on the C, N, O nuclei. VANT, ser. Nuclear Constants, 1999, iss.1,
p.71-96.
5. L.M. Lazarev, B.M.Dzjuba. Phase analysis of the pt, p3He elastic scattering in the 0-20 MeV
range. VANT, ser.Nuclear Constants, 1999, iss.1, p. 56-70.
6. A.G. Zvenigorodskij, V.A. Zherebtsov, L.M. Lazarev, S.A. Dunaeva, L.N. Generalov, S.M.
Taova, E.V. Kamskaya, R.I. Marshalkina. The library of evaluated and experimental data on
charged particles for fusion application. IAEA-NDS-191, December 1999.

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The Status of Nuclear Data Activities in Ukrainian Nuclear Data Center
O. Gritzay
IAEA Advisory Group Meetingon the“Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centers”
15-19 May, 2000, Obninsk, Russia
Introduction
UKRNDC was established in 1996. At the end of 1998 UKRNDC and Neutron Physics
Department at Research Reactor (Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv) were merged together.
The amount of neutron research works at reactor now is rather small, but we are sure that theraise of neutron work is in near future. Soon, we hope, our reactor will operate regularly andsystematically. Tandem accelerator is close to its physical parameters and regular work. So, we
see the future for our inputs in a world bank of experimental results.
Computer Network in UKRNDC
In the framework of STCU Project we developed the computer environment in ourCenter. Now it includes the Web-server (PC Pentium II, 400 MHz, 20 Gb) with the nuclear databases for customers in our Institute and other organizations of Ukraine. This network includes
also Unix Workstation ESCALA S120 (375 MHz, 4.5 Gb - fast and power European analog of
RISK 6000, model 240) and 6 PC Pentiums connected into the local net. This local network isconnected to the INR Server and is available to the assigned users in the Institute and others
having the access to Internet ( see the Figure).
This year we opened Web-site of our Center. One of the main aims of this site is thedesire to facilitate the access to the basic nuclear databases for Ukrainian users, especially for
beginners, as the proposed databases are located in our Web-server and this is the most short, fast
and friendly way to necessary data (see Appendix 1).
By October 1999 we finished our contract with Slavutych Laboratory, where we helped
to develop Nuclear Data Bank. Now, in practice, this is the mirror database of NNDC, USA. The
last visit of NNDC representative (C.L. Dunford) for revision and updating was in December
1999. Now two Dec Alpha computers operate there (Open VMS, v.7.1 with databases and Dec
Unix Workstation with RSICC codes). Now this Data Bank is under service of Slavutych
Laboratory staff. The part of this staff was trained by our specialists during 1998-1999.
Work with Nuclear Data
Compilation of neutron experimental data from publications in Ukrainian editions started
in 1998, after the training visit to NNDC (M. Vlasov). Now we prepared 5 entries (19 subentries)
in EXFOR format to be included into CSISRS. This work continues. Two persons of our staff
are engaged in this activity (see Appendix 2).
Activation Data Analysis
The special interest to activation data in our Center is connected as with the development85

of Reactor Dosimetry in our Institute, so as with the experimental abilities to measure some
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important cross sections, for example reaction Nb(n,n’) Nb.
Using ZVView code (ver.9.0) the comparative analysis of IRDF files and the files fromENDF and CSISRS libraries for reactions 19F(n,2n)18F, 24Mg(n,p)24Na, 31P(n,p)31Si,
27
Al(n,p)27Mg, 32S(n,p)32P, 45Sc(n,gamma)46Sc, 46Ti(n,p)46Sc, 47Ti(n,p)47Sc, 47Ti(n,np)46Sc,
48
Ti(n,p)48Sc, 48Ti(n,np)47Sc, 52Cr(n,2n)51Cr, 54Fe(n,p)54Mn and 56Fe(n,p)56Mn was fulfilled. In
the process we noticed 2 errata in EXFOR data (entry22312) and in BROND-2 library in 52Cr(n,2n). Now we continue analysis of IRDF reactions. We hope to finish this work as an Atlas ofcross sections for the most important dosimetry reactions with our comments andrecommendations.
One recent result of this activity - Report on INR Annual Scientific Conference, January
2000: “Reactions of isotope cobalt-60 formation at interaction of neutrons with cobalt-59, nickel60 and copper-63 (state of the art of neutron cross sections)“ by M.F.Vlasov, O.O.Gritzay,
L.E.Chervonna, V.V.Zerkin.
We consider as very important isotope in Nuclear Power practice – Co-60 and in thispaper we examined the main reactions of it’s production.
This paper is now placed at our Web-site.
Multigroup calculations
Using GRUCON code we calculated the first turn of multigroup (51 ) library for neutrontransport calculations of neutron fluences on the outer surface of reactor vessel and it is now inpractice on operating NPPs.
After 3 months training in RSICC (O.Gritzay) we started the work on new multigrouplibrary for Reactor Dosimetry using our Unix Workstation and the obtained experience on NJOY
code. This work is going now under the contract with our Ministry of Power and in contact with
the INR Laboratory engaged in fluence measurements.
Our plans for future include the calculations of multigroup library for RBMK reactor, as
in accordance with the international and national decisions, Ukraine has to shut down the last unitof Chornobyl NPP and to start the process of decommissioning. Namely for this purpose US
DOE financed the development of Slavutych Nuclear Data Bank and now we plan (together withthe specialists from ChNPP and Slavutych Laboratory) to iniciate this very large work. We hopefor the contract with STCU on this subject (this or next year).
Computer codes dissemination
Since 1996 we have the stable contacts with NEA Data Bank Computer Program Services(Liaison Officer A.Kaltchenko) and during these years we received on our requests 28 computercodes, mainly for nuclear data, Monte-Carlo and nuclear model calculations in the sphere ofbasic and applied physics. Among them such codes as STAPRE-H, ECIS, WIMSD-5,
RADHEAT-V4 and so on. We are very much thankful to Mr. Enrico Sartori and his staff for kindattention.
We also have received from RSICC two lisenced codes NJOY 94.61 and SCAMPI. This
year IAEA NDS supplied us with NJOY 97. All these codes were installed and may be used at
SC “INR”.
It is necessary to add that owing to our recommendations Slavutych DEC Unix
Workstation is equipped with a set of RSICC codes (NJOY, TSANSX, MCNP etc) for use at86

Slavutych Laboratory mainly for Chornobyl NPP needs.
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Service for operating NPPs (multigroup calculations): reactor dosimetry, reactor safety,
fuel management.
Decommissioning activity: RBMK libraries, waste management, 4th unit safety.
Non power applications: medicine(NCT, BNCT therapy), medicine radioisotopes,
industry radionuclides, Monte Carlo calculations.
Fundamental investigations: nuclear physics, nuclear modelling, nuclear data evaluation,
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Appendix 1. UKRNDC Web-siteThis year, year 2000, we started the operation of our Web-site. One of the main aims ofthis site is the desire to facilitate the access to the basic nuclear databases for Ukrainian users,
especially for beginners, as the proposed databases are located in our Web-server and this is themost short, fast and friendly way to necessary data. We use PC Pentium II, 400 MHz, 20 Gb harddisk memory and Windows 98 system with server sub-shell. This is also the server for our center
local network of 8 computers.
Now the problem is not in the access to nuclear databases, but in the practice of skilledhandling with these data. The most important and scarce part of nuclear data work is now thepeople who know how, where and what data are needed for definite task and can do this workin a short time. Another our problem is the low speed of our communication lines. To transport
the file of 5-10 Mb from any of 4 basic Centers is mostly very long time work.
So we create for our users the most simple and friendly system for data access andhandling with our comments and helps outgoing of the beginners level of our customers. For
those, who have good experience and may use satellite communication, we recommend to refer
to NDC IAEA, NNDC USA or NEA Data Bank.

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Some details of our local database:
It includes the map of Nuclides – we recommend the Map of Nuclides from Los Alamos
Laboratory.
The set of general purpose ENDF libraries using IAEA NDC WINENDF CD ROM.
EXFOR library in the version of EXFOR II.
IRDF with our Supplement on Nb-93(n,n’) cross section and neutron fission spectra for U235 and Pu-239.
Access to ENSDF using Isotope Explorer with local database.
PCNUDAT from IAEA NDC CD-ROM.
CINDA from CD-ROM, which is available now.
Atomic Masses file.
The most necessary codes – Utility Codes and PREPRO with additional our version of
PREPRO – CULLENFREE, which we consider more convenient for preparation of the input
files, especially for beginners.

We give the addresses of the most popular Nuclear Data Centers and separately the accessto their Newsletters. We greet any other addresses and recommendations for the content of oursite.
Our addresses are those: http://www.kinr.kiev.ua/ukrndc
http://www.ukrndc.kiev.ua

88Appendix 2. UKRNDC EXFOR Activity
To improve the coverage of the Ukrainian publications, containing experimental nuclear
data information, obtained in the organizations of Ukraine, it was decided to start compilationand preparation of the EXFOR entries directly in the UKRNDC.
Participation in the EXFOR activity began after the IAEA AGM coordination meeting,May 1998, where it was recommended to start with neutron experimental data, as the mostimportant one. The accession numbers 32201 – 32500 were selected for input of this data to the
CSISRS system. The format was studied in Kyiv, using BNL-NCS-6330 and -6380 documents
and in the NNDC, BNL (training, M.Vlasov). Up to now the entries 32201-32205 (5 entries,
19 subentries) with the experimental data obtained in the INR, Kyiv and Kyiv State University
have been prepared and sent to the IAEA NDS.
The detailed search for the ukrainian nuclear data, using scientific journals published in
Ukraine, preprints of the Ukrainian institutes and INIS system, has shown that the number ofpublications containing neutron data is decreasing for the last years due to temporary suspensionof the large facilities (research reactor, isochronous cyclotron, some other accelerators) operation
though situation is changing for the better now.
At present, there is sufficient number of non neutron data, which has not been yet
converted to EXFOR, and the UKRNDC is planning to start its input to CSISRS. It relates mainly
to photonuclear data and in less degree to data of charged particle induced reactions.
With the help of the EXFOR ––II/ACCESS-97 system recently developed at the IAEA
NDS (V.Zerkin) and our search of the Ukrainian scientific publications we have analyzed• The number of publications in Ukraine and abroad containing experimental nuclear data,obtained in Ukrainian organizations and their ratio for the last ten years: 5.5% in 1991-92,
20% in 1993-94 and 25% in 1995-2000. The ratio is increasing.
• Completeness of the coverage of the experimental results obtained in Ukraine with EXFOR
for the years 1990-2000.
The results indicate very good coverage of the neutron data information. Only one work
dated 1994 has been found and will be converted in the nearest future. The charged particle
induced reaction data are covered also reasonably well by Kurchatov Institute group, however,there are some works which should be converted to EXFOR. We have found 13 such type
experimental results (in the energy range up to 200 MeV). In the field of photonuclear data 17
papers are not covered (energy range of gamma-rays is up to 1.2 GeV) and we are planning tostart converting of this data to EXFOR soon, especially in view of the development ofphotonuclear research at the institutes of Ukraine.

