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Amarillo College Electronic Resource Library – The Electronic Resource Library (ERL) is being constructed and administered through the Document Exchange Laboratory at the Lynn Library Learning Center on the Amarillo College campus in Amarillo, TX. Funded by a grant from the Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium, it is the first electronic, subject-specific library on the Internet--collecting, scanning, processing, and electronically exchanging information on plutonium.

Carlsbad New Mexico Waste Isolation Power Plant – The U.S. Department of Energy's Carlsbad Area Office manages the National Transuranic Waste Program. The program administers nationwide generation/storage site programs for characterizing, transporting, packaging, storing, and disposing of transuranic waste. Defense-generated transuranic waste is temporarily stored at more than 23 small and large sites nationwide.

EPA Radiation Protection Division – EPA's Radiation Protection Division is responsible for protecting public health and the environment from the effects of ionizing radiation. This homepage provides detailed information to the various programs associated with radiation protection activities.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency established by the U.S. Congress under the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to ensure adequate protection of the public health and safety, the common defense and security, and the environment in the use of nuclear materials in the United States. The NRC's scope of responsibility includes regulation of-- commercial nuclear power reactors; nonpower research, test, and training reactors fuel cycle facilities; medical, academic, and industrial uses of nuclear materials the transport, storage, and disposal of nuclear materials and waste.