Nuclear Data

1 - Introduction: Types of nuclear reaction and underlying physics; basics of nuclear decay and nuclear stability; different methods of obtaining nuclear data; how to compile and evaluate nuclear data; the key software tools/data compilations used by practitioners in industry (James Benstead, Lee Morgan, Andrew Simons and colleagues, AWE) [This chapter may split into more than one chapter depending on the content] 2 - Engineering design of fusion reactors: Short introduction to fusion energy; Nuclear data related to the 14 MeV neutrons produced in d-t fusion; possible nuclear transformation and damage processes associated with the reaction of such neutrons with different materials; tritium breeding; plasma performance monitoring; (Mark Gilbert, Lee Packer and colleagues (CCFE Culham) 3 - Fission energy – cross section data: Importance of high precision (n,g) and (n,f) cross sections for actinide elements for conventional fission and next-generation reactors; experimental studies with nToF at CERN, how to compile and evaluate data from nToF (Toby Wright, University of Manchester, David Jenkins and others) 4 - Fission energy – decay heat: Concept of decay heat in reactors; experimental methods to understand decay heat; identification of uncertainties in nuclear beta decays; beta-delayed neutrons; (Bill Gelletly, University of Surrey, Alejandro Algora CSIC Valencia, and Giuseppe Lorusso, NPL) 5 - Spent-fuel management, decommissioning and recycling: Fission product yields; actinide isotope yields; characteristic isotopes with long half-lives relevant to decommissioning, (a,n) reactions and neutrons from spent fuel; shielding; transmutation challenges (David Jenkins, Paul Davies, University of York and others) 6 - Medical isotopes and medical applications: PET and SPECT imaging and isotope production relevant to those applications; theranostic isotopes; MEDICIS facility at CERN; boron neutron capture therapy; proton therapy (Thomas Cocolios, KU Leuven and others)