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News Release Oak Ridge Company Provides Software from
National Laboratories to
Further Nuclear Security and Aid in Nuclear Waste Management;
Contributes to "Excellence in Technology Transfer" Award Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Technology transfers from our
nation's national laboratories are perhaps the best examples of successful cooperation
between government-supported organizations and private businesses. ORTEC®
, a name known worldwide for nuclear instrumentation used in research and industry, has
been selected by Oak Ridge (K-25), Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Pacific Northwest
National Laboratories to market software products developed at their facilities.
Recently, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) in Richland, Washington,
was the winner of a "Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in
Technology" for Nuclide Navigator ™ , a
computer-based, on-line reference for data required by nuclear spectroscopists that must
measure the extent and type of radioactivity in the environment and at nuclear facilities.
The team at PNNL was headed by Dr. Walter K. Hensley. Dr. Ronald Keyser, a senior
scientist at EG&G ORTEC declared, "They did a superb job; we are grateful for
this opportunity to bring Nuclide Navigator to scientists throughout the world. Hundreds
of copies are in use in over 30 different countries."
Other cooperative efforts include software used for nuclear
"Safeguards." Known as MGA++ and PC/FRAM, these two programs came, respectively,
from Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Labs.
The most recent development was "Program Isotopic," written by
Dr. Richard Hagenauer at the K-25 facility. Promoted as the "easy solution to
difficult problems in radioactive waste assay," the data sheet shows a picture of
barrels marked with radioactivity symbols and headlined, "Nobody knows what's in it,
but you have to analyze it." Program Isotopic is typically used in conjunction with
ORTEC's GammaVision™, gamma-ray analysis software
widely used by nuclear spectroscopists.
Negotiations are currently underway to bring other valuable products from
the national labs into widespread scientific use. |
