Nuclear data, especially neutron nuclear data, is the basic data for fundamental research of nuclear physics, utilization of nuclear energy, and development of nuclear technology. It is also an important bridge to connect nuclear physics fundamental research and nuclear technology application. The quality of nuclear data will directly impact on the effectiveness, safety and economy of nuclear devices. This paper briefly introduces the application of nuclear data, the trend of nuclear data research in the world, and reviews the experience of international nuclear data work as well as its enlightenment to nuclear data work in China. Finally, opportunities and challenges brought by machine learning and other new technologies to the development of nuclear data in China are introduced, and some proposals on how to develop the nuclear data work in China are presented.

nuclear data  /  nuclear data needs  /  evaluated nuclear data library