Where to find RADDECAY

[js_dukelow@ccmail.pnl.gov]

RADSAFErs:

There have been some requests for the addresses of Web pages or ftp 
sites from which RADDECAY can be downloaded.  I'll pass along what I 
know.

RADDECAY 2.01 can be found on 

  1)  the Walnut Creek CDROM _Scientific and Technical Library CDROM_
  2)  Bruce Busby's Radiation Protection Home Page at 
        http://www.umich.edu/~bbusby/
  3)  the Software via the Internet Web Page at
        http://nucmed.jr2.ox.ac.uk/soft.html  (this site was pretty slow)

I am using RADDECAY 2.02, but don't recall where I got it.

The Radiation Shielding Information Center (RSIC) at ORNL is currently 
distributing RADDECAY 4.02, which would appear to be significantly 
upgraded from ver. 2.0x.  The ver. 4.02 code abstract is available from 

        http://epicws.epm.ornl.gov/codes/dlc/dlc-134.html

General information about RSIC, including how to order software, can be 
found at 
        http://epicws.epm.ornl.gov/rsic.html

For those without Web access, RSIC can be reached by email to 
pdc@ornl.gov or to Bernadette Kirk at blk@ornl.gov or by calling 
(423) 574-6176.

Grove Engineering, the original developer of RADDECAY, has released ver. 
1.0 for Windows, which is based on ver. 5.02 for DOS.  This version 
appears to have improvements in the areas I complained about in my 
original posting describing ver. 2.02.  Grove can reached at (301) 258-
2727 or by fax at (301) 330-5462.

I am assuming, without actually knowing, that there is some sort of 
service charge for obtaining ver. 4.02 from RSIC and that ver. 5.02 for 
DOS and 1.0 for Windows are being sold as proprietary software by Grove 
Engineering.

I dug up a lot of this information by using the Alta Vista Web Search 
Engine at
        http://altavista.digital.com/
to search the Web for the strings "RADDECAY" and "RSIC".

Best regards.

Jim Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA

js_dukelow@pnl.gov