Validation and Testing of ENDF/B-VII Decay Data

I. C. Gauld; M. T. Pigni; G. Ilas

doi:10.1016/j.nds.2014.06.134

Validation and Testing of ENDF/B-VII Decay Data

I. C. Gauld, M. T. Pigni, G. Ilas

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The nuclear decay library developed for the ORIGEN code was upgraded from ENDF/B-VI.8 to -VII.0 and released in the SCALE nuclear modeling and simulation code system in 2011. Experience with the ENDF/B-VII.0 library identified serious errors and performance issues in the evaluated decay sublibrary. Initially, errors were identified in the decay scheme for the ²³⁸U series, leading to large discrepancies in the gamma emission rate for uranium. Further testing of the fission product decay data revealed significant performance issues with ENDF/B-VII.0 relative to the previous release of ENDF/B-VI. To address the performance issues, the decay data library in SCALE was upgraded to ENDF/B-VII.1 and released as an update for users in 2013. This paper describes the practical impact of the ENDF/B-VII.0 decay data performance issues on common code applications, and the validation and testing performed on the updated ORIGEN libraries developed from the ENDF/B-VII.1 sublibrary.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	33-36
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nuclear Data Sheets
Volume	120
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.06.134
State	Published - Jun 2014

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Acknowledgements: This manuscript has been authored by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.

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