There is a renewed interest in photonuclear reactions for various applications such as
radioactive ion beam or neutron production, waste transmutation and detection of nuclear
materials. However, contrary to the neutron induced reactions, evaluated nuclear data files
for photons contain little information, especially for incident energies above 20 MeV. From a
physics point of view, gamma induced reactions allow to study nuclear reaction mechanisms
for some compound nucleus hardly available with a direct neutron probe. This paper gives an
overview of our on-going activities on photonuclear data evaluation of uranium and thorium isotopes. |
