Help needed towards a new 252Cf(sf) nubar evaluation
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This talk motivates why we need a new 252Cf(sf) nu-bar (uncertainty) evaluation and what help is needed to do so. The previous standard evaluation gave an uncertainty value of 0.13% while the current one gives a values of 0.42%. This increase of this standard uncertainty leads to increased major and minor actinide nu-bar uncertainties as most data are measured relative to the 252Cf(sf) nu-bar. Therefore, this increase in the standard impacts uncertainty bounds on applications down-stream distinctly. After the release of the newest standards, new work has shown that neither the 0.13% nor the 0.42% are likely realistic. We need a new uncertainty estimate with a completely new evaluation. Given the importance of this particular evaluation, I am asking here for help from the standards committee in reviewing the data to counter-check my uncertainty estimate, as we'd better be sure of the uncertainties we want to publish next.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 10 p.
Conference
- Title Technical Meeting on Neutron Data Standards
- Dates
- 27-31 January 2025
- Place
- Vienna (Austria)
- Website https://conferences.iaea.org/event/409/contributions/
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- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Subject category
- S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTINIDES; AMERICIUM; CALIBRATION STANDARDS; CALIFORNIUM 252; CURIUM 244; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COVARIANCES; E CODES; EVALUATION; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISONS; LIMITING VALUES; NUCLEAR DATA COLLECTIONS; SAFETY STANDARDS; STANDARDIZATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ACTINIDES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CALIFORNIUM ISOTOPES; COMPUTER CODES; CURIUM ISOTOPES; DATA PROCESSING; ELEMENTS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; METALS; NUCLEI; PROCESSING; RADIOISOTOPES; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; STANDARDS; TRANSPLUTONIUM ELEMENTS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES