Sensors & Electronics
Awards & Recognition
FLC Awards
1998 - Nuclide Navigator™
Developers: Walt Hensley, David McKinnon, Mark Panisko, Rodney Savard, Phil Pulver
This innovative team developed and transferred Nuclide Navigator™, a PC-based software tool for retrieving, displaying, and managing large quantities of nuclear data, to EG&G ORTEC, Oak Ridge, TN. The software contains a unique, comprehensive on-line collection of gamma, alpha- and beta-ray information. Before Nuclide Navigator was available, engineers, scientists, and technicians performing such critical tasks as measuring human exposure to radioactivity, managing nuclear power plant facilities, and conducting medical procedures using isotopes were forced to extract data from the standard Segré chart of the nuclides (3' x 2' in its smallest legible form) and other hard-copy references such as the Table of Isotopes (3000 pages). Wading through such materials to find, retrieve, sort, and manage information was time consuming, expensive, and error prone. Nuclide Navigator solves this data retrieval and management problem. Its unique one-stop-shopping feature for nuclear isotope information simplifies and furthers worldwide nuclear research--from pharmaceutical and medical applications to chemistry, nuclear weapons verification and nuclear power plant construction and operation. Nuclide Navigator™ is currently the best-selling software EG&G ORTEC has ever licensed or developed.
Excerpted from PNNL FLC webpage.