https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2018028
Regular Article
Checking, processing and verification of nuclear data covariances
OECD NEA,
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
* e-mail: oscar.cabellos@upm.es
Received:
30
October
2017
Received in final form:
17
January
2018
Accepted:
14
May
2018
Published online: 14 November 2018
The aim of this paper is to present the activities carried out by NEA Data Bank on checking, processing and verification of JEFF-3.3T4 covariances. A picture of the completeness and status of the JEFF-3.3T4 covariances is addressed. The verification of JEFF-3.3T4 covariances is performed with nuclear data sensitivity tool providing the keff uncertainty as a function of the contributing nuclide-reaction pairings including cross-reaction covariances. A total number of 4501 ICSBEP benchmarks is used in this analysis. This exercise is also extended to covariance libraries such as JENDL-4.0 updated files, ENDF/B-VII.1, SCALE-6.2rev8 and ENDF/B-VIII.0β5, allowing comparison of these results with both the experimental criticality benchmark and different methodologies of evaluation.
© O. Cabellos et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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