Implementation of Data Quality Tests on Nuclear Data for FLUKA

FLUKA is a Monte Carlo code used for the simulation of transport and interaction of hadrons, heavy ions and electromagnetic particles. It is the main software used at the CERN accelerator complex for modelling beam-machine interactions and radiation damage and protection. As such, it requires large amounts of nuclear data which is stored as a binary file. A processing suite was previously developed which extracts user-readable data structures out of this binary file, making it possible for the user to read and modify the data, and interface it with modern languages. The aim of this project was to write a module for the processing suite which runs a number of tests on the modified data before rewriting it to the binary file to ensure that the nuclear data imported into FLUKA is of the highest quality possible.