Computer Index of Neutron Data

CINDA Database, the Computer Index of Neutron Data, contains bibliographical references to measurements, calculations, reviews and evaluation of neutron cross-section and other microscopic neutron data, and spontaneous fission data. It includes also index references to computer libraries of numerical neutron data available from four regional neutron data centres.

The compilation of CINDA is the result of a world-wide co-operation involving the following four data centres. Each centre is responsible for compiling the CINDA entries from literature published in a defined geographical area given in brackets below:

The USA National Nuclear Data Centre at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA (United States of America and Canada).

The Russian Nuclear Data Centre at the Fiziko-Energeticheskij Institut, Obninsk, Russian Federation (former USSR countries).

The NEA Data Bank in Paris, France (OECD member countries in Western Europe and Japan).

The IAEA Nuclear Data Section in Vienna, Austria (all other countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, Central and South America; also IAEA publications and translations journals).

The current contents of the CINDA data base can be accessed on-line. Furthermore, a CINDA book is published annualy by the IAEA as cumulative issue, containing literature published after 1987, supplemented by an Archival Issue for publications before that date.

Since 1999, the CINDA file is also available on CD-ROM (together with user-friendly search options), which is produceed annualy by the NEA Data Bank, and presently accompanies the CINDA book.

Quality LevelExplanation of Terms

• Authoritative: All information in the resource has been verified by authorities as indicated.
• Quality-checked: All information in the resource has been quality-checked as indicated.
• Not quality-checked: Although the information in the resource may come from peer-reviewed journals or other high-quality sources, it has not undergone subsequent quality checking before incorporation in the resource.

: Quality-checked by the IAEA Secretariat
CompletenessExplanation of Terms

• Comprehensive:The resource includes all items in the category for which the resource was created.
• Selective: The resource includes only selected items in the category for which the resource was created, with the process or basis for the selection as indicated.

: Comprehensive
Update FrequencyExplanation of Terms

• Updated continually: A conscientious effort is made to add new information immediately and keep the resource up-to-date on a day-by-day basis.
• Updated periodically: The resource is updated on a schedule. Common values are monthly, quarterly, annually or biennially, but others are also used.
• Updated occasionally: The resource is updated now and then, but not on a schedule.
• Static: The resource is a one-off creation with no plans for updates, or a resource that was updated in the past but has now been frozen with no new input planned.

: Continually