IAEA Coordinated Research Projects in Nuclear Data

Abstract

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supports free information exchange and international collaboration by its statute. Out of several possibilities the mechanism of Co-ordinated Research Projects (CRP) is described, which can bring together scientists and research groups from developing and developed counties to form teams on projects of mutual interest. Examples of successful CRP’s in the nuclear data field are described, which include the production of the reference input parameter library for nuclear model codes, photonuclear data library, an updated processed WIMS-D library for reactor lattice calculations and evaluated nuclear data files for the thorium-uranium fuel cycle.

Keywords:

• Nuclear data
• International organisations
• Co-ordinated research projects
• nuclear model codes
• photonuclear data
• reactor lattice codes
• thorium-uranium fuel cycle.