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Report on the

IAEA Technical Meeting of theInternational Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres

IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria
8 – 10 October 2007

Prepared by
O. Schwerer and S. Dunaeva
IAEA Nuclear Data Section, Vienna, Austria

November 2007

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INDC(NDS)-0519
Distr. G+NC

Report on the

IAEA Technical Meeting of theInternational Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres

IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria
8 – 10 October 2007

Prepared by
O. Schwerer and S. Dunaeva
IAEA Nuclear Data Section, Vienna, Austria

Abstract
An IAEA Technical Meeting of the International Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres washeld at IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, from 8 to 10 October 2007. The meeting was attended
by 19 participants from 11 cooperating data centres of six Member States and two internationalorganizations. A summary of the meeting is given in this report, along with the conclusions, actions,and status reports of the participating data centres.

November 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF NUCLEAR REACTION DATA CENTRES .. 7
PREVIOUS NRDC MEETINGS.......................................................................................... 8
LIST OF ACRONYMS ........................................................................................................ 9
AGENDA.............................................................................................................................. 12
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS................................................................................................... 15
MEETING SUMMARY ....................................................................................................... 17

Introduction............................................................................................................... 17
Brief Minutes ............................................................................................................ 17
Conclusions and Actions........................................................................................... 20
Review of Compilation Scope and Responsibilities ................................................. 26

PROGRESS REPORTS........................................................................................................ 33
P1
P2
P3
P4

NEA-DB / NEA Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France ......................................... 35
ATOMKI / Nuclear Research Institute, Debrecen, Hungary ...................................... 45
CNPD / Center of Nuclear Physics Data at RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia ............... 49
CDFE / Centr Dannykh Fotojad. Eksp., Moscow State University,
Moscow, Russia........................................................................................................... 51
P5 NDS / IAEA Nuclear Data Section, Vienna, Austria .................................................. 57
P6 UKRNDC / Ukraine Nuclear Data Center at KINR, Kyiv, Ukraine........................... 67
P7 JCPRG / Japan Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data Group, Sapporo, Japan...... 73
P8 CAJAD/ Center for Nuclear Structure and Reaction Data, Kurchatov Institute,
Moscow, Russia........................................................................................................... 79
P9 CJD / Russian Nuclear Data Center at F.E.I., Obninsk, Russia .................................. 81
P10 KAERI / NDEL / Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Data
Evaluation Laboratory, Yusong, Taejon, Republic of Korea ...................................... 83
P11 NNDC / National Nuclear Data Center, Upton, NY, USA ......................................... 87
LIST OF WORKING PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE MEETING .................................. 93

THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF NUCLEAR REACTION DATA CENTRESNational, regional and specialized nuclear reaction data centres, coordinated by the International
Atomic Energy Agency, cooperate in the compilation, exchange and dissemination of nuclear
reaction data, in order to meet the requirements of nuclear data users in all countries. At present, thefollowing data centres participate in the network:
NNDC
NEA-DB
NDS
CJD
CAJAD
CDFE
CNDC
JAEA
JCPRG
ATOMKIUKRNDCCNPD
KAERI/NDELUS 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, Russia
Centr Dannykh Fotojadernykh Eksperimentov (= Centre for
Photonuclear Experiments Data), Moscow, Russia
China Nuclear Data Center, Beijing, China
Nuclear Data Center of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (formerly
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, JAERI), 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,
UkraineCenter of Nuclear Physics Data, Russian Federal Nuclear Center,
RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia
Nuclear Data Evaluation Laboratory, Korea Atomic Energy ResearchInstitute, Yusong, Taejon, Republic of Korea

A detailed description of the objectives of the network and the contributions of each Centre to these
activities are given in INDC(NDS)-401 (Rev.4), "The Nuclear Reaction Data Centres Network".

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PREVIOUS NRDC MEETINGS
Vienna, 8-10 October 2007
Vienna, 25-28 September 2006
Vienna, 12-14 October 2005
Brookhaven, 4-7 October 2004
Vienna, 17-19 June 2003
Paris, 27-30 May 2002
Vienna, 28-30 May 2001
Obninsk, 15-19 May 2000
Vienna, 18-20 May 1999
Vienna, 11-15 May 1998
Vienna, 26-28 May 1997
Brookhaven, 3-7 June 1996
Vienna, 2-4 May 1995
Paris, 25-27 April 1994
Vienna, 1-3 Sept 1992
Obninsk, 7-11 Oct 1991
Vienna, 13-15 Nov 1990
Vienna, 2-4 Oct 1989
Vienna, 4-6 Oct 1988
Brookhaven, 27-29 Oct 1987
Vienna, 7-9 Oct 1986
Saclay, 9-11 Oct 1985
Vienna, 19-21 Sept 1984
Obninsk+ Moscow, 17-21 Oct 1983
Vienna, 3-7 May 1982
Brookhaven, 29.9 - 2.10.1980
Karlsruhe, 8-13 Oct 1979
Paris, 19-23 June 1978
Kiev, 11-16 April 1977
Vienna, 28-30 April 1976
Vienna, 26-27 April 1976
Vienna, 8-12 Sept 1975
Brookhaven, 10-14 March 1975
Paris, 6-10 May 1974
Vienna, 24-26 April 1974
Moscow/Obninsk, 4-8 June 1973
Vienna, 16-20 Oct 1972
Brookhaven, 25-29 Oct 1971
Paris, 5-9 Oct 1970
Moscow, 17-21 Nov 1969

Technical
Centre Heads + Tech.
Technical
Centre Heads + Tech.
Technical
Centre Heads + Tech.
Technical
Centre Heads + Tech.
Technical
Centre Heads + Tech.
Technical
Center Heads + Tech.
Technical
Center Heads + Tech.
Technical
Center Heads + Tech.
Technical
Centre Heads + Tech.
Technical
Center Heads + Tech.
Technical
Center Heads + Tech.
= 8th NRDC MeetingTechnical
7th NRDC Meeting
6th NRDC Meeting
5th NRDC Meeting
4th NRDC Meeting
3rd NRDC Meeting
2nd NRDC Meeting= 3rd CPND + 13th 4-C
2nd CPND Meeting
12th 4C-Meeting
CPND Meeting
11th 4C-Meeting
10th 4C Meeting
CPND + PhotoND
9th 4C Meeting
8th 4C Meeting
7th 4C Meeting
6th 4C Meeting
5th 4C Meeting8

INDC(NDS)-0519
INDC(NDS)-0503
INDC(NDS)-0480
INDC(NDS)-464
INDC(NDS)-446
INDC(NDS)-434
INDC(NDS)-427
INDC(NDS)-418
INDC(NDS)-407
INDC(NDS)-383
INDC(NDS)-374
INDC(NDS)-360
INDC(NDS)-343
INDC(NDS)-308
INDC(NDS)-279
INDC(NDS)-0262
Memo CP-D/210
Memo CP-D/200
Memo CP-D/190
INDC(NDS)-204
Memo CP-D/159
INDC(NDS)-178
Memo CP-D/131
INDC(NDS)-154
INDC(NDS)-141
INDC(NDS)-125
INDC(NDS)-110
INDC(NDS)-99
INDC(NDS)-90
INDC(NDS)-77
INDC(NDS)-78
INDC(NDS)-69+71
INDC(NDS)-68
INDC(NDS)-58
INDC(NDS)-59+61
INDC(NDS)-54
INDC(NDS)-51
INDC(NDS)-41
INDC(NDS)-28
INDC(NDS)-16

LIST OF ACRONYMS
ATOMKI

Nuclear Research Institute, Debrecen, Hungary

BibTeX

Program for formatting reference lists for LaTeX

BROND-2

Russian evaluated neutron reaction data library, version 2

CAJAD

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

BNL
C4

CDFE

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

A computational format for EXFOR data

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

CENDL-2

Chinese evaluated neutron reaction data library, version 2

CINDA

A specialized bibliography and data index on nuclear cross section data operated
by the NRDC

CHEX

CJD

EXFOR check program (originating from NNDC)

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

CNDC

China Nuclear Data Center, Beijing, China

CP...

Numbering code for memos exchanged within the NRDC

CNPD

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

CPND

Charged-particle nuclear reaction data

CSEWG

US Cross Section Evaluation Working GroupCRPCSISRS
DOI

Coordinated Research Project (of the IAEA Nuclear Data Section)
Cross Section Information Storage and Retrieval System,
the EXFOR-compatible internal system of NNDC

Digital Object Identifier, e.g. for bibliographic references

EFF

European evaluated nuclear data file for fusion applications

ENDF-6

International format for evaluated data exchange, version 6

EMPIREA code system for nuclear reaction model calculations

ENDF/B-VII

US Evaluated Nuclear Data File, version 7

ENSDF

Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data FileENDVEREVA

ENDF File Verification support package

Retrieval interface for evaluated data used at NEA-DB

EXFOR

Format for the international exchange of nuclear reaction data

FENDL

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

FEI

Fiziko-Energeticheskij Institut, Obninsk, Russia

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GSYS
IAEA

Data digitizing system by JCPRG

International Atomic Energy Agency

IBANDLIon Beam Analysis Nuclear Data Library maintained at IAEA

IPPEInstitute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk, Russia

INDC
IRDF

JAEA

International Nuclear Data Committee

International Reactor Dosimetry File, maintained by the IAEA-NDS

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (from 1 October 2005)

JAERI

Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (until 30 September 2005)

JCPRG

Japan Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data Group, Sapporo, Japan

JANIS
JEF

JEFF

JENDL-3

KAERI/NDEL
KINRJava Nuclear Information System of NEA-DB

Joint Evaluated File of neutron data, a collaboration of European
NEA member countries and Japan

Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion Project coordinated by NEA-DB

Japanese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library, version 3

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Data Evaluation
Laboratory
Kiev Institute of Nuclear Research

LEXFOR

Part of the EXFOR manual containing physics information for compilers

NDS

IAEA Nuclear Data Section, Vienna, Austria

MIRD
NDS

NEA

NEA-DB

Medical Internal Radiation Dose, a database derived from ENSDF
Nuclear Data Sheets

Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

NEA Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

NEANDCNEA Nuclear Data Committee

NNDC
NNDEN

National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Neutron Nuclear Data Evaluation Newsletter

NND

Neutron Nuclear Data

NRDC

Nuclear Reaction Data Centers

NSDD

Nuclear structure and decay data

NRDF
NSC
NSR

NuDat

OECD

Japanese Nuclear Reaction Data File
Nuclear Science Committee of the NEA

Nuclear structure references, a bibliographic system

Database of Nuclear Structure and Decay Data based on ENSDF

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France

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PGAA
PhND

RIKEN
RIPL

RNAL
R33

TRANS

IAEA database for Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis

Photonuclear data

Nuclear Data Group, RIKEN Institute of Physics and Chemistry Research, WakoShi, Saitama, Japan
IAEA Reference Input Parameter Library for reaction calculations

IAEA Reference Neutron Activation Library

Format used by ion beam analysis community for storing experimental crosssections
Name of transmission tapes for data exchange in the EXFOR system

UKRNDC

Ukraine Nuclear Data Center at KINR, Kyiv, Ukraine

WPEC

Working Party on international nuclear data Evaluation Cooperation

VNIIEF

WPEC-SG30
XTRACT

Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Sarov, Russia

WPEC Subgroup 30 on “Improvement of accessibility and quality of the EXFOR
database”
EXFOR indexing program

X4TOC4

A conversion program from EXFOR to computational format “C4”4C...

Numbering code of memos exchanged among the four Neutron Data
CentresZCHEX

Current version of CHEX, updated and maintained by NDS

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AGENDA

Plenary: 09:30
1.

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6

Monday, 8 October 2007

General
Welcome address from NDS
Opening, election of chairperson, Adoption of
the agenda, announcements
Brief status reports – all centres (new tasks,
priorities)
General situation of centres, staff changes etc.
Review of General Actions from the 2006
Meeting (Actions A1-A3)
Date and place of next NRDC meeting

Nichols

WP2007-1

Nichols
Dunaeva

Plenary: 14:00
2.

EXFOR General (also Actions A4-A15)
2.1
Common master file and exchange mechanism
2.2
Mistakes and quality control
2.2.1
Procedure for correcting mistakes in thecommon EXFOR master file
2.2.2
Proposal to update old entries instead ofcreating new
2.2.3
Proposal to move alteration flag into column
11 of ENTRY and SUBENT records
2.2.4
Review of compilation scope, distribution of
responsibilities, EXFOR status webpage
2.2.5
Result of checking A. Koning’s “List of
suspicious EXFOR data”

3.

Compilation and Transmission statistics

4.

Manuals

WP2007-1

Dunaeva
Schwerer

WP2007-3

Dunaeva,
ZerkinDunaeva

WP2007-7
WP2007-8
WP2007-5

Zerkin,Dunaeva
Dunaeva

WP2007-9

Schwerer

WP2007-4

Dunaeva
Schwerer

12Plenary: 09:00

WP2007-1

5.1

Common EXFOR/CINDA dictionary
system (also Action A16)
Formats and exchange mechanisms

6.1
6.2

CINDA (also Actions A34-A41)
CINDA-book
Procedure for creation CINDA reference

WP2007-1

7.1

EXFOR software (A17-A25)
CHEX, XTRACT, ORDER

WP2007-1

ZerkinZerkinEXFOR technical (also Actions A17-A25)
EXFOR+ Interpreted (extended) EXFOR
formatPlotting flags in Archive Dictionary 24 (Dataheadings)
Definition of spectrum averaged cross section

WP2007-1
WP2007-10

Dunaeva
Zerkin

WP2007-2

Otsuka,Henriksson
Otsuka,Schwerer
Otsuka,Schwerer
Schwerer

5.

6.

7.
8.

Tuesday, 9 October 2007

8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4

ZerkinZerkin

WP2007-17

WP2007-11

ZerkinHenrikson
Dunaeva

Bibliographical information (TITLE,AUTHOR) from several references
Journal code PR and general format of page
number“Proliferation” of Institute codes

WP2007-12

EXFOR technical (continued)
Reference frame of analyzing power
Review of corrections since the 2006 NRDC
meeting
Multiplicity of prompt gamma in capture
reaction (22960.005-006)
4-momentum transfer distribution
Conversion of remaining upper case text
entries
List of missing EXFOR data of experimental
works compiled in the CRP for“Recommended data for production oftherapeutic radioisotopes”

WP2007-1
WP2007-14
WP2007-18

OtsukaOtsuka

WP2007-19

Otsuka8.5
8.6

WP2007-13

Schwerer

Plenary: 14:00
8.

8.7
8.8
8.9
8.10
8.11
8.12

13

OtsukaSchwerer
WP2007-20

Plenary: 09:00
9.
9.1

Wednesday, 10 October 2007

Computational and other output formats(discussion leader: V.Zerkin)
X4toC4

10.

EXFOR-Editor (discussion leader: S.Taova)

11.

Other programs

12.
12.1

Closing items
Review of actions and conclusions

ZerkinPlenary: 14:00
13.

