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Elemental Ta should include Ta180_m1, not ground state

Open paulromano opened this issue 9 months ago • 0 comments

I recently learned that the two naturally occurring isotopes of Ta are the first metastable state of Ta180 and the ground state of Ta181. ENDF/B-VIII.0 and earlier do not have any cross sections for the metastable, but it's looking like VIII.1 will (discussion here, unfortunately limited to ENDF/B library contributors). Once that's available, when someone asks for elemental Ta, we should be adding Ta180_m1, not Ta180. So, some changes will be needed in:

  • openmc.data.isotopes
  • openmc.Material.add_element

paulromano avatar Oct 07 '23 14:10 paulromano