Published 2008 | Version v1
Book

Progress in Evaluated Nuclear Data for Tungsten with Covariances

  • 1. Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  • 2. Nuclear Data Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
  • 3. IAEA representative at OECD/NEA DB, 12 bd des Iles, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux (France)
  • 4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge (United States)

Description

New evaluations for the tungsten isotopes 180,182,183,184,186W in the neutron energy range up to 150 MeV were produced, including the covariance information. Minor adjustments to the existing resonance parameters were made. Evaluations in the fast energy region were based on nuclear model calculations using the EMPIRE-2.19 code; covariance data were generated with the Monte Carlo technique to produce a prior estimate for the covariance matrix. Experimental data were introduced through the GANDR system. The evaluated files were tested on selected fusion neutronics benchmarks and fast reactor benchmarks. Marked improvement in predicting measured integral parameters was observed, compared to the ENDF/B-VII library. (authors)

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Paul Scherrer Institut - PSI
Imprint Place
Villigen PSI (Switzerland)
ISBN
978-3-9521409-5-6
Imprint Pagination
8 p.

Conference

Title
International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 'Nuclear Power: A Sustainable Resource'
Acronym
PHYSOR'08
Dates
14-19 Sep 2008
Place
Interlaken (Switzerland)

Optional Information

Notes
22 refs.; proceedings are available as a CD-ROM on request to info'at'physor08.ch