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Hi,

There is the following glitch in the programming of the "Nuclear Wallet Card search" on you www site: The uncertainty in the half-life is omitted when ever there is more than two digits. For example that happens for nuclide "29116" which has its half-life transmitted as: "6.3 ms" rather than "6.3 ms +11.6 -2.5". (That error only occurs if the uncertainty format setting is in "standard format" rather than "nuclear data sheet format".
I would appreciate if you could send me the data file for the wallet cards in ascii format. That is because the data from the website has different amounts of information outputted depending on the settings (such as: the text files have less digits in the half-life values than the "webpage format" output with its constant 5 digits). I am hoping that the ascii will have all the available data and digits. I can receive that ascii file at my email address which is: xxxxxxx@yahoo.com or at my mail address on a floppy disk or CD (but not a DVD) at:
Erik XXXXX
XX XXXXX Road
XXXX, NY 10576
Thankyou,
Sincerely, Erik Bergren

-- Submitted by: Erik on 11/19/2007 (erikbergren at yahoo.com)

Response to Erik from Boris, 11/19/2007 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Thank you Erik,

I forwarded your message to the developer; he will get I touch with you. ASCII version of Nuclear Wallet Cards is attached below.

Boris.

Dear Boris Pritychenko,

Thanks for sending the ASCII version of the Nuclear Wallet Cards. The column of references is very useful to me. .............
Thankyou,
Sincerely, Erik Bergren

-- Submitted by: Erik 11/27/2007 (erikbergren at yahoo.com)

Hello,
14N+ e+ +nu (DeltaJ=0 Fermi transition) im looking for many others, but it doesn't care, the question is : is there a exhaustive way to access date/author/reference for each transition ?
regards

Marc

-- Submitted by: Marc on 10/21/2007 (marc.escalier13 at orange.fr)

Response to Marc from Jag, 10/22/2007 (tuli at bnl.gov)

Dear Mr. Escalier,

For reference to the data please consult the evaluation for the relevant mass chain. Index to various mass numbers is given on page ii of any recent issue of Nuclear Data Sheets. For 14O, for example, see Nucl Physics A523, 1 (1991).
With best wishes,

J. Tuli

all right, thank you very much for the reference

-- Submitted by: Marc on 10/22/2007 (marc.escalier13 at orange.fr)

With respect to the QA/QC question regarding adoption of the Wallet Cards for NMMSS reporting below, I wrote a paper for JNMM that discussed the reasoning behind the adoption of the Nuclear Wallet Cards

"The Effect of Standardizing Material Property Definitions on Nuclear Material Inventories in the U.S. Department of Energy", Shultz, John R., Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, Volume XXXIII, Number 2, Winter 2005

This paper would be of help to those that have QA/QC questions regarding the provenance of the information, and the traceability of the "standards".

-- Submitted by: John on 10/19/2007 (John.Shultz at nnsa.doe.gov)

Boris,

I just looked at the nuclear wallet card website and saw you as contact there. Would it be possible to get 20 copies of the nuclear wallet card to hand out to my students (11 in my nuclear physics lecture and 9 in our research group).
Thanks

Uwe

-- Submitted by: Uwe on 10/18/2007 (ugreife at mines.edu)

Response to Uwe from Boris, 10/18/2007 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Uwe,

Marion Blennau will help you with "Nuclear Wallet Cards". It is a very good idea to use cards for educational purposes.
Thank you,

Boris.

Well, thank you. you make them

Uwe

-- Submitted by: Uwe on 10/18/2007 (ugreife at mines.edu)

Ms. Blennau,

I am an engineer and was hoping to obtain four printed copies each of the Nuclear Wallet Cards and Nuclear Wallet Cards for Radioactive Nulides for myself and collegues.
I was also wondering if there were any printed charts containing the data the Nutdat 2.2 program available. It is such an amazing amount of information shown so clearly.
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,

Samantha J. Lutz, P.E.

-- Submitted by: Samantha on 2/13/2007 (SJLutz at wideopenwest.com)

Response to Samantha from Marion, 2/13/2007 (blennau at bnl.gov)

Dear Samantha J. Lutz

We would be happy to send 4 of each to you. They will be mailed within a day or two.
Best Regards-

Marion Blennau

Dear Jag,

I am wondering if there is a new version of the printed Wallet Cards now available. And, also if there is still a supply of the version with radioactive nuclides. For over more than about 25 years, students in my graduate isotope geochemistry classes have enjoyed and greatly benefited from copies of the Wallet Cards, the blue version and the last time the new green version. Both of these compilations are incredibly useful and the small portable publication form is extremely handy and easily to carry around. My hat off to you and your comrades for producing it.
The last time I taught such a course was two years ago and at that time you sent the green version (as you explain in your original message). My students would again like to have copies of both versions, whatever may be available. If so, can you have your people sent them to me at the address below?
Thanks very much.

