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What's WRONG with ENDF/B?

More Important, how can we FIX it?

 

Based on my over 40 years experience, this is a new series of

reports, documenting some of the shortcoming of ENDF/B.

 

But more important, I define how to FIX these shortcomings.

Adobe PDF "EPDL2017: Survey of Atomic Photon Cross Section Data for use in EPICS2017", IAEA-NDS-225, Rev. 1, February 2018, (NDS), IAEA, Vienna, Austria.

Adobe PDF "EEDL2017: Survey of Electron Cross Section Data for use in EPICS2017", IAEA-NDS-226, December 2017, Nuclear Data Section (NDS), IAEA, Vienna, Austria.

Adobe PDF "EPDL2017: Survey of Atomic Photon Cross Section Data for use in EPICS2017", IAEA-NDS-225, November 2017, Nuclear Data Section (NDS), IAEA, Vienna, Austria.

Adobe PDF "EADL2017: Survey of Atomic Binding Energies for use in EPICS2017", IAEA-NDS-224, Septemb2017, Nuclear Data Section (NDS), IAEA, Vienna, Austria.

Adobe PDF "PREPRO2017: 2017 ENDF/B Pre-processing Codes (ENDF/B-VII and preprosd VIII Tested)", IAEA-NDS-39, Rev. 17, May 2017.

Adobe PDF "A Pulsed Sphere Tutorial". LLNL-726839, January 2017

Adobe PDF "TART2016: An Overview of A Coupled Neutron-Photon 3-D, Combinatorial Geometry, Time Dependent Monte Carlo Code", LLNL-SM-704560, Sept. 2016

Adobe PDFx"URR-Pack: Calculating Self-Shielding in the Unresolved Resonance Energy Range", INDC(NDS)-0711, Rev. 1, July 2016

Adobe PDFx" An Alternative Approach to Creating ACE Data Files for use in Monte Carrlo Codes", INDC(NDS)-0701, Dec. 2015.

Power Point Of the above paper

Adobe PDF "EPICS2014: Electron Photon Interaction Cross Sections (Version 2014)", IAEA-NDS-218, rev.1, August 2015

xxxxxxxxx xEPICS2014 Website for Data and Codes

Adobe PDF "ENDF/B-VII.1 vs. CIELO", by Red Cullen and Bob MacFarlane, May 2015

Adobe PDF PROGRAM ENDF2C: Convert ENDF Data to Standard FORTRAN, C and C++ Format (Version 2015-1), IAEA-NDS-217, May 2015;

xxxxxxxxxx FORTRAN Source Code , Windows Executable, and Example Output Listing

Adobe PDF "POINT 2015: ENDF/B-VII.1 Final Temperature Dependent Cross Section Library", IAEA-NDS-221, March 2015

xxxxxxxxxxPOINT 2015 Website

Adobe PDF "ENDF/B-VII.1 versus ENDF/B-VII.0", INDC(NDS)-0684, March 2015

Adobe PDF "PREPRO 2015: 2015 ENDF/B Pre-processing Codes (ENDF/B-VII Tested)", IAEA-NDS-39, Rev. 16, January 2015.

xxxxxxxxxxPREPRO 2015 Website for Codes

Adobe PDF How Accurate Are Our Processed ENDF Cross Sections? INDC(NDS)-0666, Distr, J, May 2014

Adobe PDF  ENDF/X: an Extended ENDF Format (Evolution, not Revolution), December, 2012

Adobe PDF  ENDF/B-VII.1 vesus ENDF/B-VII.0: What's Different?, LLNL-TR-548633, March, 2012

Adobe PDF  Doppler Broadening Update: Broadening near the Unresolved Resonance Region, LLNL-TR-534931, January 2012

Adobe PDF  A Short History of ENDF/B Unresolved Resonance Parameters, LLNL-TR-461199, October 2010

Adobe PDF  ENDF Cross Sections are not Uniquely Defined, LLNL-TR-446331, June 2010

 

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