Remarks on iron nuclear data for fusion neutron sources

Kwon, Saerom*; Konno, Chikara  ; Honda, Shogo*; Sato, Satoshi*; Masuda, Kai*

We examined the accuracy of the iron data in the latest nuclear data libraries (FENDL-3.2b, JENDL-5, ENDF/B-VIII.0 and JEFF-3.3) used in the fusion neutron source design by using QST/TIARA iron experiment with quasi mono-energy neutrons of 40 and 65 MeV and JAEA/FNS iron experiment with DT neutrons. Then we have found the following issues on FENDL-3.2b iron data and specified that the non-elastic, inelastic scattering, (n,2n) reaction and (n,np) reaction data of Fe and inelastic scattering data of Fe caused the issues.1) The calculation results with FENDL-3.2b underestimate the measured neutron fluxes of the continuous energy range (10-60 MeV) by a factor of 0.6 in the TIARA experiment with 65 MeV neutrons. 2) The calculation results with FENDL-3.2b tend to underestimate the measured neutron flux above 10 MeV by a factor of 0.8 at depth of 70 cm and overestimate the measured ones below 10 keV by a factor of 1.3 up to depth of 40 cm in the FNS experiment.