RSICC DATA LIBRARY DLC-191
1. NAME AND TITLE OF DATA LIBRARY
SINBAD 2000: Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database.
2. NAME AND TITLE OF DATA RETRIEVAL PROGRAMS
SINBADIS.HTM
3. CONTRIBUTORS
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
4. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND INFORMATION
SINBAD began in 1992-93, prompted by the continued closure of experimental facilities world wide. The loss of benchmark experimental facilities jeopardizes the future of new shielding data. Further, the loss of lab notes and/or logbook records from poor document storage and/or aging, together with the loss of guidance from retirements of key experimental staff, complete benchmark data becomes a premium under today's strict quality assurance needs. The decision was made to collect, recompile, and distribute benchmark information in formats acceptable to the international community in an attempt to preserve and disseminate the information. The data integrity was checked and reference sources examined for self-consistency. At times, full benchmark information was gathered from multiple sources including personal contacts and laboratory logbooks.
The ORNL Nuclear Analysis and Shielding Section effort was joined by the ORNL Radiation Safety Information Computational Center and the NEA Data Bank. The benchmarks chosen have international acclaim and broad usage in the nuclear shielding community. These benchmarks are a part of a recommended set from the Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG), Nuclear Energy Agency Nuclear Science Committee (NEANSC), and the International Atomic Energy Agency Nuclear Data Section (IAEANDS) and sanctioned for use as quality assurance in computational shielding verification and cross-section library production.
5. APPLICATION OF THE DATA
The high accuracy of benchmark experimental data allows checks for quality assurance in user's computations or with new experimental results. The user may find a lack of experimental data in some energy regions which could become a focus for future computations and experiments. New data libraries containing revised cross sections may be verified and validated, drawing comparisons to previous cross-section data releases. New information on benchmark results, i.e. new computations, revised data results, errors in data generation, will be provided as updates to this library, so users will find up to date applications in computational ready formats.
6. SOURCE AND SCOPE OF DATA
SINBAD benchmarks include a large set of 29 fission shielding benchmarks, ten fusion shielding benchmarks, and two intermediate-energy accelerator benchmarks. Work on follow-up versions of SINBAD will provide more benchmarks in fission, fusion, and accelerator shielding with new additions in radioactive waste and medical applications. The current version supplies example models and computational input for the user's benefit. Included are many benchmarks with their reference documents scanned into a searchable Adobe Acrobat® pdf format.
The benchmark information provides information to fully describe the experimental parameters in a modern-day computational model. All relevant engineering details of the experimental configuration are included with the physics equations and theory to provide the user with an understanding of the principles of the benchmark and the manner data was collected. The full benchmark information includes the source of radiation, its energy, angle, and strength; the materials tested, their compositions, tolerances, temperatures, and physical arrangement; and the detectors, their locations, data results, resolution limits, response curves and unfolding code references. Included are statistical error analyses of the measurements.
7. DISCUSSION OF THE DATA RETRIEVAL PROGRAM
The SINBAD retrieval system is a html indexed and hyperlinked table, sorted alphabetically by shield material, year of publication, laboratory, shield-type, and filename. Each of the table entries are linked to their html formatted abstract in the subdirectories of SINBAD 2000 data. The abstract is hyperlinked to the experimental html document within each of the subdirectories. Included in most benchmark subdirectories are computational data and original documents that have been scanned in Acrobat ® pdf format.
8. DATA FORMAT AND COMPUTER
HTML; UNIX Workstations, PC, MAC (D00191ALLCP02)
The data are provided in HTML 3.1 format compatible with most UNIX, Microsoft® Windows™, and Apple® platforms. This is due to the widely accepted HTML formats and the HTML browsers available free through the World Wide Web. The highly graphical and tabular nature of the benchmark data makes the hypertext links within the main HTML document very user friendly.
The data files may be used in PC, UNIX, or MAC systems that run Windows 95™ or equivalent. The HTML browsers that are compatible with these platforms open the data files. The size of each benchmark may range from a few hundred kilobytes to over a megabyte depending on the number of associated graphical and tabular files. There are 41 benchmarks in this release which has a total disk space requirement of approximately 200 MB.
9. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME
Run times vary.
10. REFERENCES
a. Documentation available with library:
H. T. Hunter, SINBAD 2000 Readme file and index (September 2000).
b. Other useful documentation:
H. T. Hunter, J. L. Parsons, B. J. Marshall, E. Sartori, I. Kodeli, "Shielding Experimental Benchmark Storage, Retrieval, and Display System," Journal of Nucl. Sci. and Tech., Sup 1, 61-67 (March 2000).
H. T. Hunter, R. W. Roussin, C.O. Slater, D. T. Ingersoll, E. Sartori, I. Kodeli, "SINBAD - Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database," Proceedings of the 1996 Topical Meeting of Radiation Protection and Shielding No. Falmouth, Massachusetts (April 21, 1996). Available on RSICC WWW Site http://rsicc.ornl.gov/rsiccnew/BENCHMARKS.html.
11. CONTENTS OF LIBRARY
Available Benchmark Experiments:
Nuclear Fission Shielding:
Euracos - Iron Benchmark
Euracos - Sodium Benchmark
Karlsruhe KFK - Iron Benchmark
Proteus - Wuerenlingen Iron Benchmark
Harmonie - Cadarache Sodium
JANUS - Phase 1
JANUS - Phase VIII
JASPER - Radial Shield
JASPER - Axial Shield
JASPER - In-Vessel Fuel Storage
JASPER - Radial Shield
NESDIP-2
NESDIP-3
PCA - PV
SB2 - Gamma -ray (thermal capture)
SB3 - Gamma-ray (fast capture)
SDT1 - ORNL Iron
SDT2 - ORNL Oxygen
SDT3 - ORNL Nitrogen
SDT4 - ORNL Sodium
SDT5 - ORNL SS
SDT11 ORNL Thick Iron/SS
SDT12 ORNL Thick Sodium
U of Illinois Iron Sphere
Winfrith ASPIS - Iron Benchmark
Winfrith ASPIS - Iron 88 Benchmark
Winfrith ASPIS - Graphite Benchmark
Winfrith ASPIS - Water Benchmark
Winfrith NESDIP-2 Benchmark
Winfrith PCA - Replica Benchmark
YAYOI Iron Benchmark
Fusion:
FNG - SS Bulk Shield
FNG - ITER Blanket
FNS - Oxygen
Osaka Iron Sphere
Osaka Nickel Sphere
Osaka Aluminum Sphere
SB5 - ORNL SS/BP
TUD - Dresden Iron
TUD - ITER Blanket
U of Illinois Iron Sphere
Accelerator:
INS Tokyo - Shielding Mats. I
AVF Cycl U of Osaka - Shielding Mats II
The 1-2-page abstracts, which completely specify the major components of each benchmark, are available on the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center WEB site at http://rsicc.ornl.gov/rsiccnew/BENCHMARKS.htm and at the OECD/NEA WEB site at http://www.nea.fr/html/dbprog. A user may check the updates to SINBAD and benchmarks being prepared for release at the above WWW sites.
data names and space requirements:
*_e.htm; *-exp.htm--40 MB experimental benchmarks and computations.
*_a.htm; *-abs.htm--350 KB abstracts
*.pdf - 160 MB original documents
12. DATE OF ABSTRACT
September 1997, revised November 1998, revised September 2000.
KEYWORDS: BENCHMARK PROBLEM CROSS SECTIONS; BENCHMARK NEUTRON FIELDS; DATABASE; DETECTOR RESPONSE