The paper describes the holistic and inclusive approach of these projects that have also worked together to coordinate the European nuclear data research capabilities to improve the facilities, detectors, models and evaluation, validation and simulation tools. | Nuclear data research supported by EURATOM CHANDA ERINDA and EUFRAT EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol. 6 30 2020 Nuclear Sciences . Gonzalez et al. published by EDP Sciences 2020 amp Technologies https epjn 2019024 Available online at https REVIEW ARTICLE Nuclear data research supported by EURATOM CHANDA ERINDA and EUFRAT Enrique Miguel Gonzalez1 Arnd Rudolf Junghans2 Arjan Plompen3 and Peter Schillebeeckx3 1 Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas CIEMAT Avda. Complutense 40 28040 Madrid Spain 2 Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf HZDR Bautzner Landstr. 400 01328 Dresden Germany 3 Joint Research Centre JRC Retieseweg 111 2440 Geel Belgium Received 12 March 2019 Accepted 4 June 2019 Abstract. Nuclear data and associated tools are critical elements of the nuclear energy industry and research playing an essential role in the simulation of nuclear systems safety and performance calculations and interpretation of the reactor instrumentation. Nuclear data improvement requires a combination of much different know-hows that are distributed over many small- and medium-sized institutions along Europe. The Euratom programs have facilitated the setup of pan European collaborations getting together the required experience inside the projects CHANDA ERINDA and the JRC action EUFRAT. The paper describes the holistic and inclusive approach of these projects that have also worked together to coordinate the European nuclear data research capabilities to improve the facilities detectors models and evaluation validation and simulation tools. It also shows examples of success histories and summary of results of these projects and of their impact on the EU nuclear safety and industry together with an outlook to the future. 1 Introduction matter how sophisticated the tool is no simulation calculation or interpretation of measurements can be Nuclear data and associated tools are a critical element of better than the limit imposed .
