Introduction
NUCLEONICS-ONLINE is a World-Wide-Web site designed to serve persons who
must deal with both the theoretical and the commercial aspects of nuclear
physics: the inventors, designers, manufacturers and users of nuclear
physics and nuclear medicine instrumentation and systems. It is true that
since the inception of the Internet by CERN, a vast amount of nuclear physics
data has already been placed online. Most of this information is provided by
academic and other non-profit organizations primarily for use by the academic
and non-profit world. Commercial information in this environment is frowned
upon. On the other hand, purely commercial information on the WWW has
proliferated since graphic browsers became available. Most of this material
is sales-related, with only very few tutorials or application notes.
The goal of NUCLEONICS-ONLINE is to present in one place a mixture of
commercial and non-commercial information that is useful to the
applied nuclear physics and nuclear medicine practitioner.
In contrast to most other information providers that present diverse and
superficial information to as many readers as possible, the goal of
NUCLEONICS-ONLINE is to provide in-depth information to a small group of
specialists. As envisioned, this is much too large a project to be undertaken
by a single person or even by a single organization. Therefore, we solicit
and encourage the participation of the public in this project. This is a new
approach to the dissemination of information and it would be presumptuous to
predict at this time which will turn out to be the the best form of
presenting this information, which will be the most useful ratio in the
mixture of commercial and non-commercial material, which field will be of
most interest to our readers, or which other feature or content should be
added to NUCLEONICS-ONLINE. We hope, though, that many readers will
contribute to this project, that it will evolve in the direction of highest
interest to the applied nuclear physics community, and that NUCLEONICS-ONLINE
will eventually become a useful reference source to everybody working in the
fields of nuclear physics research, nuclear physics instrumentation,
nuclear medicine and industrial nuclear physics.
Help yourself and others in the field by
Contributing an original article, or
Adding links to your favourite Web sites.
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