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94-Pu-241 JAERI EVAL-OCT87 Y.KIKUCHI,N.SEKINE,T.NAKAGAWA DIST-JAN09 20090105 ----JEFF-311 MATERIAL 9443 -----INCIDENT NEUTRON DATA ------ENDF-6 FORMAT *************************** JEFF-3.1.1 ************************* ** ** ** Original data taken from: JEFF-3.1 ** ** ** ****************************************************************** ***************************** JEFF-3.1 ************************* ** ** ** Original data taken from: JEFF-3.0 ** ** ** ****************************************************************** 05-01 NEA/OECD (Rugama) 8 delayed neutron groups Jefdoc-976(Spriggs,Campbel and Piksaikin,Prg Nucl Eng 41,223(2002) ***************************** JEFF-3.0 *********************** DATA TAKEN FROM :- JENDL-3.2 (DIST-SEP89 REV2-MAY93) MODIFICATION FOR JEFF3 : MF=2,MT=451 H. Derrien (ORNL), A. Courcelle (CEA-CAD) March 2002 New resonance parameters from H. Derrien in the energy range thermal to 20 eV MF=1, MT=452,455,456 A. Nouri (Data Bank) June 1999 use the same representation as for MT=452 (ENDF-6 recommendation) : (convert LNU=1 (polynomial (linear) representation) used in JENDL-32 to tabular representation (LNU=2). MF=1, MT=458 Fission energy from ENDF/B-VI **************************************************************** REEVALUATION OF THE 241-PU RESONANCE PARAMETERS IN THE ENERGY RANGE THERMAL TO 20eV. H. DERRIEN MARCH 2002 March 2002-The GRAVELINES fuel analysis results /1/ indicated important underestimation of 241Pu and 242Pu by using the JEF-2 evaluation (ORNL 1988 evaluation). The situation is improved by using the ENDF/B-VI data(updated by a revision of the resonance parameters performed in 1993 at JAERI, after a new fission measurement by Wagemans in 1991). The present new reevaluation, performed in the energy range thermal to 20 eV, gives satisfactory results for the GRAVELINES fuel analysis. The fission and capture data of Weston were reanalysed by SAMMY leading to a renormalization of -4.5% for the fission and -3% for the capture from the original EXFOR data. Compared to the previous evaluation, only the fission and capture widths of the resonances in the 3 eV to 20 eV energy range were modified. A new fit of the 0.26 eV resonance was performed using the Wagemans 1991 fission, the renormalized Weston fission and capture, Young lightly renormalized total cross section. Compared to the JEF2.2 evaluation, an increase of about 7% of the capture and a decrease of about 2% of the fission is obtained over the 0.26 eV resonance. The cross section values at 0.0253 eV remain very close to the Axton data( total 1386.5 b, fission 1012.2 b, capture 363.0 b). REFERENCES 1) CHABERT C. ET AL. ND2001 (TSUKUBA CONF. JNST 2002) ****************************************************************** HISTORY 79-10 NEW EVALUATION WAS MADE BY Y.KIKUCHI (JAERI) AND N.SEKINE (HEC) /1/. DATA OF JENDL-1 /2/ WERE SUPERSEDED. 79-12 FILES 2, 3 AND 4 WERE RELEASED AS JENDL-2B /3/. 87-03 THE FISSION CROSS SECTION WAS REVISED BY ADOPTING RESULTS OF SIMULTANEOUS EVALUATION /4/ FOR JENDL-3. 89-02 FP YIELDS WERE ADDED. 90-07 FP YIELD DATA WERE MODIFIED. 