Major Outcome of the NDS Data Development Activity
Selected Reports and Documents on Nuclear Data
Conferences and Meetings Announcements
Forthcoming Meetings Held by NDS
Technical Co-operation Programme for 2001-2002
The addresses of the co-operating nuclear data service centres
Contact address, IAEA Nuclear Data Section
Previous issues of this Newsletter:
All services provided to users by the Nuclear Data Section of
the IAEA are free of charge.
A vacancy has been advertised for the position of
Nuclear Physicist/Programmer (P-2) in the Nuclear Data Centre
Unit of the Nuclear Data Section of the IAEA. The main duties
are data compilation in the EXFOR and CINDA databases and computer
program development of user-friendly online (Worldwide Web) and
offline (CD-ROM) access to IAEA nuclear databases. Vacancy Notices
are posted at http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/vacancies/cur_vacancies.html
under Department of Research and Isotopes. Please note that government
sponsorship is no longer required for professional appointments.
The closing date for applications is 6 August 1998.
Based partly on NDS initiatives in February 1998
the IAEA upgraded the bandwidth of the data line to the Internet
from 256 kilobits/sec to 1 Megabit/sec. A remaining bottleneck
for some users is the limitation on their own access to the global
networks. On request, the NDS can carry out an analysis of the
network performance between the NDS Web server and the user. For
this please provide us with the following information: user IP
and/or host addresses and the date and time of any sessions where
difficulties were experienced.
New Web access:
EXFOR (Library of Experimental
Nuclear
Reaction Data)
CINDA (bibliography of
microscopic neutron data)
RIPL (Reference Input
Parameter Library, more details given below)
FENDL-2.0/E, FENDL-2.0/MC,
and
The EXFOR database (380 Mb) is available now
on CD-ROM (or Hard Disk). It was developed in the NDS by
J. Vamosi. It runs in the Windows environment. The CD contains
the full database (experimental nuclear reaction data induced
by neutrons, photons and charged particles) as of 1 January 1998.
The functionality of the retrieval software is similar to the
Telnet and WWW versions.
A package of ENDF-6 format libraries and related
codes is also available on CD-ROM. It contains recent comprehensive
evaluated data libraries (ENDF/B-VI (including Revision
4), JENDL-3.2, JEF-2.2, BROND-2 and CENDL-2)
an information retrieval and merger system, ENDF-6 Format Manual
and ENDF/B-VI Summary Documentation in PostScript format, ENDF-6
Utility (version 6.11) and 1996 Pre-processing Codes and documentation.
A preliminary CD-ROM version (March 1998)
of the RIPL (Reference Input Parameter Library: Starter
File) is available now. This library contains nuclear model parameters
for nuclear reaction cross section calculations.
A CD-ROM version of JENDL-3.2 Plots&Data
prepared at JAERI Nuclear Data Centre is available now. It contains
compressed files of original and pointwise neutron cross-section
data at 0 K and 300 K from JENDL-3 Library in ENDF-6 format and
integral neutron cross-section plots in GIF, PostScript and PDF
formats.
The new release (6.11) of the ENDF Utility
Codes is available. Use Telnet to NDIS or the Web site for
downloading.
"Maslov" update 98/01.
Evaluated neutron reaction data for Np-238 were added to Pu, Am
and Cm isotopes already contained in the file. Summary documentation:
IAEA-NDS-164 Rev. 3 (1998).
The Reference Input Parameter Library (RIPL) contains
input parameters for model calculations of nuclear reaction cross
sections. The library is targeted at users of nuclear reaction
codes for use in low-energy nuclear applications at energies below
about 100 MeV. Incident and outgoing particles include n, p, d,
t, 3He, 4He and -rays. The RIPL Starter
File is available through the Web (http://www-nds.iaea.or.at/ripl/),
FTP (host address: iaeand.iaea.or.at, username: ripl, no password)
or on CD-ROM. The library contains information on: atomic
masses and deform-ations, discrete level schemes, average neutron
resonance parameters, optical model para-meters, level densities
(partial, total and fission channel), gamma-ray strength functions
and continuum angular distributions.
Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library, General
Purpose Files (FENDL/E-2.0, FENDL/MC-2.0 and
FENDL/MG-2.0) are released. They are available through the
Web (http://iaeand.iaea.or.at/fendl2/) or FTP (host address: iaeand.iaea.or.at,
user name FENDL2, no password). FENDL/E-2.0 contains selected
original evaluations, FENDL/MC-2.0 contains files processed by
NJOY91 or NJOY94 for neutron/gamma transport calculations with
the MCNP code, and FENDL/MG-2.0 contains a multigroup library
prepared with NJOY91 or NJOY94 for neutron/gamma transport calculations
using the discrete ordinates method.
