Russian program of minor actinide nuclear data measurements and evaluation

The proposed programme consists of five subprograms of the MA nuclear characteristics measurements and their evaluation. The measurements will be performed with the different methods using different installations (nTOF, Pb-slow down spectrometer, tandem generator, irradiation in high flux reactor, benchmark experiments at BFS). Nuclear characteristics (σf, σc, α, resonance integrals and parameters, central reactivity coefficient etc.) will be measured for 22 isotopes of Np, Pu, Am, Cm, Bk and Cf in four energy range of neutron spectra: thermal region, resolved resonance region (1 to 100 eV), unresolved resonance region (0.1 to 100 keV) and fast spectrum region (0.1 to 30 MeV). The measured data will be evaluated and prepared as a file compatible with existing nuclear data libraries. (author)