Quality control & assessment, SG30 issues

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Mengoni,
KoningLIST OF PARTICIPANTS
CHINA

KOREA

HUNGARYRUSSIAN FEDERATION

Yu Hongwei
China Institute of Atomic Energy
PO Box 275 (41)
Beijing
Tel. +86 10 69357722
E-mail: hongwei@ciae.ac.cn

Young-Ouk Lee
Nuclear Data Evaluation Laboratory
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
P.O. Box 105
Yusung, Taejon 305-600
Tel. +82 42 868 2964
Fax +82 42 868 2636
E-mail: yolee@kaeri.re.kr

Sandor Takacs
Cyclotron Department
Institute of Nuclear Research
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Bem ter 18/c
P.O. Box 51
4001 DebrecenTel. +36-52-509-200
Fax +36-52-416-181
E-mail: stakacs@atomki.hu

Svetlana Babykina
Institut Atomnoi Energii
Ploschad I.V. Kurchatova
46 Ulitsa Kurchatova
123 182 Moscow
Tel. +7 499 196 9552
Fax. +7 499 196 9968
E-mail: s.babykina@polyn.kiae.su
sbabykina@yandex.ru

JAPANMarina Mikhaylyukova
Institute for Physics and PowerEngineering
Bondarenko Sq. 1
249 033 Obninsk, Kaluga Region
Tel. + +7 48439-98982
Fax + +7 48439-68225
E-mail: mmarina@ippe.ru

Naohiko Otsuka
Nuclear Data Center
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Tokai-mura, Naka-gun
Ibaraki-ken 319-1195
Tel. +81 29-282-5484
Fax +81 29-282-5766
E-mail: ohtsuka@nucl.sci.hokudai.ac.jp

UKRAINE

Masaki Chiba
Faculty of Social Information
Studies
Sapporo Gakuin University
11 Bunkyodai
Ebetsu-shi, Hokkaido 069-8555
Tel. +81 11-386-8111
Fax +81 11-386-8113
E-mail: chiba@earth.sgu.ac.jp

Olena Gritzay
Ukrainian Nuclear Data Center
Institute for Nuclear Research
Prospekt Nauky 47
03680 Kyiv - 28
Tel. +380 44 525 3987
Fax +380 44 525 4463
E-mail: ogritzay@kinr.kiev.ua

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UKRAINE cont’d

CONSULTANTS

Nataliya Klimova
Ukrainian Nuclear Data Center
Institute for Nuclear Research
Prospekt Nauky, 4703680 Kyiv - 28
Tel. +380 44 525 3987
Fax +380 44 525 4463
E-mail: nklimova@kinr.kiev.ua

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Vladimir Varlamov
Centr Dannykh Fotojadernykh
Eksperimentov – CDFE
Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
119991, Moscow
Tel. +7 495 939-3483
Fax: +7 495 939-08-96

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

e-mail: varlamov@depni.sinp.msu.ru

Dr. Pavel Oblozinsky
National Nuclear Data Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 5000
Upton NY 11973-5000
Tel. + 1 631-344-2814
Fax + 1 631-344-2806
E-mail: oblozinsky@bnl.gov

Ms. Sophiya Taova
Russian Federal Nuclear Center
All Russian Scientific ResearchInstitute of Experimental Physics
607188, Sarov
Nizhnii Novgorod Region
Tel.: +7 83130 27779
Fax: +7 83130 45569
e-mail: taova@expd.vniief.ru

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Hans Henriksson
Nuclear Data Services
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Le Seine Saint-Germain
12, boulevard de Iles
92130 Issy-les-MoulineauxTel. +33 1 45 24 1084
Fax +33 1 45 24 1128
E-mail: henriksson@nea.fr

OBSERVERSNETHERLANDS

Arjan Koning
Building 34.213
NRG Nuclear Research andConsultancy Group
Westerduinweg 3
P.O. Box 25
NL-1755 ZG Petten
Tel. +31 22456-4051
Fax +31 22456-8490
E-mail: koning@nrg-nl.com

Nicolas Soppera
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Le Seine Saint-Germain
12, boulevard de Iles
92130 Issy-les-MoulineauxTel. +33 1 45 24 1088
E-mail: soppera@nea.fr

SLOVAKIA

Stanislav Hlavac
Department of Nuclear Physics
Institute of Physics
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dubravska Cesta 9
SK-84511 Bratislava
Tel. +421 2-84511
Fax: +421 2-59410557
e-mail: hlavac@savba.sk

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MEETING SUMMARY
Introduction
The IAEA Technical Meeting on the Co-ordination of the International Network of
Nuclear Reaction Data Centres was held at the IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria,
from 8 to 10 October 2007. Nineteen participants of eleven cooperating data centres
from Hungary, Japan, Korea, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, USA, NEA and IAEA
attended the meeting.
Meetings of this network are held annually, with full meetings, involving centre heads
and technical staff, every two years (last full meeting was held in September 2006 at
IAEA Headquarters in Vienna). Main topics of the present meeting were intensified
quality control, systematic and streamlined checking and correction procedures using
the feedback and taking into account the needs of data evaluators, EXFOR related
software including the EXFOR editor, questions of upgrading output formats and/or
the exchange format, timeliness and completeness of EXFOR compilations, questionsof the CINDA bibliography, and technical details on the EXFOR/CINDA dictionaries
and quantities. Twenty-three working papers were presented at the meeting. The
results of the discussions were summarized in 16 Conclusions and 45 Actions (see p
20 ff).
Brief Minutes
A. L. Nichols, Head of the IAEA Nuclear Data Section, opened the meeting on behalfof the IAEA. He started by paying tribute to Feliks Evgen’evich Chukreev, head of
the CAJAD data centre, who died on 29 June 2007. Feliks Chukreev contributed
much to the worldwide nuclear physics/nuclear data community for over forty years.
He was involved in the extension of the EXFOR library to charged particle data in the
1970s and continued to contribute to this database on a regular basis. His expertise inthis field and his nuclear structure activities were well recognized by his manycolleagues. He will be remembered by the NRDC members as an extremelycompetent nuclear physicist and friend.
The agenda was adopted without change. Nichols was elected chairman for thegeneral sessions, while Dunaeva chaired the technical sessions.
Participants from the eleven attending Centres presented brief status reports,
highlighting the general as well as staff situation of the centres, their compilation
activities, data services, other nuclear data activities (such as data evaluation) ofinterest to the network, and relevant publications. See reports P1 – P11 for details.
The actions of the previous meeting were reviewed. Those not yet fulfilled and othersof continuing relevance were included in the new list of actions.
In a session on general EXFOR topics, the general compilation scope and the
distribution of responsibilities of the centres were reviewed and confirmed as agreed
at the last meeting. A streamlined procedure for straightforward corrections in themaster file was agreed, making full use of the common master file being maintained
by NDS.
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Feedback received by evaluators on real or apparent mistakes in the EXFOR database
was discussed, noting that while in a minority of cases actual mistakes had beenfound, in many cases the problem was misunderstanding the data definitions or inconverting EXFOR to the computational format.
Dunaeva reported that the response of the EXFOR compilers to her weekly updates of
the “EXFOR compilation status webpage” was generally very good. Most delays in
the compilation of new publications are due to the unavailability of numerical datafrom authors, or due to temporary staff problems in some of the major centres.
Dunaeva will in future insist that in the latter case, other network centres fill in thegaps to avoid unnecessary long delays.
Concerning the completeness of photonuclear data, it was said that for several decades
the compilation of photonuclear data relies solely on voluntary contributions by
CDFE, leaving the setting of compilation priorities to this centre. While the request
for completeness is rather new (was first explicitly mentioned at the 2006 NRDC
meeting), the increased emphasis on this data type is also reflected in a number ofphotonuclear data compilations undertaken by D. Rochman at NNDC, the start ofsuch activity by JCPRG (EXFOR K-series) last year, and several compilations carriedout at UkrNDC. Dunaeva noted that the completeness of coverage of new
photonuclear literature is comparable to the coverage for CPND.
At several points in the agenda the question of formats was discussed. Oblozinsky
stressed that, while he agrees that maintaining a database such as EXFOR is partly aconservative activity, we must modernize. While everybody agrees that the original
EXFOR format (defined as an EXchange FORmat) was designed more than 30 years
ago and is “oldfashioned”, most, or all, requests for a modern appearance vis-a-vis theuser can be achieved by clever output formats which can make the exchange format
completely transparent to the user. Similarly, a good EXFOR editor can simplify thejob of dealing with format restrictions for the compilers. After various discussions,
there was a consensus that changes of the exchange format will be introduced only
very cautiously and requests for better user output and easier ways of compilation will
be taken care of by improved “human readable” and computational formats on one
hand, and a good EXFOR editor on the other.
Schwerer reported on the situation with respect to manuals. A first version of the
EXFOR/CINDA Dictionary Manual was issued in August and further feedback fromthe users is requested. New updates of the formats manual and LEXFOR are on the
NDS work plan for the near future.
The EXFOR/CINDA dictionaries are now always distributed together with the current
version of CHEX. The EXFOR master file is also now available in C4 format.
Henriksson reported on the new CINDA book which was issued earlier this year. Thisis an important archival publication since the future of CINDA as a hardcopy book is
not known.
Zerkin presented the latest version of the “EXFOR+” interpreted (extended) EXFOR
format. This is an easy-to-understand output format which has been available as an
option from the NDS EXFOR Web retrieval system since October 2006.
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Several technical issues concerning EXFOR quantities, dictionary codes andcompilation rules were discussed; the results are reflected in Conclusions C9 – C16
and Actions A25 – A39.
Zerkin presented the various output options available from the NDS EXFOR Web
retrieval system, including EXFOR+, Bibliographic output, formats T4, C4, R33, andvarious plotting options.
Taova presented the latest version of the EXFOR editor with new enhancements, suchas import of data from Text, Word and Excel files, possibility to set data precision,and inserting constant values into a data column. The meeting acknowledged theprogress and requested further updating of the editor according to users’ feedback. It
was also noted that the editor software needs installation on the user’s PC and that its
free distribution needs to be explored.
Questions on other EXFOR-related software were discussed, along with better
information exchange about software being used and developed. Feedback on the
checking program CHEX and the digitizing program GSYS and the EXFOR editor
were requested from all users. NDS will investigate the possibility of organizing aworkshop on the EXFOR editor and digitizing programs.
On Wednesday afternoon, the meeting was joined by A. Koning, NRG Petten, theNetherlands, for a special session. Koning informed the NRDC about the newly
formed Subgroup 30 of WPEC (Working Party on international nuclear data
Evaluation Cooperation) on “Improvement of accessibility and quality of the EXFOR
database”. The goal is to make EXFOR a database which is both free of errors andeasily accessible to evaluators. Close cooperation between NRDC and SG30 will beneeded to achieve these goals. Since several members of the NRDC are also membersof WPEC-SG30, this cooperation should be possible, and the NRDC requested to be
kept informed on the subgroup’s activities.
The next NRDC meeting, which will be a full meeting including centre heads, willtake place in the second half of September 2008 in Obninsk, Russia. Note added after
the meeting: a preliminary date for the next meeting was set for 22 – 25 September
2008.

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Conclusions and Actions
Conclusions
GeneralC1

Next year’s meeting will be held in the second half of September 2008 in
Obninsk. (Note added after the meeting: preliminary date for the next
meeting was set for 22 – 25 September 2008)
EXFOR, GeneralC2

The general compilation scope is kept unchanged as agreed last year andgiven in WP 2006-13 Rev.2 (see page 26).

C3

The proposal that NDS can make trivial corrections directly on the common
master file (with information of originating centre) is agreed (WP 2007-3).

C4

All corrections of entries must start from the version of the common master
file (rather than from local versions).

C5

Recompilations or improvements of existing entries by another centre should
result in an update of the old entry (rather than a new entry with deletion of
the old one), in consultation between both centres (WP 2007-7).

C6

The NRDC recommends to WPEC-SG30:a) to keep the NRDC informed about its activity and data formats
developmentb) to provide full documentation of used computational formatsc) to provide internal files (dictionaries) to NRDC
Common EXFOR/CINDA dictionaries

C7

NDS will distribute an extended form of the quantity dictionary 236 which
will introduce all occurrences of SF7 (particle considered) codes which were
replaced by wildcards, for use in various application programs. Thisdictionary will be distributed together with the EXFOR backup (Also Action
A21).
CINDA

C8

Dunaeva will on a trial basis produce EXFOR dummy entries from herscanned references (as described in WP 2007-17) which can be used for
CINDA input (Action A24).

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EXFOR, technical
C9

The proposal of WP 2007-8 (Move of alteration flags to col.11 in ENTRY
and SUBENT records) is accepted. From the new year (2008), the newformat must be used. The flags to be used are:Blank = new
C = changed
I = inserted (SUBENT only)
Deletion of subentry is done by NOSUBENT with blank col. 11.
Alter flags in col. 80 will no longer be used

C10

The definition of modifier BRA (bremsstrahlung spectrum average) as given
in WP 2007-11 (CP-E/117) is correct (no change in the definition); data
headings EN-MAX or EN-MIN, EN-MAX are used with it.
Modifier BRS is used for “good resolution” spectra (<500 keV); data heading
EN is used with EN-RSL.

C11

The meeting adopted Option 1 of WP 2007-2: In dictionary 24, the flag for“one of multiple variables” is removed, so that the appropriate flags forminimum, maximum, errors and resolution of such variables can be inserted.

C12

The proposal for a revised coding of certain Phys. Rev. B references isapproved; consequently, it is decided that page numbers can now bealphanumeric. Example:
J,PR,B136,1632,196412 must be changed to
J,PR,133,B1632,196412
See WP 2007-13 for complete list of necessary changes (Action A36).
This concerns only publications before 1970. From 1970, the new subseriesof Phys. Rev. are coded with journal codes PR/A, PR/B etc.

C13

It is agreed that for institutes not likely to produce several experimental
works, it is preferable not to introduce a new institute code but to use thecountry code (e.g. 3INDIND) with free text explanation, in order to avoid theintroduction of too many unimportant codes.

C14

Compilers should remember that for Analyzing Power and other polarization
quantities always the heading DATA should be used (never DATA-CM),
together with the appropriate angle heading ANG or ANG-CM(WP 2007-14).

C15

The proposal of WP 2007-19 on coding of multiplicity of prompt capture
gammas is agreed:
Reaction coding: …..(N,G)…,MLT/DE with new units PT/RCT/MEV(See also Action A28)

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EXFOR software
C16

Compilers started to use the EXFOR editor for compilation and found to bevery useful; it needs further updating according to compilers’ remarks.

Actions
GeneralA1

All(Standing Action) All recognized policy papers forconsideration by the NRDC members need to be preparedand distributed four weeks before the annual NRDC
meeting. This will ensure adequate thought and discussion
prior to the meeting.

A2

All

Keep CP memo distribution up-to-date.

A3

All

In e-mails with attached CP memos, put the subject in the
body of the e-mail so that recipients can decide whether itis relevant for them.

A4

All

Only one memo should be sent per e-mail

A5

All

(continuing) Review the Citation Guidelines (2004 version
from NRDC internal webpage) and send updates to NDS.

EXFOR, General
A6

All(Standing Action) All Centres should give high priority tocompiling new compilations.

A7

NDS

(continuing) Continue to try developing sensible means ofdata communication between laboratories and the network
via the major journals.

A8

All

(Standing Action) Follow the procedures agreed earlier forjournal coverage and compilation of new publications, assummarized in WP 2006-13 (see page 26).

A9

NDS

Develop a draft for a public version of the “current
compilation” webpage.

A10

All

Give priority to compile papers from the 2007NICE
conference (from the available papers; no need to wait forproceedings)
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A11

Dunaeva

Check list of needed compilations for CRP on“Recommended data for production of therapeutic
radionuclides” (WP 2007-20) and inform responsible
centers.

A12

All

With high priority compile these works from WP2007-20.

A13

ZerkinCheck on next visit to NNDC possibility of downloading
old Nucl.Phys. articles relevant for EXFOR, for addition to
the NDS archive

A14

ZerkinInvestigate ways to include DOI in EXFOR

A15

ZerkinInvestigate possibility to exchange additional “Reference”
files containing references, DOI, NSR key and send toothers for comments.

A16

NDS

(continuing) Review the EXFOR Basics Manual andsubmit revision when time permits. Also include(optionally) the “C4” computational format (taking into
account further developments together with WPEC SG30).

A17

NDS

Update LEXFOR and EXFOR Systems Manual

A18

All

Make efforts to change all remaining upper case entries tolower and upper case. On retransmission, the old entries
must be checked and any other necessary corrections must
be done. Even though this will absorb some fraction of the
manpower, this exercise is very worthwhile since it will
improve the quality and user-friendliness of the database asa whole. Care must be taken with automatic conversions
because (in at least one case) serious mistakes even in the
DATA table were introduced.

A19

ZerkinContinue development of EXFOR+ (interpreted/extended
EXFOR format)

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Common EXFOR/CINDA dictionaries
A20

All

Send feedback on the Dictionary Manual to NDS

A21ZerkinWrite program to produce extended dictionary 236 (seeConclusion C7) and distribute the new dictionary to centres
as part of EXFOR backup.

CINDA
A22

Henriksson(continuing) Search for illegal experimental entries for
MANY and replace them with individual entries.

A23

Henriksson(continuing) Distribute final version of CINDA manual
including latest corrections.

A24

Dunaeva

On a weekly basis, collect in a new directory “CINDADummy” (in the NDS open area) entries in the “dummy
EXFOR” format (described in WP 2007-17) of all relevant
scanned publications.

EXFOR, technical
A25

Otsuka(continuing) Submit summary on tensor polarization data
as a memo to remove inconsistencies in dictionary
expansions.

A26

NDS

(continuing) Clarify quantities KE (Kinetic energy) andAKE (Average kinetic energy) in LEXFOR.

A27

All

(continuing) Check KE and AKE EXFOR entries compiledin their area and correct if necessary.

A28

Otsuka

Review the various types of gamma spectra in EXFOR andthe related quantities and units.

A29

Otsuka

Review the quantities and units dimension for data
differential with respect to 4-momentum transfer andsubmit a LEXFOR entry on it.

A30

All

(Standing Action) When coming across report codes in
dictionary 6 which differ significantly from what is shownon the cover, submit additional explanation to NDS for
inclusion in dictionary 6.

A31

ZerkinCorrect BibTeX output in the NDS system to take correct
authors list from NSR when available.

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A32

NDS

Update dictionary 24 according to Option 1 of WP 2007-2
and test impact on EXFOR programs, and report tonetwork about the results. (Conclusion C11).

A33

All

Run CHEX in TRANS mode (not DATA mode) whenchecking new entries or TRANS files, to make sure that allimportant errors are found.

A34

All

Check WP 2007-18 for remaining corrections to betransmitted. Centres should report on fulfilled Action by
the end of 2007.

A35

Dunaeva(continuing) Distribute list of duplications for action.

A36

All

Make remaining reference corrections from WP 2007-13(change of coding for PR/B). (Conclusion C12)

A37

NEA-DB

Check old entries 61151, 61227, 67252 (were they
converted to area 2 entries?).

A38

All

Go through WP 2007-15 and 18 and retransmit therequested corrections asap, or check and request any
necessary dictionary updates.

A39

NDS

Make the correction on entry 1333 listed in WP 2007-16.

EXFOR software
A40

All centres

Keep each other informed about EXFOR-related software
being used and/or developed. NDS may add thisinformation to the NRDC internal web page.

A41

All

(Standing Action) Give feedback on the digitizing software
GSYS to JCPRG.

A42

All

(Standing Action) Give feedback to NDS on the existing
CHEX version (on bugs as well as desired refinements).

A43

NDS

Check possibility of organising a workshop on the EXFOR
editor and digitizing programs.

A44

Sarov, NDS

Continue development and testing the EXFOR editor incooperation with NDS and other data centres, taking into
account compilers’ remarks.

