Friday, July 30, 2010

Joint EC/IAEA Training course with Nucleonica announced

März 19, 2010

The next Nucleonica training course will be organised jointly with the JRC ITU and the IAEA. The course will take place from the 12-15th Oct. 2010 at the IAEA Marine Environment Laboratory (MEL) in Monaco.

Discovery of element 117 announced

April 15, 2010

The discovery of element 117 has been officially announced on 6th April 2010 by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The international team responsible for the discovery included scientists from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, the Research Institute for Advanced Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Nucleonica - web driven nuclear science

NUCLEONICA is a new nuclear science web portal from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. The portal provides a customisable, integrated environment and collaboration platform for the nuclear sciences using the latest internet “Web 2.0” dynamic technology.

NUCLEONICA is aimed at professionals, academics and students working with radionuclides in fields as diverse as the life sciences (e.g. biology, medicine, agriculture), the earth sciences (geology, meteorology, environmental science) and the more traditional disciplines such as nuclear power, health physics and radiation protection, nuclear and radiochemistry, and astrophysics. It is also used as a knowledge management tool to preserve nuclear knowledge built up over many decades by creating modern web-based versions of so-called legacy computer codes.

NUCLEONICA provides “software as a service” on the web rather than through installed software, adding a greater level of stability and security and avoiding version compatibility and update problems. In addition, all NUCLEONICA’s web applications are browser and operating system independent and can therefore be accessed by most web browsers.

NUCLEONICA offers the following main features:

Data Centre: Online interactive nuclide charts. Reference data and searchable databases for internationally evaluated nuclear data. Library creation software.
Application Centre: Application modules (decay, dosimetry & shielding, fission yields, range & stopping power, reactor irradiation, transport and packaging, etc.) with professional quality graphics. An advanced scripting language is available for user defined calculations and batch processing.
Knowledge Centre: Nuclear news aggregation services based on XML and RSS feeds using JRC web-crawler technology which scans thousands of websites on a regular basis for latest news and information. Mobile device portal for a variety of mobile devices. (Historical) Articles and web-links database. FAQs, Ask an Expert (AaE), and forum services. User preferences and alerts. Wiki-based online user manual.
Personalised Desktop: with detailed user rights configurable via administration menu.

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