93-05 JENDL-3.2. RESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS EVALUATED BY DERRIEN AND DE SAUSSURE/5/ (ADOPTED IN ENDF/B-VI) WERE MODIFIED BY H.DERRIEN (JAERI)/6/. COMPILED BY T.NAKAGAWA (NDC/JAERI) ***** MODIFIED PARTS FOR JENDL-3.2 ******************** (2,151) RESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS UP TO 300 EV *********************************************************** MF=1 GENERAL INFORMATION MT=451 COMMENT AND DICTIONARY MT=452 NUMBER OF NEUTRONS PER FISSION SUM OF NU-P (MT=456) AND NU-D (MT=455). MT=455 DELAYED NEUTRON DATA DATA OF BENEDETTI+ /7/ MT=456 NUMBER OF PROMPT NEUTRONS PER FISSION DATA OF BOLDEMAN AND FREHAUT /8/ FOR THERMAL FISSION WERE ADOPTED AT LOW ENERGIES BY ASSUMING NU-P(CF-252 SPONTANEOUS FISSION) = 3.753 FOR JENDL-2. FOR JENDL-3, DATA WERE INCREASED BY A FACTOR OF 3.756/3.753. AN ENERGY DEPENDENT TERM WAS BASED ON FREHAUT+ /9/ MF=2,MT=151 RESONANCE PARAMETERS RESOLVED RESONANCES : 1 - 300 EV (REICH-MOORE FORMULA) PARAMETERS WERE EVALUATED BY DERRIEN AND DE SAUSSURE/5/, AND MODIFIED BY DERRIEN /6/. DETAILS OF THE MODIFICATION ARE GIVEN IN APPENDIX. UNRESOLVED RESONANCES : 300 EV - 30 KEV OBTAINED BY FITTING EVALUATED FISSION AND CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS. ENERGY DEPENDENT PARAMETERS : SO, S1 AND GAM-F. FIXED PARAMETERS : R=9.8 FM , GAM-G = 0.040 EV, D-OBS = 0.85 EV 2200-M/SEC CROSS SECTIONS AND CALCULATED RESONANCE INTEGRALS. 2200 M/SEC RES. INTEG. TOTAL 1384.9 B - ELASTIC 11.35 B - FISSION 1012.0 B 572.6 B CAPTURE 361.53 B 179.9 B MF=3 NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS ABOVE 300 EV, SMOOTH CROSS SECTIONS WERE GIVEN AS FOLLOWS. BETWEEN 300 EV AND 30 KEV, CROSS SECTIONS WERE REPRESENTED WITH THE UNRESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETES. MT=1, 2, 4, 51-61, 91, 251 : TOTAL, ELASTIC, INELASTIC SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS AND MU-BAR CALCULATED WITH OPTICAL AND STATISTICAL MODELS. OPTICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS USED WERE OBTAINED FROM SYSTEMATICS/10/ V = 40.25 - 0.05*EN , WS = 6.5 , VSO = 7.0 (MEV) R = RSO = 1.32 , RS = 1.38 (FM) A = B = ASO = 0.47 (FM) STATISTICAL MODEL CALCULATION WAS PERFORMED WITH CASTHY CODE /11/. COMPETING PROCESSES (FISSION, (N,2N), (N,3N), (N,4N)) AND LEVEL FLUCTUATION WERE TAKEN INTO THE CALCULATION. THE LEVEL SCHEME TAKEN FROM REF./12/. NO ENERGY(KEV) SPIN-PARITY G.S. 0 5/2 + 1 41.8 7/2 + 2 94.0 9/2 + 3 161.5 1/2 + 4 170.8 3/2 + 5 223.1 5/2 + 6 230.0 9/2 + 7 242.7 7/2 + 8 300 11/2 + 9 335 9/2 + 10 368 13/2 + 11 445 11/2 - CONTINUUM LEVELS ASSUMED ABOVE 490 KEV. THE LEVEL DENSITY PARAMETERS: GILBERT AND CAMERON /13/. MT=16, 17, 37 (N,2N), (N,3N), (N,4N) CALCULATED WITH EVAPORATION MODEL. MT=18 FISSION ABOVE 70 KEV, SIMULTANEOUS EVALUATION WITH U-235, U-238, PU-240, PU-241 /4/ WERE ADOPTED. THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT ARE THOSE BY SZABO+ /14,15/, CARLSON+ /16,17/, FURSOV+ /18/AND KEAPPELER+ /19/. BELOW 45 KEV, JENDL-2 WAS ADOPTED. THESE TWO SETS OF DATA WERE CONNECTED SMOOTHLY BETWEEN 45 AND 70 KEV. MT=102 CAPTURE BASED ON THE DATA OF ALPHA BY