Dunford, “Some CSEWG recollections,” Tech. The ENDF/B-VII.0 library is archived at the National Nuclear Data Center, BNL, and can be retrieved from We anticipate that the new library will play an important role in nuclear technology applications, including transport simulations supporting national security, nonproliferation, advanced reactor and fuel cycle concepts, criticality safety, fusion, medicine, space applications, nuclear astrophysics, and nuclear physics facility design.
Extensive validation, using radiation transport codes to simulate measured critical assemblies, show major improvements: (a) The long-standing underprediction of low enriched uranium thermal assemblies is removed (b) The 238U and 208Pb reflector biases in fast systems are largely removed (c) ENDF/B-VI.8 good agreement for simulations of thermal high-enriched uranium assemblies is preserved (d) The underprediction of fast criticality of 233,235U and 239Pu assemblies is removed and (e) The intermediate spectrum critical assemblies are predicted more accurately. We describe each of the 14 sublibraries, focusing on neutron reactions. The paper provides an overview of this library, consisting of 14 sublibraries in the same ENDF-6 format as the earlier ENDF/B-VI library. The principal advances over the previous ENDF/B-VI library are the following: (1) New cross sections for U, Pu, Th, Np and Am actinide isotopes, with improved performance in integral validation criticality and neutron transmission benchmark tests (2) More precise standard cross sections for neutron reactions on H, 6Li, 10B, Au and for 235,238U fission, developed by a collaboration with the IAEA and the OECD/NEA Working Party on Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC) (3) Improved thermal neutron scattering (4) An extensive set of neutron cross sections on fission products developed through a WPEC collaboration (5) A large suite of photonuclear reactions (6) Extension of many neutron- and proton-induced evaluations up to 150 MeV (7) Many new light nucleus neutron and proton reactions (8) Post-fission beta-delayed photon decay spectra (9) New radioactive decay data (10) New methods for uncertainties and covariances, together with covariance evaluations for some sample cases and (11) New actinide fission energy deposition.
Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) in December 2006, contains data primarily for reactions with incident neutrons, protons, and photons on almost 400 isotopes, based on experimental data and theory predictions. We describe the next generation general purpose Evaluated Nuclear Data File, ENDF/B-VII.0, of recommended nuclear data for advanced nuclear science and technology applications.
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