7. Future prospects for assessment

7.1 New/improved experimental data

Although modeling is playing an increasingly important role in assessment, experimental data are crucial for constraining model parameters and validating predictions. It is therefore essential to pursue the measurement effort in two directions:

• precise and targeted measurements of important reactions, in order to fill gaps or answer questions about nuclei that are directly useful for applications;

• reaction measurements to constrain/improve models. In most cases, these involve...