Beyond the ENDF format: A modern nuclear database structure

WPEC Subgroup 38 (SG38)

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• SG38 proposal by D. McNabb, WPEC meeting, May 2012
• SG38 mailing list for questions, comments or to consult archives

Meetings

1. NEA, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 29-30 November 2012
2. NEA, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 21-22 May 2013
3. JAEA, Tokai-mura, Japan, 9-11 December 2013
4. NEA, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, May 2014
5. USNDP-CSWEG (CIELO project) – NDAG + SG38, BNL, NY, USA, 29-31 October 2014
6. NEA, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 20-22 May 2015
   + Joint SG38/SG39/SG40-CIELO meeting, 20 May 2015
7. NEA, OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France, 9-11 May 2016
8. NEA, OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France, 15-19 May 2017
   + Joint SG38/SG39/SG40-CIELO meeting, 17 May 2017

Documents

• Requirements for a new nuclear data structure – Part 1: Vision and Goals – PDF file – Word file (24 May 2013)
• Requirements for a new nuclear data structure – Part 2: Implementation Plan – PDF file – Word file (12 May 12 2014)
• Requirements for a top level hierarchy (draft – 25 April 25 2014)
• Requirements for a top level hierarchy (draft – 1 April 2015)
• Requirements and specifications for a particle database (draft – 5 May 2015)
• General-Purpose Data Containers for Science and Engineering (draft – 4 May 2015)
• Detailed requirements for a next generation nuclear data structure (Final version – June 28,  2016)
• Specifications for the next generation nuclear data hierarchy (draft – May 2016)

Related links

• Information available on the BNL GForge server
• Subgroup 38
• Generalized Nuclear Data (GND) structure/format
• Description of GND and Fudge (For Updating Data and Generating Evaluations)
• C.M. Mattoon et al., Generalized Nuclear Data: A New Structure (with Supporting Infrastructure) for Handling Nuclear Data, Nuclear Data Sheets 113 (2012) 3145-3171
• The Evaluated Nuclear Data Format (ENDF)
• Current ENDF specification (ENDF-102)
• List of ENDF Reports, see e.g.,
• ENDF Description and Specifications, H.C. Honeck, BNL-8381, 1965
• ENDF/B Specifications for an Evaluated Nuclear Data File for Reactor Applications, H.C. Honeck, ENDF-102, 1967
• Description of the ENDF/B Processing Codes and Retrieval Subroutines, O. Ozer, ENDF-110, 1971
• Red Cullen's Home Page
• Information related to the ENDF format
• A CSEWG Retrospective (with valuable information on the ENDF libraries and formats)

Co-ordinator: Dennis McNabb
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Last update: 21 June 2017