WESTON+ /20/ UP TO 250 KEV. CALCULATED WITH CASTHY ABOVE 250 KEV. THE GAMMA-RAY STRENGTH FUNCTION WAS DETERMINED SO THAT THE CAPTURE CROSS SECTION WAS 269 MB AT 250 KEV. MF=4 ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS MT=2, 51-61 : CALCULATED WITH CASTHY. MT=16,17,18,37,91 : ISOTROPIC IN THE LABORATORY SYSTEM. MF=5 ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS MT=16,17,18,37,91 CALCULATED WITH PRE-EQUILIBRIUM AND MULTI-STEP EVAPORATION CODE PEGASUS/21/. MT=18 PROMPT FISSION NEUTRON SPECTRUM. DETERMINED FROM Z**2/A SYSTEMATICS BY SMITH ET AL. /22/. MT=455 DELAYED NEUTRON SPECTRUM. EVALUATION BY SAPHIER ET AL. /23/ WAS ADOPTED. REFERENCES 1) KIKUCHI Y. AND SEKINE N.: JAERI-M 84-111 (1984). 2) KIKUCHI Y.: J. NUCL. SCI. TECHNOL., 14, 467 (1977). 3) KIKUCHI Y. ET AL.: J. NUCL. SCI. TECHNOL., 17, 567 (1980). 4) KANDA Y. ET AL.: 1985 SANTA FE, 2, 1567 (1986). 5) DERRIEN H. AND DE SAUSSURE G.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 106, 415 (1990). 6) DERRIEN H.: JAERI-M 93-251 (1994). 7) BENEDETTI G. ET.AL.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 80, 379 (1982). 8) BOLDEMAN J.W. AND FREHAUT J.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 76, 49 (1980). 9) FREHAUT J. ET.AL.: CEA-R-4626 (1974). 10) MATSUNOBU H. ET.AL.: 1979 KNOXVILLE CONF., P.715, NBS SPECIAL PUBLICATION 594 (1980). 11) IGARASI S. AND FUKAHORI T.: JAERI 1321 (1991). 12) LEDERER C.M. AND SHIRLEY V.S.: TABLE OF ISOTOPES, 7TH ED. (1978). 13) GILBERT A. AND CAMERON A.G.W.: CAN. J. PHYS., 43, 1446(1965). 14) SZABO I. ET.AL.: CONF-701002, P.257 (1971). 15) SZABO I. ET.AL.: 1973 KIEV CONF, VOL.3, P.27 (1973). 16) CARLSON G.W. ET AL.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 63, 149 (1977). 17) CARLSON G.W. AND BEHRENS J.W.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 68, 128 (1978). 18) FURSOV B.I. ET.AL.: SOV. AT. ENERGY, 44, 262 (1978). 19) KAEPPELER F. AND PFLETSCHINGER E.: NUC. SCI. ENG., 51, 124 (1973). 20) WESTON L.W. AND TODD J.H.: NUCL.SCI.ENG.,65,454 (1978). 21) IIJIMA S. ET AL.: JAERI-M 87-025, 337 (1987). 22) SMITH A. ET AL.: ANL/NDM-50 (1979). 23) SAPHIER D. ET AL.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 62, 660 (1977). ================================================================= APPENDIX REVISED RESONANCE DATA ,JAERI MAY 1993 ================================================================= REVISION OF THE 241PU REICH-MOORE RESONANCE PARAMETERS BY COMPARISON WITH RECENT FISSION CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS. HERVE DERRIEN JAPANESE ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE I-INTRODUCTION. THE RESONANCE PARAMETERS OF THE NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS OF 241PU WERE OBTAINED BY DERRIEN AND DE SAUSSURE/1/ IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM THERMAL TO 300 EV BY A BAYESIAN FIT OF SELECTED EXPERIMENTAL EFFECTIVE TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS, FISSION AND CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS BY USING THE REICH-MOORE FITTING CODE SAMMY/2/. THE RESULTS OF THIS WORK WERE USED IN THE ENDF/B-VI EVALUATED DATA