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Overview
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” technology. NUCLEONICA is aimed at professionals,academics and students working in the fields of nuclear power, health physics and radiation protection, nuclear and radiochemistry, and astrophysics. In addition, the portal will find application in the life sciences (e.g. biology, medicine, agriculture) and the earth sciences (geology, meteorology, environmental science). 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. The NUCLEONICA portal can also be accessed by a variety of mobile devices.
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Main Features
Data Centre Online interactive nuclide charts (based on decay modes, half-lives, binding energy, spin, partiy, etc.), “Build your own” nuclide charts, reference data (datasheets, derived data, cross sections, spectral data, fission yields) and searchable databases for inter-nationally evaluated nuclear data (JEFF, ENDF, JENDL, BROND, CENDL, ICRP, Table of Isotopes, EGAF, ADR, etc.)
Application Centre The application modules include radioactive decay, dosimetry & shielding, fission yields, range & stopping power, reactor irradiation and nuclide depletion (with webKORIGEN), transport and packaging, library creation for spectroscopy, nuclide mixtures etc., with publication quality graphics. In addition, an advanced scripting language is available for user defined calculations and batch processing.
Knowledge Centre Extensive use is made of “wiki” technology in the NUCLEONICA knowledge centre for online Help, Articles, Weblinks, Forum, etc. The ease of operation makes the NucleonicaWiki an effective tool for adding/changing content – this allows the portal to grow organically and provide a powerful nuclear science collaboration platform for its users. The nuclear news aggregation services, based on XML and RSS feeds using JRC web-crawler technology, provides latest news and information on nuclear issues.
Personalised Desktop
NUCLEONICA keeps track of recent user activities and preferences by “remembering” and storing these in a Personalized Desktop
Key Advantages of Nucleonica
Manage all your data in a single browser-based system
The web applications are browser and operating system independent and can be accessed with Internet Explorer, Mozilla-based browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape) and a variety of other browsers such as Opera, Safari, etc. The NUCLEONICA portal can also be accessed by a variety of mobile devices.
Don‘t waste time writing and testing programs
NUCLEONICA provides you with user- friendly, reliable, and fast modules (for decay,dosimetry & shielding, range and stopping power, transport and packaging, reactor irradiation calculations, etc.)
Keep informed on nuclear developments
NUCLEONICA web crawlers scan hundreds of websites every few minutes to bring you the latest nuclear news.
Provides the opportunity to introduce and share your expertise
with the NucleonicaWiki – a collabora- tive authoring tool in nuclear science
Need to prepare a lecture or a training course?
NUCLEONICA is an ideal source of information, articles, weblinks, graphics, tables etc. Nucleonica will assist you in preparing training courses by providing an e-learning platform for education and training in the nuclear sciences.
Keep track of your recent activities
NUCLEONICA will “remembering” your recent activities and preferences and store these in a Personalized Desktop.
Improve the quality of your work
Avoid the tedious task of searching for nuclear data. NUCLEONICA uses the most recently evaluated nuclear data from international datafiles (JEFF3.1, 8th Table of the Isotopes, ICRP72, etc.).
Publication quality scientific graphs
at any time from any location. NUCLEONICA web driven graphics package is easy to use and delivers publication quality graphs in a variety of formats (GIF, JPG, EMF, etc.).
Licenses
Free Access to the NUCLEONICA Portal
From the homepage www.nucleonica.net every new user has to first register (with valid email) to open a free account from which he has the possibility of upgrading to the calculation and service modules. This step is compulsory. With this Free Access, a part of the NUCLEONICA web portal is freely available to all users. This allows the users basic access to the nuclear data and basic applications. Another advantage is that it allows the user to get a feeling for the web portal and “see” all the modules on offer on the main (portal) page.
Following registration, an email is sent to the user to acknowledge registration details and to provide username and password to access the NUCLEONICA portal.
