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WONDER-2018: a workshop on nuclear data (Vol. 50, No. 5-6)

WONDER-2018: a workshop on nuclear data
By combining experimental data (left, example of experimental setup) and theoretical calculations (middle, example of theoretical calculations), it becomes possible to perform an evaluation of nuclear data (right, example of evaluated cross-sections). Those evaluated nuclear data are collected in a regularly updated international library such as JEFF (Joint Evaluated Fusion and Fission).

To describe the path of neutrons in the material but also the chain reactions that take place in a reactor and the changes in the composition of matter due to nuclear reactions, neutronics uses computer codes. These codes have also acquired such a level of performance since the last two decades that the main source of uncertainty in neutronic calculations comes today from nuclear data. In this context, the 5th edition of the International Workshop On Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications (WONDER-2018), organized by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in collaboration with the NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD) was held in Aix-en-Provence, France, on October 2018. The main objective was to identify future trends in the measurement, modeling and evaluation of nuclear data needed for current reactors and innovative reactor concepts. Proceedings were published in EPJ Web-of-Conferences: EPJ Web of Conferences Volume 211 (2019).

WONDER-2018 – 5th International Workshop On Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor applications, EPJ Web of Conferences 211 (2019)
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