Fusion-related work at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is a specialised agency within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) focusing on the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Through its activities in the reaction data field, the NEA participates in the preparation of data for the modelling of future nuclear facility concepts and the development of reactor installations. A Working Party at the NEA on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation is established to promote the exchange of nuclear data evaluations, measurements, nuclear model calculations and validation. Activities on evaluated data in the European Fusion and Activation File projects are monitored through the Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) collaboration as they play an important role for new fusion applications. The NEA provides also data from integral experiments collected in benchmark databases. Materials research is a field of key relevance for innovative nuclear systems, Such as Generation IV reactors, critical and sub-critical transmutation systems and fusion devices. Recently, a new Working Party on Multi-Scale Modelling of Fuels and Structural Materials for Nuclear Systems has been created within the NEA. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.