Multifaceted Coded Nuclear Data Libraries Assemblage: TENDL-2025
The multipurpose, multifaceted methodical nuclear data libraries coded by TALYS [1] & databases [2], TEFAL, TASMAN [3] as the Evaluated Nuclear Data Library TENDL has now been released every other year recently. Considerable experience has been acquired during the production years of global repetitive seven incident particles (neutron, proton, deuteron, triton, alpha, helium and gamma induced), application agnostic nuclear data libraries with covariance information up to 200 MeV incident energy on about 2850 (T½ > 1s) targets Z=3 6Li to Z=115 291Mc. The library information is stored in the ENDF-6 data format [4] explicitly below 30 MeV, implicitly above and now in the GNDS-2.0 format [5]. The robust backbone of this achievement is completeness, quality, upgradability and, most of all, reproducibility and methodology. Since TENDL has been comprehensively embraced by many, quite different applications (accelerator, astrophysics, fusion, fission, medical, experimental, decommissioning, etc.) that require multifaceted nuclear reaction data in various forms, primary and derived, for not only criticality but shielding, transport, radioprotection, transmutation, experimental interpretation, materials or earth sciences. The essential knowledge is not the TENDL libraries themselves, but rather the necessary physics databases and methods, processes, codes, tools and know-how that go into the making of every evaluation of the libraries. Recent efforts have focused on proper assessment of the underlying physics models coding and incorporation of databases information and metrics into the scientific T3 system [3].