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Status of Nuclear Data Activity in Korea
Jonghwa Chang
Nuclear Data Evaluation Laboratory,
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
Introduction
As Korea decided to take the nuclear power plant option for supportting its economic growth,
it has proceeded in the localization of the nuclear fuel and power plant design technology since1983. After ten years of the localization efforts, Korea launched a long- and mid-term nuclear
development plan in 1994.
The nuclear data activity has been included in the long- and mid-term nuclear development plansince 1997. The main efforts before this time were to generate the multi-group libraries for thelattice neutronics codes such as WIMS-D or CASMO, and the MCNP library from the available
evaluated libraries to support the design of a test reactor HANARO, and partially to support thedevelopments of the PWR technology.
Since 1997, the activity includes evaluation and measurement. Since there is no practical
nuclear data measurement facility yet, we are supporting people at Korean universities to develop
the measurement techniques using foreign facilities.
The NDEL(Nuclear Data Evaluation Laboratory) of KAERI(Korea Atomic Energy ResearchInstitute) has 8 regular staff members and 4 temporal staff members in 2000. Among them, 7 areworking for the evaluation, 4 for processing, and 1 for computer maintenance. The main
computer facility is a Linux cluster composed of 12 Pentium PCs and three HP-700 series.
Evaluation
Since Korea is experiencing difficulties with the spent fuels produced from 12 pressurizedwater reactors and 3 CANDU reactors, 13 GW in total, many nuclear development efforts areconcerned with the spent fuel. The burnup credit for the spent fuel criticality is a favorite aspect
for the transportation and the depository. Current safety regulations permit the partial credit forthe minor actinides. So it is necessary to understand the fission product property accurately toreceive the credit which is responsible for the 20 - 30 percent of the criticality.
KAERI NDEL has started a re-evaluation of the long-lived fission product nuclides with BNL
NNDC. We have re-evaluated the resolved resonance parameters and the average resonanceparameters for the unresolved energy region for 19 selected nuclides [1]. We will extend theevaluation up to 20 MeV with a model calculation using ABAREX, ECIS, GNASH, and SUNF.
Intermediate energy data needs in Korea are mainly to support the design of a proton
accelerator driven nuclide transmutation system [2]. We have developed a computer code system,
ECISPLOT, based on ECIS and GNASH, jointly with JNDC. And we have finished initial workwith ECISPLOT [3]. We will continue this work under collaboration with JNDC.
There are several hospitals in Korea which have the medical cyclotron ranging from 30 to 50
MeV. To support the activity in producing the nuclear medicine, and the research in the industry
such as thin layer analysis (TLA), we have invited a scientist from CNDC to start evaluation of
the charged particle induced reaction cross section [4,5]. After evaluating the production crosssection, we are doing a model calculation to estimate the subsidiary unwanted isotope production
cross sections [6].

91For the feasibility study of constructing a pulsed neutron facility based on an electron linac, wehave studied the photoneutron production cross section [7]. We have joined the IAEA CRP on"Compilation and evaluation of photonuclear data for application”. This CRP was finished in thisyear. A TECDOC will be published by IAEA.
Processing
During the design and the construction of a test reactor HANARO, KAERI has developed thelibraries for MCNP and WIMS-D based on the evaluated libraries such as ENDF/B-6 andJENDL-3 [8]. KAERI NDEL has been providing various libraries for the lattice neutronics codes
WIMS-D, CASMO-3, and HELIOS, to support the nuclear fuel design and development activity
in Korea. Also, an ORIGEN-2 library was developed for the test reactor.
Recent efforts in KAERI NDEL processing are focused on the shielding and the material
damage calculation of the PWR vessel surveillance problem and the material testing. We areusing DOORS and DANTSYS for the analysis [9].
Service
KAERI NDEL is supporting the nuclear data requests inside of the institute as well as in Korea.
To supply the data, we are collecting the nuclear data from various sources, such as IAEA/NDS,OECD Databank, etc. Many times we need to interpret the collected data to make it
understandable to and usable by the final users who are usually not accustomed with the standard
exchange format. A KAERI nuclear data web service(http://atom.kaeri.re.kr) was designed toprovide the nuclear data for those who need the data but do not have time to study various
conventions in the nuclear data society.
The web service is known as “Table of Nuclides” on internet. The table of nuclides provides
nuclide-wise information about the mass based on Audi and Wapstra [10], decay property basedon NUDAT [11], capture cross section graph based on NGATLAS [12], fission yield table basedon ENDF/B-6, and summary of neutron interaction cross section based on JENDL-3.2 [13]. For
easy access, we have provided the hypertext link to other nuclides in the decay chain and between
natural elements and nuclides. References to the sources of data are provided. A link to the decay
diagram is provided based on ENSDF. The decay diagram displays a level diagram and radiation
intensity. Another popular feature is the ENDF plot service. The ENDF plot gives interactive plotof the cross section graphs in GIF, EPS, and text form.
To know the usage of the service, we introduced a concept of the valid statistics. Since the web
page consists of introductory pages, such as a picture of the nuclides boxes or a form to fill-in
user requests for plot, and result pages which display data. We only count the number of theresult pages excluding access by the service provider. Last year, the server had a 468,358 hitcount, and among them, 72,650 valid ones(about 15.5 %).
Figure 1 displays the valid statistics for the table of nuclides, the ENDF graphs, the decay
diagram, the capture cross section and the number of users (or IP addresses). The web service
started in 1994, but we did not keep the web log before August 1996. The figure displays a large
spread, but it shows an obvious increasing trend. There may be two reason for the increase inusers. First is the increase due to the increase in the people who uses the web (netizen). This
increase is a natural one. The second is the increase by the introduction of new feature. The rapid
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Among the 31,020 visitors (based on the number of IP addresses) last year, 9,442 visitors
contributed to the valid statistics. The total number of valid statistics was 72,650. So, the average
access counts of each user was 7.7. As displayed in Figure 2, the number of users who haveaccessed many times to get information is inversely proportional to the number of accesses. If
we consider the user who accessed more times than the average user access count, as a regularuser, we had 1656 regular users last year. (cf. 986 in 1999)
Summary
KAERI NDEL is a user of NRDC for domestic and internet services, evaluation andprocessing. And KAERI/NDEL will be a potential contributor to international nuclear data byongoing measurement using either domestic or foreign facilities.
References[1] CHANG, J., S.Y. Oh, and S.F. Mughabghab, "Evaluation of Neutron Cross Sections below
the Fast Energy Region for Fission Products," KAERI/TR-1511/2000, Korea Atomic Enegy
Research Institute, April 2000.
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Data, March 30-31, 1998, JAERI, Tokai, Japan," p.91.
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May 8–12, 2000, Pittsburg.
[4] Zhuang, Y.X., "The Evaluations and Calculations of Medical Isotope Production Reaction
Excitation Functions," KAERI internal report NDL-3, 8, 14, 17, 19, 22/98, 1998.
[5] Chang, J., "Proton reaction cross section evaluation for TLA," KAERI internal report NDL31/98, 1998.
[6] Kim, D.H., "Calcuation and Evlauation of proton induced reactions," KAERI internal report
NDL-32/98, NDL-2, 8/99,[7] Lee, Y.O., and Y. Han, "KAERI Photonuclear Data Library," KAERI/TR-1512/2000, Korea
Atomic Enegy Research Institute, March 2000.
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to be presented at Korean Nuclear Society String Meeting, May 26-27, 2000, Kori, Korea.
[9] Gil, C-S et al., “Analysis of Pressure Vessel Surveillance Dosimetry inserted in to Korean
PWR,” presented at 10th Intern. Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry, Sept. 2000, Osaka, Japan.
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[11] R.R.Kinsey, et al., "The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data," paper submitted
to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma ray Spectroscopy and Related
Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.
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[13] XS averaged from JENDL3.2 (Courtesey of T. Nakagawa at JAERI)

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List of Working Papers
The working papers whose numbers are listed below in bold are included in this report on thefollowing pages. The other papers, or the memos of which they consist, are available from the
IAEA Nuclear Data Section.

WP2000-1

Actions and Conclusions of the 1999 NRDC Meetingsee INDC(NDS)-407, pp.21-28

WP2000-2

Inventory of EXFOR TRANS files exchanged

WP2000-3

Dictionary 7 codes for conferences published as Dubna reports
see memos CP-D/309, 4C-4/98, 4C-4/100

WP2000-4

Quantities PAR/M-,DA,G; PAR/M+,DA,G; PAR/M-,SIG,G and
PAR/M+,SIG,G: see memos CP-D/311, CP-D/301, 4C-4/83

WP2000-5

Proposed units B/ATOM and B-MEV/SR for dictionary 25
see memos CP-D/307, CP-C/258, CP-C/250 p.1

WP2000-6

Various double-(triple) differential data and related units

WP2000-7

Proposed new data headings for dictionary 24: IAS-NUMB,E-LVL-INI1, E-LVL-INI2, E-LVL-FIN1, E-LVL-FIN2,+DATA-ERR1, -DATA-ERR1, +DATA-ERR2, -DATA-ERR2,
E-RSL-FW: see memos CP-C/264,263,251, CP-D/312

WP2000-8

Proposed quantities for Tensor analysing power and spin-flip probability:
see memos CP-C/261 and CP-C/257

WP2000-9

Proposals on resonance quantities, Temperature-dependent ang. distr. forfission fragments, and units for Nubar

WP2000-10

Proposed new partial data types: CUM/PAR,DA; CUM/PAR,SIG;
PAR,DA,,SFC: see memos CP-C/252 and CP-C/250

WP2000-11

CINDA quantity codes versus EXFOR reaction codes

WP2000-12

Distribution of CD-CINDA and future of CINDA distribution/bookpublication

WP2000-13

CINDA 2000 book: publication schedule

WP2000-14

Memo CP-A/101: Transformation of Dictionary 27

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WP2000-15

EXFOR retrieval software on the PC (V. Zerkin)

WP2000-16

Relational Database and Java Technologies for Nuclear Data
R. Arcilla, D. Winchell, Y. Sanborn

WP2000-17

Archiving experimental(NNDC + APS)

WP2000-18

NNDC Web and FTP Statistics

WP2000-19

CSISRS Library Statistics (NNDC)

WP2000-20

Covering letter for CD-CINDA (M.A. Kellett)

WP2000-21

NDS Web Statistics System (V. Zerkin)

WP2000-22

EXFOR Statistics in Numbers and Figures (V.G. Pronyaev, V. Zerkin)

WP2000-23

Summary of the meeting held at the NEA to discuss Sigmabase
A. Nouri et al.

