Researchers, graduate students and students of MEPhI and representatives of other scientific organizations discussed the problems of preparing and assessing the uncertainties of neutron physics data at a scientific and methodological seminar, which was held at the nuclear university on October 27.

Seminar On Assessing the Uncertainties of Neutron Physics Data at MEPhI

The event was attended by more than 60 representatives of MEPhI, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Intra Company and other organizations. The organizer of the seminar was the Main Scientific and Methodological Data Center (MSMDC) of the State Service for Standard Reference Data in the field of atomic energy use.

Opening the seminar, Deputy Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Technology MEPhI, Professor Georgy Tikhomirov noted that in recent years, issues related to the uncertainties of data required for the nuclear industry have come to the fore.

“The year before last, we decided to reboot the State Scientific Data Center and now we are developing areas of work related to data systematization. Since the Center exists in a university, we clearly understand that one of our key tasks is to transfer information to the younger generation on all issues related to modeling and the use of data. At the same time, we would like to claim to generalize international experience, because today it is much easier for a university to develop international cooperation than for enterprises of the Rosatom State Corporation,” he said.

Georgy Tikhomirov reported that the center has been conducting scientific and methodological seminars on data and their use since 2021, and the seminar “Preparation and assessment of uncertainties in neutronic data” was the second one this year.

“I hope that from next year our seminars on various issues of using data in the nuclear industry will be held regularly, twice a year - in spring and autumn. Moreover, we will be talking not only about nuclear isotope data, but about data on the properties of materials in nuclear technology,” - he added.

The developer of the package, Ph.D. in physics and mathematics Valentin Sinitsa gave a keynote speech at the seminar on the current state and prospects for the development of the GRUCON package.

The seminar participants also discussed the current state of constant support for calculations of fast reactors, methods for assessing the uncertainty of the radiation load on the equipment of nuclear power plant reactors, the capabilities and experience of using processing systems and other topics.