Production of improved/recommended decay data files of direct application in nuclear facilities, waste management, and for various design teams.
The impact of the CRP is measured by the fact that recommended data it produced are still widely used by the user community in IAEA MS. The updated nuclear decay data parameters produced by this CRP were adopted by the Decay Data Evaluation Project (DDEP) which is the main source of decay data for radionuclide metrology applications worldwide. The data are also disseminated through the DDEP webpage.
Feedback received from the user community confirms that the CRP products are being used and have an impact on the applications.
The nuclear decay data of the minor and major actinides and their decay products that were produced by the CRP are among the most important decay parameters for applications spanning reactor operation, waste management, safeguards/nonproliferation, as well as non-energy applications. The data were included in the compilation of nuclear data for Safeguards that was produced by the Nuclear Data Section upon request from the IAEA Safeguards Department, and as mentioned above, they were adopted by the International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology through the DDEP website. The work has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented in international conferences. The CRP was therefore of the highest relevance to the Agency’s MP-1 and MP-2 programmatic activities.
CRP Publications
Type
non-serial publication - STI/PUB/1618
Year
2013
Publication URL
http://www.dgdingfa.net/publications/8948/library-of-recommended-actinide-decay-dat…
Description
High quality decay data are an essential input across a wide range of nuclear applications, and none more so than in the case of the actinides and their related decay chain data. Well defined nuclear data are essential to ensure safe procedures within mining operations, various nuclear fuel cycles for energy generation, environmental monitoring, specific analytical techniques, and diagnostic and radiotherapeutic treatments in nuclear medicine. A major objective of the IAEA nuclear data programme is to promote improvements in the accuracy and quality of nuclear data used in science and technology. The contents of this report constitute the results of a coordinated research project established to assemble an updated decay data library for actinides. Recommended half-lives and decay scheme data have been comprehensively evaluated, and are tabulated in terms of a carefully selected set of actinide radionuclides.
Country/Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency
Type
Conference proceedings
Year
2011
Description
Title: Decay studies of minor actinide nuclides, and future opportunities for improving the decay data of neutron-rich fission products; Int. Conf. Reactor Physics, Nuclear Power: a Sustainable Resource, PHYSOR-2008 (Proc. Int. Conf. Interlaken, Switzerland, 2008), (CHAWLA, R., DANG, V.N., MIKITYUK, K., Eds), Vol. 1, Curran Associates, Inc., New York (2011) 108–115.
Country/Organization
Curran Associates, Inc., New York
Type
Scientific peer-review journal
Year
2008
Publication URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2008.02.005
Description
Article title: IAEA Coordinated Research Project: Updated decay data library for actinides
Country/Organization
Elsevier Publisher
Type
Scientific peer-review journal
Year
2010
Publication URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2010.06.009
Description
Title: Measurements of X- and ?-ray emission probabilities in the ?– decay of 233Pa, Appl. Radiat. Isot. 68 (2010) 2382–2386.
Country/Organization
Elsevier Publisher
Type
Conference proceedings
Year
2007
Description
Title: Updated Decay Data Library for Actinides. Presented at 2007 Annual Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics, October 10-13,2007, abstract id. BH.005
Country/Organization
American Physical Society
Type
Conference proceedings
Year
2011
Description
Title: New IAEA Actinide Decay Data Library; J. Korean Phys. Soc., 2011, vol.59, no.23, ND2010 pp. 1455-1460 (6 pages)
Country/Organization
Korean Physical Society
Type
Conference proceedings
Year
2007
Publication URL
https://doi.org/10.1051/ndata:07241
Description
Experimental studies to improve specific actinide decay data; Int. Conf. Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (Proc. Int. Conf. Nice, 2007), (BERSILLON, O., GUNSING, F., BAUGE, E., JACQMIN, R., LERAY, S., Eds), Vol. 1, EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France (2008) 93–96.
Country/Organization
EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France
Type
Scientific peer-reviewed journal
Year
2007
Publication URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2006.08.011
Description
Title: Measurements of the half-life of 246Cm and the alpha-decay emission probabilities of 246Cm and 250Cf; Appl. Radiat. Isot. 65 (2007) 335–340.
Country/Organization
Elsevier Publisher
Type
Conference proceedings
Year
2008
Publication URL
https://doi.org/10.1063/v1090.frontmatter
Description
Title: Studies of nuclear structure and decay data properties of actinide nuclei”, 13th Int. Symp. on Capture Gamma-ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics (CGS-13), (Proc. Int. Conf. Cologne, 2008), (BLAZHEV, A., JOLIE, J., WARR, N., ZILGES, A., Eds), AIP Conf. Proc., Vol. 1090 (2009) 199–206.
Type
Scientific peer-review journal
Year
2011
Publication URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.01.147
Description
Title: Measurements of absolute gamma-ray emission probabilities in the decay of 233Pa, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A652 (2011) 654–656.
Country/Organization
Elsevier Publisher
Type
Scientific peer-review journal
Year
2007
Publication URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.04.096
Description
Title: Measurement of the 240Pu half-life; Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A579 (2007) 458–460.
Country/Organization
Elsevier Publisher
