March 29 – April 1, 2016, MEPhI has held the meeting of the Russian-Chinese working group on nuclear data. Its organization and conducting were entrusted to MEPhI in connection with a formal request of the State Corporation for atomic energy “Rosatom”.

The Russian-Chinese working group on nuclear data operates in accordance with the decision of the Subcommission on cooperation in the field of nuclear energy of the Intergovernmental Russian-Chinese Commission on preparation of meetings of heads of government. The meeting in MEPhI was attended by the Director of the China Nuclear Data Center, Deputy Director of the Nuclear Physics Department of the China Institute of Atomic Energy Professor Ge Zhigang and leader of the Nuclear Data Evaluation Group at the China Nuclear Data Center Professor Huang Xiaolong. Russian side was represented by employees of the Head scientific-methodological center of the Service of standard reference data in the field of atomic energy (Centre No. 355).

The meeting considered the following range of issues: 1) development of new evaluation methods of nuclear-physical characteristics of the decay of radioactive nuclei, providing an accurate accounting of balance ratios in the decay schemes; 2) sections evaluation of neutron dosimetric reactions; 3) evaluation of nuclear-physical characteristics of radionuclides decay. The parties noted achieved progress in all directions. Members of the working group have published results of individual studies in 4 articles in journals “Applied Radiation and Isotopes", “European Journal of Physics” in 2015-2016.

In the coming year the parties planned to prepare a “Handbook on Decay Data Evaluation” and to conduct joint research in the field of reference data verification.

In the framework of the visit Professor Ge Zhigang delivered a lecture for teachers and students of MEPhI on “Nuclear Data Activity in China”, in which he told about the Chinese Nuclear Data Center, its goals, current progress and plans for future. During the lecture, representatives of both sides also tried to identify possible areas of collaboration in research and educational fields.

After the lecture Professor Ge Zhigang shared his impressions:

“I am very glad that I had the opportunity to visit MEPhI, communicate with colleagues and to take the first steps in establishing cooperation between our organizations. I hope that we start to interact as soon as possible, and the result will be fruitful for both parties”.