INDC(BLR)-011. Evaluation
of Neutron Data for Neptunium-238. By V.M. Maslov et al. (1998).
See reference on data under New Data Files and Libraries.
INDC(CCP)-411. Discrepancies
in (n,2n) Reaction Excitation Functions of Rear Earth Isotopes.
Recommendations for Selection of the Reliable Data. By A.I. Blokhin
et al. (1998).
Progress Reports
INDC(CPR)-043. Communication
of Nuclear Data Progress No. 18 (1997). China Nuclear Information
Center.
INDC(JPN)-181. Progress
Report by Japanese Nuclear Data Committee (January 1997 to
December 1997 inclusive), JAERI (1998).
Nuclear Model Calculations
INDC(CCP)-410. New Advanced
Version of Computer Code ALICE-IPPE. A.I. Dityuk et al. (1998).
JAERI-Data/Code 97-053.
Evaluation Data File (EVLDF) Storing Model Parameters for Nuclear
Data Calculation. T Nakagawa (1998).
Nuclear Data for Safeguards
INDC(NDS)-376. Handbook
of Nuclear Data for Safeguards. N. Kocherov et al. (1997). It
is a hard copy of electronic version SGNucDat Version 2 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.
Nuclear Data for Neutron Therapy
IAEA-TECDOC-992 (1997) Nuclear
Data for Neutron Therapy: Status and Future Needs Report summarises
the results of the CRP on Nuclear Data Need for Neutron Therapy
(1987-1993). Report was prepared by the CRP participants in 1995
and published after a final review by a group of consultants.
It is concentrated on the problems of microdosimetry and protocols
for the determination of absorbed doses, neutron source properties
for the Be(p,n) reaction up to 100 MeV, beam collimation and shielding,
measurements of kerma factors for biologically important elements,
and a comparative characterisation of radiation quality (i.e.
biological effect per unit dose) of neutron beams used in various
therapy centres.
Yadernye Konstanty ("Nuclear Constants"
Moscow, Russia. This series of Voprosy Atomnoj Nauki I Tekhniki
("Problems of Atomic Science and Technique") appears
in Russian with abstracts in English. Copies are available, free
of charge, from the IAEA Nuclear Data Section. Content are listed
below. Subject to available funds, selected articles are translated
by IAEA and published as INDC(CCP) reports.
Yad. Konst. 1997 (2)
Photofission cross section of Pu-238, Pu-240 and
Pu-242 in the energy range from 5 to 10 MeV (A.S. Soldatov). The
measurement of gamma-ray multiplicity spectra and alpha-value
of Pu-239 in energy range 2-2150 eV (Yu.V. Grigor'ev et al.).
Modernization of spectrometer for measurements of leakage neutron
spectra in the energy region 3 to 15 MeV for spherical samples
with the 14 MeV central source (Yu.N. Onishchenko et al.).
Status of the nuclear data for the thorium cycle
(B.D. Kuz'minov et al.). Analysis of discrepancies in evaluated
data for Np-237 and development of improved evaluation (A.V. Ignatyuk
et al., in English). Neutron radiative capture for Am-241 in the
energy range 1 keV to 20 MeV (K.I. Zolotarev et al.).
Structure of the gamma-spectra in neutron radiative
capture (O.T. Grudzevich).
Contamination of the environment with radionuclides
released from specific nuclear industry of Russian Federation
Ministry of Atomic Energy in 1996 and ways to mitigate this (T.V.
Golashvili et al., in English).
Investigations of spectra of secondary neutrons and
photons leaking from iron and lead barriers irradiated by 14 MeV
neutrons (L.A. Trykov et al.).
The Knolls Chart of the Nuclides (wall chart,
15th edition, 1996), with booklet, and the Karlsruhe
Chart of the Nuclides (wall chart, 6th edition, 1995)
are available from the IAEA cost-free for scientists in developing
countries.
