The software system CAP88 (Clean Air Act Assessment Package, 1988) which calculates dose and risk from radionuclide emissions to air from Department of Energy facilities, has been converted to personal computer format and is distributed without charge or copy protection. Announcements on the availability of the software have been aggressively made in electronic media such as Internet listservers and on the World Wide Web, which has led to increased requests for the software. Making this software available dramatically decreases the time required to make estimates of dose to the public, resulting in significant labor cost savings to the government. Improvements to the CAP88-PC system have been recently released (summer of 1994) and announced in the same fashion, and as a result we have distributed over 150 copies of software upgrades in two months. Copies of the software have also been posted to electronic bulletin board systems and will be posted on anonymous FTP sites.
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