HPRL – International cooperation to identify and monitor priority nuclear data needs for nuclear applications

¹ CEA, Irfu, Universite Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE
² OECD, Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), Boulogne-Billancourt, FRANCE
³ IAEA, NAPC Nuclear Data Section (NDS), Vienna, Austria
⁴ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA
⁵ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA
⁶ CIAE, China Nuclear Data Center (CNDC), Beijing, China
⁷ Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
⁸ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) & University of Bologna, Bologna, ITALY
⁹ “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest - Magurele, Romania
¹⁰ CEA, Nuclear Energy Division (DEN), Cadarache, FRANCE
¹¹ European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Geel, Belgium
¹² Contractor, NAPC Nuclear Data Section (NDS), IAEA, Vienna, Austria
¹³ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
¹⁴ SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium
¹⁵ Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing, China
¹⁶ www.oecd-nea.org/science/wpec/hprl

^* e-mail: wpec@oecd-nea.org

Published online: 30 September 2020

Abstract

The OECD-NEA High Priority Request List (HPRL) is a point of reference to guide and stimulate the improvement of nuclear data for nuclear energy and other applications, and a tool to bridge the gap between data users and producers. The HPRL is application-driven and the requests are submitted by nuclear data users or representatives of the user’s communities. A panel of international experts reviews and monitors the requests in the framework of an Expert Group mandated by the NEA Nuclear Science Committee Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC). After approval, individual requests are classified to three categories: high priority requests, general requests, and special purpose requests (e.g., dosimetry, standards). The HPRL is hosted by the NEA in the form of a relational database publicly available on the web. This paper provides an overview of HPRL entries, status and outlook. Examples of requests successfully completed are given and new requests are described with emphasis on updated nuclear data needs in the fields of nuclear energy, neutron standards and dosimetry.