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Since 2016 the Nuclear Data Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency (NDS/IAEA) has encouraged the development of new codes for processing evaluated nuclear data for applications. The main motivation has been the need for improving processing methods and avoiding common failure modes. In the frame of this effort, the NDS/IAEA has supported the development of the processing system ACEMAKER, which takes advantage of the system of codes PREPRO and complements it with new modules for producing ACE-formatted files for Monte Carlo calculations. The new modules can process any correlated energy-angle distributions, gamma-production data, gamma-uncorrelated energy-angle distributions, thermal scattering laws and dosimetry files for producing the appropriated ACE-formatted file for Monte Carlo simulations. This paper describes the main features of the processing system ACEMAKER, its verification and validation process, and discuss planned developments.
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