Improved nuclear data for the safety of energy and non-energy applications of ionising radiation

Nuclear data are critical inputs – and a major source of uncertainty – in predictive modelling and simulations of energy and non-energy applications. The combination of high-power computing capabilities with the availability of advanced simulation models (and related data libraries) and more accurate nuclear data measurements enable nuclear data evaluation programmes. The evaluated nuclear data libraries are a combination of:

• experimental measurements of the interactions of interest and estimation of their uncertainties and (cross-)correlations;
• the evaluation of available experimental data and the creation of evaluated nuclear data libraries (including uncertainties and covariance matrices);
• the validation of these (updated) evaluated nuclear data libraries by means of available differential and integral experimental data;
• the dissemination of these (updated) evaluated nuclear data libraries according to the standards of ‘reproducible science’ – inclu