Methods and issues for the combined use of integral experiments and covariance data

7^th SG33 meeting, May 2012

The seventh Subgroup meeting was held at the NEA, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, on 22-23 May 2012

Summary record

• COMMARA-3 - Processed ENDF/B-VII.1 covariance library, M. Herman

• Revised C/E-values and S/U analysis of benchmark experiments, S. Pelloni (PSI, Switzerland)
• Results of Nuclear Data S/U Analysis for Benchmark Exercises, S.-J. Kim (KAERI, Korea)
• Progress on Nuclear Data Adjustment, H. Wu (CIAE, China)
• Benchmark Results and Calculation of Continuous-Energy Eigenvalue Sensitivity Coefficients, C. Perfetti (ORNL, USA)
• Results of Cross Section Adjustment Including Fission Spectrum and Mubar, G. Aliberti (ANL, USA)
• Preliminary Results, T. Ivanova (IRSN, France)
• Adjusting 235,238U and 239Pu nuclear data with a Monte Carlo technique, D. Rochman (NRG, Netherlands)
• Status of Activities, C. de Saint Jean (CEA, France)

• Adjustment Results with Stress Test, G. Palmiotti (INL, USA)
• Stress Test of Cross-section Adjustment Based on JENDL-4.0, M. Ishikawa (JAEA, Japan)

• NEA software for comparison of benchmark results, N. Soppera, E. Dupont
• A few remarks on the "a-posteriori" covariance matrix, M. Salvatores

• Status and Next Steps, G. Palmiotti
• Proposed outline for the final report and proposed chapter leaders, M. Salvatores

Last update: 24 July 2012