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The availability of suitable and well-qualified computational tools for radiation transport and activation analyses and the incorporated basic nuclear data for fusion technology applications is an essential cornerstone for the development of fusion technology towards the realization of a future viable and environmentally friendly energy source. The nuclear design will be steered by neutronics analyses related to radiation transport simulations and activation calculations for nuclear responses including heating, dose fields, material irradiation damage, gas production, tritium breeding, etc. Neutronics design and optimization analyses need to provide fundamental data for the nuclear design, optimization and performance evaluation comprising safety, licensing, waste management, and decommissioning issues. Nuclear loads and shielding-related requirements could pose severe demands on design and operation of many structures, systems and components in fusion reactors.
The development of high-quality fusion nuclear data and its experimental validation covers, amongst others, fundamental research in nuclear reaction theory and modelling, nuclear cross section measurements, evaluation of cross section data libraries with associated covariances, data processing and computational benchmarking and integral experimental validation up to the irradiation of instrumented mock-up components. The European perspective on status and future directions in these areas for neutron and charged particle induced nuclear data, the strategy on provision of general purpose and application specific nuclear data libraries and the demands on verification and validation efforts will be presented.
