The NRV web knowledge base on low-energy nuclear physics has been created in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. This knowledge base working through the Internet integrates a large amount of digitized experimental data on the properties of nuclei and nuclear reaction cross sections with a wide range of computational programs for modeling of nuclear properties and various processes of nuclear dynamics which run directly in the browser of a remote user. Today, the NRV knowledge base is both a powerful tool for nuclear physics research and an educational resource. The system is widely used, as evidenced by the large number of user queries to its resources and the number of references to the knowledge base in the articles published in scientific journals. The practical usage of the NRV knowledge base for both scientific and educational applications is demonstrated.

Principles underlying the organization and operation of the NRV web knowledge base on low-energy nuclear physics (http://nrv.jinr.ru) are described. This base includes a vast body of digitized experimental data on the properties of nuclei and on cross sections for nuclear reactions that is combined with a wide set of interconnected computer programs for simulating complex nuclear dynamics, which work directly in the browser of a remote user. Also, the current situation in the realms of application of network information technologies in nuclear physics is surveyed. The potential of the NRV knowledge base is illustrated in detail by applying it to the example of an analysis of the fusion of nuclei that is followed by the decay of the excited compound nucleus formed.