FILE. SOME DIFFICULTIES WERE ENCOUNTERED IN THE NORMALIZATION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL FISSION CROSS SECTIONS DUE TO THE DISCREPANCIES IN THE SHAPE OF THE AVAILABLE EXPERIMENTAL DATA BOTH IN THERMAL AND HIGH ENERGY RANGES. THE CONSISTENCY AMONG THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA BASE COULD NOT BE OBTAINED WITHOUT LARGE RENORMALIZATION AND BACKGROUND CORRECTION PARAMETERS IN THE SAMMY FITS. PARTICULARLY, IT WAS SHOWN THAT THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE FISSION CROSS SECTIONS IN THE THERMAL ENERGY RANGE WAS DUE TO A DEVIATION FROM THE 1/V SHAPE BELOW ABOUT 0.05 EV. NEW FISSION CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS WERE RECENTLY PERFORMED BY WAGEMANS ET AL./3,4/ IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.002 EV TO 20 EV IN ORDER TO CHECK THE SHAPE OF THE CROSS SECTION IN THE THERMAL ENERGY RANGE. THEY SHOWED THAT THE SHAPE OF THE FISSION CROSS SECTION WAS CLEARLY COMPATIBLE WITH THE 1/V LAW, IN CONTRADICTION TO ALL THE PREVIOUS MEASUREMENTS REPORTED IN THE LITTERATURE. CONSEQUENTLY, THE NORMALIZATION OF ALL THE PREVIOUS RESULTS USING THE LOW ENERGY REGION COULD BE ERRONEOUS. PARTICULARLY, THE DISCREPANCY OBSERVED IN THE AVERAGE FISSION CROSS SECTION OVER THE 0.26 EV RESONANCE COULD BE DUE TO THE ERRORS OF NORMALIZATION IN THE THERMAL REGION. WAGEMANS ET AL. COMPARED THE ENDF/B-VI DATA TO THEIR NEW RESULTS AND CONCLUDED THAT THE EVALUATED DATA FILES USING THE EVALUATION OF DERRIEN AND DE SAUSSURE SHOULD BE REVISED IN THE ENERGY RANGE UP TO 300 EV. II-COMMENTS ON ENDF/B-VI EVALUATION. IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.01 EV TO 3 EV THE NEW DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL. ARE ON AVERAGE 2.2 % SMALLER THAN ENDF/B-VI. THIS DIFFERENCE IS MAINLY DUE A DIFFERENCE OF 3% BETWEEN THE 1976 DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL./5/ AND THE NEW VALUES OF WAGEMANS ET AL. THE 1976 DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL. WERE USED IN THE EVALUATION OF DERRIEN AND DE SAUSSURE IN THE LOW ENERGY REGION. IN THE INTERMEDIATE ENERGY RANGE FROM 3 EV TO 12 EV, THE AVERAGE FISSION OF ENDF/B-VI IS IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT WITH THE NEW DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL. IN THIS ENERGY RANGE, THE SAMMY FITS OF DERRIEN AND DE SAUSSURE WERE PERFORMED ON THE FISSION CROSS SECTION OF WESTON AND TODD/6/, OF BLONS/7/ AND OF MIGNECO ET AL./8/ WITH AN ADJUSTMENT OF THE NORMALIZATION FACTOR AND OF THE BACKGROUND CORRECTION PARAMETERS OF ALL THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA; THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NEW DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL. AND ENDF/B-VI SHOWS THAT, AT LEAST IN THIS ENERGY RANGE, SAMMY PERFORMED ON THE DATA OF WESTON AND TODD A RENORMALIZATION EQUIVALENT TO THAT RECOMMENDED BY WAGEMANS ET AL./4/. IN THE HIGHER RANGE UP TO 300 EV, THE SAMMY FITS RELIED MAINLY ON THE HIGH RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS OF BLONS AND OF MIGNECO ET AL. FOR THE ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF