NSA is a comprehensive collection of international nuclear science and technology literature for the period 1948 through 1976, pre-dating the prestigious INIS database, which began in 1970. NSA existed as a printed product (Volumes 1-33) initially, created by DOE's predecessor, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). NSA includes citations to scientific and technical reports from the AEC, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration and its contractors, plus other agencies and international organizations, universities, and industrial and research organizations. References to books, conference proceedings, papers, patents, dissertations, engineering drawings, and journal articles from worldwide sources are also included. Abstracts and full text are provided if available.

Papers and discussion presented at the X-ray Preferred Orientation Meeting at Argonne National Laboratory on December 15 and 15, 1960 have been compiled. Papers were presented on several topics on the physical metallurgy of uranium, such as the preferred orientation in recrystallized material, diffraction intensities and uranium atom position as a function of temperatures, as well as papers on methods for and the results of growth index calculations and predictions.