A45

Sarov

Find ways of free distribution of the EXFOR editor.

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(Reproduced from WP 2006-13, Rev. 2)

Review of Compilation Scope and Responsibilities

Review of Compilation Scope(as updated at the 2006 NRDC Meeting and finalized on 30 November 2006)
General categories
Category

Data typeA - Compulsory
compilation

All experimental data for incident projectile energy ≤ 1 GeV
and projectiles with A ≤ 12, unless listed in Cat. B;
and data measured in inverse kinematics, which fulfill thesecriteria when target and projectile are exchanged.

B - Voluntary compilation

C - Separate transmission

For photonuclear data compilation is highly recommended.
Completeness should be achieved in particular for photoneutron
and photofission data.

Neutron- or charged-particle data with Ein > 1 GeV;
Heavy ion data for projectiles with A > 12;
Vector and tensor polarization data;
Kerma factors (integral data only)
Other data types, as specified in the table below

Separate Transmission Series
CIC *)

CentreData types

J

JCPRG

V (extinct)

NDS

Charged-particle nuclear data for projectiles with nonpositive
baryon number from all parts of the world.

Evaluated neutron data*) Centre Identification Character

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Review of Compilation Responsibilities(as updated at the 2006 NRDC Meeting)Centre
NNDC

Basic responsibility
Neutron data and CPND from USA and
Canada

NEA-DB

Neutron data from NEA countries

CJD

Neutron data from former Soviet
Union (except Ukraine)

NDS

CAJAD
CDFE

CNDC
JCPRG
ATOMKIUkrNDC
RFNC
Indiancompilation
activity *Neutron data and CPND from “rest of theworld” (areas not covered otherwise)

CPND from former Soviet Union (except
Ukraine)Photonuclear data

Neutron data and CPND from China(entries submitted through NDS)

CPND and photonuclear data from Japan
CPND from ATOMKI and data measured incooperation with Juelich or with Free Univ.
Brussels (entries submitted through NDS)

Neutron data and CPND from Ukraine(entries submitted through NDS)

CPND on light nuclei, coordinated withother centers

Additional compilation
Photonuclear data (coordinatedby CDFE)

CPND (coordinated by NDS)

CPND from “rest of the world”(coordinated by NDS)

CPND for projectiles with
nonpositive baryon number
from all parts of the world.

Photonuclear data (coordinatedby CDFE)

Neutron data and CPND from India,
coordinated and assisted by NDS

Special case: Two or more institutions from different service areas:
If two institutions from different service areas are involved, the primary institution defines the
responsible centre. See LEXFOR, Institutes for definition of primary institution.
LEXFOR / Institutes /Compilation Responsibility
If two or more institutions of different service areas are involved, the following rules shalldetermine the centre responsible.

1. The institute containing the facility used, if at least one of the authors belongs to thatfacility, should determine the center responsible.
2. If an itinerant group uses the facility of another institution, the institute of the primary
investigator of the itinerant group shall determine the centre responsible.

*

coordinated by Dr. S. Ganesan, BARC., Mumbai, India

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3. In an ambiguous case, the institution from which one is most likely to obtain further
information on the experiment should be used to determine the centre responsible.
If a publication reports the results of different experiments undertaken at different laboratories
or measured at one laboratory and subsequently analyzed at another laboratory, and either thelaboratories are in different areas, or the incident-projectile is of a different type (i.e., neutron,
charged particle, or photon), the results are compiled in separate entries by the centre
responsible for the data. The entries may be linked using the STATUS code COREL; see
Status (Interdependent Data).
2004 NRDC Meeting, Conclusion C17:
If several institutes and several experimental facilities are involved in an experiment, the firstauthor of the paper will determine the Centre responsible for the EXFOR compilation.
Consolidated Summary:
If several institutes of different service areas are involved, the following rules determine thecompilation responsibility:
1) The institute of the facility used, if at least one author is from this institute. If an itinerantgroup used the facility, the main investigator of this group determines the centre
responsible.
2) If facilities of different laboratories from different service areas are used, the institution
from which it is most likely to obtain further information on the experiment should
determine the centre responsible. This will normally be the corresponding author, or, if
there is some doubt, the first author of the publication. In all such cases the other affected
centre and NDS must be contacted before compilation to avoid duplication.
3) If separate experiments from different service areas with clearly separated results arereported in the same paper, the results should be compiled as separate entries. This
separation is obligatory for different projectile types (neutron, charged particle, photon).
In all such cases cross references to the other entry must be given.

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Coverage of conferences (added at 2006 NRDC meeting)To speed up the coverage of conference proceedings, the following steps are taken:• If the proceedings were published in a scanned journal, they will be scanned by NDS;
• If the proceedings are published in a separate book, the responsibility for scanning will be
as follows:♦ if a staff member of one of the NRDC Centres is among the participants, this Centre
will send to NDS a list of references relevant to EXFOR within two months after the
conference;♦ if no data centre participates in the conference, NDS takes the responsibility to checkonce per month the AIP website and NDS can ask any Centre to scan theseproceedings.
Coverage of major journals

Coverage of major journals by data centre (as updated November 2006):
PR/C
NNDC
PRL
NNDC
NSE
NNDC
ARI
NDS
NP/A
NDS
CNP
NDS
NIM/A and B NDS
PL/B
NDS
YF
CAJAD
EPJ
CAJAD
IZV
CNPD
YK
CJD
ANE
NEA
RCA
NEA
AEJ
JCPRG
NST
JCPRG
NSTS
JCPRG
AHP
ATOMKIJRNATOMKIJRN/L
ATOMKI
Each responsible Centre will rapidly assess the contents of an issue of the above journals, andcommunicate rapidly with relevant compilation centres and NDS to point out their need tocompile as soon as possible. Each responsible Centre will check this list on the Compilation
Status website.
These lists of references must be written in a way that makes it clear which Centre is
responsible for compilation. Therefore, we propose the following form for the Coveragecontrol system:
1.

Journal name, volume, issue, page, year, laboratory. Or it can be NSR code andlaboratory, data type (neutron / charged particle / Photonuclear), CINDA code fromdictionary 45 and representation of the data (table or graphic).

2.

NDS should receive these lists within one month after issue of publication.
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Coverage of Chinese journals by CNDC (added at 2006 NRDC meeting)

CNDC agreed to cover the following Chinese journals on a regular basis, and to compile all
relevant papers in EXFOR:
Dictionary 5
code

Journal title

Language

CST

Atomic Energy Science and Technology

ChinesePHE

High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics

ChineseNPR (to be
added)
HFH

Nuclear Physics Review

Chinese

Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemistry

ChineseChinese Physics Letters

EnglishNTC

Nuclear Techniques

CNDP

Communication of Nuclear Data Progress

EnglishActa Physica Sinica

EnglishCPL

CNST

Nuclear Science and Techniques

CPH

Chinese Physics

ASI

ChineseEnglishEnglish30

Speeding up compilation of new publications

1.

Neutron data: responsibility for compilation in areas 1, 2, 3, 4 should be clear(remember that neutron data from Japan belong to area 2). Nevertheless, theresponsible centres should inform NDS about their compilation plans.

2.

CPND: reference has to be booked for compilation by the responsible Centre
within one month after publication (or after the centre was informed by anothercentre covering the particular journal). Usually, NDS sends the list of
publications that are relevant for compilation within two weeks after
publication.

3.

To avoid duplications, it is preferable to send the plan of compilations to NDS
in the form: reference, EXFOR number, laboratory where experiment was done.

4.

The references relevant to EXFOR have to be included in EXFOR within six
months after publication. If there is no possibility to receive data from theauthor (no reply to e-mail), the compiler can digitize curves and point out under
STATUS that there was no response from the author.

5.

After this period, NDS will take the responsibility for compilation of such
papers (or assign to another centre). Any nuclear data centre is free to send theirown compilation proposals about the list of delayed articles after six months.
This list is available from the EXFOR compilation control webpage (see column“Any”).

6.

Photonuclear data are coordinated by CDFE. At present, apart from CDFE, only
NNDC, NDS and JCPRG have photonuclear data series (L, G, and K,
respectively). All correspondence about compilation of photonuclear data
should go to CDFE with copies to NDS.

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PROGRESS REPORTS

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P1

PROGRESS REPORT FROM THE
OECD/NEA DATA BANKAt the NRDC meeting at IAEA, Vienna, Austria
8-10 October2007

NEA Web page: www.nea.fr
Contact: db@nea.fr
General overview
The Data Bank’s primary role is to provide scientists in member countries withreliable differential and integral nuclear data and computer programs for use indifferent nuclear applications. The services include also thermochemical data forradioactive waste management applications. The Data Bank organises seminars andworkshops to present computer programs or groups of programs that are of special
interest to users. Training courses on widely used computer programs are organised a
few times a year to ensure a correct and effective use of these programs. The Data
Bank member countries are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico,
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, and United Kingdom. Users of the Data Bank services include governmental
research institutes, industry and universities.
The total number of full time staff in the NEA Data Bank is 15. This is divided into 8
professional staff and 7 support staff. However, only 5 professional and 6 support
staff work with the Data Bank services. The remaining staff is allocated to work inother activities in the NEA.
The annual meeting of the Data Bank management committee (the NEA Nuclear
Science Committee Executive Group) was held in June 2007. The main discussion
concerned future directions of the NEA Data Bank and general views on how tomaintain high quality services to member countries. A secretary for the head of theData Bank, Roopa Chauhan, has been appointed, while Federico Mompean has left
the TDB project and the NEA.
The compilation of experimental data into the EXFOR database has progressed asplanned with 58 new neutron induced data sets and 67 new charged-particle induced
data sets entered since the last NRDC meeting. The CINDA database, containing
bibliographic information, has been updated and was published in 7 volumes (in total
5400 pages) as an archival book in September 2007. It was distributed worldwide toabout 250 libraries, research facilities and nuclear data centres.
The JANIS nuclear data display software has been upgraded and a beta version was
released in April 2007. The official version of JANIS-3 was released in June 2007
after further checking of the software. It is now a much appreciated tool for nuclear
data users, with over 25 000 accesses per month to the NEA databases containing
nuclear data.
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The high priority request list for nuclear data, within the Working Party on
international nuclear data Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC), has been updated andcontains now 5 high priority requests and 6 general requests. The requests are divided
into ‘general’ and ‘high priority’, and the rules for ‘general’ requests to be acceptedhave been relaxed so as to admit more of this type. A new WPEC subgroup (number
30 in the series) was formed to deal with the “Quality assessment and improvement ofusability of the experimental database EXFOR” in collaboration with the NRDC.
A validation report of JEFF-3.1, JEFF Report 22, is being prepared and the structureof the report has been decided. The plan for the next nuclear data library, JEFF-3.2,
was outlined, with new evaluations being prepared on 235,238U, 239Pu, Cr, Mn, Ta andW, as well as a new activation data library. The new library is planned to include
more covariance data as well as photonuclear data. A revision of the decay datalibrary, JEFF-3.1.1, was also agreed for release in autumn 2007.
The current phase of the Thermochemical Database (TDB) project has been prolonged
until 31 January 2008, and a fourth phase, TDB IV, will start on February 1, 2008.
Ten volumes have so far been published in the series of reviews and the work inpresent phase of the TDB project is concentrating on finalising the three reviews on
Thorium, Tin and Iron. The first of these reviews is planned for publication in 2007,
the latter two in 2008.
The collaboration with the US-DOE on computer code exchange was recently restarted
with 20 codes received and 62 codes distributed. Several training courses have been
carried out and recently, courses on MCNPX and SCALE-5 (TRITON) were organised
at the NEA.
Nuclear Data Services
The nuclear data services are mainly provided through direct on-line access to the
CINDA, EXFOR and EVA databases containing bibliographic, experimental andevaluated nuclear data respectively. Access to all the databases is open and free ofcharge. See Table 1 for the numbers of retrievals of some services from the web pages
during 2006. Figure 1 shows what kind of reaction data users are requesting. Data in
the figure is based on the use of the display tool JANIS.
In addition to these on-line services, the Data Bank also answers specific requests
from customers. Normally, this concerns requests for very large datasets, which are
too large for direct Internet download. The very large datasets are normally distributedon CD-ROM or DVD. Providing advice to nuclear data users is another important partof the nuclear data services.

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Table 1. Web retrievals 2006 from the NEA Data Bank.Number of accesses (Note,
JEFF documents are password protected)

Web page

2006

EVA searches

8 017

EVA downloads

56 150JEFF documents*

30 242EXFOR downloads

18 698EXFOR searches

11 563JANIS

361 770

Other web pages at the DataBank

139 471

CINDA

1 388

EXFOR and CINDA compilation
More than 100 new neutron reaction experiments and about 160 charged particle
experiments have been entered by the Data Bank into the EXFOR database since thebeginning of 2006 (see Table 2). The database is updated continuously and the delay
between article publication and inclusion in EXFOR has been reduced.
Table 2 EXFOR compilations from the NEA (area 2 and O) during 2006 and JanAug 2007

AREA 2
2006

2007

Trans
2174
2175
2176
2177
2178
2179
2180
2181
2182
2183
2184
2185
Total

AREA O2006

No of works
17
18
11
10
6
6
11
11
12
3
6
3
114

2007

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Trans
o024
o025
o026
o027
o028
o029
o030

No of works
9
17
69
13
19
15
20

Total

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Fig 1. Requested data categories in JANIS. Cross section data is for example total crosssections and ENDF, MF=3 data, differential data is angular or energy distributions, andnuclear properties are data from Nubase.

The CINDA database has been subject to a major extension due to the new format, including
the insertion of charged particle references from the EXFOR database. The new CINDA
database has been tested and adopted at the NEA.
The CINDA database is available on DVD as part of the JANIS package, and also on-line
through the Web. Due to a certain demand and the extension of CINDA to include charged
particle data, the NEA has decided to produce an archive version of the CINDA Book, lastissued in 1990. The new CINDA 2006 archive version was printed in September 2007.
The data display tool JANISThe nuclear data display software, JANIS (JAva Nuclear Information System), developed at
the NEA Data Bank, has been available for all interested users free of charge since its firstrelease in 2001. JANIS accesses locally stored, as well as remote, ENDF formatted evaluateddata and experimental data from the EXFOR database. A new version of JANIS (JANIS-3.0)
was released in June 2007. That version incorporates the full CINDA database as well as thecomplete EXFOR database read in the original EXFOR format. Many features related to theplotting of data have also been added and ameliorated since the previous version, such as thepossibility to use dotted lines or different line thickness in the graphs. The plots and nuclide
charts can easily be exported as image files (or Windows Meta-files).
The program is free of charge and can be downloaded or launched using ‘JAVA Web Start’
from the JANIS home page: http://www.nea.fr/janis, where the complete manual can be foundas well. Over 25 000 JANIS requests per month for data from the NEA databases areregistered in the log files. One such request can cover one EXFOR subentry, or a full evaluatedlibrary. See Fig. 2 for the evolution of JANIS retrievals over time since January 2004.

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60 000

Database Requests / month

50 00040 000JANIS 3JANIS 3βJANIS 2.2.2
JANIS 2.2.1
JANIS 2.2
JANIS 2.1
JANIS 2.0

30 000

20 000

10 0000
Jan-04

Jul-04Jan-05Jul-05Jan-06

Jul-06

Jan-07

Jul-07

Date

Figure 2 JANIS statistics, January 2004 – April 2007, with the different versions indicated aswell. From version 2.2.1 JANIS includes the Web retrieval plotting facility. JANIS-3β was atest version released for the nuclear data conference ND-2007 in Nice, France in April 2007.