THE RESONANCE PARAMETERS. QUITE LARGE NORMALIZATION COEFFICIENTS AND BACKGROUND CORRECTION PARAMETERS WERE ALSO NEEDED IN THIS ENERGY RANGE TO OBTAIN THE CONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE CALCULATED CROSS SECTIONS AND THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA. HOWEVER, THE RESULT OF THE FITS WAS IN QUITE GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE DATA OF WESTON AND TODD NORMALIZED TO THE 1976 DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL. IN THE LOW ENERGY REGION,WHICH IS ALSO EQUIVALENT TO THE NORMALIZATION TO THE 1983 DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL./9/. SINCE THE EARLIER DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL. SHOULD DECREASE BY 3% TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE NEW DATA, IT IS LIKELY THAT THE ENDF/B-VI FISSION CROSS SECTION COULD BE TOO LARGE BY ABOUT 3% IN THE ENERGY RANGE ABOVE 12 EV. III-REVISION OF THE RESONANCE PARAMETERS. AN ACCURATE UP-DATING OF THE 241PU RESONANCE PARAMETERS COULD BE OBTAINED BY RENORMALIZING THE FISSION EXPERIMENTAL DATA BASE ACCORDING TO THE NEW DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL. AND BY RESTARTING THE SAMMY FITS OF THE NEW EXPERIMENTAL DATA BASE, INCLUDING THE HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION DATA OF HARVEY AND SIMPSON/10/. DUE TO LACK OF TIME A NEW SAMMY ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED ONLY IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.002 EV TO 3 EV. IN THE ENERGY RANGE ABOVE 3 EV THE UP-DATING WAS PERFORMED BY APPLYING SOME SMALL CORRECTIONS TO THE RESONANCE PARAMETERS. THE SAMMY ANALYSIS OF THE NEW WAGEMANS ET AL. DATA WAS PERFORMED ALONG WITH THE TOTAL CROSS SECTION OF YOUNG AND SMITH/11/ IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.002 EV TO 3 EV, BY STARTING WITH THE ENDF/B-VI RESONANCE PARAMETERS. ONLY THE PARAMETERS OF THE 3+ RESONANCES AT -0.122 EV AND AT 0.265 EV WERE ADJUSTED IN THIS ENERGY RANGE. THE VALUES OF THE CROSS SECTIONS CALCULATED AT 0.0253 EV ARE COMPARED TO THE STANDARD DATA/12/ IN TABLE 1. THE AVERAGE TOTAL, FISSION AND CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS CALCULATED WITH THE NEW RESONANCE PARAMETERS ARE DISPLAYED ON TABLES 2, 3 AND 4 WITH THE CORRESPONDING EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND THE VALUES OBTAINED FROM ENDF/B-VI. ONE SHOULD POINT OUT THAT AN ENERGY SHIFT OF DE/E=+0.00384 WAS APPLIED TO THE DATA OF YOUNG AND SMITH IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A GOOD CONSISTENCY WITH THE ENERGY SCALE OF THE FISSION DATA OF WAGEMANS ET AL. OVER THE RESONANCE AT 0.0265 EV. IN THE ENERGY RANGE ABOVE 3 EV THE SMALL CORRECTIONS APPLIED TO THE RESONANCE PARAMETERS RESULT IN A DECREASE OF THE AVERAGE FISSION CROSS SECTION AND IN AN INCREASE OF THE AVERAGE CAPTURE CROSS SECTION, WITH A VARIATION OF THE AVERAGE TOTAL CROSS SECTION SMALLER THAN THE ERRORS OF THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA OF HARVEY AND SIMPSON. THE AVERAGE VALUES OF THE FISSION AND CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS CALCULATED WITH