The Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database (SINBAD) contains compilations for experiments related to:
The work on SINBAD is jointly carried out by the United States’ Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) and the NEA. At the NEA, the SINBAD Technical Review Group (SINBAD TRG) is mandated to monitor gaps and steer the development of SINBAD in collaboration with RSICC (see SINBAD Technical Review Group below).
In 2023/2024, SINBAD has been successfully migrated to NEA GitLab and two versions have been established:
Members of an organisation from an NEA Data Bank member country (other than Canada and the United States) can request the two volumes of SINBAD.V2 from the NEA Data Bank:
Members of other organisations (including organisations from Canada and the United States) can request SINBAD.V2 from RSICC.
SINBAD.v2 will be continuously updated and extended under the supervision of the SINBAD Technical Review Group of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS).
SINBAD.v1 will no longer be maintained and is available upon request from the WPRS Secretariat (wprs@oecd-nea.org).
A new SINBAD Technical Review Group, under the auspices of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) was mandated in January 2026 to succeed to the SINBAD Task Force that has been operating since February 2022 to steer the development of SINABD.
A new maintenance process supported by the NEA GitLab has been defined and several maintenance subgroups have been formed. They are now working independently on new entries and exchange on needs in V&V of shielding calculations. The Technical Review Group intends to create new benchmark entries (including purely numerical benchmarks), to improve the documentation of existing entries, and to supplement entries with additional data (e.g. model inputs, CAD).
| Chair of SINBAD Technical Review Group | Thomas Miller (USA) |
| Members | All NEA member countries |
| Full participant | European Commission (under the NEA Statute) |
| Observer (international organisation) |
International Atomic Energy Agency (by agreement) |
TRG members' working area on NEA SharePoint (password protected | reminder)
If you want to participate in the SINBAD Technical Review Group or to report issues to be resolved, please send an email to wprs@oecd-nea.org.
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