The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) Project and JEFF-3.1
The JEFF-3.1 Nuclear Data Library is the latest version of the Joint Evaluated Fission and
Fusion Library. The complete suite of data was released in May 2005, and contains general
purpose nuclear data evaluations compiled at the NEA Data Bank in co-operation with several
laboratories in the Data Bank member countries. Processed data for Monte Carlo code
applications was made available in spring 2006, and the full documentation of JEFF-3.1, JEFF
Report 21, was published in November 2006.
The NEA High Priority Request List (HPRL)The NEA Data Bank is assisting the Nuclear Science section Working Party on international
nuclear data Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC) to manage the High Priority Request List
(HPRL), which is a compilation of the highest priority nuclear data requirements, primarily for
application in the nuclear industry. The purpose of the list is to provide a guide for thoseplanning measurements, exploring nuclear theory, and requesting high precision evaluated data
for the projects. The HPRL is a place where data users meet data producers. Five high priority
requests have been accepted after peer review by the HPRL reviewing procedure, and six
general requests were also accepted. All requests need to be tied to a certain project. The list is
maintained by the NEA Data Bank and is presented at: http://www.nea.fr/html/dbdata/hprl/
Computer Program Services
A large set of computer programs shared by member countries has been acquired, It covers awide scope from basic nuclear cross section calculations to full nuclear power plant analysis.
Every year about 60 new or revised versions of computer codes are added. The computer
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program services distributes more than 2000 documented software packages and group crosssection data sets per year. The activity includes collection of programs, compilation andverification, using quality assurance methods, in an appropriate computer environment, and theverification that the computer program package is complete and adequately documented (seewww.nea.fr/html/dbprog).
Data from Integral Experiments
Under the guidance of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Data Bank preserves
data from integral experiments to assist users in having well documented information available
for benchmark testing, especially in the context of the development of future nuclear energy
systems. Integral experimental data with benchmark quality have been compiled, reviewed andpublished. The most relevant ones for nuclear data are:- International Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments (ICSBEP)- Radiation Shielding and Dosimetry Benchmark Experiments (SINBAD)- International Reactor Physics Experiments Evaluations (IRPhE).
A large number of these evaluated experiments were distributed in recent years in support ofnuclear data and computer code validation.
NEA Data Bank workshops, training courses & tutorials 2006-2007
The NEA Data Bank organises and participates in seminars and workshops to present
information on computer programs or groups of programs that are considered to be of special
interest to users. Training courses on widely used computer programs are organised a few
times a year to ensure a correct and effective use of them. Training courses are organised in thecontext of the Data Bank knowledge transfer and preservation effort. Each course is attended
by between 15 and 30 participants and is financially self-supporting through the fees paid by
them. The classes are taught by the authors of the computer codes. Participants gain hands onexperience and acquire competence in the use of the codes for problem solving. Such classes
can be at three different levels: introductory, intermediate and advanced. The training courses
and workshops held recently are listed below.
September 2006, PHYSOR-2006-Topical Meeting on Advances in Nuclear Analysis andSimulation, Hyatt Regency Vancouver
September 2006, Workshop on Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Design and Analysis of
Radiation Detectors, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
September 2006, 9th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission ProductPartitioning and Transmutation (co-organised NSC/NDC), Nîmes, France

October 2006, Training Course on MCNP5 Coupled Neutron, Electron Gamma 3-D TimeDependent Monte Carlo Transport Calculations, ITN Sacavém, Lisbon, Portugal

November 2006, Journées "codes de calcul en radioprotection, radiophysique et dosimétrie",
INSTN, Saclay, France
November 2006, NJOY users group meeting, NEA Headquarters, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

November 2006, Training Course on Monte Carlo Simulation, Universidad Internacional deAndalucía, Baeza (Jaén), Spain40

March 2007, MCNP5 Introductory Class, with additional topics in advanced geometry &criticality, University of Pisa, Italy,

September 2007, MCNPX Intermediate Class, OECD NEA Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux,FranceSeptember 2007, SCALE / TRITON - Multidimensional Transport and Depletion Course,OECD NEA Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Data Bank Publications
Some of the publications produced by the Data Bank relate to the Nuclear Science Programme,
and are presented in the progress report for that committee. Only those related to the Data
Bank programme of work are listed below. Periodic news bulletins are also sent monthly by email, or can be retrieved via the Web.
Recent publications from the NEA Data Bank:• JEFF-3.1 Nuclear Data Library (The) :JEFF Report 21• International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments (IRPhE)• Radiation Shielding and Dosimetry Database (SINBAD) (CD-ROM)• International Fuel Performance Database (IFPE) (CD-ROM)• New Editions of Computer Program Abstracts (CD-ROM))• International Evaluation Co-operation:- Vol. 7: Nuclear Data Standards- Vol. 20: Covariance Matrix Evaluation and Processing in the Resolved/Unresolved
Resonance Regions- Vol. 22: Nuclear Data for Improved LEU-LWR Reactivity Predictions• Chemical Thermodynamics of Solid Solutions of Interest in Nuclear Waste Management Volume 10 A State-of-the-art Report (2007)
Data Bank cooperation with other NEA divisions

Nuclear Science
The collaboration between the NEA Nuclear Science section and Data Bank is mainly in theareas of:• Reactor and fuel cycle physics, including reactor stability and transient calculations,
utilisation of MOX fuel and reactor-based disposition disposal of weapon-grade Pu,
nuclear criticality safety, nuclear waste transmutation studies and radiation shielding.
• Fuel cycle chemistry covering chemical partitioning, fuel cycle flowsheet studies andseparation criteria
The Data Bank has also developed a database, called DICE, for the International Handbook of
Evaluated Criticality Safety Experiments. The most recent version of DICE was released in
September 2007.
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RTFDB: Research and Test Facilities Data BaseThis project is in support of the NEA Nuclear Science Section and development by a Japanesesoftware engineering company is essentially completed. The content of the database describes
the various R&D projects in member countries. Additional authentication according to enduser category is being implemented.
Radioactive Waste Management
The Thermochemical Database (TDB) project is a co-operative effort between the NEA Data
Bank and the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee to produce internationally
recommended chemical thermodynamic data needed for the safety assessment of radioactive
waste disposal systems. The Project is currently supported by 17 organisations from 12 OECDmember countries. The TDB project focuses on the need to meet the specialised modelling
requirements for safety assessments of radioactive waste disposal sites. Chemical
thermodynamic data are collected and critically evaluated by review teams of experts. In 2006,
work continued on the reviews of thorium, tin and iron. The thorium report is under peer
review and is scheduled for publication in 2007. The tin and iron reports are scheduled for peer
review during 2007. A state-of-the-art report on chemical thermodynamics of solid solutions
was recently published.
During the meeting held on 26-27 October 2006 at OECD Headquarters in Paris, France, the
TDB III Management Board approved a one-year extension (from 1 February 2007 to 31
January 2008) of the current agreement and for planning to begin during 2007 for a new phaseof the TDB project and organised an ad-hoc group to study possible follow-up activities. A
new agreement for a new phase of the TDB project (TDB-IV) has now been prepared by the
NEA Secretariat, incorporating the conclusions of the ad-hoc group, and, following discussion
with potential participants in member countries, was presented and endorsed by the NSC
Executive Group, prior to the endorsement by the NEA Steering Committee in Autumn 2007.
On 16 March 2007, the RWMC endorsed the proposed programme of work for TDB IV. The
tentative start date for the new phase of the project is 1 February 2008.
Radiation Protection
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is a database managed at the NEA
jointly with the IAEA. ISOE provides the world’s largest database on occupational exposure at
478 commercial reactor units in 29 countries, covering some 91% of the world’s operating
commercial power reactors. Occupational exposure data collected annually from participants ismade available to ISOE members through the database. In addition to the detailed data
provided directly by participating utilities, participating authorities also contribute official
national data in cases where some of their licensees may not yet be ISOE members. The NEA
Data Bank is developing a new Internet-based system for ISOE.
Nuclear Safety
The Data Bank is safeguarding information from a number of projects within the NEA Nuclear
Safety division, such as the OECD Piping Failure Data Exchange (OPDE) Project. The goal ofthis project is to collect and analyse piping failure event data to promote a better understandingof underlying causes, the impact on operations and safety, as well as to generate qualitative
insights into the root causes of piping failure events. The OPDE project also aims at42

establishing a mechanism for efficient feedback of experience gained in connection withpiping failure phenomena, including the development of defence against their occurrence.
Changes to the NEA computer system
Upgrade to Oracle version 10g is completed. The new installation was done with Unicode
settings, allowing storage of multinational character sets required by the ISOE project. The
general structure was kept: one primary instance serving clients and one instance in standby for
failover; but the failover configuration is now provided by Oracle Dataguard. The new
installation takes also advantage of Oracle Enterprise Manager for monitoring, controlling
database instances and Dataguard operations.
Upgrades were carried out on the dual internet server system. This included both a hardware
replacement of the Dell units and the migration to the open source CENTOS which is the
publicly available version of the equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
The equipment used to backup the user and system files was replaced in February 2007. The
new system is composed of a cassette based backup robot for the monthly full backups and adisk based system for the daily incremental backups. Both are managed by the same software(EMC Networker) and Linux server as before.
The main Network Attached Storage (NetApp NAS) was replaced in May 2007 andconsolidation of the user and application files were subsequently consolidated on this single
file store. It is operated with a second identical system for the NEA’s office automation fileservices and they both mutually act as failover backups for one another. The current size of thestorage is 1.3 TB. A further increase in storage was done in June 2007 in order toaccommodate the present and future computer programme master file storage requirements.
The Data Bank as well as the rest of the NEA uses an open source software called‘Soupermail’ which helps set up web forms for a variety of applications. It is used forsubmitting papers to conferences, soliciting feedback, ordering products (such as JANIS),
etc… Because of the lack of robustness of this tool and the need to integrate the application
into the Data Bank’s other administrative databases, a replacement for the current software is
being developed. The new tool will enable NEA users to make up their own customized forms
and collect information as needed from external users for all the situations envisaged.

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Progress Report of Nuclear Data Groupat Atomki, Debrecen,
Hungary

S. Takács, F. Tárkányi, B. Király(2007)I.

Data evaluation work

1.

Charged-particle cross section database for medical radioisotope production
Diagnostic radioisotopes and monitor reactions

A Co-ordinated Research Project (CRP) on “Charged Particle cross-section database for
medical radioisotope production: diagnostic radioisotopes and monitor reactions” wascompleted successfully in 2001. The result was summarized in the final report of the CRP andpublished in IAEA-TECDOC-1211 and on web address http://www-nds.iaea.or.at/medical/.
The database includes recommended cross-section data and the corresponding yields
calculated from the recommended cross sections.
This year update and upgrade of the 22 charged particle induced reactions can be used formonitoring were completed (Chapter 4).
The list of reactions:
Al(p,x)22Na
Al(p,x)24Na
nat
Ti(p,x)48V
nat
Ni(p,x)57Ni
nat
Cu(p,x)56Co
nat
Cu(p,x)62Zn
nat
Cu(p,x)63Zn
nat
Cu(p,x)65Zn

Al(d,x)22Na
Al(d,x)24Na
nat
Ti(d,x)48V
nat
Fe(d,x)56Co
nat
Ni(d,x)61Cu

Al(3He,x)22Na
Al(3He,x)24Na
nat
Ti(3He,x)48V

Al(a,x)22Na
Al(a,x)24Na
nat
Ti(a,x)51Cr
nat
Cu(a,x)66Ga
nat
Cu(a,x)67Ga
nat
Cu(a,x)65Zn

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27

27

27

27

27

27

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Experimental microscopic cross section data published earlier and not yet included in theprevious evaluation work or new data measured recently were collected and added to theprimary database in order to improve the quality of the recommended data. The newly
compiled experimental data influenced the decision made earlier and resulted in new selectedcross-section data sets. A spline fitting method was applied to the selected data sets andupdated recommended data were produced in those cases. Thick target yield was calculated foreach of the investigated reactions, which was not given in the first version of the database.
A validation test of the upgraded recommended cross section database was also performed bycollecting experimental integral thick target yields reported in literature and/or measuring new
data for critical comparison with yields deduced from the new recommended cross sections.
The upgraded data, figures and tables were sent to NDS to update the web version(http://www-nds.iaea.org/medical/) of the database regarding the monitor reactions part.

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2.

Nuclear Data for Production of Therapeutic Radionuclides

The Atomki group also participate in a CRP which was started in 2003 with the aim of
improving the accuracy and completeness of the data needed for the optimum production oftherapeutic radioisotopes, to undertake new measurements, to compile and evaluate all
experimental data available on this area, to determine optimum conditions for the productionof the selected radioisotopes and to produce accurate cross sections and comprehensive decay
schemes for the investigated radionuclides.
II.

EXFOR compilation

We continued the compilation work of charged particle induced nuclear reactions in EXFOR
format. During the last period 18 new entries were produced with 97 subentries containing
data. Data were compiled measured in Debrecen Hungary, in Brussels Belgium, in JuelichGermany and partly in Sendai Japan.
III.

Experimental work

We continued to measure experimental cross sections of light charged particles (proton,
deuteron, 3He and alpha) induced reactions on various targets Ti, Ni, Pd, Nb Er, Tm. Data areassessed or under process. Results were reported in scientific journals or relevant conferences.
See list of publications.
IV.

List of publications in 2007

Takács S., Tárkányi F., Király B., Hermanne A., Sonck M., Evaluated activation crosssections of longer-lived radionuclides produced by deuteron induced reactions on natural
nickel, NIMB 260 (2007) 495.
Takács S., Király B., Tárkányi F., Hermanne A., Evaluated activation cross sections of longerlived radionuclides produced by deuteron induced reactions on natural titanium, NIMB 262(2007) 7.
Tárkányi F., Hermanne A., Takács S., Ditrói F., Spahn I., Kovalev S.F., Ignatyuk A., Qaim
S.M., Activation cross sections of the 169Tm(d,2n) reaction for production of the therapeutic
radionuclide 169Yb, ARI 65 (2007) 663.
Tárkányi F., Hermanne A., Takács S., Ditrói F., Király B., Kovalev S.F., Ignatyuk A.,
Investigation of new routes for production of the therapeutic radionuclides 169Yb and 165Er,
Journal of Labeled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals, Supplement 50 (2007) 99.
Tárkányi F., Hermanne A., Takács S., Ditrói F., Király B., Baba M., Ohtsuki T., Kovalev S.F.,
Ignatyuk A., Study of activation cross sections of deuteron-induced reactions on erbium forapplications, Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals 50 (2007) 487.
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Tárkányi F., Hermanne A., Ditrói F., Takács S., Király B., Baba M. , Ohtsuki T., Kovalev S.F.,
Ignatyuk A., Production of longer lived radionuclides in deuteron induced reactions on
niobium, NIMB 255 (2007) 297.
Tárkányi F., Király B., Ditrói F., Takács S., Csikai Gy., Hermanne A., Uddin M.S., Hagiwara
M., Baba M., Ido T., Shubin Yu.N., Kovalev S.F., Activation cross sections on cadmium:
Deuteron induced nuclear reactions up to 40 MeV, NIMB259 (2007) 817.
Tárkányi F., Hermanne A., Király B., Takács S., Ditrói F., Baba M., Ohtsuki T., Kovalev S.F.,
Ignatyuk A., Study of activation cross-section of deuteron induced reactions on erbium:
Production of radioisotopes for practical applications, NIMB259 (2007) 829.
Ditrói F., Tárkányi F., Takács S., Mahunka I., Csikai Gy., Hermanne A., Uddin M.S.,
Hagiwara M., Baba M., Ido T., Shubin Yu.N., Dityuk A.I.: Measurement of activation crosssections of the proton induced nuclear reactions on palladium, Journal of Radioanalytical andNuclear Chemistry 272 (2007) 231.

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Center of Nuclear Physical Data (CNPD), RFNC-VNIIEF
Technical paper for the NRDC Meeting, October 8-10, 2007
IAEA, Austria, Vienna
S.M. Taova
Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF
Russia, 607188, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod region, Mira Ave., 37
Compilation activity
Within the period under report three transmission files TRANS (F026, F027, F028) wereprepared and included into the EXFOR data library (72 new and 14 corrected entries).
EXFOR - Editor software
There were continued the works on software development (EXFOR-Editor) for processing andintroduction of experimental data to the EXFOR library.
A major part of work has been already done. The package will include four separate
applications: EXFOR – Editor, EXFOR – Master, application for working with data tables Data – Editor and a program for data digitizing - InpGraph.
This year the work on creation of EXFOR – Master application designed for the beginners wasstarted. Exfor file is formed using the appropriate patterns containing information on the
keywords.
S. Taova and G. Pikulina, experts from CNPD visited Nuclear Data Section in May 2007 andreported on the development of EXFOR – Editor. During the visit the up-dated version of
EXFOR – Editor and application Data – Editor was presented.
The main changers refer to the work on data table editing. Some new functions of dataprocessing were added:-

data import from TEXT , WORD and EXCEL files is provided;user can paste data from the Clipboard into a table;
desired data presentation precision can be set when transferring data from a table to
EXFOR file;
insertion of a constant value into a data column can be carried out;
CHART and SORT modes are included to the Data – Editor;
user interface of some windows was improved.

The window of reaction input was essentially changed. Some new possibilities of reaction,
quantity and data-type search appeared.

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The window for input of keyword information has been modified.
The following buttons were added:- CLEAR button – delete text in the edit field.
- COMPRESS button – delete unwanted blanks and service characters from text.
Clicking the right mouse button creates pop-up menu with the edit functions. COPY, CUT,
PASTE and UNDO procedures are available.
The following functions were added:- automatic filling of the DICTIONARY field when entering a code;- repeated search of a code combination given in the DICTIONARY field.
Such possibilities are available to input information on the following keywords DETECTOR,METHOD, ANALYSIS, STATUS, ERR-ANALYS, INC-SOURCE, ADD-RES, AUTHOR,REFERNCE, TITLE, FACILITY and INSTITUTE.
When entering the new keywords, data tables, COMMON sections to the EXFOR file special
check is carried out to control the possibility of input.
The work on development of EXFOR – Editor is being continued. Next year a final version of
EXFOR – Master is planned to be prepared.

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MSU SINP CDFE Nuclear Data Processing Activity
in 2006 – 2007

I.N.Boboshin, V.V.Varlamov, S.Yu.Komarov, N.N.Peskov, M.E.Stepanov,
V.V.Chesnokov
Progress Report to
the IAEA Coordination Meeting of the International Networkof Nuclear Reaction Data Centres(8 – 10 October 2007, Vienna, Austria).

The folowing report contains the short review of the works carried out by the Lomonosov
Moscow State University Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics Centre for Photonuclear
Experiments Data (Centr Dannykh Fotoyadernykh Eksperimentov – CDFE) concern the IAEA
Nuclear Reaction Data Centres Network activities for the period of time from the TechnicalCo-ordination Meeting of the Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres (25 – 28 September
2006, IAEA NDS, Vienna, Austria) till the fall of 2007 and main results obtained.
EXFOR Compilations
Three new CDFE EXFOR TRANSes M041, M042 and M043 have been produced andtransmitted to the IAEA NDS. Many old data have been corrected in accordance withcomments of O.Schwerer, D.Rochman, N.Otsuka, and S.Dunaeva. On the whole the CDFE
TRANSes mentioned contain (Annex 1) 16 retransmitted and 28 new ENTRYs with 160 new
data SUBENTs.
In accordance with C5 Conclusion of the previous 2006 NRDC Meeting “In particular,
photoneutron and photofission data, as well as (γ,p) and (γ,α) cross sections, should becovered completely” 36 SUBENTs with such kind of data were prepared (Annex 2).

