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The challenge for any nuclear data evaluation project is to periodically release a revised, fully consistent and complete library, with all needed data and covariances, and ensure that it is robust and reliable for a variety of applications. Within an evaluation effort, benchmarking activities play an important role in validating proposed libraries...
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... and JENDL-4.0 are tested in the NEA criticality validation suite. As it was expected, large differences in keff uncertainties were found due to 239 Pu and 235 U covariance data in JEFF-3.3.T1 (see Table 2). Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis for the Tritium Breeding Ratio (TBR) of a DEMO Fusion Reactor was carried out with different sets of covariance data: JEFF-3.2, ...
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... Other evaluations used in this paper, i.e., the JEFF-3.3 [31] or the ENDF/B-VII.1 [32] evaluations, were based on the Los Alamos or Madland-Nix model [33]. ...
... The transport files employed in the transport and correction calculations were taken from the ENDF/B-VII.I library [32] except for 235 U which was taken alternatively from ENDF/B-VIII.0 library [26], ENDF/B-VII.1 library, or JEFF-3.3 [31] to show major differences in evaluated prompt fission thermal-neutron spectrum. ENDF/B-VII.I library was chosen for transport because of consistency with older calculations before the release of the ENDF/B-VIII.0 ...
Spectrum-averaged cross-section (SACS) ratio measurement showing reduced uncertainties of measured SACS in two independent fission neutron fields is presented. The used prompt fission neutron fields correspond to the 252Cf(sf) and 235U(nth,f) fission neutrons. The employed SACS in the 235U(nth,f) prompt fission neutron spectrum (PFNS) were measured using three different light water reactors: LR-0 and VR-1 zero power reactors and the LVR-15 10 MWt reactor. The employed SACS in the 252Cf(sf) prompt fission neutron field were measured using a certified high-flux neutron source. Existing correlations among measured SACS in the two different neutron fields are estimated and used to reduce the uncertainty of measured SACS ratio for IRDFF dosimetry reactions. The derived set of measured SACS ratios with reduced uncertainty extends previous works into the higher-energy fission neutron range up to 20–30 MeV. The SACS ratio in 252Cf(sf) and 235U(nth,f) PFNS can be used to probe the high-energy tail of the 235U(nth,f) fission neutron spectrum as the 252Cf(sf) reference neutron spectrum is relatively well known. Derived experimental SACS ratio data. featuring low uncertainty are compared to the calculated dosimetry SACS ratio using the IRDFF-II dosimetry cross sections and the 235U(nth,f) ENDF/B-VII.1, ENDF/B-VIII.0, or JEFF-3.3 PFNS evaluations. The ENDF/B-VIII.0 evaluation of the 235U(nth,f) PFNS agrees well with derived SACS ratio data within quoted uncertainties. Other libraries predict a significantly lower fraction of 235U(nth,f) fission neutrons above 11 MeV of the outgoing neutron energy.
... and JEFF-3.2 [[5], [6], [7], [8], [9]], and to compare the results with the references. The OECD/NEA Expert Group proposed the VVER-1000 LEU and MOX assembly computational benchmark as a theoretical benchmark for investigating the physics of a whole VVER-1000 reactor core using two-thirds (LEU) and one-third (MOX) fuel [ [10], [11]]. ...
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... The black (solid), orange (dashed), pink (dotted), blue (dash-dotted), and green (densely dashed) lines, respectively, denote CENDL-3.2 [19], ENDF/B-VIII.0, JEFF3.3 [20], BROND-3.1 [21], and JENDL-4.0HE evaluations. ...
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... In the Evaluated Nuclear Data File (ENDF; Trkov and Brown, 2018), thermal neutron scattering in an atomic system is explained using the thermal scattering law (TSL), which is the fundamental data to evaluate thermal scattering cross-sections. Currently, individual TSL data files are contained in the major ENDF such as ENDF/B , JEFF (Cabellos et al., 2017), and JENDL (Shibata et al., 2011). However, a limited number of materials have TSL data. ...
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... Visual representation of detectors inside the JSI TRIGA model. data libraries, JEFF 3.3 (Cabellos et al., 2017) nuclear data library was used for isotopic inventory and delayed radiation spectra calculations. Delayed electron source terms were calculated by the BetaShape code, with a 10 keV resolution. ...
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... 2018), JEFF-3.3(Cabellos et al., 2017), JENDL-4.0(Shibata et al., 2011),CENDL-3.1Ge et al., 2011, ROSFOND-2010(Zabrodskaya et al., 2007,EAF-2010 (Packer andSublet, 2010), TENDL-2017Koning andRochman, 2012 and IRDFF-II Trkov et al., 2020nuclear data libraries for comparison. The input 252 Cf(sf) neutron spectrum was taken from the IAEA IRDFF webpage. There is a possibility to ...
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