Abstract
Accurate nuclear data provide an essential foundation for advances in a wide range of fields, including nuclear energy, nuclear safety and security, safeguards, nuclear medicine, and planetary and space exploration. In these and other critical domains, outdated, imprecise, and incomplete nuclear data can hinder progress, limit precision, and compromise safety. Similar nuclear data needs are shared by many applications, thus prioritizing these needs is especially important and urgently needed. Many levels of analysis are required to prepare nuclear measurements for employment in end-user applications. Because research expertise is typically limited to one level, collaboration across organizations and international borders is essential. This perspective piece provides the latest advances in nuclear data for applications and describes an outlook for both near- and long-term progress in the field.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 021001 |
Journal | Physical Review Research |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2022 |
Funding
The authors would like to thank Timothy Hallman, Keith Jankowski, and Donald Hornback for their help with organizing the WANDA 2021 workshop, as well as Julie Marchand for her logistical support. The authors would also like to thank Ethan Balkin (Office of Isotope R&D and Production), David Matters (Office Defense Nonpreliferation R&D), Ian Hill (NEA), Jesse Holmes (NNL), Albert Kahler (Kahler NDS), Amanda Lewis (NNL), John Mattingly (North Carolina State Univ.), Jerry McKamy (Spectra Tech Inc.), Thomas Miller (ORNL), Denise Neudecker (LANL), Sara Pozzi (University of Michigan), Michael Rising (LANL), and Pablo Romojaro (SCK CEN). The support for WANDA was provided by the NDIAWG. This work has been performed under the auspices of the Los Alamos National Laboratory operated by Triad National Security, LLC, for the National Nuclear Security Administration of U.S. Department of Energy (Contract No. 89233218CNA000001) (J.H., M.R.M., E.M.O'B., N.W.T.), Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH1123 (L.A.B., B.L.G., A.S.V.), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (M.T.B., K.K., C.P., J.J.R., N.S., R.V.), Naval Nuclear Laboratory under Contract No. DOE-89233018CNR000004 (M.Z.), Oak Ridge National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 (S.L.H., M.S.S., W.W.), and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory operated by Battelle under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830 (M.A.E., B.L.). The research of S.L.H., E.M.O'B., and A.S.V. is supported by the US Department of Energy Isotope Program, managed by the Office of Science for Isotope R&D and Production while the research of Y.D. is supported by the Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH1094. P.N.P. was supported by internal funding from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. The work of B.L.G. is supported in part by the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration through the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium under Award No. DE-NA0003180.