The creation of an international shielding benchmark database was presented in 1988 at the International Reactor Shielding Conference (ICRS7) in Bournemouth, UK.

M. Salvatores was among the authors of the proposal and had promoted and contributed to the project since the first initiatives, showed continued interest and encouraged the development of the database. He was Chairman of the Committee of Reactor Physics (NEACRP) for 2 years (1984–1985) and Chair of the Shielding benchmark group (1982–1988). In particular, he chaired two annual meetings in 1984 and 1985, called to initiate the collaborative programme on the analysis of shielding benchmarks for the validation of the JEF data files where the need to organize shielding benchmark was recognized and the presentation at ICRS7 defined the overall project.

SINBAD officially started in the early 1990′s as a collaboration between the OECD/NEA Data Bank and RSICC with the goal to preserve the information on the performed radiation shielding benchmark experiments and make these available in a standardised form to the international community. One key point concerned the sensitivity and uncertainty analyses required to define their quality and figures of merit. The database comprises now 102 shielding benchmarks, divided into three categories, covering both low and inter-mediate energy particles applications: fission reactor shielding (48 benchmarks), fusion blanket neutronics (31), and accelerator shielding (23) benchmarks. The database is intended for different users, including nuclear data evaluators, computer code developers, experiment designers and university students. SINBAD is available from RSICC and from the NEA Data Bank. The database was extensively used within the scope of numerous national and international projects, such as PWR Pressure vessel surveillance, fusion programme (ITER reactor studies), different OECD Working Parties on Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC) Subgroups, nuclear data validation, IAEA nuclear data projects, etc.

The history of the database and few examples of its use are illustrated, for cross-sections, response functions and covariance matrix validation.

1988年在英国伯恩茅斯举行的国际反应堆屏蔽会议（ICRS7）上介绍了国际屏蔽基准数据库的创建。

Salvatores M.是该提案的作者，自第一批倡议以来就对该项目进行了促进和贡献，表现出持续的兴趣并鼓励了数据库的开发。他曾担任反应堆物理委员会（NEACRP）主席2年（1984–1985）和屏蔽基准小组主席（1982–1988）。特别是，他在1984年和1985年主持了两次年度会议，呼吁启动关于屏蔽基准分析的协作计划，以验证JEF数据文件，在那里认识到组织屏蔽基准的必要性，并在ICRS7上的介绍确定了总体标准。项目。

作为OECD / NEA数据库和RSICC之间的合作，SINBAD正式开始于1990年代初，其目标是保存已进行的辐射屏蔽基准实验的信息，并以标准化的形式提供给国际社会。一个关键点涉及确定其质量和品质因数所需的敏感性和不确定性分析。该数据库现在包括102个防护基准，分为三类，涵盖了中低能粒子应用：裂变反应堆防护（48个基准），聚变中子学（31）和加速器防护（23）基准。该数据库面向不同的用户，包括核数据评估人员，计算机代码开发人员，实验设计师和大学生。可从RSICC和NEA数据库获得SINBAD。该数据库在许多国家和国际项目范围内得到了广泛使用，例如压水堆压力容器监视，聚变计划（ITER反应堆研究），不同的经合组织评估合作工作组（WPEC）子组，核数据验证，原子能机构核数据项目， 等等。

为了说明横截面，响应函数和协方差矩阵验证，对数据库的历史及其使用的几个示例进行了说明。