1. NAME AND TITLE

SORA: A Code System for Storage and Retrieval of Data from Radionuclide Analyses.

2. CONTRIBUTOR

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

3. CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

Fortran IV; IBM 360/370.

4. NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

SORA facilitates conversion of raw field results and chemical analyses data into a computerized data base management system.

5. METHOD OF SOLUTION

SORA accepts input for any particular situation of interest. Input consists of five components: specification of units for the output report, a description of the general location under consideration, a description of the variables included in the data, an explicit definition of individual site coordinates, and results of radiochemical analyses for each specific location and sampling date. An organized hard copy of the available results is generated.

6. RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

None noted.

7. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

One year of field data at 50 locations requires about 20 seconds CPU time.

8. COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

SORA is operable on the IBM 360/370 computers. It uses >270 K of memory.

9. COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

A Fortran IV compiler and a standard operating system are required.

10. REFERENCE

D. D. Huff, "SORA: Computer Storage or Retrieval of Radionuclide Analyses Data," ORNL/TM-7488 (February 1981).

11. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

Included are the referenced document and one (1.2MB) DOS diskette which contains the source code and sample problem input and output.

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

April 1984.