Issue #24 - December 1997
IAEA Nuclear Data Section - Vienna, Austria
Note:
Unless indicated otherwise, the quoted data files, printed materials, or
computer codes are available cost-free upon request. The major databases
are available online within NDIS, the Nuclear Data Information System.
FTP transfer can be arranged by e-mail exchange. When requesting data
files or codes on magnetic tapes or diskettes, kindly give us your
acceptable specifications:
"Maslov" update 97/2. Evaluated neutron reaction data for
Pu-238 and Pu-242
were added to this file containing evaluations for several Am and Cm isotopes.
Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-164 Rev. 2 (1997).
MENDL-2P. Proton reaction data library for nuclear activation by Yu.N.
Shubin
et al., Obninsk, Russia. This library includes calculated proton
cross-sections in ENDF-6 format for 505 nuclei (Z=13-84) for energies up to
200 MeV. The total number of reactions is 87196. Available on a set of
PC diskettes (compressed), on CD-ROM or by FTP. Summary documentation:
IAEA-NDS-204.
SGNucDat Version 2. Safeguards Nuclear Data for Windows, update 1997,
compiled by M. Lammer, N.P. Kocherov, O. Schwerer, available on PC diskette.
Included are A: actinide nuclear data (decay data, selected neutron
cross-section data, fission-neutron data); B: fission-product nuclear data
(decay data and selected neutron cross-section data); C: fission-product yield
data. Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-248, Rev. 1.
NUBASE. New database for experimentally known nuclear properties, by
G. Audi,
O. Bersillon, J. Blachot, A.H. Wapstra. Available from the Atomic Mass Data
Center (AMDC), see below. Not available from IAEA. - NUBASE contains mass,
isomeric excitation energy, half-life, spin, parity, decay modes and
intensities for more than 3000 nuclides. Published in the journal Nuclear
Physics, Vol. A624(1997), pp. 1-124. Available by anonymous FTP from
csnftp.in2p3.fr, directory /pub/symfond/audi/mass, or consult the AMDC web
site at http://csnwww.in2p3.fr/amdc/
Still available: Chart of Stable Atomic Nuclei with attached periodic
table of elements, in Chinese.
INDC(JPN)-179. Proceedings of the 1996 Symposium on Nuclear Data,
21-22 November, 1996, JAERI, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan. Editors T. Iguchi and
T. Fukahori.
IAEA-NDS-7 Rev. 97/12. Index of nuclear data libraries available from
the IAEA Nuclear Data Section.
IAEA-NDS-0 Rev. 97/12. Index to the IAEA-NDS-Documentation Series for
available nuclear data libraries.
Magnetic tapes: specify acceptable density (1600 or 6250 bpi), maximum
block size, and whether the data should be coded in EBCDIC, ASCII, or
VAX-backup coding. Only 9-track tapes are used.
DAT tapes: 4 mm only, either in TAR format, IBM format or VMS format,
uncompressed or compressed. Preferable for very large data libraries
(up to several Gigabytes).
PC diskettes: DOS standard diskettes, either 3.5 inch or 5.25 inch.
Preferable for not too large files (if compressed up to several
Megabytes).
CD-ROM: Now available. Recording format ISO 9660. Please specify
maximum file-name length on your system.
Staff changes in the Data Centre
After conducting a prolonged search, we are happy to announce the appointment,
effective 21 November 1997, of Vladimir Pronyaev as the new Head of the IAEA
Nuclear Data Centre Unit. Vladimir, who comes to us from the Obninsk Nuclear
Data Center, is well known for his many contributions to the field of nuclear
data measurement, calculation and evaluation. He is also a former staff
member of Nuclear Data Section's nuclear data development unit (1980-84). We
are also happy to report the return of Sofiate Aung from leave of absence,
effective 1 December 1997. The departure of both Hans Lemmel and Sofie in
late 1996 naturally placed a heavy burden on the remaining staff of the Data
Centre. The NDS management wishes to take this opportunity to thank all of
the centre staff for their hard work in providing continuity of services
during this difficult period of transition. In particular, Otto Schwerer, our
Online Services Manager, deserves special thanks for his outstanding efforts.