••

Upgrading of Databases
The main CDFE relational nuclear data databases
Nuclear Reaction Database (EXFOR) - http://cdfe.sinp.msu.ru/exfor/index.php;
Complete Nuclear Spectroscopy Database "Relational ENSDF" http://cdfe.sinp.msu.ru/services/ensdfr.html;•

Nuclear Physics Publications ("NSR" Database) http://cdfe.sinp.msu.ru/services/nsr/Search_form.shtml;•
Giant Dipole Resonance Parameters, Photonuclear Reaction Cross Sections- http://cdfe.sinp.msu.ru/services/gdrsearch.html;•
Photonuclear Data Index from 1955 - http://cdfe.sinp.msu.ru/services/pnisearch.html;•
Chart (relational database really) of Nuclear Quadrupole Deformations http://cdfe.sinp.msu.ru/services/defchart/defmain.html
have been upgraded significantly – needed corrections, many additions.

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Nuclear Structure Evaluations
The last one mentioned New Chart of Nuclear Quadrupole Deformations has been upgradedusing new source of related information (quadrupole moments Q and parameters of quadrupole
deformation β2 obtained by Dr. N.J.Stone /1/ and sent to the CDFE directly as numerical datafile).
Now the Chart contains about 2000 data sets for about 1500 nuclei.
New evaluated nuclear structure data on nuclear static and dynamic deformations have beenobtained using new Chart of Nuclear Quadrupole Deformations - the clear systematical
disagreements of those parameters obtained from nuclear quadrupole moments data (Q-type)and from reduced transition probability B(E2)↑ data (B-type).
The results obtained and version of their description were submitted as report to theInternational Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology at Nice, France (ND2007) /2/.
Many new non-traditional magic nuclei (14C, 14,16,24,28,40,48O, 26,28,30Si, 30,32S, 52,54Ca, 90,92,94,96Sr,
92,94,96,98Zr) have been found out. It was revealed that near to Fermi energy all new magic
nuclei mentioned have the same characteristic structure: there are two closed proton andneutron subshells with identical total moment j (phenomenon named “j = j”- connection) andin some special cases - closed subshell with j = ½ above one of them. Some additional neutronproton interaction like a n-p pairing was used for description of new magic nuclei features
investigated /3/.
Photonuclear Data Evaluations
As the result of the discussion of actinides nuclei photoneutron and photofission reaction crosssection evaluations at Nice Conference /4/ the detailed systematical analysis of the (γ,xn),(γ,sn), (γ,n), (γ,2n) and (γ,f) reaction cross section data obtained by using quasimonoenergetic
annihilation photon beams at Livermore (USA) and Saclay (France) was carried out for 4
actinides nuclei 232Th, 238U, 237Np, and 239Pu. For overcoming of significant disagreements
between the data the special method proposed before for taking into account both laboratories
neutron multiplicity sorting procedure features was applied to move the data into consistence.
For all 4 nuclei the jointly corrected reaction cross sections were evaluated /5/.
Now data are in preparation for EXFOR (M044).
Short-term (2007 – 2008) Program
The main items of CDFE future short-term program, main riorities and several most important
new tasks in fields both photonuclear reaction and nuclear structure data are listed in the
Annex 3.
References
1.
N.J. Stone, Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, 90 (2005) 75.
2.
I. Boboshin, B. Ishkhanov, S. Komarov, V. Orlin, N. Peskov, V. Varlamov, Investigationof Quadrupole Deformation of Nucleus and Its Surface Dynamic Vibrations,International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, 22-27 April
2007, Nice, France, Book of Summaries, p. 39 (#103).
3.
I.N. Boboshin, B.S. Ishkhanov, E.A. Romanovsky, V.V. Varlamov. New Magic Nuclei
Shell Structure: Systematics of Features, LVII International Conference on Nuclear
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4.
5.

Physics NUCLEUS 2007 “Fundamental Problems of Nuclear Physics, Atomic PowerEngineering and Nuclear Techniligies”, 25-29 June 2007, Voronezh, Russia, Book of
Abstracts. ISBN 598340052-5. Saint-Petersburg (2007) 92.
E. Dupont, I. Raskinyte, D. Ridikas, Photonuclear Data Evaluations of Actinides up to
130 MeV, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, 22-27
April 2007, Nice, France, Book of Summaries, p. 55 (#497).
V.V. Varlamov, N.N. Peskov, Evaluation of (γ,xn), (γ,sn), (γ,n), (γ,2n), and (γ,f)
Reactions Cross Sections for Actinides Nuclei 232Th, 238U, 237Np, and 239Pu: Consistency
Between Data Obtained Using Quasimonoenergetic Annihilation and Bremsstrahlung
Photons, Preprint MSU SINP 2007-8/829.

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Annex 1. The CDFE new EXFOR TRANSes M041, M042, and M043
contents(old corrected and new ENTRYs)
TRANS M041

TRANS M042

TRANS M043

ENTRY N

Amount of

ENTRY N

Amount of

ENTRY N

Amount of

M0382

4

M0626

6

M0420

4

M0383

5

M0632

22

M0670

1

M0509

2

M0646

2

M0711

5

M0516

3

M0656

2

M0712

3

M0525

30

M0683

1

M0713

6

M0526

7

M0704

3

M0714

4

M0527

33

M0705

2

M0715

4

M0634

3

M0706

4

M0716

5

M0693

11

M0707

3

M0717

3

M0694

6

M0708

17

M0718

6

M0695

3

M0709

33

M0719

7

M0696

3

M0710

7

M0721

3

M0697

3

M0711

5

M0698

5

M0699

3

M0700

2

M0701

2

M0702

4

M0703

3

Total new:Total new:Total new:Total new:Total new:Total new:

11

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8

74

9

41

SUBENTsSUBENTsSum of new ENTRYs: 28
Sum of new SUBENTs: 160

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SUBENTsAnnex 2. The cross section data compiled.
REACTION

ADDRESS(53-I-127(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,,EVAL)

M0693 2 3

(53-I-127(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,,EVAL)

M0693 3 3

(53-I-127(G,N)53-I-126,,SIG,,,EVAL)

M0693 4 3

(53-I-127(G,2N)53-I-125,,SIG,,,EVAL)

M0693 5 3

(57-LA-139(G,N)57-LA-138,,SIG)

M0696 2 3

(53-I-127(G,3N)53-I-124,,SIG,,,EVAL)

M0693 6 3

(59-PR-141(G,N)59-PR-140,,SIG)

M0696 3 3

(82-PB-208(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,BRS)

M0700 2 3

(59-PR-141(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,BRS)

M0701 2 3

(82-PB-208(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS

M0702 3 3

(8-O-16(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS)

M0702 2 3

(83-BI-209(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS)

M0702 4 3

(53-I-115(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,BRS)

M0703 3 3

(49-IN-115(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,BRS)

M0703 2 3

(24-CR-52(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,BRS)

M070500200003(49-IN-115(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS)

M070600300003(73-TA-181(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,BRS)

M070700200003(39-Y-89(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS)

M070600200003(53-I-127(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS)

M070600400003(73-TA-181(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS)

M070700300003((20-CA-40(G,N)20-CA-39,,SIG,,BRS)+

M071400200003((20-CA-40(G,N)20-CA-39,,SIG,,BRS)+

M071400400003(2-HE-4(G,N)2-HE-3,,SIG)

M070801600003((20-CA-40(G,N)20-CA-39,,SIG,,BRS)+

M071400300003(14-SI-28(G,P)13-AL-27,PAR,SIG,,BRS)

M071700200003(14-SI-28(G,P)13-AL-27,PAR,SIG,,BRS)

M071700300003(20-CA-40(G,P)19-K-39,PAR,SIG,,BRS

M071800200003(20-CA-40(G,P)19-K-39,PAR,SIG,,BRS)

M071800300003(20-CA-40(G,P)19-K-39,PAR,SIG,,BRS)

M071800500003(20-CA-40(G,P)19-K-39,PAR,SIG,,BRS)

M071800400003(42-MO-92(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,BRS)

M071900200003(42-MO-92(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS)

M071900300003(42-MO-98(G,X)0-NN-1,,SIG,,BRS)

M071900500003((42-MO-92(G,N)42-MO-91,,SIG,,BRS)+

M071900400003(42-MO-98(G,X)0-NN-1,UNW,SIG,,BRS)

M071900600003((42-MO-98(G,N)42-MO-97,,SIG,,BRS)+

M071900700003

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Annex 3. The main items of the CDFE future short-term program.
The following traditional CDFE nuclear data compilation and procession activities will be
continued:
1. Continuation of photonuclear data compilation using EXFOR format, new
TRANSes (M044, M045, etc.) production.
2. Upgrading(corrections
andadditions)
of
all
CDFE
Web-site(http://cdfe.sinp.msu.ru) databases.
3. Continuation of joint analysis and evaluation of photonuclear reaction crosssections obtained using various methods, first of all in experiments withbremsstrahlung and quasimonoenergetic annihilation photons, with the aim ofdefinition and excluding of systematical discrepancies.
4. Development of the structure and the testing version of the new Giant Dipole
Resonance Chart (produced in analogy to the Chart of Nuclear Quadrupole
Deformations) containing the main GDR parameters (energy, amplitude, width,
integrated cross section data) for all total - (γ,abs), (γ,xn) and (γ,sn) - and many
partial – (γ,n), (γ,2n), (γ,3n), (γ,p), (γ,d), (γ,t), (γ,α) - reactions.
5. Investigations of new non-traditional magic nuclei properties and of their
existence conditions using the search possibilities of the CDFE database“Relational ENSDF”.

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P5

IAEA Nuclear Data Section: Progress Report, 2006/07
Summary of Nuclear Data Studies by Staff of the IAEA Nuclear Data
Section1 October 2006 – 30 September 2007
Editors: S. Dunaeva, O. Schwerer, V. Zerkin
IAEA Technical Meeting, 8-10 October 2007
International Atomic Energy Agency, Headquarters
Vienna, Austria
Web: http://www-nds.iaea.org/
e-mail: services@iaeand.iaea.org
1. Staff
The authorized staff level of the Nuclear Data Section consists now of a total of 17
professionals and support staff, which means a reduction of one position (Mark O’Connell
now only works part-time for our Section (25%)). One new staff member joined during thereported period: Daniel Abriola (effective from 1 January 2007) succeeded former staff
member Andrej Trkov. Otto Schwerer retired in September 2007 after 31 years of service;hiring of his successor is currently under way.
2. Data Compilations
2.1
EXFOR and Dictionaries
Over the previous year, NDS staff have distributed 7 CPND TRANS files (D050 - D056),
containing 99 new entries (33 compiled at NDS, 20 at ATOMKI, 42 at UkrNDC, 4 in India)
and 36 revised entries, and 3 neutron TRANS files (3121 - 3123) containing 42 new entries(15 compiled at NDS, 1 at UkrNDC, 20 at CNDC and 6 in India) and 22 revised entries. The
compilations consist of new literature as well as many important old references. Also, twolists of papers (mostly “old” literature) are still on control for completeness of compilation:
1. list for Ion Beam Analysis;
2. list for Reference Input Parameters Library (RIPL).
NDS staff finished the format revision of all old NDS-originated CPND and photonuclear
entries, including conversion to the new date format (4-digit years) and revised text (using
upper and lower case characters) and started to revise neutron entries.
As of 24 September, 71 TRANS files were received, checked (with feedback to theoriginating centres) and processed, of which 69 were final versions that were added to themaster file. These final transmissions contained 656 neutron entries (199 new, 457 revised),
984 CPND entries (517 new, 467 revised) and 69 photonuclear entries (37 new, 32 revised).
NDS staff have produced and distributed three regular transmissions of the EXFOR/CINDA
dictionaries (TRANS 9093-9095) in EXFOR, DANIEL (backup) and archive format. The
dictionary revisions introduced in 2006/07 are now routinely in operation, and “wild cards”
for REACTION SF7 have also been incorporated into the quantities dictionary 236.

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2.2

CINDA

CINDA Master file
The up-to-date CINDA Master File is available via the NDS compilers’ Web site. An
automatic update using the EXFOR database was carried out once (January 2007). Referencesfor ENDF/B-VII.0 library were generated, discussed, agreed and introduced to CINDA.
Coverage control
Under the CINDA coverage control system, NDS staff scan over 80 journal titles (mainly
through the Internet) for the purpose of compilation coverage control. From this year, thecurrent status of compilation activities is available to EXFOR compilers on the NDS Web
site. With the help of this Web site, 11 articles from the 2007 Nice conference are alreadycompiled and available in EXFOR, and one additional compiled entry was transmitted in apreliminary TRANS file. For comparison, in the same period three years ago, no entries had
been compiled from the previous ND conference (ND2004).
Over 1200 journal issues from 1990 to 2007 were added to the database for CINDA coveragecontrol in late 2006/2007. Journal references that should be compiled elsewhere were also
dispatched to the relevant centres (Japan, Russia, Hungary and NEADB).
All relevant references absent from EXFOR were sent to the responsible centres forcompilation, along with pdf copies of the papers, if necessary.
EXFOR database statistics is also available from the NDS Web site:- Contribution to EXFOR by Centres- History (Preliminary, TRANS files, database updates)- General statistics (contents by Quantities, Targets, Reactions, etc.)
NDS continues to save articles in pdf format. All articles previously stored on the shelf at
NDS, are now stored electronically. All articles compiled during this year in the other centres
have been scanned and stored in pdf format on NDS-computer. More that 2400 files were
saved in pdf format during the year.
2.3
Evaluated data libraries, files and programs
Various new or revised evaluated data libraries, files and programs for data checking,processing and graphical presentation were added to the NDS Web-site and distributed on
CD-ROM:•••••

NuDat-2 for interactive searching and plotting of nuclear structure and decay data,
updated to version 2.4
PREPRO 2007. ENF/B Pre-Processing Codes, March 2007

Stopping Power for light ions, compilation by H. Paul (Univ. Linz), updated twice
EXFOR - CINDA Database and Retrieval System, Version 1.95, data updated January
2007 (CD-ROM)
ENDVER/GUI and EXFOR-CINDA package; Integrated Tools for ENDF-Evaluators,
Version 1.4, January 200758

3. Services
Web Services
Further improvements have been implemented in the EXFOR-CINDA-ENDF retrieval
systems since the previous NRDC meeting:• interactive Web plotting: zoom by mouse, actions by one click, extended functionality• output EXFOR data in R33-IBANDL format: angular distributions; includes plotting• several new evaluated libraries are included to ENDF database: ENDF/B-VII.0 (NNDC,
2006), IAEA-Standards, IAEA Thermal Scattering Law Nuclear Data Library (2006),
IAEA charged-particle library for medical radioisotope production (2001); first materials
from IBA-Eval (Differential charged-particle cross sections for ion beam analysis,
Gurbich and Trkov);• “EXFOR+” (extended EXFOR format) output was implemented on EXFOR Web-service• “IRDF-2002 extension” project support: includes EXFOR-ENDF Web services forselected materials from the basic libraries and for new evaluations (not public).
The system is successfully functioning at NNDC, in BARC (India) and IPEN (Brazil).
Statistics of usage of the Web retrieval system are presented in Fig. 1.
CD-ROMs• “EXFOR/CINDA for Windows” CD was issued twice.
• “EXFOR/CINDA for Applications” for Linux and Windows was also issued twice; also
distributed together as part of EndVer/GUI-CD and Empire-package. The package has also
been adapted to Mac (using X-Windows support system).

