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Nuclear Physics - (dead link)
Past, Present and Future
"Addressing a general audience, we explain the physics behind this technology , connecting it to popular history, current issues and prospects for the future."
An introduction to the field with sections on The Physics, Nuclear War, Nuclear Energy, General Applications, and the Political Issues

American Institute of Physics

• Center for History of Physics
  • Moments of Discovery
    "...tells the story of two scientific discoveries in the scientists' own words. (You can read the text or hear their actual voices.)...Teacher's guides offer supplementary materials and ideas for classroom use."
    The Discovery of Fission & A Pulsar Discovery.

IAEA Nuclear Data Centre - (dead link)

Los Alamos National Laboratory

National Academy Press (free downloads)

• 2005
  • An International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility -- Exploring a Russian Site as a Prototype: Proceedings of an International Workshop
    By Glenn E. Schweitzer and A. Chelsea Sharber, Editors, Committee on the Scientific Aspects of an International Spent Fuel Repository in Russia, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, National Research Council, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2005.
• 2003
  • Management of Low-Activity Radioactive Wastes:
    Interim Report on Current Regulations, Inventories, and Practices
    Committee on Improving Practices for Regulating and Managing Low-Activity Radioactive Wastes, National Research Council, 2003.
• 2002
  • Letter Report: Review of the Identification of Radionuclides Released from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation's Facilities to the Columbia River
    Committee to Review the Identification of Radionuclides Released from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation's Facilities to the Columbia River, National Research Council, 2002.
  • Successes and Difficulties of Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop
    Committee on Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Research Council, In cooperation with the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk, Russia, 2002.
• 2001
  • Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges
    Committee on Disposition of High-Level Radioactive Waste Through Geological Isolation, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, National Research Council, 2001.
  • Research Needs for High-Level Waste Stored in Tanks and Bins at U.S. Department of Energy Sites:
    Environmental Management Science Program
    Committee on Long-Term Research Needs for Radioactive High-Level Waste at Department of Energy Sites, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, National Research Council, 2001.
  • Science and Technology for Environmental Cleanup at Hanford
    Committee on the Review of the Hanford Site's Environmental Remediation Science and Technology Plan, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, National Research Council, 2001.
• 2000
  • Alternatives for High-Level Waste Salt Processing at the Savannah River Site (2000)
  • Long Term Research Needs for High-Level Waste at Department of Energy Sites: Interim Report
    Board on Radioactive Waste Management (2000)
  • The Spent-Fuel Standard for Disposition of Excess Weapon Plutonium: Applications to Current DOE Options
    Committee on International Security and Arms Control (2000)
• 1995
  • Ward Valley: An Examination of Seven Issues in Earth Sciences and Ecology
    Committee to Review Specific Scientific and Technical Safety Issues Related to the Ward Valley, California Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site, 1995
• 1992
  • Nuclear Power: Technical and Institutional Options for the Future
    Committee on Future Nuclear Power Development, Energy Engineering Board, National Research Council, 1992.

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."
- Brookhaven National Laboratory

Nuclear Data Viewer
"This nuclear data viewer allows you to prepare high-quality Postscript graphs of experimental data (CSISRS) and/or evaluated data (ENDF, FENDL, etc.) from our built-in data bases and view them on your work station or print them on your printer."
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Nuclear Properties for Astrophysics
"Interactive access to nuclear properties of interest for astrophysics for almost 9000 nuclei. Get your experimental masses and calculated masses, deformations, decay Q-values, half-lives, spins, and separation energies here!"
By P. Mˆller, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Nuclear Wallet Card - (dead link) "This booklet presents selected properties of all known nuclides and their known isomeric states....The data given here are taken mostly from the adopted properties of the various nuclides as given in the Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File
Fifth edition, June 30, 1995
By J.K. Tuli, National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC)

The Race to Build the Atomic Bomb: A Resource for Teacher's and Students
Sections include: US/Eng. Timeline ; Competition ; Exodus of Scientists ; Physics ; Those Responsible ; Research ; Lesson Plans ; Resources.
Created by Doug Prouty.

T-2 (Nuclear Theory and Applications) Nuclear Information Service
"We work on nuclear modeling, nuclear data, cross sections, nuclear masses, ENDF, NJOY data processing, nuclear astrophysics, radioactivity, radiation shielding, data for medical radiotherapy, data for high-energy accelerator applications, data and codes for fission and fusion systems, and more. Much of this information can also be accessed using anonymous ftp."

Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL)

University of Chicago - Department of Physics

• Enrico Fermi & The Manhattan Project
  Sections include: Enrico Fermi ; The Manhattan Project ; "Nuclear Energy," Sculpted by Henry Moore.

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