Integral Data Testing of ENDF/B Fission-Product Data and Comparisons of ENDF/B with Other Fission Product Data Files

摘要

Three experiments (one from Oak Ridge and two from Los Alamos), in which samples of exp 235 U and exp 238 Pu were irradiated with thermal neutrons and either the total, gamma-ray, or gamma- and beta-ray fission product decay-energies were measured as functions of cooling time, were selected for comparisons with calculations made using four different fission product data files. The data files used were (1) the ENDF/B-IV fission product file, (2) the ENDF/B-V fission product file, (3) a file derived by substituting decay energies from JNDC into the ENDF/B-V file, and (4) a file derived by substituting decay-energies and spectra from the UK data file into the ENDF/B-V file. Direct summation calculations and spectral comparisons of the experiments were made using these data files as input, and both types of calculational analyses yielded the same results; namely, all data files are deficient, but the JNDC-ENDF/B-V results for the gamma- and beta-ray total decay-energy agree best with experiments. In addition, spectral comparisons with experiment generally indicate that calculated gamma-ray decay-energies are relatively high for early cooling times and small gamma-ray energies; they are low for early cooling times and large gamma-ray energies. The opposite is somewhat the case for the beta-ray decay energies; that is, the calculations are generally low for small beta-ray energies and high for large energies. (ERA citation 07:048593)