Nuclear Engineering and Technology (Feb 2019)
Atomic displacement cross-sections for neutron irradiation of materials from Be to Bi calculated using the arc-dpa model
Abstract
Displacement cross-sections for an advanced assessment of radiation damage rates were obtained for a number of materials using the arc-dpa model at neutron incident energies from 10−5 eV to 10 GeV. Evaluated data files, CEM03 and ECIS codes, and an approximate approach were applied for the calculation of recoil energy distributions in neutron induced reactions.Three sets of displacement cross-sections based on the use of low-energy data from JEFF-3.3, ENDF/B-VIII.0, and JENDL-4.0u were prepared. Files contain also cross-sections calculated using the standard NRT model.Special efforts were made to estimate the uncertainty of obtained displacement cross-sections. Keywords: Radiation damage, Displacement cross-section, Neutron irradiation