WP2000-24

Nuclear Data Information - Reference System NDX
A.N. Grebennikov et al.

WP2000-25

Development of a charged-particle nuclear reaction data retrieval system
on IntelligentPad: CONTIP
See Y. Ohbayashi et al., J. Information Science, 26(1) 2000, 29-37

WP2000-26

The SaBa Database (S.A. Dunaeava et al., RFNC-VNIIEF)

WP2000-27

The CDFE Relational Nuclear Spectroscopy Database NESSY in Internet

WP2000-28

The ORACLE Design for EXFOR and CINDA (M.A.Kellett, NEA-DB)

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data

publishedinPhysicalReview.

WP2000-2
Inventory of EXFOR TRANS files exchanged since the 1999 NRDC Meeting
Prelim. = "Preliminary" TRANS files still in the "PRELIM" subdirectory of the NDS Open Area(~4 weeks for checking by other centers)

Area 1:1275 through 1287; Prelim.: 1288

Area 2:2146, 2147, 2148, 2149; Prelim.: 2150, 2151, 2152, 2153, 2154

Area 3:3105; Prelim.: 3106

Area 4:4114, 4115, 4116, 4117, 4118

Area A:

Prelim.: A046, A047

Area C:

C032 through C038; Prelim.: C039

Area D:

none

Area E:

Prelim.: E018

Area F:

F011; Prelim.: F012 (to be moved to "final" area)

Area G:

G010

Area M:

M029

Area O:

none

Area P:

P002

Area R:

none

Area S:

S010

Area T:

T001, T002, T003, T004

Area V:

V026

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WP2000-6
Various double-(triple) differential data and related units
For details, see the following memos which are available from NDS:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

CP-C/262
CP-D/308
CP-C/249
CP-A/100
CP-A/99
CP-A/98

Proposed new codes needing discussion or LEXFOR entry:
Dictionary 36
SEQ,DA/DA/DE,P/P/P
POL,DA/DE
POL,DA/DE,,ANA

CP-C/262, CP-D/308, CP-C/249
CP-D/308, CP-A/99, CP-A/98
CP-A/99

Dictionary 25
P/PT/MEVSR (or alternative solution)
P/PART/SR
P/PART/MEV

CP-A/99"Straightforward" (?) new quantities proposed in these memos:,DA/DA,P/A,DA/DA/DE,P/P/P
NN/PAR,POL/DA,,SF
PAR,DA,,IPA
PRE,AKE,LF/HF

CP-A/100

PAR,DA/CRL (possible without SF7?)
PAR,DA/CRL,G/P
EM/PAR,DA/DE

CP-A/100

EM,TTY/DA/DE

CP-A/99

IND/UND,PY

CP-A/98

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WP2000-9

Proposals on resonance quantities,
Temperature-dependent ang.distr. for fiss.fragm., and units for Nubar
The respective memos are available from NDS.

1. CP-C/254,WID/STR

2. 4C-4/103

PAR,WID/STR,DA/TMP,FF/LEG/RS

Resonance strength

Partial strength of resonanceTemp.-dep.ang.distr. for fiss.frag.,Leg.coeff.
(For both items, 4C-4/103 supersedes 4C-4/101)

3. CP-C/255

Dimension for R-matrix reduced width
Use units PART/FIS for all measurements of Nubar (replacing
NO-DIM)

4. CP-C/256,WID/RED,,RMT/AMP

R-matrix reduced width amplitude

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WP2000-11
CINDA quantity codes - EXFOR reaction codes
Meinhart Lammer, NDS
Action A9 from the 1999 NRDC meeting
Generally the CINDA codes have a more global definition which is in several cases given separately.For some
EXFOR reactions only the basic code is given, but further subfields may still be coded. A 1:1 correspondence
between CINDA and EXFOR is indicated by a double arrow: ↔
CINDA

EXFOR reaction

EVL

not applicable

TOT ↔

(N,TOT),,SIG

total reaction cross section, no residual nucleus, no differential
data

SEL

(N,EL)Z-S-A,,SIG(N,EL)Z-S-A,,AMP

integral total elastic scattering cross section, no -G or -M in SF4elastic scattering amplitude

DEL(N,EL)Z-S-A,,DA

angular distribution of outgoing neutrons

POL

SF8=ANA,ASY,COS, …

polarization data for neutron in the exit channel
spin polarization probability of outgoing neutrons
differential spin polarization probability with respect to emission
angle
analyzing power, angular asymmetry, cosine coefficient,(N,EL)Z-S-A,POT,SIG(N,EL)Z-S-A,POT,RAD

potential scattering cross section
potential scattering radius(N,INL)Z-S-A,,SIG

integral inelastic scattering cross section, no -G or -M in SF4(N,INL)Z-S-A(-X),(N,INL)Z-S-A,,DA (DE, DA/DE)

partial cross section to isomeric state, or to specified level(double) differential inelastic neutron scattering data

(N,THS)Z-S-A,SF5,SF6
SF6=SIG, AMP
SF5=FA, BA, COH, INC
FA/COH, FA/INC, ….

‘thermal scattering law’: if data depend on structure of target
material
thermal neutron scattering (molecular and crystalline binding)cross section, scattering amplitude
free atom, bound atom, coherent, incoherent scattering
free atom coherent scattering, free atom incoherent scattering, ….

(N,EL)Z-S-A,,POL(N,EL)Z-S-A,,POL/DA,,SF8

POT

SIN

↔

DIN

further specification/comments

TSL

SCT

(N,SCT)Z-S-A,

total scattering, below the (n,2n) threshold, integral and differential
data

SNE ↔

(N,NON),,SIG

neutron nonelastic cross section

ABS ↔

(N,ABS),,SIG

neutron absorption cross section

RIA(N,ABS),,RI

neutron absorption resonance integral (with all allowed SF
combinations),

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(N,G)Z-S-A-X,,RI

for non-fissionable targets identical to the neutron capture integral

NG(N,G)Z-S-A-X

neutron capture: all quantities except outgoing gammas considered

RIG(N,G)Z-S-A-X,,RI

neutron capture resonance integral for fissionable targets(N,G)Z-S-A,,DE,G(N,G)Z-S-A,,SPC(N,G)Z-S-A,PAR,SIG,G
combinations with SF6=DA

spectrum of gammas or conversion electrons following neutron
captureneutron capture: energy spectrum of gammas
neutron capture: gamma spectrum
neutron capture: partial gamma production cross section
angular distributions of outgoing gammas

SNG

DNG

(N,INL)Z-S-A,,DE,G(N,INL)Z-S-A,(PAR),SPC(N,INL)Z-S-A,PAR,SIG,G
combinations with SF6=DA

neutron inelastic scattering: energy spectrum of gammas
neutron inelastic scattering: gamma spectrum
neutron inelastic scattering: partial gamma production crosssectionangular distributions of outgoing gammas

NEG(N,X)0-G-0

nonelastic gammas: SF5 + combinations with SF6 as DNG; no ‘G’
in SF7

N2N(N,2N)Z-S-A(n,2n) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36(N,3N), (N,4N), …..

(n,xn) reaction (x=3,4,...): integral and differential datawith all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NXN

NEM
(N,X)0-N-1 or (N,N+X)0-N-1(N,XN)

sum sigma for all nonelastic processes, weighted for number ofneutrons
neutron emission from all nonelastic processes
variable number of emitted neutrons
can be combined with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NX(N,X)Z-S-A

sum of all (unspecified) processes in a given target leading to agiven product; can be combined with all permitted quantities fromdictionary 36

NP(N,P)Z-S-A(n,p) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NNP(N,N+P)Z-S-A(n,np) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

PEM(N,X)1-H-1 or (N,P+X)1-H-1(N,YP)

proton emission with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36
variable number of emitted protons

ND(N,D)Z-S-A(n,d) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NND(N,N+D)Z-S-A(n,nd) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

DEMN,X)1-H-2 or (N,D+X)1-H-2

deuteron emission with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NT(N,T)Z-S-A(n,t) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NNT(N,N+T)Z-S-A(n,nt) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

TEM(N,X)1-H-3 or (N,T+X)1-H-3

triton emission with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

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NHE

(N,HE3)Z-S-A(n,He-3) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NA(N,A)Z-S-A(n,α) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NNA(N,N+A)Z-S-A(n,nα) reaction with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

AEM(N,X)2-HE-4 or (N,A+X)2-HE-4

alpha emission with all permitted quantities from dictionary 36

NF↔

(N,F),,SIG

neutron induced fission cross section

RIF↔

(N,F),,RI

resonance integral for neutron induced fission

ALF ↔

(N,F),,ALF

alpha = capture to fission cross section ratio

ETA ↔

(N,F),, ETA

number of neutrons emitted per absorption---------------------------------------------------------------------------NU to(0,F) or (N,F)
these CINDA codes are valid for spontaneous or neutron induced
fission;CHG
replaced by (…,F)
therefore (0,F) or (N,F) is replaced by (…,F) under EXFOR
NU(…,F),…,NU,…

(…,F),,DA,N or (…,F),PR,DA,N

all prompt neutron data or average total neutron yield per fission(nu-bar)total nu-bar or prompt nu-bar
can be combined with codes as given in dictionary 36 except
SF5=DLpartial yield, to be used for probability/multiplicity distribution
probability for the emission of X (prompt or total) neutrons infissionangular distribution of total or prompt fission neutrons(…,F),DL,NU,…
SF5=DL/CUM,DL/IND,DL/PAR(…,F),DL,DA,N(…,F),DL,DE,N

delayed neutrons from fission: total or group yields, energies, etc.
delayed neutron yield
possible to express cumulative, independent or partial dn yield
angular distribution of delayed neutronsenergy spectrum of delayed neutrons

NUF(…,F)ELEM/MASS,,NU

prompt neutrons emitted from fission fragments

SFN(…,F),(PR),DE,N

energy spectrum of (prompt) fission neutrons

SFG(…,F),,DE,G(…,F),…,SPC

energy spectrum of fission gammas
intensity of fission gammas, also with SF5=PAR, PR or PR/TER,
not DLyield of prompt fission gammas (of defined energies)(…,F),,NU or (…,F),PR,NU
SF5 not DL
SF5=PAR(…,F+XN),…,NU

