DLC-0134 ZZ-RADDECAY.

ZZ RADDECAY, Decay Data Library for Radiological Assessment

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

[ top ]

1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: ZZ-RADDECAY.

[ top ]

2. COMPUTERS

To submit a request, click below on the link of the version you wish to order. Only liaison officers are authorised to submit online requests. Rules for requesters are available here.

Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
ZZ-RADDECAY V.2	DLC-0134/04	Tested	07-MAR-2000

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
DLC-0134/04	PC Windows	PC Pentium III 500

[ top ]

3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

  FORMAT: special format defined in documentation.

  NUMBER OF GROUPS: --

NUCLIDES: 500 nuclides of interest in the nuclear fuel cycle, environmental problems, nuclear medicine, fusion reactor technology, and radiological protection assessment.

  ORIGIN: DLC-80/DRALIST

  WEIGHTING SPECTRUM: --

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

ZZ-RADDECAY is a data library of half-lives, radioactive daughter nuclides, probabilities per decay and decay product energies for alpha particles, positrons, electrons, X-rays, and gamma-rays. The current data base contains approximately 500 nuclides of interest in the nuclear fuel cycle, environmental problems, nuclear medicine, fusion reactor technology, and radiological protection assessment.

[ top ]

4. METHOD OF SOLUTION:

[ top ]

5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM:

[ top ]

6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME:

[ top ]

7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM:

[ top ]

8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

A data retrieval program RADDECAY for interactive use on an IBM PC is included.

[ top ]

9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
DLC-0134/04	07-MAR-2000	Tested at NEADB

[ top ]

10. REFERENCES:

DLC-0134/04, included references:

- C.A. Negin and G. Worku:
  RadDecay - Radioactive Nuclide Library and Decay Software
  Version 4 (September 1993).
- M.W. Rota and E.L. Wilds:
  READ.ME File of MeV Search and Analysis
  Version 1.3 (1993).

[ top ]

11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

It is desirable but not necessary to run the retrieval program with a math coprocessor.

[ top ]

12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

No item found

[ top ]

13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED

The retrieval program is written in TruBasic for an IBM PC or compatible.

[ top ]

14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS:

[ top ]

15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

         Contributed by: Radiation Safety Information Computational Center
                         Oak Ridge National Laboratory
                         Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U. S. A.

         Developed by:   Grove Engineering, Inc.
                         Rockville, Maryland, U. S. A.

DLC-0134/04

RADIATION DECAY VERSION 2 March 1997:

This application is being provided by Aptec as "Freeware"
with permission of the author Mr. Charles Hacker, Engineering
and Applied Science, Griffith University, Australia.

[ top ]

16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

DLC-0134/04

raddecay.exe Self extracting archive

[ top ]

17. CATEGORIES

G. Radiological Safety, Hazard and Accident Analysis
X. Magnetic Fusion Research
Z. Data.

Keywords: data library, decay spectra, environmental transport, fuel cycle, radiation effects, radioisotopes.