Update On The Nuclear Data Working Group: Cross Cutting Activities in Nuclear Data

The Nuclear Data Working Group (NDWG) was founded in 2015, the membership of which consisted of national laboratory representatives nominated by each of the participating federal program managers. Today, the NDWG consists of 40 members representing 17 federal programs and 11 national laboratories with an additional 5 members at large. The primary responsibilities of the NDWG are to facilitate collaboration across federal programs and recommend topics for experimental research and data compilation relevant to mission-oriented applications. The main tool used to accomplish these goals is the annual Workshop on Applied Nuclear Data Activities (WANDA). These workshops are designed to facilitate discussion among the attendees with the goal of identifying and prioritizing opportunities to enhance the fidelity and impact of a variety of nuclear data activities. The WANDA workshops are open to all interested parties and are intended gain consensus on prioritized, cross-cutting nuclear data needs. The reports generated from each workshop guide federal programs that fund nuclear experiment, theory, and evaluation in support of their respective modeling and simulation efforts. The NDWG has also organized several, more focused workshops on specific topics of broad interest to the nuclear data community.

In this talk we will provide an overview of NDWG activities with an emphasis on recent efforts and the importance of collaborative research.