Nuclear Technology Review 2011 - IAEA

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C. ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR DATA
The major nuclear databases developed by the International Network of
Nuclear Reaction Data Centres and the International Network of Nuclear
Structure and Decay Data Evaluators, coordinated by the Agency, are
continuously improved. Of particular note in 2010, the web retrieval system was
enhanced to deliver nuclear reaction data and their covariances in different
formats, including graphical visualization.
The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is an
international project currently under development to test materials to be used in
the DEMO demonstration reactor or commercial fusion power reactor. Recently,
Spain has started a national project, TechnoFusión, to provide technical support
for IFMIF and DEMO to simulate extreme material damage through light and
heavy ions. To provide nuclear data for these and other fusion facilities, a
substantial extension of the Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library 2.1 (FENDL-
2.1) is necessary to include higher energies, as well as incident charged particles
and the evaluation of related uncertainties.
In 2010, the triennial International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science
and Technology was held in the Republic of Korea, bringing together several
hundred scientists and engineers involved in the production or use of nuclear data
for fission and fusion energy, accelerator technology, dosimetry and shielding,
FIG. C-1. Three-dimensional plot of energy–energy correlations for nuclear reaction crosssections.