The April bulletin covers the following items:
New publications
Job openings at the NEA
Nuclear safety
Radioactive waste management
Nuclear science
Data Bank
Business as Usual and Nuclear Power
ISBN 92-64-17175-4, 162 pages.Reform of Civil Nuclear Liability: Budapest Symposium 1999
Réforme de la responsabilité civile nucléaire : Symposium de Budapest 1999
ISBN 92-64-05885-0, 675 pages.The press communiqué for the Budapest Symposium is available in English and French at www.oecd-nea.org/news/2000/2000-04.html.
The last meeting of the CSNI Principal Working Group on the Confinement of Accidental Radioactive Releases (PWG4) was held on 28- 29 February. It adopted the final draft of a "PWG4 Perspective Statement on Ex-Vessel Hydrogen Sources", discussed the conclusions of the October 1999 Workshop on Ex-Vessel Debris Coolability, and examined long-term plans for an International Standard Problem (ISP) Exercise in the area of containment thermal hydraulics. It discussed reports on the progress of follow-up parametric calculations to ISP-41 (based on an AECL/RTF experiment), on the progress of ISP-44 (based on a KAEVER experiment), and progress on the preparation of an ISP based on test PHEBUS FPT-1. The group also discussed the preparation of workshops on Operator Training and Instrumentation Capabilities for Severe Accident Management and on the Implementation of Severe Accident Management Measures for Containment. A new Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (replacing PWG4 and PWG2) will meet for the first time at the end of September 2000.
The CSNI Workshop on Instrumentation and Monitoring of Concrete Structures, hosted by Tractebel and AVN at the Tractebel offices in Brussels, was held on 22-23 March 2000. Topics covered were: Regulatory Considerations and State of the Art, Detecting Ageing and Trends for the Future. The meeting was followed by a panel discussion. Participation of the industry was important, along with the participation of regulators and researchers from western and eastern European countries, and from the United States and Canada. Among the conclusions of the workshop were:
The following CSNI reports have just been released and can be found at www.oecd-nea.org/nsd/docs/indexcsni.html.
The 33rd plenary session of the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) was held in Paris on 9-10 March 2000. In addition to providing several status reports and discussing such activities as the planned launch of the Integration Group for the Safety Case in June 2000; the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence in August 2000; and the creation of a group on management of materials from decommissioning and dismantling; a special topical session was held on the theme of retrievability and reversibility. "Retrievability" refers to the ability to recuperate the disposed radioactive waste from the repository, whereas "reversibility" is the policy function that allows for a waste management project to change direction during its development. These concepts are being defined and explored in waste management programmes worldwide.
A meeting of regulators in the field of radioactive waste management was held on the day before the RWMC plenary session. A document on the regulatory control of radioactive waste in NEA Member countries is in preparation.
The NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) organised a workshop on Pyrochemical Separations in Avignon, France on 14-15 March 2000. One outcome of the meeting was a proposal to prepare a state-of-the-art report on this subject. The proposal will be presented for approval at the next meeting of the NSC in the beginning of June 2000.
First Announcement of the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology. This conference will be held on 7-12 October 2001 in Tsukuba, Japan. This is an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency conference organised approximately every three years. These conferences are dedicated to communication among evaluators, experimentalists, and users in the nuclear data field. The 2001 Conference will provide a forum for exchanging information on new technologies, databases, and developments for nuclear and non-energy applications. For more information, visit the conference's web site at http://wwwndc.tokai.jaeri.go.jp/nd2001/.
The Data Bank would like to thank all those who took part in the survey carried out by Taylor Nelson Sofres in February. The feedback was most useful and will be used to improve the services in the following months. Congratulations to the three winners of the Palm Pilots who were from Austria, Italy and the Republic of Korea.
The next meeting of the JEFF working party on nuclear data evaluation, processing and benchmarking will take place at NEA headquarters on 22-24 May. Please watch our web site (www.oecd-nea.org/dbdata) for the final agenda.
The NEA has received a number of CD-ROMs containing plots and data of the new JENDL Dosimetry File 99 (JENDL/D-99) from JAERI, which are available free of charge upon request. The CD contains information for 47 nuclides and 67 reactions in both the SAND-II group structure and as 0K processed pointwise files. The pointwise files also include unresolved resonance parameters for self-shielding calculations, but cross sections are given explicitly in the pointwise format (MF=3).
Dates and topics of forthcoming training courses can be found at www.oecd-nea.org/dbcps/training-courses/.
Computer Program Services
A page giving the list of all new programs in the last 12 months can be found at www.oecd-nea.org/tools/abstract/new.
New software packages available from the Data Bank:
05-APR-2000 NEA-1327 CAPCAL,3-D Capacitance Calculator for VLSI Purposes (Arrived) 04-APR-2000 USCD1205 PCNUDAT,NUCL PROPERTIES DATA BASE & RETRIEVAL SYS (Tested) 27-MAR-2000 NEA-0829 SCAT-2,X-SEC & ANGL_DISTR CALC FOR SPH NUCLEI BY OPTICAL_MODEL (Tested) 22-MAR-2000 PSR-0455 MONTEBURNS,AN AUTOMATED, MULTI-STEP MONTE CARLO BURNUP CODE SYSTEM (Arrived) 21-MAR-2000 NEA-1623 IFPE/SPC-RE-GINNA,Full Length & Segmented Fuel Rodlet Irradiation in PWR (Arrived) 21-MAR-2000 NEA-0461 STAPREF, Nuclear Reactions X-Sections by Evaporation Model, Gamma-Cascades (Tested) 20-MAR-2000 NEA-1612 PIN99W,MODELLING OF VVER AND PWR FUEL ROD THERMOMECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR (Tested) 16-MAR-2000 CCC-0654 VENTURE-PC,REACTOR_ANAL_SYS WITH SENSITIVITY & BURNUP (Tested)
Instructions on retrieving material from the NEA may be found at: www.oecd-nea.org/. Please note that scientific database access is only available to residents of OECD/NEA Data Bank member countries.
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