RSICC CODE PACKAGE PSR-545

 

1.  NAME AND TITLE

                 NUCHART:    Nuclear Properties and Decay Data Chart of Nuclides.

 

2.  CONTRIBUTORS

          Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Aus tria, through the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

 

3.  CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

                Visual Basic; PC (P00545IBMPC00). NEADB package identifier is IAEA1320/01.

 

4.  NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

        NUCHART displays nuclear decay data graphically on a PC and, includes a search routine for assigning gamma-ray energies to radionuclides. The numerical data included in NUCHART were taken from the online database "NUDAT" Version of March 1994. The following information is presented: (1) Nuclide information: for each nuclide, abundance, mass excess, (main) decay mode, half-life and uncertainty, branching ratio, decay Q; (2) decay radiation: for each nuclide, tables of radiation energy, intensity and equivalent dose for the 5 most intense decay radiations of beta+, beta-, conversion electrons, gammas, alphas and x-rays, including electron Augers; (3) adopted gammas: for each nuclide, table containing energy, relative intensity, energy level of the main gamma lines and year of publication in Nuclear Data Sheets; (4) search gamma energies: for a specified interval of gamma energies all know gamma lines and their nuclides are displayed; the database contains 132,000 gamma lines; (5) a search mode by specific nuclide is also available.

        For the latest data and online tools for viewing the data, see NuDat 2.4 on the NNDC and IAEA NDS websites: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/ and http://www-nds.iaea.org/.

 

5.  METHOD OF SOLUTION

        NUCHART is an interactive Visual Basic type file system for windows. Information is retrieved in a "point-and-click" mode using a mouse.

 

6.  RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

            None noted.

 

7.  TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

            All test cases displayed in seconds on a Pentium PC.

 

8.  COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

            NUCHART runs on Windows PCs and consumes approximately 10Mb of disk space.

 

9.  COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

                PC running Windows.

 

10. REFERENCES

                10.a included in documentation:

      V. Osorio and H. Peraza, “Chart of the Nuclides, NUCHART for Windows version 1.2,” IAEA-NDS-161 (June 1995).

            10.b background reference:

C.L. Dunford and T.W. Burrows, “NUDAT”, IAEA-NDS-150 Rev. 94/9, chap. 8, Vienna (1994).

 

11. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

The package contains the references listed above in Section 10.a and the database, which is transmitted on one CD in a compressed Windows file.

 

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

March 2008.

 

KEYWORDS:   DATABASE; RADIOACTIVE DECAY SPECTRA