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NDS+IPEN+BARC
Nuclear Data Services: Web Statistics
Geographical Distribution (%)

Average per Month(Number of accesses + retrievals)

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Total per Year

(Number of accesses + retrievals)

4. Software
CINDA software
A program to import information from ENDF database has been created and checked with
Henriksson (NEA-DB) and Otsuka (JCPRG); ENDF/B-VII.0 was processed.
EXFOR software-tools
ZCHEX checking program was regularly updated. Executables for Windows and Linux with(complete set of dictionaries) are maintained on the NDS compilers’ Web-site. Two newversions were released:
December 2006:- Windows/Linux: EXFOR Dictionary 9093
- finds missing '(' in REACTION keyword- allows isomer extensions "-L","-L1","-L2" in REACTION and DECAY codes- Wildcards for SF7 during checking of SF5-8: done using Dictionary-33 (under testing)- indication of SAN in the right column of error-message- input file name is indicated in the error file and on the user's terminal- length of input file name is expanded from 50 to 65
June 2007:- Windows/Linux/Mac: EXFOR Dictionary 9094
- Wildcards for SF7 during checking of SF5-8: improved algorithm - now uses all
Dictionary-33 and 227; (full test and Dict-236 having only wildcards)- debugging (according to Maev, 2007-06-06 e-mail)- adopted to Mac OS X (using g77 fortran compiler)
September 2007:• Windows/Linux/Mac: EXFOR Dictionary 9095 (wildcards only)• debugging: correct processing of N1,N2 in DATA and COMMONXTRACT program (originally written in NNDC) was adapted to Linux and Windows andreleased on NDS Web site.
Full EXFOR in C4 format.
Programs producing full EXFOR database in extended C4 format were developed (discussed
within WPEC SG30 ). Full C4 Master-file is maintained on EXFOR compiler’s site. Two files
were released.
Flexible ENDF database explorer.
New development - implements a sequential search/scan/view the data; allows the user toselect the sequence of data observation “on the fly” and provides an additional convenientservice. Now implemented only for ENDF, but will include EXFOR as well.
5. Nuclear Data Development
Although nuclear data developments are outside the immediate operations of the NRDC, we
give a brief summary below.
61Co-ordinated Research Projects (CRPs):• Improvement of the Standard Cross Sections: completed, all materials with IAEA
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Publishing Section
Nuclear Data for the Production of Therapeutic Radioisotopes: database completed,
report in preparation
Reference Input Parameter Library for Non-Energy Applications: (RIPL-III): on-going
Development of a Reference Database for Ion Beam Analysis: on-going
Updated Decay Data Library for Actinides: on-going
Reference Base for Neutron Activation Analysis: on-going
Evaluated Nuclear Data Files of Charged Particle Interactions for Medical Therapy
Applications started in 2007
Minor Actinide Neutron Reaction Data (MANREAD) started in 2007

Data development projects:• Phase-Space Database for External Beam Radiotherapy (2006-2008)
A new IAEA phase-space (phsp) format has been established. The new phsp database isdesigned to disseminate phase-space data of those accelerators and 60Co units used inradiotherapy through the compilation of existing data that have been properly validated.
• IRDF-2002 dosimetry library
Evaluated data files have been assembled, checked and uploaded onto the NDS Web server
http://www-nds.iaea.org/irdf2002/, complete with draft documentation. The results were
published as Technical Reports Series No. 452, IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 2006. A Consultants’Meeting was held in January 2007 to discuss the needs for new data for reactor dosimetry andpossible extensions to other higher neutron energy applications (including the problem ofadequate covariance data).
• Updates to the WIMS-D library package
An updated version of the XnWlup package for display and intercomparison of the librarydata has been provided by Indian researchers. The new WIMS-D library package is available
on Web site http://www-nds.iaea.org/wimsd/, on CDROM, and as a publication: WIMS-D
library update, F. Leszczynski, D. López Aldama, A.Trkov, STI/PUB/1264, IAEA, Vienna,
Austria, 2007, ISBN 92-105006-2.
• Neutron data file for Cd in the resolved resonance region
Work is on-going to produce an updated and evaluated nuclear data file of resonanceparameters in ENDF-6 format for the cadmium isotopes.
• Nuclear model parameter sets for the RIPL-2 database
Database maintenance tools and several new nuclear model parameter sets were included in
the RIPL-II database through consultancy visits and service agreements. The extended
database is available on Web site http://www-nds.iaea.org/RIPL-2/.
• Ion Beam Analysis Nuclear Data Library (IBANDL)
The database was created in spring 2004 and has been extended on a continuous basis sincethat time.

62• Input to JEFF project
Original NDS staff interest and technical expertise in the formulation of JEFF-3.1 has resulted
in some limited studies for the JEFF project. Over 60 well-defined decay scheme evaluations
were undertaken in preparation for the release of the JEFF-3.1 decay data library from 2003 to
2006, and continue as support to the European Fusion programme (approximately 20
radionuclides per year). NDS staff have also actively participated at the JEFF Sub-Group on
Decay Data and Fission Yields.
TM on Nuclear data for the International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility(IFMIF)A TM on “Nuclear data for the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF)”
was held on 4-6 October 2005 (for a summary see INDC(NDS)-0478). The overall objectiveof the meeting was to review the status of the nuclear databases used to assess radiation
damage to the structural components of the IFMIF test facility. Participants have identified
and agreed on a proposal to be submitted to the Agency for the creation of an appropriate
CRP.

•

6. Publicationsa) Papers presented at the Nice Nuclear Data Conference (ND2007)

International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, April 22-27 2007
Nice, France.
The art of collecting experimental data internationally: EXFOR, CINDA and the
NRDC network
by H. Henriksson, O. Schwerer, S. Maev, N. Otsuka
Status and future work of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data
Evaluation Cooperation
by A.J. Koning, Jun-ichi Katakura, P. Obložinsky, A.L. Nichols, C. Nordborg
The aims and activities of the International Network of Nuclear Structure and Decay
Data evaluators
by A.L. Nichols, J.K. TuliExperimental studies to improve specific actinide decay data
by F.G. Kondev, M.A. Kellett, I. Ahmad, J.P. Greene and A.L. Nichols
Inelastic neutron scattering cross section of 187Os at 30 keV
by M. Mosconi, M. Heil, F. Kaeppeler, A. Mengoni and R. Plag
Design study for a new spallation target of the n_TOF facility at CERN
by C. Carrapico, S. Andriamonje, E. Berthoumieux, I. Goncalves, F. Gunsing, A. Mengoni,
P. Vaz, V. Vlachoudis and the n_TOF Collaboration
CANDIDE – Cooordination action on nuclear data for industrial development inEuropeby I. Blomgren, E. Bauge, D.C. Ott, S. Czifrus, E. Gonzalez, H. Henriksson, R. Jacqmin, A.
Koning, D. Lecarpentier, E. Malambu, A. Mengoni, R. Mills, A. Plompen and G. Rimpault
63Capture cross section measurements of 186,187,1880s at n-TOF: The resolved resonanceregionby K. Fujii, M. Mosconi, P.M. Milazzo, F. Kappeter, A. Mengoni, and the n-TOF
Collaboration
EMPIRE ultimate expansion: resonances and covariancesby M. Herman, S.F. Mughabghab, P. Oblozinsky, D. Rochman, M.T. Pigni, T. Kawano, R.
Capote, V. Zerkin, A. Trkov, M. Sin, B.V. Carlson, H. Wienke and Young-Sik Cho
Development of IAEA nuclear reaction databases and services
by V. Zerkin and A. Trkov
The Global Assessment of Nuclear Data, GANDR
by D.W. Muir, A. Trkov, I. Kodeli, R. Capote and V. Zerkin
Evaluation of the 103Rh neutron cross-section data in the unresolved resonance region
for improved criticality safety
by L.C. Mihailescu, I. Sirakov, R. Capote, et al.
Deformation dependent TUL multi-step direct modelby H. Wienke, R. Capote, M. Herman, et al.
Lane consistency of the dispersive coupled channel optical model potential
R. Capote, E. Soukhovitskii, et al.
Extension of the nuclear reaction model code EMPIRE to actinides’ nuclear data
evaluation
by R. Capote, M. Sin, A. Trkov, et al.
New cross section measurements for neutron-induced reactions on Cr, Ni, Cu, Ta andW isotopes obtained with the activation technique by V. Semkova, R Capote, R. Jaime
Tornin, et al
Improved lead and bismuth (n,γ) cross sections and their astrophysical impact
by C. Domingo-Pardo, A. Mengoni, R. Capote, et al. (n_TOF Collaboration).
The neutron capture cross sections of 237Np and 240Pu and its relevance in thetransmutation of nuclear waste
by C. Guerrero, A. Mengoni, R. Capote, et al. (n_TOF Collaboration)
Measurements of the Au(n,γ) cross section at n_TOF toward a new standard
by C. Massimi, A. Mengoni, R. Capote, et al. (n_TOF Collaboration).
Simultaneous measurement of the neutron capture and fission cross section of 233U
by E. Berthoumieux, A. Mengoni, R. Capote, et al. (n_TOF Collaboration).
Neutron-induced fission of actinides from resonant reactions to spallation
by L. Audouin, A. Mengoni, R. Capote, et al. (n_TOF Collaboration).

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Measurement of the 90,91,92,93,94,96Zr(n,γ) and 139La cross sections at n_TOF
by G. Tagliente, A. Mengoni, R. Capote, et al. (n_TOF Collaboration).
Measurement of the neutron induced fission of 235U, 233U and 245Cm with the FIC
detector at CERN n_TOF facility
by M. Calviani, A. Mengoni, R. Capote, et al. (n_TOF Collaboration).
b) Other publications
New measurement of neutron capture resonances in Bi-209 by C. Domingo-Pardo, R.
Capote, A. Mengoni, et al., Phys. Rev. C74 (2006) 025807:1-10.
Uncertainty estimation in IMRT absolute dosimetry verification by F. SánchezDoblado, G.H. Hartmann, J. Pena, R. Capote, et al. (to be submitted to Int. J. Radiation
Oncology, Biology and Physics).
Fission of light actinides: Th-232(n,f) and Pa-231(n,f) reactions by M. Sin, R. Capote, A.
Ventura, M. Herman and P. Obložinský, Phys. Rev. C74 (2006) 014608 1-13.
Resonance capture cross section of 207Pb by C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Capote, A. Mengoni
et al. (n_TOF Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 74 (2006) 055802.
Measurement of the neutron capture cross section of the s-only isotope 204Pb from 1 eV
to 440 keV by C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Capote, A. Mengoni, et al. (n_TOF Collaboration),
Phys. Rev. C 75 (2007) 015806.
The 139La(n,γ) cross section: Key for the onset of the s-process by R. Terlizzi, by C.
Domingo-Pardo, R. Capote, A. Mengoni et al. (n_TOF Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 75
(2007) 035807.
7. Network Meetings• 17th Meeting of the Nuclear Structure and Decay Data (NSDD) Evaluators’ Network,
June 11-15, 2007, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia• CMs on XML
The IFRC Subcommittee on Atomic and Molecular Data and the Data Centres Network(DCN) have both recommended that the IAEA encourage the use of XML for exchange ofdata among the DCN members. To fulfil this goal the IAEA NDS has organized a numberof Consultants’ Meetings attended by researchers in fusion and astrophysics withexperience in both data issues and XML schema. Recent meetings include 11-13 October
2006 in Paris, 2-3 April 2007 in Vienna and 1-2 October 2007 in Vienna. A preliminary
version of a schema is scheduled to be made available by the end of 2007.

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8. Workshops 2007/2008• Workshop on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology: Medical Applications.
ICTP Trieste, Italy, 12 - 23 November 2007
• Workshop on Nuclear Structure and Decay Data: Theory and Evaluation.
ICTP Trieste, Italy, 28 April – 9 May 2008
• Workshop on Nuclear Reaction Data for Advanced Reactor Technologies.
ICTP Trieste, Italy, 19 - 30 May 2008

9. Visits and Inter-centre Cooperation• G. Pikulina and S. Taova (Sarov) to NDS, 16-23 May 2007: Development of EXFOREditor.
• V. Varlamov and S. Taova (Sarov) to NDS, 8-10 October 2007: Development anddeployment of EXFOR-Editor.
• S. Dunaeva (IAEA/NDS) to BARC, Mumbai, India, 26 October – 4 November 2007:
EXFOR compilation in India

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Ukrainian Nuclear Data Centre(UKRNDC)
Progress Report to the
IAEA Technical Meeting on the Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres,
8 - 10 October 2007, IAEA, Vienna, Austria
Summary of nuclear data activity by staff of the UKRNDC
October 2006 –September 2007
Olena Gritzay, Nataliia Klimova
Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospekt Nauky, 47, Kyiv, Ukraine, 03680
Web: http://ukrndc.kinr.kiev.ua/
e-mail: ogritzay@kinr.kiev.ua
Introduction

Ukrainian Nuclear Data Centre (UKRNDC) is subdivision within the Neutron Physics
Department at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine. UKRNDC has 5 permanent researchers. During year under review three members of
the staff were involved in an implementation of the STCU contract UZ-25 “Creation ofmodern manufacturing technologies and certification methods for radioisotope productionneeded in science, medicine and industrial applications in Ukraine and Uzbekistan Republic”.
Compilation

We continue collection and compilation of experimental neutron, charged particle andphotonuclear data published by Ukrainian researchers. Number of the EXFOR’s entries sent
to NDS IAEA by UKRNDC are:
 for neutron data –3 entries;
 for charged particle data –41 entries;
 for photonuclear data –7 entries.
The list is presented in Table.
Collaboration

We continue our collaboration with the Physics Department of the Taras Shevchenko
National University of Kyiv.
 The teaching courses “Nuclear Data for Science and Technology” (36 hours per year) and“Modern computer codes for nuclear data processing” (36 hours per year) are lectured in
2006-2007 for graduate course students of NPD KNU. These courses include thefollowing items: ENDF/B libraries, EXROR system, ENSDF library, the use of the
PREPRO code in work with the ENDF libraries, the introduction to NJOY99 code system,
the Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centers and the use of the on-line services.
 The teaching courses “Neutron Physics at the Kyiv Research Reactor” (36 hours per year)
are lectured in 2006-2007 for fourth-year students of NPD KNU.

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Table. EXFOR’s entries sent to NDS IAEA by UKRNDC.

EXFOR’sentry

Reference

1

32211

C,2004SANTA,1,(1),762,2004

2

32215

J,JAI,3,(8),(JAI13424),2006

3

32216

C,2007NICE,(#228),2007

1

D5007

J,IZV,68,(2),238,2004
J,BAS,68,266,2004

E.P.Kadkin,S.N.Kondratyev,S.E.Omelchuk,
L.S.Saltikov, V.D.Sklyarenko,L.I.Slusarenko,
N.P.Yurkuts

2

D5008

J,YF,67,899,2004

V.A.Zheltonozhcky, V.M.Mazur, Z.M.Bigan

3

D5009

J,IZV,68,(2),188,2004)(J,BAS,68,210,2004

4

D5010

J,IZV,68,(2),195,2004
J,BAS,68,218,2004

5

D5011

J,IZV,68,(11),1577,2004
J,BAS,68,1761,2004

6

D5012

A.N.Vodin,A.S.Kachan,L.P.Korda,
V.M.Mishchenko,R.P.Slabospitsky,I.V.Ushakov,
G.K.Khomyakov
A.N.Vodin,A.S.Kachan,L.P.Korda,
V.M.Mishchenko,R.P.Slabospitsky,I.V.Ushakov,
G.K.Khomyakov
A.N.Vodin,A.S.Kachan,L.P.Korda,
O.A.Lepeshkina,R.P.Slabospitsky,
S.A.Trotsenko,I.V.Ushakov
A.N.Vodin,A.S.Kachan,V.M.Mishchenko

7

D5013

8

D5014

9

D5015

10

D5016

11

D5017

12

D5018

13

D5019

14

D5020

15

D5021

16

D5022

17

D5023

J,IZV,69,(11),1613,2005
J,BAS,69,1802,2005
J,IZV,69,(11),1619,2005
J,BAS,69,1809,2005
J,IZV,65,(5),692,2001
J,BAS,65,742,2001
J,IZV,66,(5),743,2002
J,BAS,66,818,2002
J,IZV,67,(11),1556,2003)(J,BAS,67,1717,2003
J,IZV,67,(11),1561,2003
J,BAS,67,1723,2003
J,VAT/I,44,(5),31,2004

18

D5024

J,UFZ,50,(4),327,2005

O.K.Gorpinich, O.M.Povoroznyk

19

D5025

J,UFZ,49,(1),16,2004

O.K.Gorpinich,O.M.Povoroznyk,
O.O.Yachmenov#

AuthorNeutron data

S.A. Kravchenko, M.F. Vlasov, O.O.Gritzay
O.Gritzay, V.Kolotyi, N.Klimova, O.Kalchenko,
M.Gnidak, P.Vorona
O. Gritzay , V. Kolotyi, N. Klimova,
O.Kalchenko, M. Gnidak and P. Vorona

Charged particle data

J,IZV,65,(5),695,2001
J,BAS,65,746,2001
J,IZV,69,(5),742,2005
J,BAS,69,838,2005
J,IZV,63,(5),1027,1999
J,BAS,63,821,1999
J,IZV,69,(5),745,2005
J,BAS,69,841,2005
J,IZV,70,(5),751,2006

O.K.Gorpinich,O.M.Povoroznyk,
A.A.Jachmenjov
A.S.Kachan, A.N.Vodin, V.M.Mishchenko,
R.P.Slabospitsky
O.K.Gorpinich,O.M.Povoroznyk,
A.A.Jachmenjov
A.S.Kachan,I.S.Kovtunenko,I.V.Kurguz,
V.M.Mishchenko,R.P.Slabospitsky
A.N.Vodin,L.P.Korda,V.M.Mishchenko,
O.A.Lepeshkina, S.A.Trotsenko,I.V.Ushakov
B.A. Nemashkalo,K.B. Shebeko, S.N.Utenkov
O.K.Gorpinich,Vit.M.Pirnak,O.M.PovoroznykY
u.S.Roznyuk, B.G.Struzhko
O.K.Gorpinich,
O.M.Povoroznyk,
Yu.N.Pavlenko, Yu.S.Roznyuk, B.G.Struzhko
B.A.Nemashkalo,S.N.Utenkov,S.S.Ratkevich,
I.D.Fedorets
B.A.Nemashkalo,K.v.Shebeko,S.S.Ratkevich,
I.D.Fedorets
O.K.Gorpinich,O.M.Povoroznyk,
A.A.Jachmenjov

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A.T.Rudchik,Val.M.Pirnak,A.Budzanowski,
A.Szczurek,V.K.Chernievsky,L.Gowacka,
S.Kliczewski,E.I.Koshchy,A.V.Mokhnach,
R.Siudak,I.Skwirczynska,J.Turkiewicz,
V.A.Ziman
A.T.Rudchik,A.Budzanowski,E.I.Koshchy,
L.Glowacka,Yu.G.Mashkarov,M.MakowskaRzeszutko,Val.M.Pirnak,R.Siudak,A.Szczurek,
J.Turkiewicz,V.V.Uleshchenko,V.A.Ziman
S.B.Sakuta,Yu.A.Glukhov,A.T.Rudchik,
Val.M.Pirnak,A.Budzanowski,S.Kliczewski,
R.Siudak, I.Skwirczynska,A.Szczurek
Yu.Pavlenko,O.K.Gorpinich,V.N.Dobrikov,
N.L.Doroshko,V.O.Kiva,I.N.Kolomiets,
V.I.Medvedev,Val.M.Pirnak
O.K.Gorpinich,
O.M.Povoroznyk,
Yu.S.Roznyuk, B.G.Struzhko, A.A.Yachmenev
A.N.Vodin,A.S.Kachan,V.M.Mishchenko

20

D5026

J,NP/A,700,(1-2),25,2002

21

D5027

J,NP/A,602,211,1996

22

D5028

J,NP/A,639,599,1998

23

D5029

J,ZNJD,,(2),16,2006

24

D5030

25

D5031

J,IZV,67,(11),1583,2003
J,BAS,67,1743,2003
J,IZV,63,(5),1021,1999
J,BAS,63,816,1999

26

D5032

J,PR/C,15,(2),579,1977

J.Keinonen, M.Riihonen, A.Anttila

27

D5033

J,NP/A,313,251,1979

M.Riihonen, J.Keinonen, A.Anttila

28

D5034

J,NP/A,318,111,1979

J.J.A.Smit,
D.Reitmann

29

D5035

J,NP/A,341,345,1980

J.Keinonen, S.Brandenburg

30

D5036

J,IZV,66,(1),40,2002
J,BAS,66,40,2002

A.N.Vodin, A.S.Kachan, V.M.Mishchenko

31

D5037

J,UFZ,45,(7),795,2000

Grantsev V.I., Dryapachenko I.P., Pirnak Vit.M.,
Povoroznyk O.M., Pshedzjal A.P., Roznyuk
Yu.S., Rudenko B.A., Struzhko B.G.

