CURRENT STATUS OF ACCELERATOR BENCHMARKS IN OECD/NEA RADIATION SHIELDING EXPERIMENTS DATABASE SINBAD Current status of accelerator benchmarks in OECD/NEA radiation shielding experiments database SINBAD

In order to preserve and make available the information on the performedradiation shielding benchmarks the Data Bank of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency(OECD/NEADB) and the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC)at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) started the Shielding Integral BenchmarkArchive and Database (SINBAD) Project in the early 1990s. The SINBAD databasenow comprises 100 shielding benchmarks, also covering accelerator shieldingbenchmarks in addition to fission reactor shielding and fusion blanketneutronics. Recently, a thorough revision of six of the 23 accelerator benchmarkexperiments was completed in order to provide detailed verification of thecompleteness and consistency of the benchmark information, in particularconcerning the evaluation of the experimental sources of uncertainty. Thisreview process is expected to provide users with an easier choice and help themmake better use of the experimental information and is planned to be extended toother available benchmarks. The OECD NEA Working Party on Scientific Issues ofReactor Systems (WPRS) Expert Group on Radiation Transport and Shielding (EGRTS)was created in 2011 and its mandate is to monitor, steer and support thecontinued development of the SINBAD database. Coordination of the SATIF-11Workshop is part of the mandate of EGRTS and the development of the acceleratorbenchmark database is done in a close cooperation with the SATIF expert group.Proposals and assistance in new benchmark compilations are welcome. SINBAD isavailable at no charge from RSICC and from the NEA Data Bank. Since itsbeginnings SINBAD has been used by nuclear data evaluators, computer codedevelopers, experiment designers and university students.