Nuclear Data Advisory Group

About the Nuclear Data Advisory Group

The Nuclear Data Advisory Group (NDAG) gathers and evaluates differential and integral nuclear data, identifies deficiencies, and recommends priorities on meeting DOE criticality safety needs to the Criticality Safety Support Group (CSSG) and NCSP Manager. Then the NDAG identifies the required resources and unique capabilities for meeting these needs, not only for performing measurements but also for data evaluation with nuclear model codes as well as for data processing for criticality safety applications.

The NDAG coordinates this effort with the leadership of the National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC), the Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG), and the Working Party on International Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC) of the OECD/NEA Nuclear Science Committee. The overall objective is to expedite the issuance of new data and methods to the DOE criticality safety user. The document below describes these activities in detail, with examples based upon special studies being performed in support of criticality safety for a variety of DOE operations.

The NDAG conducts work in accordance with a Charter as approved by the NCSP Manager.

NDAG Members

The NDAG members consist of a Chair with members representing several important areas of expertise, experience and responsibility:

Nuclear data specialists including experimentalists, evaluators and data processors
Criticality safety experts from the major DOE sites
Program management and technical leadership from NCSP elements including nuclear data, critical experiments, benchmarking, and analytical methods