Regards, Ken

-- Submitted by: Ken 1/9/2007 (foland.1 at osu.edu)

Response to Ken from jag, 1/9/2007 (tuli at bnl.gov)

Ken,

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, we have a revised (4/05) version of the Nuclear wallet Cards. Please let me know as to how many would you need this time. Unfortunately, we have run out of the green cards.
With best regards,

Jag

Hi Boris,

This is a follow-up to a phone message I just left for you. We are looking for a documented, reviewed, and approved data set for a waste management database. Do you have Verification and Validation (V&V) information for your data sets? I see that the 6th edition was approved by DOE-HQ as the "standard". Do you have documentation of this approval I could get along with any review DOE-HQ conducted? Is this the data set you would recommend? Would it be possible to get an electronic copy of this version of the data set for importation as a table into our database? Could I also get several hard copies of the wallet cards 6th edition and several copies of the latest version of the wallet cards? I would really appreciate any assistance you could give in this regard as our Quality Assurance Officer is giving me a lot of grief about documentation to support our current data set. Please feel free to contact me to discuss.
Thank you for your help,

Jared Dominick

-- Submitted by: Dominick 10/12/06 (dominick1 at llnl.gov)

Response to Dominick from Jag, 10/13/2006 (tuli at bnl.gov)

Dear Mr. Dominick,

Boris Pritychenko has forwarded to me your e-mail and his response to you. We do not have any more copies of the 6th edition of Nuclear Wallet Cards. However, the 6th edition can be downloaded from our web site. The main purpose of maintaining the 6th edition is to satisfy the needs of the DOE NMMSS. The reasons for their adopting the 6th edition as the standard are excerpted below from a DOE e-mail to us (John R. Shultz, Nuclear Materials Control and Accountability , Office of Security, DOE Headquarters): "The NMMSS is the inventory system for all DOE nuclear material. Periodically, the inventory numbers are revised due to radioactive decay of the items in the inventory. The constants used in the decay calculations were historically provided on a page in DOE M 474.1-2. A problem was noted in that the source of the decay constants was not readily apparent (inadequate tractability). Also, there was language in the manual that allowed facilities to use other printed sources for their decay constants, at their discretion. DOE HQ is re-writing the manual, and wants to standardize all DOE inventory reporting on one source - The National Nuclear Data Center Wallet Cards from BNL. To this end we ask for your support in several ways:
1. Please put a link on the NNDC front page so that DOE NMMSS users can easily find the pdf version of the wallet cards.
2. Maintain the integrity (e.g. archive the pdf file) of the January, 2000 version of the wallet cards. This version of the wallet cards will be "frozen" in time and will be the official, DOE, reference source for nuclear decay information.
3. We operate on a 4 year manual/order revision cycle, so we anticipate that we will continue to use the January, 2000 numbers for at least the next 4 years, and maybe for the next 8 years (until 2010). From our perspective, the decay estimates don't change that much year to year, so it will probably be necessary for the continued availability of the 6th edition, January 2000 wallet cards for some time to come.
We believe we should adopt the NNDC data to standardize the reporting of decay to NMMSS to minimize the possibly of generating false or erroneous inventory differences (e.g. due to bad decay information) and enable all DOE facilities to quickly and easily have access to the official standard (for example, ANSI and ASTM standards are sometimes out-of-print, hard to find, and cost money). "
I do not have any "verification and validation" information for the Wallet Cards except that most of the data presented is based on ENSDF which is based on peer-reviewed, mostly published evaluations.
I will be happy to send you Nuclear Wallet Cards, 7th edition, if you let me know how many you would need.
Regards,

Jag Tuli

Hi Jag,

Thank you for the information and your assistance with this. Could I please get 10 hard copies of the 7th edition. I downloaded a copy of the .pdf file. Is an electronic copy of the data available in a format amenable to loading directly into a database such as comma delimited text or other? If not we will need to hand enter all the information which would be very time consuming. I will check with our computer people to see what other formats would work. Thanks again, Jared Dominick

-- Submitted by: Dominick 10/16/06 (dominick1 at llnl.gov)

Response to Dominick from Marion, 10/18/2006 (blennau at bnl.gov)

Dear Jared

The NWC file is attached. Also the 10 NWC booklets are in the mail.
Regards-

Marion Blennau for Jag Tuli

Great!

