The Displacement per Atom (DPA) rate is conventionally computed with DPA cross sections in reactor applications. The method of direct calculation with energyangular distributions given in the Center of Mass (CM) frame is proposed and recommended in the present work. The methods for refining and verifying the calculations of DPA cross sections are proposed: (i) Gauss-Legendre-Quadrature-based Piecewise Integration (GLQPI) for ensuring the numeric convergence of integral over emission angle due to the discontinuity of integrand; (ii) verification of the convergence for trapezoidal integration over the secondary energy; (iii) interpolation of doubledifferential cross sections. For 56 Fe of JEFF-3.1.1, the current numeric integration over emission angle is shown not convergent, whereas the direct trapezoidal over the secondary energy and the direct interpolation of energy-angle-integrated damage are shown accurate. On the other hand, it is shown that the DPA cross sections are overestimated if isotropic angular distributions are assumed. However, the DPA cross section is not sensitive to the high-order Legendre polynomials because the former is an angle-integrated quantity. Numerical results of neutron elastic scattering show that 2 orders of Legendre polynomials can give the DPA rates of 56 Fe within 0.5% overestimation for fission reactors, while 4 orders are required for fusion reactors. For neutron inelastic scatterings-induced DPA, the first order Legendre polynomial is sufficient for both fission and fusion reactors.

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FLUOLE-2 is a benchmark-type experiment dedicated to 900 and 1450 MWe PWR vessels surveillance dosimetry. This two-year program started in 2014 and will end in 2015. It will provide precise experimental data for the validation of the neutron spectrum propagation calculation from core to vessel. It is composed of a square core surrounded by a stainless steel baffle and internals: PWR barrel is simulated by steel structures leading to different steel-water slides; two steel components stand for a surveillance capsule holder and for a part of the pressure vessel. Measurement locations are available on the whole experimental structure. The experimental knowledge of core sources will be obtained by integral gamma scanning measurements directly on fuel pins. Reaction rates measured by calibrated fission chambers and a large set of dosimeters will give information on the neutron energy and spatial distributions. Due to the low level neutron flux of EOLE ZPR a special, high efficiency, calibrated gamma spectrometry device will be used for some dosimeters, allowing to measure an activity as low as 7. 10 −2 Bq per sample. 103m Rh activities will be measured on an absolute calibrated X spectrometry device. FLUOLE-2 experiment goal is to usefully complete the current experimental benchmarks database used for the validation of neutron calculation codes. This two-year program completes the initial FLUOLE program held in 2006-2007 in a geometry representative of 1300 MWe PWR.