We are also pleased to announce the arrival of Scott Miller of the University
of Texas. Over the next 12 months, Scott will help us in improving our
worldwide web interface and in formulating a strategy for dealing with the
increased congestion on the Internet.
Worldwide Web
Implementation of direct web access to nuclear reaction databases on our
"Nuclear Data Services" website is starting in December 1997 with EXFOR and
CINDA. See http://www-nds.iaea.or.at with links to new retrieval forms.
New data libraries
CENDL-2.1R. 7 revised materials (Fe-nat, Fe-54,56,57,58, Hg-nat,
Tl-nat) were
received (1997) for the Chinese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library for neutron
reaction data (CENDL-2.1). Available on computer media or online through
NDIS. Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-61, Rev. 4.
Charts of nuclides
1996 Japanese Chart of Nuclides issued by JNDC and JAERI-NDC, compiled by
T. Horiguchi et al. Desk chart showing decay modes and half-lives.
Supplemented by 5 tables (periodic table of elements; fundamental constants;
gamma-ray energy and intensity standards; alpha-particle energies and
intensities;
isotopic abundances and thermal neutron cross sections). A limited number of
copies is available cost-free from IAEA. For a WWW version (containing
additional data) see http://cracker.tokai.jaeri.go.jp/CN96/index.html.
Conference announcement
International Conference on the Physics of Nuclear Science and Technology,
5-8 October 1998, Islandia, Long Island (NY), USA, sponsored by the American
Nuclear Society. Major technical areas are: Nuclear Data; Neutron/Reactor
Physics; Reactor Analysis; Particle Transport; Monte Carlo Calculations;
Numerical Methods; Non-Linear Dynamics; Transient Phenomena; Space-Time
Kinetics; Coupled Neutronics-Thermal Hydraulics; Neutron Sources; Core
Monitoring; Incore Fuel Management; Reactor Physics Standards; Reactor Physics
Benchmarks; Nuclear Safeguards; Nuclear Instrumentation; Measurement
Techniques; Fast Neutron Penetration; Neutron Dosimetry; Research &038; Test
Reactors; Analysis of Nuclear Systems; Physics of MOX Fuels; Medical
Applications; Space Applications; Spallation Physics; Actinide Burners; High
Burnup Fuel.
Deadline for Summaries: 5 January 1998, to be sent to Dr. Dimitrios Cokinos,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 197C, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA. For
news of the conference see the website:
http://www.dne.bnl.gov/html/confweb/conf-98.htm
Conference proceedings
INDC(JPN)-178. Proceedings of the First Internet Symposium on Nuclear
Data, April 8 - June 15, 1996, JAERI, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan. Editors Tokio
Fukahori, Osamu Iwamoto and Tsuneo Nakagawa.
Data indexes and bibliographies
CINDA 97, the 1997 edition of the bibliography and data index for
microscopic neutron reaction data, is available for a sales price of 840
Austrian Schillings. It covers the period 1988-1997 and supplements the five
volume
issue of CINDA A (1935-1987) issued in 1990, which is also still available.
A limited number of copies of CINDA is available cost-free, primarily for
users in developing countries. - The CINDA database is available online, see
the last page of this Newsletter.
Selected reports and documents on nuclear data
* = documents available costfree from IAEA/NDS upon request.
- = available from originator or from the INIS Microfiche Service
(IAEA, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria)
Yadernye Konstanty ("Nuclear Constants"), Moscow, Russia.
This series appears
in Russian with abstracts in English. Copies are available, costfree, from the
IAEA Nuclear Data Section. Tables of contents are given in the following.
Subject to available funds, selected articles are translated by IAEA and
published as INDC(CCP)-reports.
Printed by the IAEA in Austria
December 1997
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