Thank you very much for your assistance and support. Your group is a valuable resource providing a great service.
Thanks so much,

Jared Dominick

-- Submitted by: Dominick 10/18/06 (dominick1 at llnl.gov)

Greetings-

My name is Rae Walker and I work with the Texas Department of State Health Services - Radiation Emergency Preparedness. My primary job is to train first responders and emergency management in Radiological Emergency Preparedness. One of my contacts presented me with one of your Nuclear Wallet Cards and I would love to know how I can get my hands on some more!
Thank you,

Rae Walker

-- Submitted by: Rae 7/17/06 (Rae.Walker at dshs.state.tx.us)

Response to Rae from Marion, 7/17/2006 (blennau at bnl.gov)

Dear Rae Walker,
We have 2 different Nuclear Wallet Cards: #1 - April 2005 (complete Z=1-118) #2 - March 2004 (NWC for Radioactive Nuclides for Homeland Security) The Homeland Security NWC is meant for 1st responders etc., but I can send either to you, or both. How many do you think you would need?
Regards-

Marion Blennau

We have around 25 immediate staff here working with emergency management and incident investigations....the April 2005 editions would work great for them, and the March 2004 edition for first responders would be great to pass along to our students. We average about 200-300 students a year in the 32-hour advanced rad class we teach, so that number would be nice. If this is too large a request, we could make due with what-ever amount you would be willing to provide us with. I can present the PDF version to our State Print Shop and see if we can print it ourselves (per your approval - and per our budgeting approval!) for next years' classes. Thank you for responding so quickly.

Rae

-- Submitted by: Rae 7/17/06 (Rae.Walker at dshs.state.tx.us)

Response to Rae from Marion, 7/18/2006 (blennau at bnl.gov)

Hi Rae,
I will send 25 of the April 2005 edition and 300 of the March 2004 edition. We have plenty of the 2004 edition and will gladly send more of them for next year's classes --- please DO NOT print them yourselves. Just e-mail us again next year.
Regards-

Marion

Are these tables available in Excel, or a comma-separated value data file format?

George J. Vargo

-- Submitted by: George 5/26/06 (vargo at physicist.net )

Response to George from Boris, 5/26/2006 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Nuclear Wallet Cards are available as booklets, ASCII format that can be exported to EXCEL. They are also distributed in the PDA format for people who use Palm Pilots.
Thank you,

Boris

-- Submitted by: George 5/26/06 (vargo at physicist.net )

Boris,

Please send a link to the ASCII file.
Thanks!

Response to George from Jag, 5/30/2006 (tuli at bnl.gov)

Attached is the ASCII file.

-- Submitted by: George 5/30/06 (vargo at physicist.net )

How should I rename this file to be able to open it in Excel or other application? I've tried some common filename extensions, but they don't seem to work. Thanks!

Response to George from Boris, 5/30/2006 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

George,

You are absolutely correct that ".0504" is not recognized as a file type because it is simply a modification date. If you have an access to Linux machine you can easily change file type from "wallet.0504" to "wallet0504.txt" (simply rename it). Text file can be imported to EXCEL via "Data|Import External Data|Import Data ..." routine from the EXCEL menu. Please let me know if you have any problems.
Thank you,

Boris

-- Submitted by: George 5/31/06 (vargo at physicist.net )

Boris,

Successfully imported. Thanks for your and Jagdish's patience and assistance.

Dear Boris,

I found out that some of the signs in mass excess column in "7th Edition PDA Format 2005" for palm pilot are wrong. For example it says excess mass for 32S is +26.0157 which is wrong and it should be -26.0157. I did not go through the whole file to find out how many are wrong. I thought you may want to carefully examine the content of the "wallet2005.pdb" file. The "6th Edition PDA Format 2000" seems to be ok.
Sincerely,

Rahmat

-- Submitted by: Rahmat 3/24/06 (Rahmat.Aryaeinejad at inl.gov)

Response to Rahmat from Boris, 3/24/2006 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Thank you for pointing out file import error, it is fixed now and a new zip is created. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to verify 5400 lines of nuclear data, so we have to rely on our users help.
Thank you again,

Boris

Hello,

My name is Thomas Materna, I am a Post-Doc in the Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M University. I recently discovered your nuclear wallet cards and found it really useful. I was wondering if it is possible to obtain a copy of the booklet.
Thank you in advance,

Thomas Materna

-- Submitted by: Thomas 3/21/06 (materna at comp.tamu.edu)

Response to Thomas from Marion, 3/21/2006 (blennau at bnl.gov)

Dear Thomas Materna

I have put in the mail, a Nuclear Wallet Cards booklet, for you, today.
Regards-

Marion Blennau

Mr. Tuli,

I was able to get some more detailed information from you web site. However, it is not quite what we need. The message below contains a response from one of our database administrators. Is it possible to retrieve a table containing: nuclide, half-life, and half-life units; with one row per nuclide?

