Proceedings of the NEANDC/NEACRP specialists meeting on fast neutron fission cross sections of U-233, U-235, U-238, and Pu-239, June 28--30, 1976, at Argonne National Laboratory

Data files of all available data of absolute cross section measurements of U-233, U-235, U-238 and Pu-239, and of the ratios of U-233, U-238, and Pu-239 to U-235 were assembled at Argonne National Laboratory for use by the two Working Groups. The data files of absolute cross sections included also data measured relative to one of the standard cross sections H(n,n), Li-6(n,α), and B-10(n,α), and the ratio data files included ratios derived from absolute values which were measured in an identical type of experiment by the same group of experimenters. The subject files (e.g., U-235-Absolute, or U-238/U-235-Ratio, etc.) consisted of ''Sets.'' These sets contained the data from one experimental group which may have been published at different times. The assembling of the files was started with an extract from the CSISRS data files of the National Neutron Cross Section Center at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Ratios were derived from quoted consistent sets of absolute cross sections, or from data which were actually measured as ratios but quoted as absolute values. The latter type of data was eliminated from the data files on absolute values. The files were improved by an extensive search for errors and data missing on the original CSISRS files at the time the extract was made. Other additions to the present subject files came from presentations made at this meeting and are described in the proceedings