Overview of the OECD-NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC)

Journal Article · Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · EPJ Web of Conferences (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023915002· OSTI ID:1837216

Fleming, M. ^[1]; Bernard, D. ^[2]; Brown, David A. ^[3]; Chadwick, M. ^[4]; de Saint Jean, C. ^[2]; Dupont, E. ^[5]; Ge, Z. ^[6]; Harada, H. ^[7]; Hawari, A. ^[8]; Herman, M. ^[4]; Iwamoto, O. ^[7]; Kodeli, I. ^[9]; Koning, A. ^[10]; Malvagi, F. ^[2]; McNabb, D. ^[11]; Mills, R. W. ^[12]; Noguère, G. ^[2]; Palmiotti, G. ^[13]; Plompen, A. ^[14]; Salvatores, M. ^[13] ; Sobes, V. ^[15]; White, M. ^[4]; Yokoyama, K. ^[7]

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1. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Boulogne-Billancourt (France). Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
2. Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Cadarache (France)
3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
5. Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
6. China Inst. of Atomic Energy (CIAE), Beijing (China)
7. Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai (Japan)
8. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
9. Jozef Stefan Inst. (IJS), Ljubljana (Slovenia)
10. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna (Austria)
11. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
12. National Nuclear Laboratory, Sellafield (United Kingdom)
13. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
14. European Commission, Geel (Belgium). Joint Research Centre (JRC)
15. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC) was established in 1989 to facilitate collaboration in nuclear data activities. Over its thirty year history, different Subgroups have been created to address topics in nearly every aspect of nuclear data, including: experimental measurements, evaluation, validation, model development, quality assurance of databases and the development of software tools. WPEC has recently completed activities on fission yield evaluation, the general nuclear database structure (GNDS) to replace the ENDF-6 format, methods to provide feedback to evaluation, studies of specific capture cross sections, new methods in thermal scattering kernel evaluation and the Collaborative International Evaluated Library Organisation (CIELO) Pilot Project. Ongoing activities in GNDS application programming interface (API) development, methods for covariance evaluation and quality assurance in nuclear data validation using the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) database are complemented by the work of two Expert Groups that oversee the High-Priority Request List (HPRL) for Nuclear Data and the continuous development of the GNDS. New activities on the use of integral experiments for nuclear data validation and adjustment, as well as the use of the Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database (SINBAD) for validation have begun and will be coordinated alongside future Subgroups. After three decades we will review the status of WPEC, how it integrates other collections and activities organised by the NEA and how it dovetails with the initiatives of the IAEA and other bodies to effectively coordinate international activities in nuclear data.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• Grant/Contract Number: SC0012704
• OSTI ID: 1837216
• Report Number(s): BNL-222477-2021-JAAM; TRN: US2300423
• Journal Information: EPJ Web of Conferences (Online), Vol. 239; Conference: ND 2019: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Beijing (China), 19-24 May 2019; ISSN 2100-014X
• Publisher: EDP Sciences
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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