pyne/pyne — pull request #258 by crbates (2014-01-19 03:01:55+00:00)
Title: Initial commit of x-ray data compilation for ensdf.py

This is a currently experimental and ugly addition to ensdf.py that adds the calculation of x-ray intensities for a given decay. This expects that `mednew.dat` has been hand copied into the pyne site-packages directory from here: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nndcscr/ensdf_pgm/analysis/radlst/mednew.dat.

One major caveat here is that NNDC has not released an up-to-date version of the atomic data they use to generate the information available in nudat. I have considered reverse-engineering the database they are using for atomic data by scraping the nudat pages but for most purposes the existing data is good enough.