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Nuclear data requirements for fast reactors

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Summarizing, we emphasize again that precise knowledge of estimated microscopic neutron data is necessary in order to ensure the required accuracy in calculating a number of parameters which are important for the reactor operation and decisions on promising reactor concepts, for the technology of the external fuel cycle, including transportation, reprocessing of spent fuel, and the manufacture of new fuel elements, and for investigating the stability of fuel elements in relation to the neutron flux in the reactor. These requirements have not yet been satisfied, in spite of the progress made in the field of experiments and evaluations.

It should also be emphasized that, for effective progress toward the target accuracy of reactor parameters, it is necessary to determine, the correlative properties of allowable errors, which, unfortunately, has not yet been done in the WRENDA international list of requirements.

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 234–241, October, 1984.

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Manokhin, V.N., Usachev, L.N. Nuclear data requirements for fast reactors. At Energy 57, 683–692 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01123637

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