Mission

The National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) collects, evaluates, and disseminates nuclear physics data for basic nuclear research and for applied nuclear technologies. The NNDC is a worldwide resource for nuclear data.

The information available to the users of NNDC services is the product of the combined efforts of the NNDC and cooperating data centers and other interested groups, both in the United States and worldwide.

The NNDC specializes in the following areas:

The current staff size of NNDC is 12, including 8 with a Ph.D degree. The group includes scientific, professional, and support staff. In addition, NNDC normally hosts 2-3 regular guest scientists and 1-2 short-term visiting scientists.


Address

National Nuclear Data Center
Building 197D
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973-5000
Phone: (631) 344-2902
Fax:(631) 344-2806
E-mail: nndc@bnl.gov
Internet:
http://www.nndc.bnl.gov


Contacts

Center Head Pavel Oblozinsky (631) 344-2814 oblozinsky@bnl.gov
NNDC Office Yvette Malavet-Blum (631) 344-5591 malavet@bnl.gov
Services Marion Blennau (631) 344-5087 services@bnl.gov

 

For technical questions, please use the following list:

Topics
Contact
ENSDAT
ENSDF Codes
Thomas W. Burrows (631) 344-5084 burrows@bnl.gov
ENDF
CSISRS
CINDA
Michal Herman (631) 344-2802 mwherman@bnl.gov
Webmaster Boris Pritychenko (631) 344-5091 pritychenko@bnl.gov
NuDat Alejandro Sonzogni (631) 344-5334 sonzogni@bnl.gov
ENSDF
Capture gammas
Wallet Cards
Nuclear Data Sheets
Jagdish K. Tuli (631) 344-5080 tuli@bnl.gov
NSR Manojeet Bhattacharya (631) 344-2164 nsr@bnl.gov


Staff

Staff Member
Telephone
E-mail
Ramon Arcilla (631) 344-5086 arcilla@bnl.gov
Manojeet Bhattacharya (631) 344-2164 mbhattac@bnl.gov
Marion Blennau (631) 344-5087 blennau@bnl.gov
Thomas W. Burrows (631) 344-5084 burrows@bnl.gov
Michal Herman (631) 344-2802 mwherman@bnl.gov
Norman Holden* (631) 344-4268 holden@bnl.gov
Yvette Malavet-Blum (631) 344-5591 malavet@bnl.gov
Said F. Mughabghab (631) 344-5085 mugabgab@bnl.gov
Pavel Oblozinsky (631) 344-2814 oblozinsky@bnl.gov
Marco Pigni (631) 344-5205 pigni@bnl.gov
Boris Pritychenko (631) 344-5091 pritychenko@bnl.gov
Alejandro Sonzogni (631) 344-5334 sonzogni@bnl.gov
Joann Totans (631) 344-5209 totans@bnl.gov
Jagdish Tuli (631) 344-5080 tuli@bnl.gov

† Senior Physicist Emeritus
* Guest appointment


Electronic data retrieval statistics

The NNDC has provided remote electronic access to its databases and other information since 1986. Access via the Web started in 1994. The figure below shows the time evolution of the number of electronic retrievals - web, telnet and FTP - from 1986 to 2007.


History

Nuclear Data activities started at BNL in 1952 under the Brookhaven Neutron Cross Section Compilation Group, changed to the Sigma Center in 1961, which became the National Neutron Cross Section Center in 1967 and finally NNDC in 1977, providing a half-century of data and expertise to the world community. Heads of NNDC have been Sol Pearlstein (1977-1990), Charlie Dunford (1991-2001) and Pavel Oblozinsky (2002- ). An updated version of full history document prepared on the 50th anniversary of the NNDC can be found here.


Posters

NNDC booth poster at PHYSOR 2006 conference (September 2006 version)
on pdf format (1.3 MB)

NNDC booth poster at CGS 12 conference (September 2005 version)
on pdf format (775 KB)

NNDC booth poster at Nuclear Data 2004 conference in Santa Fe
on pdf format (579 KB)

A poster about the NNDC (June 2002 version)
on pdf format ( 1.3 MB )

 

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