Findings by Korean researchers have been listed in a leading international database on nuclear reactions for the first time.

The Science and Technology Ministry said that research results obtained by scientists at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute were carried in the Evaluated Nuclear Data File late last year.

The research results are the product of a nine-year study by a team at the state-funded atomic energy research center.

The data file is an international standard database on nuclear reactions, which is published by the U.S. National Nuclear Data Center, an affiliate of the New York-based Brookhaven National Laboratory. The database is used as a basic reference for applied nuclear research.

The ministry says the one-hundred-66 nuclide data compiled by Korean scientists provides critical information for nuclear reactor construction, medicine development and space exploration.