Proceedings of the International Conference on
Nuclear Data for Science and Technology,
Trieste, Italy, 19-24 May 1997, ed. by G. Reffo, A. Ventura and
C. Grandi, Conference Proceedings, Vol. 59, Part 1 and 2,
Societa Italiana di Fisica, 1997. The proceedings include 460
papers covering the following topics: nuclear reaction mechanisms;
facilities and experiments; nuclear structure and decay; evaluations
and data center activities; reactor technology, safety and fuel
cycle; standards and dosimetry; fission product transmutation
and actinide recycling; environment, safeguards and non-proliferation;
accelerator technology and space science; astrophysics; medical
applications; industrial applications. The proceedings are distributed
between 433 participants from 47 countries. (A limited number
of copies is available on request).
Proceedings of the 1997 Symposium on Nuclear Data,
JAERI, Tokai, Japan, 27-28 November 1997, ed. by T. Yoshida and
T. Fukahori, INDC(JPN)-180, 1998. The proceedings include
58 papers on nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear data, status of JENDL,
international collaboration, applying JENDL-3.2 to fission reactors,
delayed neutrons, neutron experimental facilities, nuclear data
needs, results of experimental and evaluation work, benchmark
tests and on-line nuclear databases.
Fourteenth International Workshop on
Nuclear Fission Physics, 12-15 October, 1998, Obninsk (105
km from Moscow), Russia, will be held at the Institute
of Physics and Power Engineering. The following topics will be
discussed: static properties of fission process; fission induced
by different particles, mass, charge and energy distributions
of fission products; cold and hot fission; ternary fission; high-energy
fission and fusion-fission reactions; fission dynamics, phenomenological
and microscopic description of nuclear dissipation; new experimental
instruments and methods; nuclear data associated with fission.
More information on e-mail: gaa@ippe.rssi.ru or on
the WWW http://fdl.ippe.rssi.ru.
Tenth International Conference on Modern Trends
in Activation Analysis (MTAA-10), 19-23 April, 1999, Bethesda
(near Washington DC), Maryland, USA
will be convened by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology. Major topics are: instrumental and radiochemical activation
analysis; methods, facilities, instrumentation, nuclear data,
data processing and interpretation; accuracy, standards, sampling,
blanks and backgrounds; existing and new applications; methodological
and technical aspects of activation analysis; education, training
and the future of activation analysis. Up-to-date news are available
through e-mail: MTAA10@nist.gov or on the Worldwide Web (WWW)
at http://www. cstl.nist.gov/ nist839/839.05/nuclear.html.
The Tenth International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry,
12-17 September, 1999, Osaka, Japan is
organised by ASTM Committee E10 on Nuclear Technology and Applications
and EWGRD. The symposium theme is dosimetry for the assessment
of irradiated reactor materials and reactor experiments, featuring
radiation metrology techniques, data bases and standardization.
Information can be obtained from the Symposium Web Page at http://www.sandia.
gov/events/isrd99
ICRS-9. Ninth International Conference on Radiation
Shielding, 17-22 October, 1999, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
is organized by JAERI in collaboration with OECD/NEANSC, AESJ
and ORNL/RSICC. Main topics are radiation shielding of different
installations, shielding experiments, calculations and design,
nuclear data for shielding , radiation detection, measurements
and dosimetry, activation, decontamination and decommissioning,
impact of radiation and radioactivity to environment. More information
is available on WWW at http://icrs9.tokai.jaeri.go.jp. Contacts
via
e-mail: ikeda@fnshp.tokai.jaeri. go.jp
Workshop on Processing of Nuclear Data for Use
in Power Reactor Pressure Vessel Lifetime Assessment,
19-23 October, 1998, IAEA Headquarters, Vienna. The objective
of the workshop is to acquaint the participants with updated nuclear
data libraries and associated processing codes for safety aspects
of power reactors. The main emphasis will be on demonstration
and exercises on subjects related to the evaluation of pressure
vessel lifetimes employing the latest available data libraries
and computer codes.
E-mail: workshop@iaeand.iaea.or.at
Advisory Group Meeting on the Co-ordination of
the International Network of Nuclear Structure and Decay Data
Evaluation, 14-17 December 1998, IAEA
Headquarters, Vienna. Main topics: problems of the quality and
continuity of the data compilation in the nuclear structure data
bases; evaluated data files and libraries for special applications;
publications and customer services.
FENDL-2.0/MG (Fusion Evaluated
Nuclear Data Library, General Purpose Files, more
details below).
How to contact us:
Nuclear Data Section
International Atomic Energy Agency
P.O. Box 100
A-1400 Vienna
Austria
e-mail: services@iaeand.iaea.or.at
fax: (43-1) 20607
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