IAEA nuclear databases for applications

Abstract

The Nuclear Data Section (NDS) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provides nuclear data services to scientists on a worldwide scale with particular emphasis on developing countries. More than 100 data libraries are made available cost-free by Internet, CD-ROM and other media. These databases are used for practically all areas of nuclear applications as well as basic research. An overview is given of the most important nuclear reaction and nuclear structure databases, such as EXFOR, CINDA, ENDF, NSR, ENSDF, NUDAT, and of selected special purpose libraries such as FENDL, RIPL, RNAL, the IAEA Photonuclear Data Library, and the IAEA charged-particle cross section database for medical radioisotope production. The NDS also coordinates two international nuclear data centre networks and is involved in data development activities (to create new or improve existing data libraries when the available data are inadequate) and in technology transfer to developing countries, e.g. through the installation and support of the mirror web site of the IAEA Nuclear Data Services at IPEN (operational since March 2000) and by organizing nuclear-data related workshops. By encouraging their participation in IAEA Coordinated Research Projects and also by compiling their experimental results in databases such as EXFOR, the NDS helps to make developing countries' contributions to nuclear science visible and conveniently available.

Recent Developments in the Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data Library EXFOR

“…List of possible codes with short description is provided for each of available search fields. The data/information can be retrieved in: extended EXFOR format (X+), BibTeX, TABLE, BIB and XREF, T4 format, C4 format, extended C4 and R33 format [7]. The data can be displayed on graphs in static and interactive plots with option for uploading of users' data for comparison.…”

Transporte de impurezas no tokamak TCABR

“…Assim, uma abordagem bastante comum é a utilização de dados tabelados em banco de dados de acesso público, nos quais se fazem interpolações e extrapolações necessárias nas condições experimentais de interesse. Como exemplos de bancos de dados podemos citar o ALADDIN, mantido pela Agência Internacional de Energia Atômica (IAEA) [54], o banco de dados NIFS [55] e o banco de dados ADAS [56], entre outras opções disponíveis [57]. Em contrapartida e a título de exemplo, vários cálculos analíticos de seção de choque de processos de interesse em física de plasmas podem ser encontrados em [58,59,60,61].…”