Links—Making the Connection

Looking for more information on nuclear energy and nuclear technologies? Here are a few Web sites to explore. Can’t find what you want? Contact NEI at webmaster@nei.org.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has a special section for students called Students' Corner.

The Virtual Nuclear Tourist site is a treasure trove of facts and photos.

For information on the medical uses of nuclear materials, see What is Nuclear Medicine on the Society of Nuclear Medicine's Web site.  For a list of other nuclear medicine organizations, see Radiology Organizations in the Radiologic Sciences on the Radiological Society of North America's Web site. 

Nuclear materials also are used to kill bacteria, insects and parasites in food—not only in the United States but in many other countries. For details, see Facts about Food Irradiation on the International Atomic Energy Agency's Web site, Frequently Asked Questions about Food Irradiation on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Web site, and the Web site of the Foundation for Food Irradiation Education.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a section on the Cassini spacecraft, which uses a radioisotope generator to make course adjustment, run all the onboard computers and send the data back to Earth. See Current Missions - Cassini.

You’ll also find details of NASA’s Cassini and Galileo missions powered on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Web site at JPL Current Missions and information on the RTGs themselves at Galileo legacy site.

Radiation is natural and all around us, and it is also man-made. The Environmental Protection Agency has an animated, virtual community, RadTown USA, showing a wide variety of radiation sources commonly encountered in everyday life.

For information on the nuclear reactors of our neighbors up north, see the Kid's Zone on the site of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

Nuclear Energy Institute—Washington, DC
August 2000