International Decay Data Evaluation Project

International Evaluation Co-operation Volume 25: Assessment of Fission Product Decay Data for Decay Heat Calculations

The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisati...

Data Management in an International Data Grid Project

In this paper we report on preliminary work and architectural design carried out in the ”Data Management” work package in the International Data Grid project. Our aim within a time scale of three years is to provide Grid middleware services supporting the I/Ointensive world-wide distributed next generation experiments in HighEnergy Physics, Earth Observation and Bioinformatics. The goal is to s...

Cm - Comments on evaluation of decay data

Table 1. Experimental values of the Cm half-life (in years). Reference Author(s) Value Measurement method 1954Fr19 Friedman et al. 17.9 (5) α-activity relative to Cm 1954St33 Stevens et al. 19.2 (6) α-activity relative to Cm 1961Cao1 Carnall et al. 17.59 (6) Specific activity 1968Be26 Bentley 18.099 (32) a 2π α-counting 1972Ke29 Kerrigan and Dorsett 18.13 (4) Calorimetry 1982Po14 Polyukhov et a...

The International HapMap Project

The goal of the International HapMap Project is to determine the common patterns of DNA sequence variation in the human genome and to make this information freely available in the public domain. An international consortium is developing a map of these patterns across the genome by determining the genotypes of one million or more sequence variants, their frequencies and the degree of association...

The International POPs Elimination Project