William D. Webber

-- Submitted by: William 3/15/06 (wd.webber at pnl.gov)

Response to William from Jag, 3/16/2006 (tuli at bnl.gov)

Jag Tuli responded by sending ASCII file for Wallet Cards with an explanation that there is a separate record for each decay mode and you may just retain the first record if the decay modes are not important.

Dr. Tuli,

I have shown several co-workers my copy of your Nuclear Wallet Cards that you sent me a couple years ago, and they are interested in obtaining their own copies. I did find the PDF version on the web, but we would like to get hard copies, as well. Can you tell me how I can order a dozen or so copies, and how much they would cost?
Thanks!

Ron Durling

-- Submitted by: Ron 2/13/06 (rdurling at llnl.gov)

Marion,

I hate to keep bothering you, Marion, but the response to the latest batch of wallet cards was overwhelming, and I have more people asking for them! (Perhaps it was because I pointed out how valuable they are as a conversation starter in bars?!?) Anyway, if you could, please send me another 20 copies each of the "Nuclear Wallet Cards" and the "Nuclear Wallet Cards for Radioactive Nuclides". That should take care of the remaining folks who want them, plus our summer interns. My address is listed below.
Thanks again!

Ron Durling

-- Submitted by: Ron 5/23/06 (rdurling at llnl.gov)

Response to Ron from Marion, 5/25/2006 (blennau at bnl.gov)

OK ---- will do.

Marion

Dear Dr. Jagdish K. Tuli,

I am writing because I am interested in receiving 12 copies of the "Nuclear Wallet Cards" for a Nuclear Physics course I attend at the Balseiro Institute (Bariloche, Argentina). In case it is possible, I would appreciate if you could send them to the following address: Oficina de alumnos Instituto Balseiro - Centro Atómico Bariloche 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche Provincia de Río Negro, Argentina I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,

Leitao Leonardo

-- Submitted by: Leitao 2/05/06 (leitaol at ib.cnea.gov.ar)

Bonjour,

I am Maître de Conférences at the University Paris VII- Denis Diderot, and had your e-mail through Ms Bourgeois and Audi from IPN-Orsay laboratory. I am teaching the Nuclear Physics to students. I habituate them to use the Nuclear Wallet Cards in the form of the blue booklet of year 2000 during this time and after, I recover the sample of booklets (except when the student becomes passionately fond of Nuclear Physics and choose to go deeply in this matter .) But this years They are more numerous than last year and I do not have enough booklets. Would it possible that you send me, by post, 20 such blue booklets ? More if possible, of course ? ( Not the green ones where there are only the radioactive nuclides) Or , if it exist, a new version of the complete booklet, in 20 exemplaries ? You would be so very kind , if it is possible, to send that at : Prof. Yvette PONS Université de Paris VII- LPNHE Tour 33 - Rez de Chaussée 4 Place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05 Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards,

Yvette PONS

-- Submitted by: Yvette 2/03/06 (pons at lpnhep.in2p3.fr)

Dear Dr. Jag Tuli,

This is a letter of asking you a favor. I works at the Dept. of Physics Education, Chonnam National University, Korea as a professor and am a physicist specialized in nuclear and particle physics. I have recently XXXXXXX my Nuclear Wallet cards which I got from you 5 years ago ,since XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Would you send me two copies of Nuclear Wallet Cards ? If you have not afford to send two copies to me, I will appreciate even one copy of it. And I am sorry for sending you email direct, since I could not find a contact person at the web. I look forward to your reply soon.
Sincerely yours,

In Taek Lim

-- Submitted by: In Taek 1/31/06 (itlim at chonnam.chonnam.ac.kr)

Boris,
I am currently teaching an Introduction to Nuclear Engineering Class for 35 Sophomores at Georgia Tech and I am interested in obtaining some printed copies of the Nuclear Wall Cards. I know other faculty members in the past have be able to get printed copies for their students. Do you know who to contact?
Thanks,
Dwayne Blaylock

-- Submitted by: Dwayne 1/11/06 (dwayne.blaylock at nnrc.gatech.edu)

Response to Dwayne from Boris, 1/11/2006 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Dwayne,
I believe you have to contact Dr. Jagdish Tuli (tuli at bnl.gov) or Ms. Marion Blennau (blennau at bnl.gov), they can help with Nuclear Wallet Cards. NNDC supports public education in this country, you can get Nuclear Wallet Cards free of charge.
Thank you,
Boris.

