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National Research Corporation, doing business as NRC Health, is a company which provides healthcare products and subscription-based solutions in United States and Canada. [ 2 ] It was founded in 1981 and is currently based in Lincoln, Nebraska .
The NRC's regulatory mission covers three main areas [citation needed]: Reactors – Commercial reactors for generating electric power and research and test reactors used for research, testing, and training; Materials – Uses of nuclear materials in medical, industrial, and academic settings and facilities that produce nuclear fuel
It is defined differently in the NRC regulations and NRC glossary. According to the regulations, it is the sum of effective dose equivalent from external exposure and committed effective dose equivalent from internal exposure, thereby taking into account all known exposures. [ 1 ]
To provide the safe and effective delivery of medical care, virtually all clinical staff use a number of front-line health informatics tools in their day-to-day operations. The need for standardization and refined development of these tools is underscored by the HITECH Act and other efforts to develop electronic medical records .
Activated charcoal, also known as activated carbon, is a medication used to treat poisonings that occurred by mouth. [1] To be effective it must be used within a short time of the poisoning occurring, typically an hour. [1] [2] It does not work for poisonings by cyanide, corrosive agents, iron, lithium, alcohols, or malathion. [2]
EGSnrc is a general-purpose software toolkit that can be applied to build Monte Carlo simulations of coupled electron-photon transport, for particle energies ranging from 1 keV to 10 GeV. It is widely used internationally in a variety of radiation-related fields.
Matters adjudicated by the ASLBP have included: early site permits, which "banks" a site for 20 years for a company to later build a nuclear facility if they so choose; operating licenses for proposed nuclear reactors; proposed license renewals of nuclear reactors; and in situ uranium mining licensing actions.
The National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics (NRC-IBD) is a research laboratory located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and operated by the National Research Council. [2] It was established in 1992 to research and develop noninvasive medical diagnostic technologies to increase prospects for prevention, earlier diagnosis, improved ...