Program - Brookhaven National Laboratory

Session JE Fusion
Wednesday March 6, 2013
Room: Central Park West at 10:30 AM
JE 1 10:30 AM
The Activities of the European Consortium on Nuclear Data Development and Analysis for
Fusion
U. Fischer, Association KIT-Euratom, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz
1,76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. M. Avrigeanu, Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics
and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), RO-077125 Magurele, Romania. I. Kodeli, Josef Stefan Institute
(JSI), Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. H. Leeb, Technische Universität Wien, Karlsplatz 13, 1040
Wien, Austria. D. Rochman, Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), Westerduinweg 3, 1755
LE Petten, The Netherlands. P. Sauvan, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y
Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Avenida Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain. J.-C. Sublet, Euratom/CCFE
Fusion Association; Culham Science Centre, OX14 3DB, UK. E. Dupont, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency,
Paris, France. J. Izquierdo, Fusion for Energy, Barcelona, Spain.
The European Fusion Programme builds on the availability of qualified computational tools and data
as pre-requisites for reliable neutronic design calculations of any kind of fusion devices like ITER, irradiation
facilities or future power plants. To serve this end, the European Consortium on Nuclear Data
Development and Analysis was formed combining the available European expertise on nuclear data evaluation,
processing, validation and benchmarking. The Consortium, consisting of the research institutions
of KIT (Germany), CCFE (UK), NRG (The Netherlands), JSI (Slovenia), TUW (Austria), CIEMAT
(Spain) and IFIN-HH (Romania), provides the services requested by Fusion for Energy (F4E), Barcelona,
for the generation, maintenance, and validation of nuclear data evaluations and data files relevant for
ITER, IFMIF and DEMO, as well as codes and software tools required for related nuclear calculations.
Activities of the current F4E work programme include nuclear data evaluations for neutron induced reactions
on Mn-55, Cu-63, -65, and Ta-181, benchmark analyses for neutron (Fe, Pb) and deuteron (Cu,
Al) induced reactions, the evaluation/generation of damage energy/displacement cross-section data, the
evaluation of deuteron induced activation cross-section data, the development of optical model potentials
for the emission of alpha-particles over a wide target nuclide mass range, the development of consistent
TALYS model based activation/transmutation and transport neutron sub-libraries as well as the processing
of photo-nuclear data libraries and thermal scattering data tables for Monte Carlo applications. Codes
and software tools related activities focus on the further development of the stochastic and deterministic
sensitivity/uncertainty approaches (MCsen and SUSD3D codes), associated pre- and post-processing
tools, and the MCUNED extension of MCNPX for the use of deuteron cross-section data in Monte Carlo
transport calculations. The paper presents an overview of these activities, reviews the current status in
some detail, and provides an outlook of the programme planned for the further development and analysis
of fusion nuclear data in the EU.
JE 2 11:00 AM
Consistent Account of Fast Neutron Induced α-particle Emission
V. Avrigeanu, M. Avrigeanu
Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O. Box MG-6, 077125
Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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