Present Status of Minor Actinide Data
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1 January 1999
This report has been prepared by Subgroup 9 which was set up in 1998 with the aim of investigating discrepancies found between microscopic and macroscopic data for the uranium-235 fission neutron spe...
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15 July 2003
Subgroup 7 of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Co-operation (WPEC) was established to re-evaluate the nuclear data standards cross-section. These cross-section data are the basis f...
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29 November 2006
As part of the development of advanced nuclear systems, including accelerator-driven systems (ADS) proposed for high-level radioactive waste transmutation and generation IV reactors, heavy liquid met...
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31 May 2007
Many countries have been performing a wide range of research on the partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of minor actinides and fission products. The aim is to provide greater flexibility in terms of...
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10 March 2010
Future nuclear fuel cycles could effectively address radioactive waste issues with the implementation of partitioning and transmutation (P&T). Previous studies have defined the infrastructure require...
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3 February 2009
Regional strategies can provide a useful framework for implementing innovative nuclear fuel cycles. The appropriate sharing of efforts and facilities among different countries is necessary in today’s...
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27 September 2009
Future fuel cycle characteristics, feasibility and acceptability will be crucial for the continued development of nuclear energy, especially in the post-Fukushima context. Fuel cycle choices have bot...
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18 July 2013
Development of innovative fuels such as homogeneous and heterogeneous fuels, ADS fuels, and oxide, metal, nitride and carbide fuels is an important stage in the implementation process of advanced nuc...
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12 December 2014
Materials performance is critical to the safe and economic operation of any nuclear system. As the international community pursues the development of Generation IV reactor concepts and accelerator-dr...
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21 October 2013
The expert group primarily acted as a forum for scientific and technical information exchange on advanced light water reactor (LWR) fuels with enhanced accident tolerance.
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18 October 2022
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4 February 2008
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3 March 2010
The expert group is responsible for managing the activities related to the High Priority Request List (HPRL) for nuclear data, in particular for guaranteeing that the entries are up-to-date and well-...
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20 September 2022
The expert group was established to develop a nuclear data structure definition that can meet the needs of a broad set of nuclear data users and providers.
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20 September 2022
The objectives of the expert group are to assess the accuracy and calculation time of the various first principle tools applied in the assessment of the properties of the nuclear materials; assess th...
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5 March 2020
The main objectives of this expert group are to assess the limitations of the NRT-dpa standard, in the light of both atomistic simulations and known experimental discrepancies; and to revisit the NRT...
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5 March 2020
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12 November 1996
The quality of the isotopic composition of plutonium fuel degrades as the number of recycles increases in thermal reactors. There are in addition incentives to better utilise fuel by increasing the b...
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19 July 1995
NEA/NSC/DOC(2012)11
The objective of the OECD LWR UAM activity is to establish an internationally accepted benchmark framework to compare, assess and further develop different uncertainty analysis methods associated wit...
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24 May 2012
New NEA reports on nuclear data evaluation
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5 August 2020
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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1 October 2020
The expert group dealt with the activities associated with the certification of experimental data and benchmark models along with establishing the processes and procedures for using the data and benc...
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23 November 2021
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17 May 1999
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2 June 2015
The expert group critically reviewed integral experiments for validating minor actinide (MA) nuclear data, recommended additional integral experiments needed for validating MA nuclear data and invest...
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5 March 2021
The expert group works in co-ordination with Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) [including the IRPhE Project], Working Party on Scientific Issues of the Fuel Cycle (WPFC) an...
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9 March 2020
NEA/NSC/DOC(2007)8
Monterey, California, USA, 17 April 2007
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15 May 2007
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) and under the mandate of the Working Party on Multi-scale Modelling of Fuels and Structural Materials for Nuclear Systems (WPMM), the objecti...
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5 March 2020
NEA/NSC/DOC(2013)1
The Expert Group on Reactor Physics and Advanced Nuclear Systems (EGRPANS) was created in 2011 to perform specific tasks associated with reactor physics aspects of present and future nuclear power sy...
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14 January 2013
NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)17
Overview of the 7th Symposium on Reactor Surveillance and Diagnostics (SMORN-VII), 19-23 June 1995, Avignon, France
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1 January 1996
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18 March 2009
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18 March 2009
NEA/NSC/R(2020)1
Since 2007, the NEA has organised a series of workshops on structural materials for innovative nuclear systems (SMINS). The fifth meeting, held from 8‑11 July 2019 in Kyoto, Japan, was hosted by Kyot...
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26 November 2020
Studies on fast reactors have historically concentrated on their capability to use plutonium produced in thermal reactors as initial fuel, and subsequently their capacity to produce electricity while...
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1 November 1996
Studies on fast reactors have historically concentrated on their capability of using plutonium produced in thermal reactors as initial fuel, and subsequently their capacity to produce electricity whi...
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1 November 1995
The quality of the isotopic composition of plutonium fuel degrades as the number of recycles increases in thermal reactors, requiring an increase in the total loading necessary in mixed plutonium-ura...
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17 November 2020
The NEA has studied multiple recycling issues associated with various reactor systems fuelled with mixed-oxide (MOX) and published a series of computational physics benchmarks. This has led to improv...
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21 June 2007
The NEA has studied multiple recycling issues associated with various reactor systems fuelled with mixed-oxide (MOX) and published a series of computational physics benchmarks. This has led to improv...
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21 June 2007
The commercial recycling of plutonium as PUO2/UO2 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel is an established practice in pressurised water reactors (PWRs) in several countries, the main motivation being the consumptio...
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10 March 2003
Although the recycling of plutonium as thermal mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in pressurised water reactors (PWRs) is now well-established on a commercial scale, many physics questions remain. The main quest...
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23 October 2002
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6 March 2009
NEA/NSC/DOC(2009)9
Pennsylvania State University, USA, 27-28 April 2009
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11 May 2009
NEA/NSC/DOC(2008)5
Garching, Germany, 31 March -1 April 2008
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9 April 2008
NEA/NSC/DOC(2007)16
Paris, France, 8-9 May 2007
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19 September 2007
NEA/NSC/DOC(2004)15
4 October 2004, Nara, Japan
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4 November 2004
NEA/NSC/DOC(2005)19
27-29 June 2005, University Park, PA, USA
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10 October 2005
NEA/NSC/DOC(2006)14
Pisa, Italy, 26-27 April 2006
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8 May 2006
Meeting Nuclear Data Needs for Advanced Reactor Systems
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13 March 2014
NEA/NSC/R(2019)3
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Expert Group on Liquid Metal Technology (EGLM) conducted a survey to identify and establish common criteria and understanding on the complex issue of materials data se...
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20 October 2020