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DLC-0172 ZZ-NUCDECAY.
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DLC-0172 ZZ-NUCDECAY.

ZZ NUCDECAY, Nuclear Decay Data for Radiation Dosimetry Calculation for ICRP and MIRD

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1. NAME

ZZ-NUCDECAY.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name Package id Status Status date
ZZ-NUCDECAY DLC-0172/02 Tested 22-AUG-1995

Machines used:

Package ID Orig. computer Test computer
DLC-0172/02 PC-80386 PC-80486
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3. DESCRIPTION OR FUNCTION

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ICRP38

 

FORMAT: Special format.

 

NUMBER OF GROUPS: Energies and intensities of radiations emitted; designed to address the needs in medical, environmental, and occupa- tional radiation protection.

 

NUCLIDES: 825 + 13 radionuclides.

 

ORIGIN: ENSDF (data used in preparing ICRP Publication 38)

 

WEIGHTING SPECTRUM: --

 

MIRD

 

FORMAT: Special format.

 

NUMBER OF GROUPS: Energies and intensities of radiations emitted; designed to address the needs in medical, environmental, and occupational radiation protection.

 

NUCLIDES: 242 radionuclides.

 

ORIGIN: ENSDF (monograph of the MIRD Committee)

 

WEIGHTING SPECTRUM: --

 

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The unabridged data used in preparing ICRP Publication 38 and a monograph of the MIRD Committee are distributed in electronic form in this package. The data are assembled in two collections. The collection referred to as ICRP38 consists of data on the energies and intensities of radiations emitted by the 825 radionuclides reported, although abridged, in ICRP Publication 38 plus an additional 13 radionuclides evaluated during preparation of a monograph for the MIRD Committee. The second collection, denoted as MIRD, contains data for the 242 radionuclides in the MIRD monograph noted above. Each collection consists of three ASCII files:

  1. the index file (ICRP38.IDX or MIRD.IDX) is a sorted list of the radionuclides with pointers into the data files;

  2. the radiation file (ICRP38.RAD or MIRD.RAD) contains data on the energies and intensities of the emitted radiations;

  3. the beta spectra file (ICRP38.BET or MIRD.BET) contains the spectra for all beta emitters in the collection.
    161 radionuclides of the MIRD collection have later ENSDF dates than those in the ICRP38 collection. In most instances, the differences are of no dosimetric significance, but considerable differences may exist for some nuclides.

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4. METHODS

This data base has been designed to address the needs in medical, environmental, and occupational radiation protection. Calculations of the spatial distribution of absorbed dose (depth-dose) requires information on the beta spectra, and these are compiled in a separate data file also included here.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

The codes are interactive.

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8. RELATED OR AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

Four utility codes are provided. DEXRAX is used to extract the decay data from the library for radionuclide(s) specified by the user.

 

CHAIN lists the decay chain headed by a user-specified radionuclide and tabulates the cumulative energy emitted by the chain members during a 100 year period following isolation of one unit of the parent nuclide.

RADLINE identifies radionuclides which emit alpha or photon radiations of a user-specified energy. The energy is specified by a discrete value with a tolerance.

 

RADSUM provides a summary of the radiations emitted by a user- specified radionuclide.

 

The executables and most of the source codes are provided.

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9. STATUS
Package ID Status date Status
DLC-0172/02 22-AUG-1995 Tested at NEADB
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10. REFERENCES
  • D. Weber et al.: MIRD: Radionuclide Data and Decay Schemes, Society of Nuclear Medicine, New York (1989)

DLC-0172/02, included references:
- K.F. Eckerman et al:
  Nuclear Decay Data Files of the Dosimetry Research Group
  ORNL/TM-12350 (December 1993)
- K.R. Eckerman et al:
  Availability of Nuclear Decay Data in Electronic Form, Including
  Beta Spectra Not Previously Published
  Reprint of Health Phys. 67(4):338-345 (1994)
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11. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
DLC-0172/02
The author-supplied executables of the utility programs were installed at the NEA Data Bank on a DELL 466/L (66 MHz) PC/80486.
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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED
Package ID Computer language
DLC-0172/02 FORTRAN-77
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13. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

The Microsoft Fortran 5.1 compiler was used to compile the CHAIN code and the READDEC portion of the DEXRAX code. The full source for DEXRAX is not provided as that implementation must be linked with two special libraries. The source code is provided for a QBASIC version of the utility RADSUM. This version of RADSUM does not include plotting of the beta spectra or computations of the gamma constant. Other utilities were written Microsoft BASIC Professional Development system.

DLC-0172/02
The executables were run at the NEA Data Bank under MS-DOS 6.20.
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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

Contributed by:   Radiation Safety Information Computational Center

                  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

                  OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, USA

 

Developed by:     K.F. Eckerman, R.J. Westfall, J.C. Ryman, M. Cristy

                  Health Research Science Division

                  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

                  OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, USA

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE
DLC-0172/02
File name File description Records
DLC0172_02.001 Information file 248
DLC0172_02.002 Author's information file on CHAIN 14
DLC0172_02.003 Author's information file on RADLINE 17
DLC0172_02.004 Author's information file on RADSUM 26
DLC0172_02.005 Index file for ICRP38 library 839
DLC0172_02.006 Radiation file for ICRP38 library 221174
DLC0172_02.007 Beta spectra file for ICRP38 library 62262
DLC0172_02.008 Index file for MIRD library 243
DLC0172_02.009 Radiation file for MIRD library 43851
DLC0172_02.010 Beta spectra file for MIRD library 16316
DLC0172_02.011 Source information file from author 22
DLC0172_02.012 FORTRAN source file to read index file 927
DLC0172_02.013 FORTRAN source file to read BET & RAD files 453
DLC0172_02.014 QUICK BASIC source file for RADSUM 458
DLC0172_02.015 Batch file to run CHAIN 31
DLC0172_02.016 Batch file to run DEXRAX 24
DLC0172_02.017 Batch file to run RADLINE 23
DLC0172_02.018 Batch file to run RADSUM 26
DLC0172_02.019 Program CHAIN executable 0
DLC0172_02.020 Program DEXRAX executable 0
DLC0172_02.021 Program RADLINE executable 0
DLC0172_02.022 Program RADSUM executable 0
DLC0172_02.023 Program CHAIN initialization file 1
DLC0172_02.024 Program DEXRAX initialization file 1
DLC0172_02.025 Program RADLINE initialization file 1
DLC0172_02.026 Program RADSUM initialization file 2
DLC0172_02.027 Font file used by RADSUM 0
DLC0172_02.028 DOS file-names 27
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17. CATEGORIES
  • Z. Data

Keywords: data library, radiation doses, radioisotopes.