1. Worldwide Effort in Nuclear Structure & Decay Data Evaluation USNDP Budget Briefing, Office of Nuclear Physics, Office of Science, U.S. DOE, Germantown, February 12, 2010 Filip G. Kondev kondev@anl.gov

2. NSDD backbone – 6.7 FTE leadership, technical expertise and mentoring host and maintain ENSDF, NSR, network programs, manuals & references ENSDF : only Nuclear Structure database updated continuously and comprehensively ALL nuclei and ALL nuclear level properties and radiations contributors are members of the Nuclear Structure and Decay Data Network, under the auspices of IAEA. Primary responsibility of NNDC; role of USNDP is indispensible! No viable alternative exists in the world! ENSDF : only Nuclear Structure database updated continuously and comprehensively ALL nuclei and ALL nuclear level properties and radiations contributors are members of the Nuclear Structure and Decay Data Network, under the auspices of IAEA. Primary responsibility of NNDC; role of USNDP is indispensible! No viable alternative exists in the world! developing countries Valuable contributions - 2.0 FTE issues: funding, retirements and replacements ~0.25 FTE Australia & South America Europe, FSU & Turkey Asia – Japan, China, India & Kuwait NSDD coordination

3.  Australia: Australian National University - 0.2 FTE and South America: Brazil & Argentina - withdrew after IAEA seeding funds dried-up naturally  Asia & FSU: Kuwait (0.2 FTE); China (0.5 FTE), India (0.2 FTE) & Russia ( 0.25 FTE ) – high potential, but contributions remain elusive; major concern – Japan (0.45 FTE): key retirements & lack of replacements – addressed at last joint DNP-APS/PSJ meeting - positive response from H. Sakurai (RIKEN) – details passed on to USNDP leadership Total: 1.8 FTE Positive Development in Europe following IAEA & USNDP–led effort (NuPECC) & ONP/DOE (OECD Global Science Forum)  one-week training workshop sponsored by IAEA, 5 lecturers (USNDP & IAEA): organized at IFIN-HH, Bucharest (V. Zamfir) from 30 March to 3 April 2009 – 11 trainees (EU and Turkey) – somewhat different format compared with Trieste workshops - evaluation of A = 84 was completed and published in Nuclear Data Sheets (coordinator: B. Singh, McMaster Univ.) follow up seed grants were provided by IAEA to several participants of the workshop mentoring is continuing by experienced evaluators at ANL, BNL, LBNL & McMaster Univ  formation of ENSDD Network (D. Balabanski (Sofia)/C. Scheidenberger (GSI)) letter of intent signed so far by 9 EU institutes (ATOMIKI, CIEMAT, GANIL, CEA-Saclay, GSI, IFIN-HH, IFJ, INRNE & JYFL) was submitted to NupNet (S. Gales) → decision in March 2010 Nuclear data evaluation component included in some research grant applications (integration of research & data evaluation) - some were funded! → ENSDD will contribute not only to ENSDF, but also to other horizontal nuclear data activities, such as evaluation of decay data & atomic masses, and perhaps other topics related to evaluators’ research interests

4.  there are still disparities in contributions to ENSDF between USNDP (6.7 FTE) and the rest of the world (2.0 FTE) 12 FTE (world-wide) are needed for healthy maintenance of ENSDF progress in attracting viable EU participation to ENSDF:  formation of the ENSDD network – one light at the end of one tunnel?  cautiously optimistic - secure funding (NupNet) is the major issue concerns:  replacement of retired data evaluators in Japan  maintaining the quality of input when new evaluators are joining the system – extra burden on USNDP evaluators  no viable international nuclear structure data effort without strong USNDP involvement replacement of ageing USNDP evaluators – presentations by M. Herman & R. Firestone - must be the highest USNDP priority better integration with the NP research community (US and abroad) → more active involvement in the major ONP projects, e.g. FRIB → better interaction with the applied NP community