32

D5038

J,UFZ,48,(10),1035,2003

GorpinichO.K.,PovoroznykO.M.,YachmejovO.

33

D5039

J,VAT/I,40,(2),33,2002

34

D5040

35

D5041

J,VAT/F,45,(6),40,2005
J,IZV,70,(11),1623,2006
J,VAT/I,40,(2),30,2002

A.S.Kachan,
A.N.Vodin,
V.Yu.Korda,
V.M.Mishchenko, R.P.Slabospitsky
S.N.Utenkov, K.V.Shebeko

36

D5042

J,VAT/I,44,(5),39,2004

37

D5044

J,UFZ,45,(3),270,2000

M.A.Meyer,

J.P.L.Reinecke,

A.N.Vodin,
I.V.Ushakov,
A.S.Kachan,
I.P.Korda, V.M.Mischenko, B.A.Nemashkalo
A.S.Kachan,
A.N.Vodin,
I.V.Kurguz,
O.A.Lepyoshkina, S.A.Trotsenko, I.V.Ushakov
Gorpinich O.K., Grantzev V.I., Dryapachenko
I.P., Pirnak Vit.M., Povoroznyk O.M., Pshedzjal
A.P., Roznyuk Yu.S., Struzhko B.G.

A.A. Rudchik,A.T. Rudchik,S.Kliczewski,
E.I. Koshchyc, O.A. Ponkratenko,
K.W. Kemper,K. Ruseke,A.Budzanowski,
J. Choinski, B. Czech, T. Czosnyka,
V.D. Chesnokova, L. Glowacka,E. Kozik,
V.M. Kyryanchuk,S.Yu. Mezhevych,
A.V. Mokhnach,O.A. Momotyuk,
I. Skwirczynska,R. Siudak, A.Szczurek

38

D5046

J,NP/A,785,293,2007

39

D5047

J,UFZ,45,(10),1154,2000
J,BAS,64,370,2000

40

D5048

C,2007NICE,(#279),2007

Ye.Skakun, S.M.Qaim

41

D5049

C,2006CERN,1,204,2006

Ye. Skakun, T. Rauscher.

B.Struzhko

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Photonuclear data

1

G4005

J,ZNJD,8,(2),46,2002

O.A.Bezsheyko,
V.A.Zheltonozhsky,
I.M.Kadenko, N.A.Strilchuk
I.N.Vishnevsky,V.A.Zheltonozhsky,V.M.Mazur,
M.V.Hoshovsky
I.Z.Beseda,A.I.Guty,Ya.E.Kostyu,A.P.Osipenko,
N.T.Sabolchy, I.V.Khimich, I.A.Shabalina

2

G4006

3

G4007

J,YF,62,(5),941,1999
J,PAN,62,880,1999
J,YF,54,(3),609,1991

4

G4008

J,UFZ,46,(5-6),529,2001

Mazur V.M., Bigan Z.M.

5

G4009

J,UFZ,50,(7),649,2005

6

G4010

J,UFZ,50,(7),649,2005

Hoshovsky M.V., Mazur V.M., Bigan Z.M.,
Lyamayev V.I., Marynets T.Yo.
Bokhinyuk V.S., Guthy A.I., Parlag A.M.,
Sabolchy M.T., Sokolyuk I.V., Khimich I.V.

7

G4011

J,UZHV,19,90,2006

O.O.Parlag

Customer Services• During 2006-2007 the data for users requests were prepared and adapted (from ENDF,
ENSDF and EXFOR libraries) for our institute researchers and for ones from otherinstitutes. The organizations, whose requests on nuclear data have arrived and were
executed in the accounting period:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
•

Center of Environmental Problems INR of NASU.
Department of Nuclear Physics of Kyiv National University.
Department of Nuclear Physics of the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of NASU.
Department of Physics of Biological Systems of the Institute of Physics of NASU.
Department of the Theory of Nuclear Reactions INR of NASU.
Department of Nuclear Reactions INR of NASU.
Uzhgorod Institute of Nuclear Physics of NASU.

The UKRNDC site is operating. Ukrainian customers, especially students and thosephysicists, who wish to prepare the pointwise and multigroup cross sections selfdependently, but do not have a good experience in it, use this site very often. Today weare refreshing the site. Address of the UKRNDC site: http://ukrndc.kinr.kiev.ua.

Calculation

The ACE-format libraries for the isotopes needed for calculations of the maximum specificactivity of the irradiated products at the INR WWR-M reactor, namely, 50, 52, 53, 54 Cr,
54, 56, 57, 58
Fe, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100 Mo, 58, 59 Co, 89 Y, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 Ru ,107, 109, 111
Ag , 106, 108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115m, 116 Cd , 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 114, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125,
126
Sn, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 130, 132 Te, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137 Cs, 136, 138, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144 Ce, 141,
142, 143
Pr, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150 Nd, 144, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154 Sm, 151, 152g, 153, 154, 155
Eu, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160 Gd, 159 Tb, 175, 176 Lu, 181 Ta, 180, 182, 183, 184, 186 W, 185, 187 Re,
191, 193
Ir, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 Sr, 197 Au, 196, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204 Hg, are in preparation. The input
data are taken from the nuclear data libraries: BROND-2.2, ENDF/B-VI (rel. 8), ENDF/BVII, JEFF-3.1, JENDL-3.3, CENDL-2. Calculations are doing by NJOY99.81 code at thecomputer ESCALA S120 with RISC/6000 processor under AIX operating system.

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Visits and ConferencesO. Gritzay and O. Kalchenko took part in the International conference on Nuclear Data
for Science and Technology” (ND2007), which was held in Nice, France from April 22 toApril 27, 2007.
N. Klimova took part in the First French-Ukrainian Summer School of Particle Physics,
which was held in Mukachevo in the Carpathian region of Ukraine from July 9th to July
14th, 2007.

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Japan Nuclear Reaction Data Center (JCPRG)
Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
Steering Committee

Progress Report to the
IAEA Technical Meeting on the Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres
8-10 October, 2007
0. General
The “Japan Nuclear Reaction Data Center (JCPRG)” was approved as an organisation ofFaculty of Science, Hokkaido University and established on April 1, 2007. In addition to
nuclear data activities carried out by JCPRG (Japan-Charged Particle Nuclear Reaction Data
Group), the center is concerned with the evaluation of nuclear reaction data innucleosynthesis in the universe. In order efficiently to compile reaction data obtained by using
radioactive ion beam, the center signed a research contract with RIKEN Nishina Center.
Education in nuclear data physics is also included in the scope of the center activities. Tworesearchers in the JAEA Nuclear Data Center are invited to become the visiting professors of
the Faculty.
Since the last NRDC meeting (September 2006, Vienna), we have worked on the following
activities:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Reaction data compilation (NRDF and EXFOR)Conversion of old NRDF to EXFOR
Bibliography compilation (CINDA)
Database maintenance, development and services (NRDF, EXFOR/ENDF and
CINDA)Development of digitization system (GSYS)
Customer services

0.1 Staff
Our activities have been carried out by 13 members (7 postdoctoral researchers, 3 graduate
students, 2 undergraduate students and 1 technical staff). They have been supervised by the
NRDF Steering Committee, which consists of 10 senior researchers (9 nuclear physicists and1 information scientist). All activities have been coordinated by 1 secretary.
0.2 Budget
The regular JCPRG budget ended at March 2001. We have been applying to the Japanese
government for a competitive budget for our further activity. Last year 4 million JPY wasallocated for astrophysical application of nuclear data by Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science (JSPS) and an intensive compilation from doctoral theses has been done.
1. Data Compilation (NRDF and EXFOR)We are continuing data compilation for charged-particle nuclear reaction data obtained inJapan.
1.1 Scope
We are scanning 16 journals for Japanese charged-particle and photo-nuclear nuclear reaction
data compilation:
PR/C, PRL, NP/A, PL/B, EPJ/A, NST, JP/G, NIM/A, NIM/B, PTP, JPJ, NSE, ARI, RCA,
JRN and JNRS.
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1.2 NRDF
From April 2006 to March 2007, CPND and PhND in 45 references (453 records, 1.83 MB)
have been newly compiled for NRDF. Usually new data are released at the JCPRG web site
several months prior to EXFOR.
1.3 EXFOR
Since the 2006 NRDC meeting, we have made 104 new entries and have revised or deleted
142 old entries. These were transmitted as 18 trans files (E039-E048, J005-J006, K001-K002
and R019-R022) to the NDS open area. JCPRG is grateful for valuable comments from
Svetlana Dunaeva and Otto Schwerer (NDS), Stanislav Maev (CJD) and Vladimir Varlamov(CDFE) on our transmissions as always.
According to the agreement (Conclusion 2006-4) at the 2006 NRDC meeting, the scope ofarea K is defined for photonuclear reaction data from Japan. So far 10 entries were made fordata measured at Institute for Nuclear Study, Univ. Tokyo (INS) and National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and two files (TRANS.K001 andK002) were transmitted to the NDS open area.
Author proof of EXFOR compilation has been made by researchers from ATOMKI,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Tohoku Univ., JAEA, Konan Univ., RIKEN and
KEK.
Compilation of neutron reaction data is outside our compilation scope in principle. But many
corrections to neutron entries were proposed by JCPRG in collaboration with JAEA, andrevised by the four neutron centres.
1.4 Numerical data input from dissertations
Intensive numerical data compilations have been done. These data were shown in tabularform in dissertations which are (partially) published in Journals. About 30 new entries werecompiled from these data. In addition, digitized data of about 10 entries are replaced by theseauthors’ data. They were partially transmitted in K002. Submission of all other entries will be
included in TRANS.E049 and E050.
1.5 NRDF/EXFOR editor
Entries after 2001 have been compiled and revised by our NRDF/EXFOR editor system(HENDEL) including CHEX.
2. Bibliography Compilation (CINDA)
We have prepared CINDA batches for CPND published in Japan every half year. Each batchcovers 6 issues of each of 4 Japanese journals JPJ, PTP, NST and JNRS.
Since the 2006 NRDC meeting, two regular batches (49 new lines and 0 modified lines) and a
special batch for JENDL-HE2004 (JENDL High Energy File 2004) and JENDL-PD 2004(JENDL Photonuclear Data File 2004) were prepared and sent to NEA-DB (Reader code J).
Bibliographies for neutron induced reaction data in JPJ, PTP, NST and some reports havebeen compiled by JAEA Nuclear Data Center (Reader code N) as before.
3. Database Maintenance (NRDF, EXFOR/ENDF and CINDA)
We are continuing database maintenance, development and services for NRDF,
EXFOR/ENDF and CINDA.
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3.1 NRDF (http://www.jcprg.org/nrdf/)
A new web-based NRDF search and plot system on MySQL was released in July, 2007. New
compilation, which has been finalized for NRDF, but not for EXFOR, can be obtained fromthis site. DARPE (another NRDF search and plot system written in Perl) is also available at
http://www.jcprg.org/darpe/.
3.2 EXFOR/ENDF (http://www.jcprg.org/exfor/)
EXFOR/ENDF search and plot system is available. This system is written in Perl+MySQL
and covers JENDL-3.2 and 3.3, ENDF-B/VI.8 and VII.0, JEFF-3.0 and 3.1, BROND-2.2,
CENDL-2 as well as EXFOR.
We have also developed following utilities: PENDL (http://www.jcprg.org/endf/) can output
evaluated data libraries in a tabulated form at any temperature and accuracy of interpolation.
This is an interface of the ENDF-B Pre-processing codes (PREPRO). Another system
RENORM (http://www.jcprg.org/renorm/) is a converter from cross section ratios (e.g. crosssection relative to 235U(n,f) cross section) to absolute cross sections and vice versa using
evaluated data libraries as reference cross section sets.
3.3 CINDA (http://www.jcprg.org/cinda/)
We are developing a new search system of CINDA. This is an extension of EXFOR/ENDF
search system mentioned above. A preliminary version of the system is available at
http://www.jcprg.org/cinda/.
4. Digitization System – GSYS (http://www.jcprg.org/gsys/)
A Java-based digitizing system “GSYS” has been updated and released as GSYS Ver.2.2.
Main feature implemented on this release was “Automatic Axis Detection” system, which
automatically detects and sets the position of axis by easy operation. It reduced operators’
workload and variation coming from human factors.
5. XML format for nuclear reaction data
We are interested in describing nuclear reaction data in XML (Extensible Markup Language),which might be a common (meta-) format of nuclear reaction data for various libraries(NRDF, EXFOR, ENDF etc.) and enable us to have common bases of softwares.
6. Customer services
We provide Japanese researchers in the fields of nuclear physics and nuclear engineering with
nuclear reaction data. For more information, we published “Annual Report of Nuclear
Reaction Data File Vol.20” in March 2007 (Japanese + English abstract,
http://www.jcprg.org/annual/annual-e.html). We have also issued a list of newly added data
into EXFOR every month (http://www.jcprg.org/exfor/info/recentdata.html) in a CINDA likeformat.
We have received many comments on EXFOR compilation from Japanese users (mainly
JENDL evaluators).
These comments have been listed to a table (http://www.jcprg.org/exfor/info/feedbacks.html),
and forwarded to other centres.

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ANNEX: Organization and members of JCPRG
NRDF Advisory Committee
Yasuhisa ABE (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka Univ., Suita, Osaka)
Yoshinori AKAISHI (RIKEN, Wako, Saitama)
Yasuo AOKI (Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba)
Mamoru BABA (Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, Tohoku Univ., Sendai)
Junsei CHIBA (Tokyo Univ. of Science, Noda, Chiba)
Akira HASEGAWA (NEA Data Bank, Paris)
Kichiji HATANAKA (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka Univ., Suita, Osaka)
Masayasu ISHIHARA (RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Saitama)
Kiyoshi KATŌ (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)Jun-ichi KATAKURA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai)
Mitsuji KAWAI (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka)
Shigeru KUBONO (Center for Nuclear Study, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Shunpei MORINOBU (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka Univ., Suita, Osaka)
Hiroyoshi SAKURAI (RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Saitama)
Tohru MOTOBAYASHI (RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Saitama)
Tomofumi NAGAE (Kyoto Univ., Kyoto)
Tetsuo NORO (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka)
Hajime OHNUMA (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo)
Koichi OKAMOTO (Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Inc., Tokyo)
Hikonojo ORIHARA (Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai)
Teijiro SAITOH (Nuclear Science Laboratory, Tohoku Univ., Sendai)
Hajime TANAKA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Hiroaki UTSUNOMIYA (Konan Univ., Kobe)
NRDF Steering Committee
Kiyoshi KATŌ (Center Head, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Shigeyoshi AOYAMA (Niigata Univ., Niigata)
Masaki CHIBA (Sapporo-Gakuin Univ. Ebetsu)
Yoshiharu HIRABAYASHI (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Toshiyuki KATAYAMA (Hokusei-Gakuen Univ., Sapporo, now at Universität Humburg,
Hamburg)
Hiroshi MASUI (Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami)
Hiroshi NOTO (Hokusei-Gakuen Univ., Sapporo)
Akira OHNISHI (Chairman, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Shigeto OKABE (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Hiroyoshi SAKURAI (RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Saitama)
NRDF Annual Report Editorial Committee
Yoshiharu HIRABAYASHI (Chairman, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Hiroshi NOTO (Hokusei-Gakuen Univ., Sapporo)
Ryusuke SUZUKI (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)76

Staff
1) Data Compilation (NRDF and EXFOR):
Takako ASHIZAWA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)Shin-ya ITO (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Chikako ISHIZUKA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Chie KUROKAWA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Hiroshi MATSUMIYA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Takaomi MURAKAMI (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Naohiko OTSUKA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai)
Tomoaki TOGASHI (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Kohsuke TSUBAKIHARA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Tooru YOSHIDA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)2) Bibliography Compilation (CINDA):
Chie KUROKAWA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Naohiko OTSUKA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai)3) System Maintenance and Development (NRDF, EXFOR/ENDF, CINDA, GSYS):
Shin-ya ITO (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Ayumi MINOGUCHI (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Hirokazu OHMI (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Naohiko OTSUKA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai)
Ryusuke SUZUKI (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
4) Data Services:
Naohiko OTSUKA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai)
Hitomi YOSHIDA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Secretariat
Hitomi YOSHIDA (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)
Office address:
Nuclear Reaction Data Center, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
Kita-10 Nishi-8, 060-0810 Sapporo, Japan
Telephone / Facsimile: +81(JPN)-11-706-2684
E-mail: services@jcprg.org Internet: http://www.jcprg.org/

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Our Products

NRDF

search/plot

http://ww.jcprg.org/darpe/(DARPE)EXFOR/ENDF search/plot
http://www.jcprg.org/exfor/

Digitizer (GSYS Ver.2.2)

NRDF/EXFOR editor (HENDEL)

http://www.jcprg.org/gsys/

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P8

ACTIVITY of CAJAD
for the

IAEA Technical Meeting:
Vienna, Austria, 08-10 October 2007

S.Babykina
Nuclear Structure and Reaction Data Center,
Kurchatov’s Institute,
Moscow
Our Exfor activity had two main direction
1.