NUD(…,F),PR or PAR/IND,FY,G
FPG(…,F),DL,DE,G or DL,SPC(…,F),DL,FY,GFPB

not yet foreseen

spectrum of delayed gammas emitted from unseparated fission
fragments
yield of delayed gammas emitted from unseparated fission
fragments
spectra, mean energies, etc. of betas from unseparated fission
fragments

102

NFY

all (…,F) with SF6=FY except …

all yield types of fission fragments or products (indep., cumul.,chain, etc.)… except FY/DA or FY/DE… except energy or angular distribution (FRS in CINDA)… except if SF7=G
total yield of prompt fission gammas (SFG in CINDA)… except CHG,FY
total element yield in fission to be coded as CHG in CINDA… except certain reaction ratios
for coding of fractional (indep. or cumul.) yields: CHG in CINDA
all with SF6,SF7=AP,HF or AP,LF most probable mass for different kinds of mass distributions

FRS

all with SF6=KE,AKE,DE,DA… except if SF7=G,N

energy or angular distribution of fission products or fragments

CHG

charge distribution of fission fragments with A or Z constantfractional independent yield for fragment A=constantfractional cumulative yields for fragment A=constanttotal element yield of fission fragments/products
fractional independent yields for fragment Z=constantmost probable mass for fragment mass distribution with
Z=constant
all with SF6=ZP and SF7=blankmost probable charge for fragment charge distribution with
A=constant---------------------------------------------------------------------------(…)…,IND,FY/(…)…,CHN,FY(…)…,CUM,FY/(…)…,CHN,FY(…)ELEM,CHG,FY(…)….,IND,FY/(...)…,CHG,FY
all with SF6=AP and SF7=blank

RES

STF

↔

all under Res.Pars. in Dict. 36
except SF6=STF
except all with SF8=RES

individual and averaged neutron resonance parametersstrength function; to be coded as STF in CINDA
quantities at resonance: to be coded for quantity according toSF5,SF6(N,EL),(PAR),STF(partial) neutron strength function

LDLlevel density law: parameters for density of levels in the continuum
Z-S-A(0,0),,(LDP or TEM or SCO) level density parameter, nuclear temperature, spin cut-off factor
in CINDA and EXFOR coded for the compound nucleusGN

all (G,N) data

pure (γ,n) reaction (no other outgoing particle), integral ordifferential

GF

all (G,F) data

photofission: all cross sections or data for fragments, gammas andneutrons from fission

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WP2000-12
Memo CP-D/313
To:

Distribution

From:

M. Lammer and M. Kellett

Date:

2000-05-10

Subject: Distribution of CD-CINDA and future of CINDA distribution and book production.
CD-CINDA has been developed by the NEA Data Bank as a complement to the CINDA
book. This means it will have the same status as the book and will be distributed at the sametime. The merits of the book are known. The CD enables excellent retrievals with all kinds ofspecifications. Whereas the online versions of CINDA are always up-to-date their access canbe slow or intermittent, but the CD always gives the same response, which is generally
quicker than the online version for most users.
Originally, the CD-CINDA version with the same status as the CINDA-99 book was plannedfor joint distribution . It was to be accompanied by a questionnaire to find out the demandfor just the CD instead of the book, and accordingly this may have lead to a possible reductionin the book production. However, thorough testing and checking of CD-CINDA resulted in its
major revision and further development. Additional production problems of CD-CINDA
delayed its distribution so much that it became too late to evaluate expected responses to thequestionnaire timely enough for a change in the CINDA-2000 book production. Therefore we
decided to proceed as follows:
CD-CINDA-1999 is currently being distributed to all recipients of the CINDA book. This
will enable the recipients to familiarize themselves with its use and the retrieval possibilities.
The CINDA-2000 book will be produced in 900 copies as in previous years. CD-CINDA2000 will again be sent to all recipients of the CINDA book and at the same time aquestionnaire requesting feedback and an indication of their preference for receipt of futureissues. Thereafter, only either the book or the CD will be sent to any one recipient. However,
we have not yet finally decided whether to offer the option to receive both, the book and the
CD.

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WP2000-13
Memo 4C-3/393
To:

Distribution

From:

M. Lammer

Date:

2000-05-10

Subject: CINDA 2000 book: publication schedule
First of all I want to apologize for the late distribution of CINDA 99, which was out of mycontrol: Liam Costello and I had finalized the book and submitted it for publication around June
20 1999. However, in spite of my repeated inquiries and urging from August onwards (after myreturn from a long vacation) there was silence from the publisher until we finally got the printed
copies in October 1999.
CINDA 2000 will again be published as cumulative issue for publications between January 1988
and May/June 2000. As detailed in Memo CP-C/313, we will again produce 900 copies, and a
joint distribution with CD-CINDA-2000 is planned.
The proposed publication schedule displayed in the attached APPENDIX is only tentative for thefollowing reason: The IAEA discontinues the production of publications in the format and size ofthe old CINDA book (same as the conference proceedings and technical report series). All
publications will be in the DIN-A4 format. However, I could convince our publisher that it is
now too late for any programming changes from our side, if we want to publish the CINDA bookat the usual time of the year. I also argued that, in particular, it was not worthwhile to invest alarge amount of programming effort for an interim solution, as the new CINDA-2001 format will
require major changes anyway. This was accepted: we will produce the book file as usual, andthe publishers will blow it up to A4 format.
The attached publication schedule relies on the publisher’s promise that no problems with ordelays in the publication are to be expected from their side. however, one never knows ….!

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APPENDIX
Tentative publication schedule for CINDA 2000
26 June 2000

final deadline for CINDA entries and information for the introductoryand Annex pages to reach NDS

7 July 2000

NDS master file processing completed

21 July 2000

NDS book processing completed (including update of CINDA tables)

28 July 2000

CINDA book master completed

18/25 August 2000

printing and binding completed

September 2000

completion of CD-CINDA-2000, distribution of CINDA 2000 as bookand CD106

WP2000-14
MEMO CP-A/101(10 May 2000)
To: Distribution
From: F.E.Chukreev
Subject: Transformation of Dictionary #27
The modern experiment allows to accelerate (to create) and to use as atarget photons, leptons, mesons and any bound set of nucleons. In thisconnection role of the Dictionary 27 should be changed.
It would be probably possible to accept the following rules:
1. The fields 1 and 2 REACTION can contain:
1.1 photon,
1.2 lepton,
1.3 long-lived meson,
1.4 any bound combination baryons, which can not be destroyed bystrong interaction.
2. The fields 3 and 4 REACTION can contain:
Any combination
2.1 photons,
2.2 leptons,
2.3 mesons and2.4 baryons,allowed by the laws of conservation (Energy, Strangeness, Electrical, Baryon
and Lepton charges)
3. PART-DET, RAD-DET and DECAY-DATA (DECAY-MON) can contain only photon,
lepton, meson or bound combination nucleons

For example, it is possible to write:
3-LI-6 (P, N) 4-BE-6, IND, SIG, but in PART-DET there should be (A), or (N),as Be-6 - unbound nucleus, its time of life about nuclear.
It is simultaneously necessary to consider and field ISOMER in 27-th
Dictionary. The concept isomer continuously extends. Now isomer is the exitedstate with time of life > 10.E-11 seconds.
In this connection it would be expedient to establish the following
rule:

Isomer is any exited state of a nucleus. For Isomer should benecessarily specified or half-life or (and) its excitation energy, or otherquantum characteristic. To specify Isomer number unessential. This number canbe any.
Thus, the dictionary 27 should give the compiler only items of
information on the bound state of baryon systems. A possible view of a lineof this dictionary:107

Atomic number (Z)
1
2
.....
28
....
94

Suitable atomic
masses
1-3
3,4
....
50-78
.....
232,234,236-247

It is necessary to exclude such keyword, as LVL-NUMB. The reason of it- if today a level, for example, second, tomorrow it can become third. For
investigated nuclear levels a quantum characteristic always is known what. If
for a level the energy of excitation or other quantum characteristic is
unknown, its identification should be given by the free text. If, forexample, in reaction the condition is raised which the author names as second
analog and energy of this state is unknown, the compiler should write:
EN-SEC (E-LVL, Z-Sym-A) and free text to specify the appropriate quantum
characteristic. For this purpose it is possible to use also existing keyword
LEVEL-PROP, having permitted to leave empty some fields.
For example, if there is a speech about a level Si-31, which isanalogue of the basic condition P-31, it can be written down:
EN-SEC (E-LVL,14-SI-31)
LEVEL-PROP (14-SI-31, E-LVL =, SPIN=0.5, PARITY=1.) It is analog stateof P-31 ground state.
We believe that the offered changes will not cause a long tail ofchanges in existing entries.
Our offers do not cover important cases, in which one or several
nucleons are in the exited states, as, for example, He-4 (Λ) system(strangeness of this system =1) and antinucleus. The problem requires
additional consideration.
Distribution:
DUNFORD@BNLND2.DNE.BNL.GOV
VML@BNL.GOVNORDBORG@NEA.FR
KELLETT@NEA.FR
MANOKHIN@IPPE.RSSI.RU
MAEV@IPPE.RSSI.RU
FELIKS@POLYN.KIAE.SUCHUKREEV@POLYN.KIAE.SU
DUNAEVA@EXPD.VNIIEF.RU
VARLAMOV@depni.NPI.MSU.SU
CHIBA@EARTH.SGU.AC.JP
KATO@NUCL.SCI.HOKUDAI.AC.JPTENDOW@POSTMAN.RIKEN.GO.JP
YXZHUANG@MIPSA.CIAE.AC.CN
CNDC@MIPSA.CIAE.AC.CN
TARKANYI@ATOMKI.HU
TAKACS-S@ATOMKI.HU
HASEGAWA@CRACKER.TOKAI.JAERI.GO.JP
VLASOV@KINR.KIEV.UA
KALTCHENKO@KINR.KIEV.UA
OGRITZAY@KINR.KIEV.UA108

WP2000-15
EXFOR retrieval software on PC:
development and integration with other products
V. Zerkin, NDS-IAEA

Introduction
The EXFOR database is basically placed on Alpha/VMS. The software includes utilities
for checking of input data, updating, retrieval systems (for Telnet and Web), maintenance ofdictionaries, etc. The programs are written in FORTRAN using VMS Text Libraries tools.
In order to meet requirements of users who do not have fast access to Internet, EXFORCD retrieval system was developed by NDS in 1997. This was based on MS-Windows and runs
as a standalone application. Both VMS and Windows based retrieval systems use the same index
files that are generated with EXFOR/VMS software. In other words, they are strongly dependent
from Alpha/VMS.
At the same time due to many reasons there is strong and urgent need of migration of
nuclear databases from VMS to other platforms and/or to build platform independent software.
Also important fact is that modern relational database software become more and more powerful,available and popular.
This project was initiated to develop platform independent software for organization of
EXFOR as a relational database, to develop EXFOR retrieval system distributed on CD-ROM
with advanced features and to develop a tool for using EXFOR data together with other products.