THE NEW RESONANCE PARAMETERS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 5 AND 6 ALONG WITH THE RENORMALIZED FISSION CROSS SECTION OF WESTON AND TODD AND THE VALUES CALCULATED FROM ENDF/B-VI. IV-CONCLUSION. THE RESULTS OF THE RECENT MEASUREMENT OF THE 241PU FISSION CROSS SECTION IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.002 EV TO 4 EV OF WAGEMANS ET AL. WERE USED IN A NEW EVALUATION OF THE RESONANCE PARAMETERS. THE ACCURACY OF THE CALCULATED CROSS SECTIONS WAS GREATLY IMPROVED IN THE RESONANCE AT 0.265 EV. THE CROSS SECTIONS AVERAGED OVER THIS RESONANCE SHOULD HAVE THE SAME ACCURACY THAN THE STANDARD VALUES AT 0.0253 EV. IN THE HIGH ENERGY REGION UP TO 300 EV THE SAMMY ANALYSIS OF THE NEW EXPERIMENTAL DATA BASE OBTAINED BY THE RENORMALIZATION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA IS RECOMMENDED IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE CORRECTIONS TO THE RESONANCE PARAMETERS PERFORMED IN THE PRESENT WORK. TABLE 1 CROSS SECTIONS AT 0.0253 EV ------------------------------------------------------------- PRESENT RESULTS ENDF/B-VI STANDARD/12/ ------------------------------------------------------------- FISSION 1012.50(-0.0%) 1012.68+-6.58 CAPTURE 361.52(+0.1%) 361.29+-4.95 SCATTERING 11.36(-7.1%) 12.17+-2.62 TOTAL 1385.38(-0.1%) 1386.14+-8.64 ------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE 2 THE TOTAL CROSS SECTION INTEGRAL IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.0021 EV TO 3 EV. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ENERGY RANGE PRESENT WORK ENDF/B-VI YOUNG AND SMITH/11/ (EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 0.0021-0.020 43.54 43.09(-1.0%) 43.25(-0.7%) 0.0200-0.030 14.03 14.02(-0.1%) 14.01(-0.1%) 0.0300-0.100 65.09 66.17(+1.7%) 64.99(-0.1%) 0.1000-0.500 378.38 385.27(+1.8%) 380.10(+0.4%) 0.5000-1.000 29.74 29.41(-1.1%) 31.19(+4.4%) 1.0000-3.000 83.36 83.92(+0.7%) 82.50(-1.0%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 0.0021-3.000 614.14 621.88(+1.3%) 616.04(+0.3%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ TABLE 3 THE FISSION CROSS SECTION INTEGRAL IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.0021 EV TO 3 EV. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ENERGY RANGE THIS WORK ENDF/B-VI WAGEMANS ET AL. WESTON AND TODD (EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) (B*EV)/4/ (B*EV)/6/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 0.0021-0.020 31.06 30.61(-1.5%) 31.09(+0.1%) 0.0200-0.030 10.24 10.22(-0.2%) 10.24( 0.0%) 0.0300-0.100 49.02 50.02(+2.0%) 48.70(-0.6%) 0.1000-0.500 262.76 270.84(+3.1%) 264.58(+0.7%) 262.53(-0.1%) 0.5000-1.000 17.93 17.64(-1.6%) 17.60(-1.8%) 17.67(-1.4%) 1.0000-3.000 54.88 55.62(+1.3%) 54.40(-0.9%) 55.06(+0.3%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 0.0021-3.000 425.89 434.95(+2.1%) 426.61(+0.2%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 0.1000-3.000 335.57 344.10(+2.5%) 336.58(+0.3%) 335.26(-0.1%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ WESTON AND TODD EXPERIMENTAL DATA WERE NORMALIZED TO WAGEMANS ET AL./4/ IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.1 