Conclusion

Whatever fission observables we wish to evaluate, we have seen that measurement remains essential. Over the last decade, the community of experimental physicists has been working hard to improve the quality of measurements by developing new detectors, improving experimental simulation tools, etc. Some measurements meet specific needs arising from applications (metrological measurements), while others are more complex. Some measurements meet specific needs arising from applications (metrological measurements), while others are more focused on the search for correlations between fission observables in order to improve and test our fission models.

As far as fission yields are concerned, the task facing experimentalists is considerable: ideally, we'd like to know the yields of a large number of fission products, for many fissioning nuclei and over a wide spectrum of...