NEA work in nuclear data formats

Co-ordinated Evaluation of Plutonium-239 in the Resonance Region

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...

Meeting Nuclear Data Needs for Advanced Reactor Systems

Pisa, Italy, 26-27 April 2006

27-29 June 2005, University Park, PA, USA

4 October 2004, Nara, Japan

Paris, France, 8-9 May 2007

Garching, Germany, 31 March -1 April 2008

Pennsylvania State University, USA, 27-28 April 2009

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...