of meetings with presentations related to their fields because they did not
belong to the society sponsoring the meeting. The computerized data base of
the Information Support Project has provided a mechanism for generating distribution lists for conferences on transuranium elements since it can be machine
The names of the
searched to generate a directory of current researchers.
Support Project's
Information
on
be
always
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NAEG personnel and contractors
n
generated distributio lists.
During July and October of last year, the NAEIC support capability was demon-
strated at two workshops with a computer terminal connected via dial-up tele-
phone lines to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory IBM 360/75.
The terminal
utilized an on-line search and retrieval program to access the data base on
(1)
These two workshops were:
the Environmental Aspects of the Transuranics.
(Plutonium)
#31
Committee
(NCRP)
Protection
Radiation
the National Commission on
Workshop held in Seattle, Washington, and (2) the Workshop on the Biological
Effects and Toxicity of Plutonium 239 and Radium 226 held in Sun Valley,
Idaho.
These demonstrations gave non-NAEG researchers and decision makers the
benefit of an information resource that had been directed and supported by the
NAEG for the preceding four years.
The quick response of the computer terminal
and breadth and depth of the data base on the Environmental Aspects of the
Transuranics were impressive to those new to automated, specialized data
bases.
This was the first time an on-line information resource had been used
as a time-saving device at a committee meeting at which standards were being
formulated.
The NAEIC has been informing NAEG researchers of requests in their areas of
interest.
This is a means of keeping the NAEG investigators informed of new
projects being proposed and new research being initiated as well as giving the
NAEG researchers an opportunity to help the Information Center to answer the
requests with more current and detailed data.
Responding to search requests
is another way information support groups interact.
The NAEIC draws on the information resources of the Information Division and
the Information Center Complex of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for
selection of documents for inclusion in the data base on the Environmental
Aspects of the Transuranics.
Table 1 gives the data bases available for
searching at ORNL.
We select new additions of interest to the NAEIC by use of
a profile or search procedure stored in the computer to search new magnetic
tapes of these data bases available at ORNL.
Use of these large-scale, automated data bases is only one of the ways the data base selects new documents.
Being on the distribution lists for new documents is a much quicker way because
the documents are available to be entered into the data base much sooner.
Several nontransuranium radionuclides on the Nevada Test Site will be considered
by the NAEG in the near future in relation to decontamination efforts.
The
radionuclides so far identified for which information is desired are:
cobalt
60; ruthenium 102; silver 108; antimony 125; cesium 137; europium 152, 154,
and 155; zine 65.
A draft bibliography of these nuclides in relation to soil
movement, plant uptake, and resuspension has been compiled by the NAEIC using
a variety of computerized data bases.
Table 2 gives a list of the computerized
data bases built by the Ecological Sciences Information Center from which this
bibliography was drawn.
The large~scale, automated data bases available at
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