Compilation A -Library

After last meeting 2006 we prepared A062 Trans files. This Trans files contains
astrophysical data, fission data, monitor reaction data. The files include new entries and somecorrected old entries according new rules .
2.

Team-work with NEA DATA-BANK

During 2006-2007 years near 100 Entries were prepared and included in O-library. These
Entries contain mainly differential data for elastic and inelastic scattering and production
cross section radioactive and stable isotopes, data for material analysis by charged beams.
3.

Checking Codes

We use to check our TRANS and ENTRIES two checking codes-

our checking code
CHEX

It is very useful, because the codes are not similar and different errors are finding.

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P9

PROGRESS REPORT

to NRDC Technical Meeting(8 - 10 October 2007, Vienna)

M.V.Mikhaylyukova, V.N.Manokhin, A.I.Blokhin
Russian Nuclear Data Center(CJD, IPPE, Obninsk )Introduction.

During the period passed after previous Meeting the current work was continued concerning
EXFOR compilation and fulfillment of NRDC-2006 Recommendations and Actions. A largepart of activity was related to the nuclear data evaluation. The details are given below.
1. Staff

At present moment the number of CJD staff is 8 : 3 leader scientist, 2 senior scientists and 3
engeneers.
2. EXFOR activity.
All journals available at the Institute library are checked for the presence of the experimental
data.
After the NRDC2006 meeting :Exfor Trans 4138 was transmitted to NDS as final.
Exfor Transes 4139 and 4140 were transmitted and declared as final.
Exfor Trans 4141 is transmitted as preliminary.
TRANS

Compilation statistics

4138
4139
4140
4141

TRANSFlag
Final
Final
Final
Prelim.

Entries
Total
48
44
33
23

Entries
New
5
12
11
5

Entries
Revised
43
32
22
18

Subents
Total
534
355
192
116

Subents
New
99
67
47
24

Subents
Revised
435
288
145
92

Total

(final)

125

28

97

1081

213

868

148

33

115

1197

237

960

Total

The efforts were made to get numerical data from authors. Good cooperation was establishedwith authors O. Shcherbakov (4RUSLIN), V. Roshchenko(4RUSFEI).
The scannning of experimental data from graphics (in the case if authors reply is absent) let
us to increase the number of compiled articles for EXFOR library.
3. Computer and software matters. WEB-site service
At present the CJD Web-site http://www.ippe.ru/podr/cjd/ is under reconstruction.
New versions of CHEX testing code and EXFOR dictionaries are copied from NDS open area
and used in compilation.
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The digitizing program of Sarov is used to digitize graphical data for EXFOR.
4. Nuclear data evaluation activity.

The main efforts of CJD in the data evaluation activity are directed to analysis of available
evaluated data files and selection of the best ones with point of view of microscopic andintegral experimental data and nuclear theory model calculations. This work is being done
mainly by A.Ignatyuk, V.Manokhin and V.Pronyaev.
A.Blokhin’s group continues activity in nuclear data evaluation and practical calculation of
the activation and radiation damage of structural materials for fission and fusion reactors.

5. Publications.
One issue of journal “Yadernye Konstanty” were published during 2006 year. The electronic
copy of this issue was sent to NDS for translation in English and publishing as NDS report.
During 2007 year issue 1-2 is prepairing for publishing.
6. Acknowlegments.
We greatly appreciate the help of Otto Schwerer, Naohiko Otsuka and Svetlana Dunaeva forassistance in the successful compilation.

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P10

Nuclear Data Evaluation Lab. (NDEL) of

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)
Progress Report of 2006/2007 to the

IAEA Technical Meeting on the Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres
8-10 October, 2007

Young-Ouk LEE (yolee@kaeri.re.kr)
Web: http://www.atom.kaeri.re.kr

0. General
Nuclear Data Evaluation Laboratory (NDEL) of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute(KAERI/ NDEL) has 7 Staffs and 1 Secretary (Evaluation 3, Processing and Benchmark 4).
KAERI/NDEL is funded by government as a long term nuclear energy development program.
The nuclear data needs from the program are as follows:-

Advanced Reactor Development (Liquid Metal Fast Reactor and High Temperature Gas
Cooled reactor) requires quantification of cross section uncertainties in their reactor
designs.
Advanced Fuel Cycle needs up-to-date neutron cross sections of fission products.
Proton Accelerator Development requires high energy neutron and proton nuclear data
relevant to the radiological safety and beam application of the accelerator.
Beside the R&D program, usual activities for the nuclear power plant operation, medical
isotope production and the radioisotope applications, are requesting up-to-date nuclear
data.

KAERI/NDEL is performing nuclear data evaluation, multi-group library processing, andvalidation which are required by the above mentioned R&D program in Korea. For
measurement of nuclear reaction data, KAERI/NDEL is coordinating measurements ofPohang Neutron Facility (PNF) of Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), Van de Graff
laboratory of Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), and MC-50
Cyclotron at Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS)
1. Facilities and Measurements
1.1. Pohang Neutron Facility of PAL (Y.D. Oh, ydoh@postech.ac.kr)
Specifications:- electron energy = 65 MeV- repetition rate = 10 ~ 15Hz
- pulse width = 1 ~ 2 µs
- peak beam current = 30 ~ 50 mA- TOF flight length = 12m- Target + water moderator to produce neutron pulse- Ta plates + cooling system- Detector : scintillator + PM tube
- BC702 [6Li-ZnS(Ag)]Thickness 1.6cm , diameter 12.5cm- Sample changer consisting of remotely controlled 4 sample holders
83Measurements:- The total cross sections of natural Pd, Nb, Mo were measured using TOF method.
- The resonance parameters of Pd, Nb, Mo were determined using SAMMY code
- Nuclear spectroscopic data and photo-neutron ((γ,3n)) cross-sections in 209Bi with 65
MeV bremsstrahlung were measured at first time
1.2 Van der Graaf of KIGAM (G.D. Kim, gdkim@kigam.re.kr)
Specifications:- 1 MeV ~ 2 MeV monoenergetic pulsed beam with TOF system- based on Van der Graaf with bunching and pulsing- 3H(p,n) reaction with 107~108 neutrons/sec and FWHM < 15 %- Pulsed beam with period 125 ns, width 1-2ns, Time Pick up detecting system- Prompt gamma-ray with anti-Compton system amdtwo parameter (E,T) data taking
system- BC-501 monitor detector ( 2”x2”, 3”x 1 cm)
Measurements:- Neutron captured gamma spectrum on 197Au is measured and being analyzed forneutron energies 1 ~ 2 MeV
1.3 MC-50 of KIRAMS (GN Kim, gnkim@knu.ac.kr)
Specifications:- Azimuthally-Varying Field-Type MC-50 cyclotron- Proton Beam Energy : ~ 45 MeV- Beam current : < ~ 50 nA- Measurements of proton induced reaction cross-sections on natMo, natZn, and natW:♦ natMo(p,xn)99m,96m,g,95m,gTc♦ natZn(p,xn)66Ga, natZn(p,xn)67Ga, natZn(p,pxn)62Zn, natZn(p,axn)61Cu,nat
Zn(p,axn)65Zn, Zn(p,axn)69mZn♦ natMo(p,xn)99m,96m,g,95m,gTc
2. Evaluation and Benchmark (Y.-O. Lee, yolee@kaeri.re.kr)- A number of different emission channel production cross sections induced by charged
particles such as reactions such as natCu(α,x)66,67Ga,65Zn, natFe(d,X)56Co are being
evaluated using the statistical model code TALYS, which allow us to solve thediscrepancies existing among the literature data.
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For design of an accelerator-based facility, proton induced nuclear data was evaluated for
Al-27 in the energy region up to 100 MeV using nuclear reaction model code TALYS
and validated with experimental data available. Our evaluation includes the production
cross sections and double-differential cross sections for all residual nuclides as well as
light particles such as neutron, proton, and alpha.

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In response to discrepancies between calculations and measurements of several fusion
shielding benchmarks, neutron cross sections for 182,183,184,186W were evaluated in theneutron-incident energy range from 0.1 MeV to 20 MeV using the nuclear reaction
model code EMPIRE-2.19 with a consistent set of input parameters for all tungsten
isotopes.

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A new module has been developed for the evaluation of cross sections in the resolved
84and unresolved resonance regions. It automates most of the evaluation procedures andcan be executed within EMPIRE or as a stand-alone program. When it is used asconnected to the EMPIRE code, the single ENDF-6 formatted file can be obtained in thefull energy region. -As a first step for the fusion neutronics shielding benchmarks, the ENDF/B-VII beta 1,
JEFF-3.1, and JENDL-3.3 have been tested for 5 pulsed sphere experiments performed at
the OKTAVIAN, FNS/JAEA, and FNG/ENEA facilities. The leakage neutron and/or
gamma spectra calculated by the MCNPX code have been compared with themeasurements.

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NNDC Progress Report(NRDC Meeting, Oct 8-10, 2007)
Pavel Oblozinsky

National Nuclear Data Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory
oblozinsky@bnl.gov
NRDC’07, Vienna
Brookhaven Science Associates

Pavel Oblozinsky

October 8-10, 2007

NNDC Staff Changes• Marco Pigni– Joined the NNDC in January 2007 (PhD from TU Vienna)– Covariance postdoc• Manojeet Bhattacharya– Joined the NNDC in April 2007 (PhD, came from NASA)– Replacement for Dave Winchell– NSR compilations + structure evaluations• Dimitri Rochman– Left the NNDC in August 2007 (moved to NRG Petten)– EXFOR compilations + ENDF evaluations– The position is currently vacant, replacement in ~1/2 year
– Stanislav Hlavac (Bratislava) is taking care of EXFOR

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NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 2007

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EXFOR Compilations
New compilations in FY07 (Oct 1, 2006 – Sep 30, 2007)
Neutrons:
36 entries, 174 subentries
Charged particles: 100
392
Gammas:
0
0
Total
136
566

Compilations in FY06
Total

179 entries, 708 subentries

Scope of compilation••

All new papers are compiled regularly
Old papers as time permits (~150 neutron, ~350 charged particle
still un-compiled, remaining part of the collection by V. McLane)

Pavel Oblozinsky

NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 20073

Data Services: 1 Million Retrievals in FY2006

 ~1.1M retrievals, 40% up

compared to FY2005
 ~50% from NuDat & Chartof Nuclides
Pavel Oblozinsky

NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 2007

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Data Services in FY2007

Data retrievals increased by 26% compared to 2006

Data retrievals in 11months of FY07

Total
1,256,000 projected increase 26%
Reactions 195,000- CINDA 6,500- EXFOR 98,500- ENDF90,000Sigma interface for ENDF
– NuDat-like interface– Launched in April 2007

Pavel Oblozinsky

NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 2007

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Release of the ENDF/B-VII.0 library
The first major release since 1990

The ENDF/B-VII.0 has been developed by
CSEWG with a significant contribution fromseveral labs (LANL, BNL, NIST, LLNL) – criticalsupport for AFCI, GNEP, Gen-IV!

Principal advances over ENDF/B-VI library

Validation carried out in US andEurope (hundreds of integral
experiments) proved absolute
superiority of the ENDF/BVII.0 over precedent libraries
Pavel Oblozinsky










Many new cross sections for major actinides
New set of fission product evaluations (BNL)
Improved thermal neutron scattering
More precise standards
New radioactive data (BNL)
Photonuclear reactions
β-delayed photon decay spectra
New methods for uncertainties andcovariances (BNL,…)

NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 2007

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ENDF/B-VII.0 Library Contents

14 sublibraries, many additions and improvements

New sublibraries:
Neutron standards cross sections, photonuclear
Large improvements: Neutron reaction sublibrary, charged particles, decay data,
thermal neutron scattering sublibrary
No changes:
Fission yields, atomic data (taken over from ENDF/B-VI.8)
LANL, IAEA
BNL

LANL, ORNL, BNL
LANL
IAEA-NEA-NIST-LANL
LANL
LANL
LANL
LANL

Pavel Oblozinsky

NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 2007

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ENDF/B-VII Validation, Case Study:

Lady Godiva - well characterized critical assembly
Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry,
England, in the 11th Century, following a
wager with her husband whereby heagreed to reduce taxes on the poor!

• Highly enricheduranium sphere, firstbuilt at Los Alamos in~1950s• Bare assembly• Pure• Object of beauty!
Pavel Oblozinsky

Lady Godiva by John Collier, ca 1897
NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 2007

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Integral Critical Assembly Data Validation
Excellent ENDF/B-VII Performance

Critical assemblies:
C/E values of k-eff

Example: Fast Assemblies

Data testing against> 800 assemblies:-Fast assemblies(Godiva, Flattop,
Big10, Jezebel)- Reflected assemblies
- HEU
- LEU
- Pu solutions- Np, 233U,…
etc.

235U
sphere239Pu
sphere233U sphere

239Pu +238U reflector

ENDF/B-VII not an “adjusted library”. Some evaluationchoices were made to optimize agreement with critical assembly
data - but physics motivated & within uncertainties
Pavel Oblozinsky

NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 2007

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Major Publications
Atlas of Neutron Resonances
S.F. Mughabghab
Elsevier, April 2006

“Big Paper” on ENDF/B-VII.0

M. Chadwick, P. Oblozinsky, M. Herman et al
Nuclear Data Sheets, Dec 2006
Reference paper

EMPIRE: Nuclear Reaction Model Code
System for Data Evaluation
M. Herman, R. Capote, B. Carlson et al
Nuclear Data Sheets, Dec 2007

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NRDC’07, Vienna
October 8-10, 2007

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Working Papers for the 2007 NRDC Meeting in Vienna, October 2007
WP2007-1
WP2007-2
WP2007-3
WP2007-4

Conclusions and Actions of the 2007 NRDC Meeting

Otsuka Naohiko, Plotting flags in Archive Dictionary 24 (Data
Hans Henriksson headings)
S.Dunaeva,
V.ZerkinS.Dunaeva

Procedure for correcting mistakes in the central
EXFOR master file

EXFOR compilation and transmission statistics (Newand revised entries since the last meeting)

WP2007-5

S.Dunaeva

WP2007-7

S.Dunaeva

Proposal to update old entries instead of creating new

S.Dunaeva,
O.Schwerer

Suspicious EXFOR entries

WP2007-6

WP2007-8
WP2007-9

V.Varlamov,
N.Otsuka
V.Zerkin,S.Dunaeva

Status of new publication compilation
ENTRY L0091 correction

Proposal to move alteration flag into column 11 of
ENTRY and SUBENT records

WP2007-10

V.Zerkin

EXFOR+Interpreted (extended) EXFOR format

WP2007-12

N.Otsuka

Bibliographical information (TITLE, AUTHOR)
from several references

WP2007-11

N.Otsuka,O.Schwerer

WP2007-13

O.Schwerer

WP2007-15

V.Zerkin

WP2007-14
WP2007-16
WP2007-17
WP2007-18
WP2007-19

Journal code PR and general format of page number

N.Otsuka

Reference frame of analyzing power

V.ZerkinError in ENTRY 11333

EXFOR errors report

S.Dunaeva

Procedure for creation CINDA reference

N.OtsukaMultiplicity of prompt gamma in capture reaction(22960.005-006)

N.Otsuka

WP2007-20

F.Tarkanyi

WP2007-21

S.Dunaeva

WP2007-22

V.Zerkin

WP2007-23

Definition of spectrum averaged cross section

V.Zerkin

Review of corrections since the 2006 NRDC meeting

List of missing EXFOR data of experimental works
compiled in the CRP for “Recommended data for
production of therapeutic radioisotopes”
Statistics of new publication compilation ofphotonuclear data

Error in TRANS.2185 and Re: Memo CP-D/491
Output of IAEA EXFOR Web retrieval system

Note: The working papers are available online from http://www-nds.iaea.org/nrdc-int/2007nrdc/wps.html
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