1. Objectives of the new EXFOR retrieval system
The objectives of software development for porting the EXFOR database to the PC andother platforms were to provide:
1. Maximum platform independence of porting EXFOR to a database environment
2. All coded EXFOR information available as criteria of data search
3. User access to information from EXFOR Dictionaries during interactive sessions for data
retrieval (as on-line help, codes explanation, etc.)
4. Easy to call graphic presentation of retrieved data.
5. Tool for analysis of the full contents of EXFOR database.
6. Reduction in programming efforts that are needed for production of user copies of thedatabase and further development of the retrieval software.
To meet these objectives an EX-II retrieval system (temporary name) was developed in
1999-2000.

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2. EX-II development
2.1. EX-II Utilities. Preparation of data and tables
The first part of EX-II is a set of platform independent utilities preparing initial tables and
EXFOR data to be managed by a database system. The utilities read EXFOR data andDictionaries, extract information foreseen as a search criteria and on-line help (see Fig.1) and put
it into the set of ASCII files. These files will be imported to a relational database to initiate
tables. The utilities also split all EXFOR data to a set of text files (single file for each subentry)
and put them into a directory structure using appropriate naming convention for easy search bydatabase software.
Fig.1 EX-II Utilities
EXFOR data
and Dictionaries
MS-DOS, LinuxPreparingof Initial Tables(indexes for search)

Preparingof Dictionary Tables(for on-line Help)

Organize
EXFOR datain file structure

DICT*.TXT

DIR/SAN*.TXT

InitialASCII files

ENTRY.TXTSUBENT.TXT…
REACTION.TXT
AUTHOR.TXT“Friendly, convenient” interface foreseen by producing
tables with information from Dictionaries:• Quantity codes SF5-SF8 with explanation (DICT-36)• References (DICT-4,5,6,7)• Institutes, Countries (DICT-3)• the list will be expanded during future development . . .
110“Powerful” search foreseen by
producing tables with following
information:• Target• Reaction• Product• Projectile• Quantity• Min., max. energy• SF1 to SF8• SF5-8• Z,A of target, product• Dates (history, update)• 1-st author• Full authors list
• Countries• Institutes• References• STATUS=SPSDD flag
• All BIB keywords with values• ...

2.2. EX-II Retrieval System based on ACCESS-97
Second part of EX-II has to present EXFOR as a relational database using various
appropriate database management systems with the data retrieval as the main user oriented
function.
First implementation of the EX-II Retrieval System, based on ACCESS-97 relational
database management PC program, was developed in 2000 (see Fig.2). It has following
advantages:•

for Users:
1) powerful search with many criteria;2) advanced criteria (based on SQL-SELECT): variety of criteria, wildcards, various
combinations of criteria, on-line help and input of criteria based on Dictionaries;3) plotting of cross section data by ZVView (converter of EXFOR-Computational format
may be extended with NNDC help);4) MS-Access gives non-professional programmers a large variety of tools, allowing themto manipulate information and create their own retrievals without large efforts;•

for Data Centers Programmers:
1) development of the retrieval system requires much less effort in programming;
2) SQL based search is very flexible, universal and fast (optimized by manufacturers);3) simple programming of user interface as Access-Forms;
4) using of SQL queries in combo-boxes of Access-Forms provides advanced on-line help,
simplifies input of search parameters (see Fig.3), reduces number of user’s errors;5) using of External Viewers (Netscape, Notepad, ZVView) significantly simplify
programming of many operations, such as viewing, printing, Internet connection, etc.

The EX-II/ACCESS-97 Retrieval System was distributed to the Network of Nuclear Data
Centers for testing and getting feedback in April-2000.

2.3. Resume
Main benefits of EX-II development:• initialization of database became platform independent;• EX-II/ACCESS-97 can be considered as a Windows replica of EXFOR developed in shorttime without large programming efforts;• EX-II/ACCESS-97 provides new advanced retrieval tool for PC users.
EX-II development plans:• to continue development of the Access version;• to investigate the possibility of implementation of EX-II in other environment;• to integrate the system with evaluated libraries.

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Fig.2 EX-II Retrieval System based on ACCESS-97
Initialization

Initial ASCII files
MS-Windows
ACCESS-97
Create Tables
ImportProcessing

1.
2.

X4.MDB
Final Retrieval System
Access database:
X4.MDB(Forms, Basic, SQL)ACCESS-97

MS-Windows
Data files:
DIR/SAN*.TXT

Criteria.LST
External Viewers.X4

Criteria:• All listed in previous page
• Any combinations ofcriteria are available,
including multiple
parameters, ranges andwildcards• empty parameters (blankfield) can be used as
criteria
User interface:• Access-Forms
Search time:• Al-27(n,a), CS: 2-4 sec

NETSCAPE
X4-CFF converter(EX4D + EX4Z)NOTEPAD.ZVDZVVIEW- Data- Programs- Group of Programs- Data transfer- Control transfer112

Fig.3 EX-II / ACCESS-97 Forms: Data Request and Choice113

3. “FENDL in Pictures”“FENDL in Pictures” is a pictorial representation of the technical quality of the datacontained in the Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library. This product is an example ofintegration of EXFOR retrieval system based on ACCESS-97 with the ZVVIEW graphics utility
for production of an interactive Web Atlas of nuclear data.
FENDL-2.0 Activation file including more than ten thousand reactions is made into Web
pages with summary table of materials, reaction codes, values of the 2 deviation between
evaluations and experiments, and plots of evaluated curves in comparison with experimental data
points.
All HTML pages and GIF pictures were generated automatically on a PC. These werethen transferred to the NDS Web Server and could be copied to a CD-ROM for distribution. User
can call interactive plotting program ZVVIEW with chosen data on local computer and retrieve
original experimental data from NDS Web EXFOR Service by clicking the appropriate
hyperlinks .
Total number of materials is 667, reactions (plots): 11805, experiments found: 4688.
Fig.4 Example of Web pages from “FENDL in Pictures”

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WP2000-16
RELATIONAL DATABASE AND JAVA TECHNOLOGIES FOR NUCLEAR DATA –Preliminary Report

R. Arcilla, D. Winchell, Y. Sanborn
National Nuclear Data Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, New York 11973-5000
August 4, 2000
Introduction
The National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC), in cooperation with Clark University, has been
investigating the use of relational database and Java technologies for the administration anddissemination of nuclear data.
Commercial relational database management systems (RDBMS) using the Structured Query
Language (SQL) are widely used in the business world. As a result, the technology is mature andwell supported, and a wide variety of auxiliary tools are available. Because of this, an RDBMS
approach to nuclear databases might afford several advantages over the software used presently.
Furthermore, the automatic replication and synchronization capabilities of these systems promise
to improve the efficiency and reliability of data exchange among the cooperating data centers.
This report presents the preliminary results of the evaluation of SQL-compliant relational
database management systems and the Java platform. Criteria considered include speed, ease ofuse, cross-platform capability, support, and cost. The ability to re-use legacy programs was also
investigated. Both commonly used database programs such as Microsoft Access and pure Javabased database systems were tested. The report concludes with a recommendation on the best
migration strategy for existing nuclear databases. A final, detailed report will be completed inJuly 2000.

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Methods of Evaluation
Database systems
An initial investigation of RDBMS technology was made by porting the entire Nuclear
Science References (NSR) database to the Microsoft SQL-Server RDBMS. A web interface tothis instance of NSR was developed and is publicly available via the NNDC homepage. Other
databases, notably the NNDC Adlist database, were also ported to RDBMS systems for testing
purposes.
In order to evaluate several database products using the same underlying data, a subset of
NSR was used. In particular, three complete tables from the database were used. Details are
given in the “Results” section and the appendices.
The following RDBMS packages were tested:• Microsoft SQL-Server V7.0
• Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere V7.0
• Microsoft Access 2000
• PointBase V3.1GA• Cloudscape V3.0
The last two of these are based on the Java programming language and are platformindependent; the first three were run under the Windows NT operating system. A set of identicalqueries in SQL format was performed on each of the databases.
Java Optimizing Compilers
Computer industry studies show that a Java application compiled into native code will run 10
to 50 times faster than the interpreted Java byte code. At present, Compaq is developing an
optimizing compiler for Java that should run under OpenVMS. This compiler will not be
available until after July 2000. In order to test the concept, the compiler TowerJ from Tower
Technology Corporation was used to compile parts of the Cloudscape database program on
Windows NT.
Legacy Codes
There is a large body of legacy software associated with the databases maintained at the
NNDC, and duplicating all of the functionality of these codes by writing new software would
make the cost of migration prohibitive. However, it should be possible to re-use most legacy
code, replacing only database calls. To test this, software routines were written to replace Fortrandatabase access subroutines with calls to external Java programs. These Java programs can thenaccess remote databases using a Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) package. The concept wastested by converting the NSR retrieval program NSRRET, running on OpenVMS, to access aremote RDBMS version of NSR running on a Windows machine. A figure illustrating thisprocess is shown in Appendix A.

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Results
Database systems
Details of the benchmark tests and results are given in Appendix B. In summary, the nonJava databases were found to be comparable in speed and size, while the Java-native software
was much slower. In and of itself this result is not surprising, as Java is known to sacrifice some
speed and power in order to be platform-independent. However, the degree to which the Javasoftware is slower makes it unusable for our purposes, as it stands.
Java Optimizing Compilers
At the time of this writing, only about two-thirds of the required Java classes had been
compiled using TowerJ. Because key classes were still interpreted and dynamically loaded at run
time, the results for the “semi-compiled” database were no better than for the pure interpreted
Java.
Legacy Codes
The converted program NSRRET was found to run somewhat more slowly than the original
version, but not excessively so. Several bugs remain in the converted program, but it has been
demonstrated that the underlying technology is a viable method for converting legacy software.

