By Peter Rullhusen

This quantity provides contemporary development within the development of the nuclear database wanted for the improvement of new release IV nuclear power platforms. The iteration IV overseas discussion board (GIF) pointed out six complex ideas for sustainable nuclear strength construction at aggressive costs and with complicated protection, with certain cognizance to nuclear non-proliferation and actual security concerns, minimization of long-lived radiotoxic waste, and optimal common source usage method teams were validated for learning those ideas intimately, and nuclear information are an inherent a part of those reports. This publication reports the paintings lately played for the improvement of those platforms. The contributions comprise an up to date evaluate of contemporary achievements in sensitivity research, version calculations, estimates of uncertainties, and the current prestige of nuclear databases with reference to their functions to iteration IV platforms. within the workshop, exact realization used to be given to the id of nuclear facts wishes from sensitivity research of benchmark experiments and the remedy of uncertainties. The complaints include overviews of a number of experimental application and up to date result of curiosity for the improvement of new release IV platforms.

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Ni58 Capture Cross Section Standard Deviation before and after adjustment These improvements show a reduction of the standard deviation which is only part of the problem since correlations between groups, between reactions and between isotopes are contributing to a significant reduction of the uncertainties. Hence, one can conclude that: • Nuclear Data Requests are of little use if requested uncertainties are not mentioned. • Nuclear Data Variance-covariance matrices should be provided with the evaluation.

On the whole, the results for fast spectrum systems are good, but for thermal spectrum systems the results are 5 to 6% overestimated. 3. Conclusions From the results from all these benchmark calculations, some of which are presented in the previous section, we conclude the following. 8 Figure 3. C / E values for (3eg in many systems. For the systems on the left the neutron spectrum was thermal, for the systems on the right it was fast. The benchmark collenction ICSBEP is very useful for data testing.

XI-0118). 38 39 its negativity is a fundamental requirement for the inherent safety of watercooled reactors under accident conditions. Because of the fuel and coolant characteristics, the epithermal neutron spectrum and the need to have excess neutrons to enable waste transmutation, a highly heterogeneous structure is adopted for this core in order to prevent the deterioration of the void effect [2]. On the other hand, the studies performed in recent years outlined the difficulties related to a correct modeling of the SCFR core and the uncertainties associated with the void effect estimation [3,4].

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