The CIELO collaboration: Progress in international evaluations of neutron reactions on Oxygen, Iron, Uranium and Plutonium

The CIELO collaboration has studied neutron cross sections on nuclides that significantly impact criticality in nuclear technologies – 16 O, 56 Fe, 235,8 U and 239 Pu – with the aim of improving the accuracy of the data and resolving previous discrepancies in our understanding. This multi-laboratory pilot project, coordinated via the OECD/NEA Working Party on Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC) Subgroup 40 with support also from the IAEA, has motivated experimental and theoretical work and led to suites of new evaluated libraries that accurately reflect measured data and also perform well in integral simulations of criticality.

O. Cabellos | Luiz Leal | A. Ignatyuk | Q. Jing | G. Noguere | Massimo Salvatores | Patrick Talou | Nobuyuki Iwamoto | Ulrich Fischer | Yaron Danon | E. Bauge | P. Romain | Marco T. Pigni | C. De Saint Jean | D. A. Brown | I. Sirakov | Y. O. Lee | Mark B. Chadwick | Tokio Fukahori | I. Kodeli | Andrej Trkov | Brian C. Kiedrowski | V. G. Pronyaev | Gerald M. Hale | Toshihiko Kawano | E. Dupont | Michael Evan Rising | M. Ishikawa | H. I. Kim | Marian Jandel | Y. O. Lee | Ian J. Thompson | M. Herman | O. Bouland | R. Jacqmin | Arjan J. Koning | A.J.M. Plompen | Roberto Capote | Mark W. Paris | Osamu Iwamoto | A. C. Kahler | Giuseppe Palmiotti | Allan D. Carlson | D. Neudecker | B. Morillon | F.-J. Hambsch | Stefan Kopecky | Gustavo Nobre | Michael Dunn | P. Schillebeeck | S. Mosby | J. P. Lestone | R. Arcilla | G. Giorginis | I. Hill | G. Zhigang | L. Tingjin | L. Hanlin | R. Xichao | W. Haicheng | M. Sin | K. Yokoyama | S. Kuneada | C. R. Lubitz | D. Roubtsov | Sofia Quaglioni | L. Leal | Benjamin Morillon | R. Capote | U. Fischer | T. Fukahori | S. Quaglioni | E. Dupont | F. Hambsch | G. Palmiotti | T. Kawano | O. Iwamoto | M. Ishikawa | R. Jacqmin | M. Salvatores | A. Trkov | Ó. Cabellos | A. Plompen | P. Romain | A. Ignatyuk | M. Chadwick | G. Hale | A. Koning | I. Sirakov | I. Thompson | A. Carlson | M. Pigni | S. Kopecky | Y. Danon | V. Pronyaev | D. Neudecker | G. Noguere | Mark Wayne Paris | B. Kiedrowski | A. Kahler | M. Herman | M. Dunn | R. Arcilla | J. Lestone | C. Lubitz | G. Nobre | D. Roubtsov | M. Sin | P. Talou | I. Kodeli | M. Jandel | H. I. Kim | N. Iwamoto | K. Yokoyama | M. Rising | S. Mosby | E. Baugé | I. Hill | C. D. S. Jean | O. Bouland | G. Giorginis | L. Tingjin | G. Zhigang | W. Haicheng | Q. Jing | L. Hanlin | R. Xichao | D. Brown | P. Schillebeeck | S. Kuneada

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