Conclusion and Recommendations (preliminary)
Before the completion of the final report in July, we will continue to test evaluation copies ofthe database software, in preparation for making a final purchasing recommendation. We will
test the replication and synchronization technology in one or more of the database programs.
Compilation of the Cloudscape database will be completed, and tested against an interpreted
version on the same machine.
RDBMS and Java technologies can help the nuclear data community in both the efficiency of
database administration and the flexibility of dissemination. Our preliminary recommendation isto adopt one of the commercial database products as a standard and begin converting the nuclear
databases and legacy programs. The databases will reside on Windows NT or Linux machines,
and will be accessed from legacy programs on OpenVMS via JDBC. We also recommend
continued investigation of Java-native database software used in conjunction with optimizing
compilers, in order to take advantage of Java’s platform independence.

117Appendix A

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Appendix B
Software
Pointbase
Pointbase
Cloudscape - interpreted
Cloudscape - semicompiled
MS SQL Server
MS AccessSybase ASA

notes:
three tables from NSR:

OS
host
Linux
ndcnt2
OpenVMS bnlnd2
OpenVMS bnlnd2
Win NT
ndcnt4
Win NT
ndcnt3
Win NT
ndcnt3
Win NT
ndcnt4db size (MB) log size (MB)
144
550
144
420
180
N/A ( a )180
N/A ( a )74354
90
N/A ( a )89
84

(same indices defined in each database)ref_tbl157533 lines
auth_tbl
603235 lines
auth_dic 56652 lines

load time (approx)
3 days36 hours
4 hours
N/A ( b )5 minutes
10 minutes
10 minutes

Qry1 (sec) Qry2(sec) Qry3(sec) Qry4(sec)
32
26
176
N/A ( c )21
17126
N/A ( c )
6
3
5
285
7
2
6
356
1
3
1
15
1
2
1
8
1
1
1
5

hosts:

ndcnt2
bnlnd2
ndcnt3
ndcnt4200 MHz pentium
533 MHz Alpha
450 MHz pentium
dual 600 MHz pentium

Qry1: SELECT keyno,type,info
FROM ref_tbl
WHERE pubyear=1998 and coden=’JPGPE’; (116 lines out)
Qry2: SELECT auth_tbl.keyno,auth_tbl.ord
FROM auth_tbl JOIN auth_dic ON auth_tbl.akey=auth_dic.akey
WHERE auth_dic.aname=’SMITH’ and auth_dic.ainit=’A’; (306 lines out)
Qry3: SELECT ref_tbl.keyno
FROM ref_tbl JOIN auth_tbl ON ref_tbl.keyno=auth_tbl.keyno
WHERE auth_tbl.akey=44916 and ref_tbl.pubyear=1997; (12 lines out)
Qry4: SELECT ref_tbl.keyno,ref_tbl.type,ref_tbl.coden,ref_tbl.info
FROM ref_tbl JOIN (auth_dic JOIN auth_tbl ON auth_dic.akey=auth_tbl.akey) ON ref_tbl.keyno=auth_tbl.keyno
WHERE auth_dic.aname=’SMITH’ and ref_tbl.pubyear=1992; (37 lines out)( a ) no log file( b ) copied directly from VMS( c ) unable to perform query119

WP2000-17
Archiving at the NNDC of experimental nuclear physics data published in Physical Review:
Summary report, Deborah Brodbar (APS), David Winchell (NNDC), Christopher Wesselborg(APS)
Summary
Pending approval by the American Physical Society (APS), a system that links published Phys.
Rev. C (PRC) articles to data sets at the NNDC can be established with a minimum of effort on
the APS side, and as soon as a few requirements have been met:•

An information sheet should explain to authors how to submit their data to the NNDC,
how to reference it in the manuscript text and how to keep the NNDC informed about theeditorial process. (This has been done: Attachment A)•

Information for referees should include information on how to access the additional data.

•

Appropriate update of the data set reference must be made by APS editorial staff when amanuscript is accepted.

•

Information must be provided to the composition vendors (AIP) about the amendedreference style including tagging information.

Identification
Data sets are identified with a unique identifier at the NNDC. Manuscripts are identified with aunique identified at the Editorial Office. At the APS Editorial Office, a field in the databaseshould indicate that a data set is in preparation at the NNDC. The identifiers could be the APS
manuscript accession code on both ends.
Coordination
The data set preparation process and the manuscript review process need to be coordinated at
two points, i.e., at initial submission and at final publication. Authors as well as the NNDC staff
can track the manuscript review process via the APS status server (ASIS). NNDC iscontemplating a similar server for the data preparation process. A link from ASIS is desirable.
The NNDC must insure that their data link manager can handle both volume/article ID
information and manuscript/data set information without giving away the confidential APS
manuscript code.
Workflow
Eventually, many steps in the coordination process can be handled automatically. Initially, asimplified model would suffice:1) Authors submit manuscript to APS.

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2) Authors receive acknowledgment of receipt; a flyer is added informing the authors of theoption to submit their data to the NNDC; flyer includes submission and resubmission
procedures and instructions on how to include reference to data set in manuscript text; info
on notifying the NNDC when the manuscript has been accepted.
3) NNDC sends correspondence (misc., ’CFX’) to APS with data set ID.
4) When manuscript is accepted, APS editorial staff checks if reference to data set is in text;
adds reference as appropriate.
5) Volume/article ID (VP) is entered in APS database.
6) APS informs NNDC about volume/article ID (’CTX’).
7) When manuscript is ready, either:a) editorial staff informs NNDCb) NNDC polls ASIS frequently
Implementation
The system can be implemented in steps, each building upon the previous system. The following
is a possible scenario:
Phase I (minimal impact)
Requirements for APS: initial flyer, manual ’flags,’ reference link
1) APS and NNDC prepare information for authors, to be sent with acknowledgment of receipt.
2) APS editorial staff keeps track of data link manually; in manuscript folder and/or as note inmanuscript database.
3) APS editorial staff attaches info about data sets to referrals.
4) APS editorial staff updates reference to data set when manuscript is accepted.
5) NNDC uses ASIS to check on manuscript status and relies on authors’ input.
Phase II (database support)
Additional requirements for APS: identifier in database; further: support on the web submission
server, cross link on ASIS, action trigger at VP time1) Enhanced web submission informs authors of options to deposit data sets.
2) Flag in APS manuscript database used to trigger various actions.
3) Enhanced ASIS cross-links to NNDC.
4) Link to data sets handled by composition vendor (AIP) similar to EPAPS links(references).

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Phase III (mostly automatic)
Requires reliable triggers and appropriate handlers to ensure necessary update of information andnotification to APS/NNDC of significant events.

122

NNDC Web and FTP Statistics
Thomas W. Burrows
May 2000

WP2000-18

The NNDC Web and anonymous FTP statistics generation emulates, as closely as possible, the TELNET
statistics. This allows the NNDC to maintain a consistent set of statistics back to the beginning in 1986 andto compare the usage of the three services.
For most of the CGI-based retrievals, a successful retrieval is logged in the file WEBSTATS.DAT which
resides in the root directory of the OSU Web Server. A successful retrieval is defined as one in which one ormore datum is returned for the request.
For other Web retrievals and anonymous FTP retrievals, the access logs generated by the respective servers
are analyzed, as follows.
1. All non-responsive accesses (e.g., status codes 302, 304, and 404 for the Web) are excluded.
2. All navigational or image files are excluded.
3. Multiple retrievals of the same file by the same IP address are counted as only one retrieval if done withina one-hour period and with no intervening access of another NNDC subdirectory.
4. For program subdirectories (e.g., http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nndcscr/ensdf_pgm/analysis/radlst/), allretrievals of files within that subdirectory by the same IP address are counted as one retrieval only if done
within a one hour period and with no intervening access of another NNDC subdirectory.

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WP2000-19
CSISRS Library Statistics
05/11/2000
Area#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

Neutron1

3,619

17,5112,876,637

1288

2

2,280

14,824

1,567,578

2149

3

1,020

5,374

59,716

3105

4

1.262

8,321

197,277

4117

Total neutron

8,181

46,0304,701,208

A

890

6,162

170,182

A045

B

177

1,500

16,791

B011

C

594

2,944

132,494

C040

D

123

805

15,894

D022

E

124

1,923

31,948

E015

F

399

1,188

102,148

F011

O

377

7,970

214,287

O008

P

126

622

9,707

P002

R

51

431

5,933

R012

S

44

349

5,091

S010

T

57

162

11,349

T005

2,962

24,056

715,824

G

17

44

703

G010

L

59

726

39,619

L005

M

594

3,411

92,577

M028

670

4,181

132,89941

618

36,38011854

74,8855,568,311

Charged particle

Total charged particle
Photonuclear

Q
Total photonuclear
Evaluation
V
Grand total

124

V025

CSISRS Library Statistics by Area and Reference Date
AREA 1Year#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

8

25

8,304

1996

21

77

57,219

1997

10

29

2,257

1998

10

64

51,025

1999

3

18

13,89352

213

132,698

1288

Year

#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

18

79

182,400

1996

16

93

4,594

1997

17

91

1,666

1998

1

9

3,109

52

272

191,769

2149

Year

#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

13

45

311

1996

3

58

233

1997

11

82

266

1998

5

75

130

1999

3

7

97

35

267

1,037

3105

Year

#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

16

54

683

1996

8

65

1,629

1997

14

61

2,489

1998

8

19

1,085

1999

5

298

1,269

51

497

7,155

2000
Total

AREA 2

1999
2000
Total

AREA 3

2000
Total

AREA 4

2000
Total

125

4117

AREA AYear

#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

12

100

1,724

1996

8

227

625

1997

3

44

2,152

1998

3

204

412

26

575

4,913

1999
2000
Total

A045

AREA CYear#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

14

138

1,313

1996

25

78

5,563

1997

18

117

3,393

1998

17

57

1,642

1999

8

18

852

2000

4

17

990

425

13,753

Total

C040

AREA DYear#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

6

30

516

1996

4

10

223

1997

9

45

999

19

85

1,738

1998
1999
2000
Total

D022

AREA EYear#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Total

0

0

126

0

E015

AREA FYear

#entries

1995#subentries#data points

Last tape

1

3

115

1997

1

5

62

1998

1

12

180

3

20

357

1996

1999
2000
Total

F011

AREA GYear#entries

1995#subentries#data points

Last tape

1

6

67

1

6

67

1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Total

G010

AREA LYear#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Total

0

0

0

L005

AREA MYear#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

13

77

1,530

1996

8

107

1,359

1997

5

12

708

1998

2

26

54

28

222

3,624

1999
2000
Total

127

M028

AREA OYear

#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995

5

283

1,575

1996

9

552

2,121

1997

4

490

10,08618

1,325

13,782

1998
1999
2000
Total

AREA RYear#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Total

0

0

0

R012

AREA SYear#entries

1995#subentries#data points

Last tape

2

7

137

2

7

137

1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Total

S010

AREA TYear#entries#subentries#data points

Last tape

1995
1996
1997
1998

1

6

31

1

6

31

1999
2000
Total

128

T005

WP2000-20
AEN
NEA

AGENCE DE L’OCDE POUR L’ENERGIE NUCLEAIRE
OECD NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY

Ref: NDB/O/00/0325/cem

Issy-les-Moulineaux, 10th May 2000

Dear CINDA user,
I am pleased to inform you of the publication of the new CINDA CD-ROM by the OECD Nuclear
Energy Agency on behalf of the co-operating network of Nuclear Data Centres.
As in previous years, the book version has been produced by the IAEA and this year’s volume, entitled"CINDA-99", is a second supplement to previous issues and so should be used in conjunction with
CINDA-97 (a review volume from 1988-1997) and CMDA-98 the first supplement. This should havealready been distributed to you.
The new interactive CD of the CINDA database contains the full contents of the database and gives
access to all bibliographic entries published in the various volumes of the IAEA book. The interface issimilar to that found on the NEA web-site (http://www.nea.fr/cinda), but has slightly more features
including allowing the search results to be exported to a delimited text file for importing into a
spreadsheet program for further manipulation/sorting and a slightly more advanced search facility. The
CD-ROM is likely to be faster for most users as compared to using the WWW.

