 From the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Atoms How-To video series. Introduction. Do you need an NRC response to a congressional inquiry? Are you looking for a recent license amendment to a nuclear facility near you? You'll find those and more in Atoms. So what is Atoms? Atoms is short for agency-wide documents, access, and management system. It's our official record-keeping system. It's an online library that includes all the agency's publicly available documents, as well as a public legacy library that has entries for 2 million older NRC documents stored on microfish or in paper form. In Atoms, you'll find regulatory guides, new reg series reports, inspection reports, commission documents, correspondence, and other regulatory and technical documents written by NRC staff, contractors, and licensees. What you won't find in Atoms are documents that contain proprietary information, attorney-client privilege information, or security-related information. You can access Atoms through the NRC's public website at www.nrc.gov. Click on the Atoms public documents link on the right side of the page. It takes you to the web page. Let's give you an Atoms introduction. Click on the link titled, begin web-based Atoms search to access the library. You can see that it's very user-friendly with a folder view for easy navigation to view recently added documents. You can do a content search or advanced search that allows you to create your own query builder. Atoms gives you the ability to select, sort, and rearrange columns so you can quickly locate documents of interest. You can view, download, and print document files, review their properties, and create reports on one or more selected documents. You can even find the availability of new documents on the day they are published. So let's try to search a document by a docket number, which is the number that we assign for an NRC-related license and its corresponding regulation. Enter a docket number in 8-digit format such as 0500271 in the docket number field and either the content search or advanced search tabs. Note that web-based Atoms will only accept the 8-digit format with no dashes in the docket number field. For your convenience, we provide a list of docket numbers and licenses on our website at the Atoms Help and Reference web page. We also have an Atoms user guide available for quick reference. The NRC public document room reference staff are available to help you with Atoms. They can assist you with Atoms' hardware and software issues, searching the online libraries, as well as obtaining copies of pre-Atoms documents in various formats. These materials may be ordered for a fee. Contact staff during regular business hours at 301-415-4737 or email them at pdr.resource at nrc.gov. So go and search for your NRC public document using Atoms today. Watch our other videos in the How-To Atoms series to learn more step-by-step Atom searches. Happy searching!