P.S. Marion, could you help this gentleman with Nuclear Wallet Cards?

Dr. Pritychenko, I am interested in obtaining several copies of the printed version of the Nuclear Wallet Cards for Radioactive Nuclides (Homeland Security). http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/wallet/wchome.html Can you point me to the individual who can help me with this request? Respectfully, Patrick A. Lofy

-- Submitted by: Patrick A. Lofy 9/21/2005 (Patrick.Lofy at us.army.mil)

Response to Patrick from Boris on 9/21/05 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Marion, Please provide Dr. P.Lofy with printed versions (booklets) of Nuclear Wallet Cards for Homeland Security. He really needs them. Thank you, Boris.

Ms. Blennau, The Nuclear Wallet Cards arrived YESTERDAY. Thank you for the incredibly fast response. [The NNDC truly has accessible data.] Very respectfully, Pat Lofy

-- Submitted by: Patrick A. Lofy 9/27/2005 (Patrick.Lofy at us.army.mil)

Dr. Tuli,
Could I get an electronic copy of the ASCII file of the 2005 Nuclear Wallet Card?
Thanks,

Charlie

-- Submitted by: Charlie on 9/22/2005 (cdguinn at sandia.gov)

Dear Dr Tuli,

Could I please take you up on your kind offer to supply members of our Society with copies of the latest Nuclear Wallet Cards? Ideally we would like 200 cards and I repeat my offer to pay for them!
Thank you so much!
Regards

Bill Collis

-- Submitted by: William 9/10/06 (billcollis at iscmns.org)

Dear Dr. Collis,

I have sent the revised Nuclear wallet Cards to the printers and I hope to have ample supply some time in June. Please at that time let me know the numbers you will need I will be happy to send you.
Regards,

J. Tuli

Dear Jag

Greetings from Prasanthi Nilayam. When can we expect the 2005 edition of Nuclear Wallet Cards to be available? Please arrange to send a copy as soon as possible. It is a very frequently used material in our group.
Thanks and kind regards

Prakash Sood

-- Submitted by: Prakash on 9/8/2005 (soodpc at rediffmail.com)

Dear Sir,
I am studying Nuclear Engineering at Instituto Balseiro and I am already working on my tesis. I have heard that you publish a booklet named Nuclear Wallet Cards. I wonder if you could send three of them, for my co-workers as well, the mailing address is: ***** Luciano E. Patruno

-- Submitted by: Luciano Emanuel Patruno on 8/30/2005 (patrunol at cabib32.cnea.gov.ar)

Response to Luciano from Boris on 9/30/05 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Marion, Please help this young fellow with Nuclear Wallet Cards. Thank you, Boris.

Dear Sir, We received the Nuclear Wallet Cards and they are being very useful to us. Thanks alot for you time, we really appreciate your support and help. Yours, Luciano E. Patruno

-- Submitted by: Luciano Emanuel Patruno on 10/6/2005 patrunol at cabib32.cnea.gov.ar

I am a Nuclear Engineering student at University of New Mexico and previous students received a Nuclear Wallet Card from you and I wonder if it was possible for me to get a copy. If possible could you please send it to: XXXX XXXXX Albuquerque, NM 87120 Thank you

-- Submitted by: Danielle Hensen/8-29-05 (danilh88 at aol.com)

Response to Danielle from Boris on 8/29/05 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Danielle, I forwarded your request to Marion Blennau. She will help you with wallet cards. Thank you, Boris.

Good Morning I would like to get some Nuclear Wallet cards booklets 2005,let's say 10 specimen. Is it possible ? my address: Dr Sebastien BOYER Service de Physique Nucleaire CEA/Saclay bat 703 DSM/DAPNIA/SPhN F-91191 Gif/Yvette Cedex Thanx a lot Best regards S.

-- Submitted by: Sebastien BOYER (sebastien.boyer at cea.fr)

Response to Sebastien BOYER from Boris Pritychenko on July 12, 2005 (pritychenko at bnl.gov)

Sebastien, I forwarded your request to NNDC Services. Marion Blennau will help you with Wallet Cards. Thanks, Boris.

Web: Boris Pritychenko, NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Last Modified: November 27, 2007