Instructions on installing CD-CINDA are given on the CD in the file "readme.txt", but users shouldnote the choice of copying the database onto a local hard drive or not. It is recommended that the
database be copied in this way during installation as it is of a moderately small size (~40MB) and
improves the performance by approximately a factor of three. In this case the "setup.exe" file in the"DBonHD" directory should be used. If the "setup.exe" in the root directory of the CD is used, thedatabase will remain on the CD-ROM and this will need to be inserted each time the program is used.
Please note that there is a possibility to copy the database at a later stage as explained in the"readme.txt" file.
A PDF version Help file is included on the CD but should further help be required then please do nothesitate to contact the NEA as detailed on the CD.
I hope you find the new CD version helpful and look forward to hearing comments from you in orderthat we may improve our services.
Yours sincerely,
Mark A. Kellett

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WP2000-22
EXFOR Statistics in Numbers and Figures
V.G. Pronyaev, V. Zerkin
NDS, IAEA
The statistics for Entries and Sub-entries was prepared using retrieval software developedon PC with EXFOR data loaded in relational database (see WP2000-15 for more details). The
year shown in Table and Figures is the year of first input of data into EXFOR.
Table shows the number of entries and sub-entries compiled per year and for reactions withdifferent incident particles: gamma quanta and electrons (g,e), neutrons(N), charged particles(Z), nuclear quantities and spontaneous fission (0). The statistics for 1999 is still not final.
Figures show these data in different presentations convenient for analysis.
The following conclusions can be drawn:
1. The number of entries compiled in last ten years is 260 per year in the average. It is below
what had been done in previous ten years, but the number of compiled sub-entries is rather
stable at the level 2400 per year for last 20 years.
2. The number of entries and sub-entries with data for charged particle induced reactions had
substantial growth after 1993 and constitutes 50 - 80% of all entries in last 6 years.

130Year: g+e, N, Z, 0; Entry, Subentry;
Yearg,e:Ent g,e:Sub N:Ent N:Sub

Z:Ent Z:Sub

0:Ent

0:Sub

Tot:Ent Tot:Sub

1961

1

2

1

2

1966

2

9

2

9

1967

21

137

22

145

1968

20

303

20

303

1969

55

325

2

2

56

327

1970

179

1,246

9

47

180

1,293

1971

289

1,811

12

44

293

1,853

1972

331

2,261

13

49

332

2,305

1973

220

1,840

18

50

223

1,889

1974

229

1,457

1

9

13

33

239

1,499

1975

247

1,542

32

346

6

31

283

1,919

1,757 10,624

25

238

12

38

1,787

10,899

1976
1977

4

8

362

1,907

37

366

7

14

403

2,287

1978

34

425

370

2,077

71

278

8

18

479

2,788

1979

2

51

587

3,615

48

326

25

72

642

4,062

1980

26

117

562

3,117

262

1,104

34

144

868

4,474

1981

4

45

200

1,073

173

584

13

41

383

1,743

1982

15

118

270

1,282

246

1,213

9

18

537

2,630

1983

30

185

285

1,478

70

884

16

37

396

2,577

1984

62

373

317

1,792

137

679

6

19

518

2,861

1985

16

89

222

980

163

839

9

22

406

1,922

1986

21

101

216

1,101

91

387

9

21

335

1,610

1987

66

471

167

959

247

1,414

5

15

481

2,853

1988

73

442

140

1,227

115

847

7

19

332

2,519

1989

44

406

389

1,403

57

325

31

59

515

2,188

1990

25

193

129

755

58

541

11

26

222

1,515

1991

106

407

150

589

56

484

5

10

315

1,490

1992

9

36

131

528

47

266

11

33

195

860

1993

9

33

128

566

46

1,169

6

21

188

1,789

1994

3

49

70

274

142

2,260

5

17

219

2,600

1995

4

22

57

330

181

3,136

1

2

243

3,490

1996

11

56

139

686

194

3,240

2

4

346

3,986

1997

23

119

144

830

190

2,111

5

12

361

3,072

1998

30

213

113

887

102

905

6

26

251

2,031

1999

51

246

40

220

191

912

2

5

284

1,383

Total:

664

4,197

8,539

49,233

2,982

24,863322

957

12,357

79,173Friday, May 05, 2000

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WP2000-23
Summarv of the meeting held at the NEA to discuss Sigmabase
Present: Ali Nouri (NEA), Mark Kellett (NEA), Meinhart Lammer (IAEA), Ian
Vickridge (Jussieu Uni.), Gabor Battistig (Budapest Uni.)
Aim: To discuss the future of Sigmabase and see whether the needs of its users could be
fulfilled by it being incorporated into the NRDC network.
A brief summarv of Sigmabase
Sigmabase is a database of experimental data from the Ion Beam Analysis community,
which is available online at "http://www.physics.isu.edu/sigmabase/", a Web site currently
hosted by Idaho State University, USA. A mirror site exists at"http://www.mfa.kfki.hu/sigmabase/" at the Research Institute for Technical Physics andMaterials Science, Budapest, Hungary.
The collation of experimental data has been underway for a number of years and it isthought that most of the relevant data are currently included, however much of the data havebeen produced from digitizing figures in papers and so some concern is expressed at theaccuracy of these data.
The data are stored in ascii text files, known as r33 format, which is relatively similar to themore complex EXFOR format. However this format is used by a number of codes that areused within this community, so to some extent must be maintained.
Summarv of the discussions
The discussions focussed around two main points of view;
1) the hosting of the existing database at the NEA and associated centres, or2) taking the existing data in the r33 format and producing E2FOR files for loading
into the standard EXFOR database.
After discussion it was suggested that the best way forward for all concerned was if the r33
formatted data could be converted to the EXFOR format and loaded into the existing
database, which is already hosted by the NRDCs. Ian Vickridge has previously been suppliedwith details of the EXFOR format and has agreed to write a small program to convert the r33
files into EXFOR files. These new EXFOR files will contain only a subset of the keywords
from EXFOR that are required for the r33 data, however, this should still produce a "legal"
EXFOR file. The NEA will liaise with Ian on this and undertake to test load converted files tocheck for consistency and correctness.

At this stage the question of the quality of the r33 files was discussed and it was felt that
before the loading of the files was carried out, and in fact before the conversion of all wasdone, some checking and quality assurance for the data should be undertaken. A number ofpossibilities exist for this, but in the main it will require some kind of funding to be available.
Both the NEA and the IAEA agreed to look at the possibility of supplying a small amount offunding for this purpose.

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Conclusions
It was concluded that Ian Vickridge would write a small code to convert some of the existing
r33 files and that the NEA would test load these into the EXFOR database to assess thecompatibility. This would be completed by May 2000, so that the proposal to include suchdata into the EXFOR system could be discussed at the scheduled NRDC meeting. It should
be noted that no decision on the inclusion of such data into the EXFOR system can be madeby the NEA alone, but must be agreed upon by the members of the NRDC network,
specifically; the NEA Databank, the Nuclear Data Section of the IAEA in Vienna, theNational Nuclear Data Center at BNL in the USA and the Russian Nuclear Data Centre at
Obninsk in Russia.
In order to allow the EXFOR files to be translated back to r33 format, Ian’s code should becapable of accepting the nominal subset of EXFOR keywords required for the r33 fileconversions. These reconstructed r33 files can then be used in the currently existing IBA
codes.

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WP2000-26
Center of Nuclear-Physics Data
RFNC - VNIIEF
Technical paper for IAEA Meeting, May 15-19, 2000
S.A.Dunaeva, V.A.Zherebtsov, A.G.Zvenigorodski, S.M.Taova
Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIIEF
Russia, 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod region, Mira Pr., 37
The SaBa database is a program product including the library of evaluated andexperimental data itself as well as a set of procedures making it possible to perform the sufficient
processing of data. Currently there are presented in the base the data on 83 reactions:
1. 1-H-2(D,G)2-HE-4
2. 1-H-2(D,N)2-HE-3
3. 1-H-2(D,N+P)1-H-2
4. 1-H-2(D,P)1-H-3
5. 1-H-2(P,G)2-HE-3
6. 1-H-2(P,N+P)1-H-1
7. 1-H-3(D,G)2-HE-5
8. 1-H-3(D,N)2-HE-4
9. 1-H-3(D,X)
10. 1-H-3(HE-3,G)3-LI-6
11. 1-H-3(HE-3,X)
12. 1-H-3(P,G)2-HE-4
13. 1-H-3(P,N)2-HE-3
14. 1-H-3(T,2N)2-HE-4
15. 2-HE-3(D,G)3-LI-5
16. 2-HE-3(D,N+P)2-HE-3
17. 2-HE-3(D,P)2-HE-4
18. 2-HE-3(HE-3,2P)2-HE-4
19. 2-HE-3(HE-3,G)4-BE-6
20. 2-HE-3(T,D)2-HE-4
21. 2-HE-4(D,G)3-LI-6
22. 2-HE-4(HE-3,G)4-BE-7
23. 2-HE-4(T,G)3-LI-7
24. 3-LI-6(D,A)2-HE-4
25. 3-LI-6(D,N)4-BE-7
26. 3-LI-6(D,P)3-LI-7
27. 3-LI-6(D,P+T)2-HE-4
28. 3-LI-6(HE-3,D)4-BE-7
29. 3-LI-6(HE-3,N)5-B-8
30. 3-LI-6(HE-3,P)4-BE-8
31. 3-LI-6(P,A)2-HE-3
32. 3-LI-6(P,G)4-BE-7
33. 3-LI-6(P,X)

