NUCLEONICA: A WEB PORTAL FOR THE NUCLEAR SCIENCES

NUCLEONICA (www.nucleonica.net) is a new nuclear science web portal from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. The portal provides a customisable, integrated environment and collaboration platform for the nuclear sciences using the latest internet “Web 2.0 ” technology. NUCLEONICA is aimed at professionals, academics and students working in fields as diverse as the life and earth sciences, and the more traditional disciplines such as nuclear power, health physics and radiation protection, nuclear and radio-chemistry, and astrophysics. It is also used as a knowledge management tool to preserve nuclear knowledge built up over many decades by creating modern web-based versions of so-called “legacy ” computer codes. All NUCLEONICA’s web applications are browser and operating system independent and can be accessed by a variety of mobile devices