U.S. Nuclear Data Program

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Following is a list of some of the scientific and engineering specialties requiring nuclear data. If your specialty is not covered or you are unable to find the type of data needed on these pages, please give us feedback.
Accelerators: Nuclear data sources, such as nuclear reaction cross sections and decay data, relevant to the design and use of accelerators.
Archaeology: Information sources, such as nuclear decay data, relevant to various fields of archaeology such as luminescence dating.
Charged Particle
Activation:
Nuclear information sources, such as nuclear reaction cross sections and decay data, of use in the areas of charged particle activation analysis, thin layer activation, production of radionuclides for Positron Emission Tomography or Single Photon Emission Tomography, tracers, or calibration sources.
Medical
Radiotherapy:
Nuclear data sources, such as nuclear reaction cross sections, useful in cancer radiotherapy, etc.
Nuclear
Astrophysics:
Nuclear cross section, decay and structure data, and information on thermonuclear reaction rates and astrophysical S-factors.
Nuclear Medicine &
Radiation Protection:
Information on radionuclide data sources for medical diagnostics and therapy and radiation protection.
Nuclear Reactors: Nuclear data sources, such as nuclear reaction cross sections and decay data, useful to the design and operation of nuclear reactors.
Nuclear
Safeguards:
Nuclear information sources relevant to fresh and spent fuel assay, environmental monitoring, and other areas of interest for nuclear safeguards.
Nuclear Waste
Management:
Nuclear data sources which may be useful to such fields as criticality safety or waste characterization.
Prompt Gamma-Ray
Activation Analysis:
Information sources which may be useful in such fields as the determination of elemental concentrations.
Rare Isotope
Accelerators:
Nuclear data sources pertinent to the design and use of rare isotope accelerators.