Evaluation of Neutron Cross Sections of Plutonium-241

Abstract

The neutron cross sections of 241Pu were evaluated in the energy range between 10−5 eV and 15MeV, and are stored in the Japanese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library Version-1 (JENDL-1). In the energy range below 100eV, the evaluated data contained in ENDE/B-IV and the resonance parameters recommended in BNL-325 were tentatively adopted. The unresolved resonance parameters were determined between 100 eV and 21.5 keV so as to reproduce the experimental data of the fission and capture cross sections. Above 21.5 keV, the fission cross section was evaluated on the basis of the experimental data, most of which were reported as the ratio to the fission cross section of 235U and then were normalized by the fission cross section of 235U adopted in JENDL-1. The capture cross section was obtained from the experimental data of a in the energy range up to 250 keV. The capture cross section above 250 keV and the elastic and inelastic scattering, (n, 2n) and (n, 3n) reaction cross sections above 21.5 keV were obtained on the basis of the theoretical calculations. The calculated cross sections are connected smoothly with those obtained from the unresolved resonance parameters at 21.5 keV. This suggests the self-consistency of the present evaluation.