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34. 3-LI-6(T,D)3-LI-7
35. 3-LI-6(T,2N)4-BE-7
36. 3-LI-6(T,P)3-LI-8
37. 3-LI-6(T,X)
38. 3-LI-7(A,N)5-B-10
39. 3-LI-7(D,P)3-LI-8
40. 3-LI-7(D,T)3-LI-6
41. 3-LI-7(D,X)
42. 3-LI-7(HE-3,A)3-LI-6
43. 3-LI-7(HE-3,D)4-BE-8
44. 3-LI-7(HE-3,P)4-BE-9
45. 3-LI-7(HE-3,T)4-BE-7
46. 3-LI-7(P,A)2-HE-4
47. 3-LI-7(P,G)4-BE-8
48. 3-LI-7(T,A)2-HE-6
49. 3-LI-7(T,D)3-LI-8
50. 3-LI-7(T,P)3-LI-9
51. 3-LI-7(T,X)
52. 4-BE-9(A,N)6-C-12
53. 4-BE-9(D,A)3-LI-7
54. 4-BE-9(D,G)5-B-11
55. 4-BE-9(D,N)5-B-10
56. 4-BE-9(D,P)4-BE-10
57. 4-BE-9(D,T)4-BE-8
58. 4-BE-9(D,X)
59. 4-BE-9(HE-3,P)5-B-11
60. 4-BE-9(HE-3,X)
61. 4-BE-9(P,A)3-LI-6
62. 4-BE-9(P,D)4-BE-8
63. 4-BE-9(P,G)5-B-10
64. 4-BE-9(P,N)5-B-9
65. 4-BE-9(P,X)
66. 4-BE-9(T,N)5-B-11
67. 5-B-10(D,A)4-BE-8
68. 5-B-10(D,N)6-C-11
69. 5-B-10(D,P)5-B-11
70. 5-B-10(P,A)4-BE-7
71. 5-B-10(P,G)6-C-11
72. 5-B-11(A,G)7-N-15
73. 5-B-11(A,P)6-C-14
74. 5-B-11(D,A)4-BE-9
75. 5-B-11(D,G)6-C-13
76. 5-B-11(D,N)6-C-12
77. 5-B-11(D,P)5-B-12
78. 5-B-11(P,A)4-BE-8
79. 5-B-11(P,G)6-C-12

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80. 5-B-11(P,N)6-C-11
81. 6-C-12(P,G)7-N-13
82. 6-C-13(P,G)7-N-14
83. 7-N-14(P,G)8-O-15
The possibility of getting our own evaluated data along with presenting complete reference
information on the specific isotope and every reaction under study makes it possible to consider
the given program product as an efficient enough instrument applied to prepare and use the dataindifferent thermonuclear applications.
Moreover, available analytical presentation for the evaluated curve makes convenient
adaptation of presented data for the using in the other software products. Just for this purpose
there was chosen a polynomial presentation for approximation of excitation functions (cubic
splines). It
allows to combine the evaluated curves with other descriptions presented in the analytical form.
Theoretical models are used in cases when the experimental data don’t allow to define
univocally a shape of the excitation function for cross-sections of some reactions. The spline isbuilt according to the theoretical curve normalized by weight-average experimental values.
When the experimental material does not allow to uniquelycharacterize the relative courseof initiation function for the cross-section of this or that reaction, to the estimation there areappliedtheoretical calculations on the models, and the spline is constructed on the basis of the theoreticalcurve normalized by weighted mean experimental values.
In the SaBa database along with presenting the data in the form of cross-sections there arewidely used their presentation in the form of S-factor. The possibility of S-factor easy
extrapolation in future to the sphere of low energies is of additional interest as to the use of theobtained data to for the needs of astrophysics and other nuclear applications.
The SaBa database presents the user the following possibilities.
1. Getting the information on isotopes and reactions. The given mode makes it possible for theuser to get reference data associated with the selected isotope and reaction. The data on theisotope includes the list of physics and chemical properties. The data on the reaction includes its
description as well as the information on the sources of experimental data.
2. Output of the list of all reactions. This possibility (output of the list of reactions under study tothe display and printer as well as its writing to file) makes it more convenient for the user towork with the base.
3. Review and output of tables and plots. This mode is intended to work with evaluated andexperimental data. The data are, as an option, presented both in tables and plots. There exists thepossibility of performing comparative analysis of available data with the data from ECPL library.
The availability of data editing means makes it possible to effectively arrange the process of
preparation and creation of materials for scientific reports and articles.

1404. Creation of files in ENDF format. In this case the user has the possibility of writing theavailable newly obtained evaluated data in ENDF/B-VI format that is widely used for evaluateddata exchange.
5. Editing and evaluating of data. The given mode makes it possible for the user to edit theexperimental data, to enter the spline from the file, to delete data sets and to create his own
evaluated curve - i.e. to construct a new spline. The developed graphic interface considerably
simplifies and accelerates the work with the data at this stage. The database of evaluated andexperimental data on charged particles SaBa is first oriented to scientific associates specialized
in getting nuclear data for the needs of thermonuclear engineering, astrophysics, medicine. It canalso be useful for the scientists occupied with the researches in the field of nucleear physics.
Further development of SaBa database is provided. It is assumed that a set of nuclei understudy will be expanded to oxygen inclusive. It is planned to complete some evaluated data withthe calculations in nuclear physics models so that the extrapolation to the range of low energies
is implemented. It is planned to introduce into the base the data on nuclear reactions rates, whose
values will be presented in the form of two-dimensional splines. There will be continued theworks on performing comparative analysis between evaluated data from SaBa and the data fromother libraries.
The users will be presented the possibility of creating and storing its own databases with theevaluations obtained in the course of activities.

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WP2000-27
The CDFE
Relational Nuclear Spectroscopy Data Base NESSY in Internet
I.N.Boboshin, V.V.Varlamov, E.M.Ivanov

The several directions of special software development have been described before forconvenient search for the ENSDF information:- the USA NNDC programs provided the output information from the ENSDF in a form
similar to that of the Nuclear Data Sheets, on-line retrieval system, special programs
MEDLIST and RADLIST for medical applications;- the Sweden Lund University and Institute of Technology nuclear radioactive decay γradiation characteristics database;- the Russia CDFE data library based on the ENSDF /1/ as the bank of more than 15
programs for the ENSDF operation;- the USA LBL Electronic Table of Isotopes for the personal computer (announcement).
It must be pointed out that there is the one general restriction of the all programs
mentioned above. Each of them is searching for the only a given the ENSDF file information
subset.
The relational nuclear spectroscopy data base NESSY (New ENSDF Search SYstem) has
been developed before /2/ for using on PC and compatible computers. This is a very powerfultool for scientific research which use the nuclear spectroscopy information because it has anevident advantages in comparison of other software for database operation with the ENSDF
mentioned above:- configuration on both search conditions and output information is not limited;- automating formation of tables containing the search parameters can be includedin the common query configuration:- Query_1 (ENSDF) ⇒ Result_1,- Query_2 (Result_1) ⇒ Result_2,- and so on;- requests are posed by means of both values and the relations between them;- performing arithmetic and other operations over searched values is possible.
The following are the only three of many examples of information combined from theseveral ENSDF subsets search tasks of great importance for the number of applications:- for ecology needs to follow the decay chains till the stable isotope appearance of every
radioactive isotope requested (about 250 nuclides) and indicate decay mode, final
nucleus, half-life, and branching ratios for every decay (since the final nucleus of the
majority of decays is the parent nucleus for the nest decay, the “query chain” scheme isneeded);- for nuclear waste utilisation needs to indicate all levels with known γ-decays andrenormalize the data obtained so that the sum of intensities for every level is equal to 1;
to find and indicate all metastable states; to determine if radioactive decays of the142nucleus exist (both for ground and excited states) and, if so, indicate their modes, halflife times, and the average excitation of the final nuclei;- for an activation analysis needs to find the levels in number of nuclei requested having
the energies equal to the energies of absorbed and radiated γ-quanta with the nucleus
recoil taking into account.
It is clear that these requests practically can not be processed by systems mentioned above.
The NESSY can do that very simply.
Now NESSY is put partially upon the CDFE Web-site (http://depni.npi.msu.su/cdfe) using
the MySQL data base management system.
This gives to all people who have Web-browser the possibilities for:- solve all the tasks that can be solved on existing search systems on ENSDF in theworld and additionally a number tasks that can be solved on the NESSY only;- receive the rapid access to any data from the ENSDF;- do the search job with simplicity and clearness because NESSY’s user interface is very
friendly: CUI (Common User Interface) standard is keeping out.
References
1. I.N.Boboshin, V.V.Varlamov. The International Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF) in
Fundamental and Applied Photonuclear Research. INDC(CCP)- 297/GE, IAEA NDS, Vienna,
Austria, 1989, pp. 1 - 8.
2. I.N.Boboshin, V.V.Varlamov. The New ENSDF Search System NESSY: IBM/PC Nuclear
Spectroscopy Data Base. Nucl.Instr. and Meth., A369 (1996) 113.

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WP2000-28
The Oracle Design for EXFOR and CINDAMark A. Kellett, NEA Data BankThe Data Bank does not have any specific design documentation relating to the EXFOR and
CINDA databases. However shown in this document are the “Tables” required for producing thedatabase structure as used at the Data Bank.
The database for the two (CINDA and EXFOR) is run as a single incidence of Oracle known as
EXFOR. The cross links between the two can be seen in the following two figures.
Currently the EXFOR files are loaded through a set of FORTRAN and PRO-FORTRAN codes,
but a PERL version is currently under development. The CINDA files are already loaded
through PERL.
An interface to the EXFOR database (used for dictionary updates, special retrievals, etc.) isavailable via the Oracle FORMs software. This is generated again using FORTRAN and PROFORTRAN coding.
The Data Bank has now detailed checking codes for EXFOR file loading, although basic checks
are carried out during the loading process and relevant indexing information is loaded into therequired “Tables” by this process through extracting the information from the file.
The BNL checking code has been received by the Data Bank, but it needs to be significantly
altered to allow it to use the standard dictionary, rather than the DANIEL format ones in use on
VMS systems. It is hoped that this can be incorporated into this year’s work programme.

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