The error comes from the processing of the transition probability arrays for photon emission. The JENDL evaluation (that JEFF-3.0 is based on) omitted the isomeric state at 1.6334 MeV (which corresponds to MT=53). This violates Procedure 12 in Section 12.2 of the ENDF formats manual. The workaround is to put in a section MF=12/MT=53 and set the conditional probability GP to a very small number: 8.22070+ 4 2.05198+ 2 2 2 1 0823412 53 1 1.63340+ 6 0.00000+ 0 0 0 3 1823412 53 2 0.00000+ 0 1.00000+ 0 1.00000- 6 823412 53 3 823412 0 4 Also needed is MF14/MT53: 8.22070+ 4 2.05198+ 2 1 0 1 0823414 53 1 823414 0 2 The corresponding lines (12/53 and 14/53) should be added also in the MF=1/MT=451 directory and fix the count of directory lines in that section.