EV TO 12 EV (ORIGINAL EXFOR DATA MULTIPLIED BY 0.952). TABLE 4 THE CAPTURE CROSS SECTION INTEGRAL IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.0021 EV TO 3 EV. -------------------------------------------------------------- ENERGY RANGE PRESENT WORK ENDF/B-VI WESTON AND TODD/6/ (EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) -------------------------------------------------------------- 0.0021-0.020 12.25 12.28(+0.2%) 0.0200-0.030 3.67 3.68(+0.3%) 0.0300-0.100 15.28 15.39(+0.7%) 15.27(-0.1%) 0.1000-0.500 110.58 109.47(-1.0%) 110.49(-0.1%) 0.5000-1.000 5.90 5.87(-0.5%) 6.51 1.0000-3.000 7.30 7.14(-2.2%) 8.96 -------------------------------------------------------------- 0.0021-3.000 154.98 153.83(-0.7%) -------------------------------------------------------------- 0.0300-3.000 139.06 137.87(-0.9%) 141.29(+1.6%) -------------------------------------------------------------- WESTON AND TODD EXPERIMENTAL DATA WERE NORMALIZED TO THE CAL- CULATED AVERAGE CAPTURE CROSS SECTION OVER THE RESONANCE AT 0.264 EV(ORIGINAL EXFOR DATA MULTIPLIED BY 0.914); IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.5 EV TO 3 EV THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA ARE NOT ACCURATE DUE TO LARGE CORRECTIONS FOR THE IMPURITIES. TABLE 5 THE FISSION CROSS SECTION INTEGRAL IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 3 EV TO 300 EV. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ENERGY RANGE PRESENT WORK ENDF/B-VI WESTON AND TODD/6/ (EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3- 20 3038.63 3066.37(+0.9%) 3036.23(-0.1%) 20- 50 1683.69 1739.68(+3.3%) 1705.50(+1.3%) 50-100 1971.15 2030.10(+3.0%) 1931.50(-2.0%) 100-200 2554.85 2628.39(+2.9%) 2531.00(-0.9%) 200-300 2741.23 2820.75(+2.9%) 2747.00(+0.2%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3-300 11989.55 12285.29(+2.5%) 11951.23(-0.3%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ WESTON AND TODD EXPERIMENTAL DATA WERE NORMALIZED TO WAGEMANS ET AL./4/ IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 0.1 EV TO 12 EV (ORIGINAL EXFOR DATA MULTIPLIED BY 0.952). TABLE 6 THE CAPTURE CROSS SECTION INTEGRAL IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 3 EV TO 300 EV. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ENERGY RANGE PRESENT WORK ENDF/B-VI WESTON AND TODD/6/ (EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) (B*EV) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3- 20 1213.07 1138.52(-6.5%) 1192.90(-1.7%) 20- 50 330.34 307.48(-7.5%) 338.09(+2.3%) 50-100 605.40 585.88(-3.2%) 594.83(-1.8%) 100-200 609.83 581.77(-4.8%) 652.68(+7.0%) 200-300 684.97 661.12(-3.6%) 700.53(+2.3%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3-300 3443.36 3274.77(-5.1%) 3479.04(+1.0%) ------------------------------------------------------------------ WESTON AND TODD EXPERIMENTAL DATA NORMALIZED TO THE CALCULATED AVERAGE CAPTURE CROSS SECTION OVER THE RESONANCE AT 0.265 EV (ORIGINAL EXFOR DATA MULTIPLIED BY 0.914). REFERENCES OF APPENDIX 1) DERRIEN,H. AND DE SAUSSURE,G.:NUC. SCI. ENG. 106, 415(1990). 2) LARSON,N.M. 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