Since a picture is worth a thousand words, the NRC has long made photos available to the public through the photo gallery on our website. The photos help explain who we are and what we do. But the gallery had a number of significant limitations – including a lack of visibility, difficult uploading process and a search engine that was clumsy at best.
The rise of social networks, however, and the ease and popularity of photo-sharing has given us a ready alternative. Beginning today, the NRC will be using Flickr.com to host our images rather than the NRC website. This change will give us a bigger audience and be easier for us – and you, the public – to access the images.
Among the benefits is the ability to “tag” a photo. Tags are keywords associated with each image that makes searching for and organizing images much easier. Flickr also allows us to organize NRC photos into sets, which can then be viewed as a slideshow. These sets are a group of photos, which are categorized under one heading –such as creating a set for all operating power reactors.
With Flickr, it is extremely easy to create or join an existing community, such as becoming part of the Official US Government Photostreams, a group comprised of official U.S. federal, state and local government image banks on Flickr.
Flickr also has an RSS feed option that can notify you whenever a new photo is uploaded.
Images uploaded on Flickr can be viewed by anyone and found easily on a variety of search engines such as Google, Bing and Dogpile. We hope this will translate into more traffic to our photos and an increased understanding about the NRC mission and activities. All photos on the site continue to be free, and anyone can download them for their use.
Some of the social media functions associated with Flickr will be disabled, and comments instead funneled back here to this post.
So go and check out the new photo gallery NRCgov Photostream on Flickr.
Ivonne Couret Public Affairs Officer
U.S. NRC Blog 
Thank you for letting us use one of your photos. I wanted to let you know where and how the photo was being used. It is the header for our blog article here: http://armstrongsteel.com/network/future-first-time-builders/how-can-you-prepare-for-the-steel-building-erection-process/
Notice at the bottom of the screen, We added a courtesy (with your name) and linked back to the photo on Flickr. This is standard under Creative Commons attribution rules. Thanks again for letting us use the photo!
Your photo has been selected to run alongside an article and on our facebook page of the online publication, ScienceNetwork WA.
The article link is:
http://www.sciencewa.net.au/topics/industry-a-resources/item/3656-discovery-optimises-uranium-extraction-process
Thank you very much for making it creative commons!
i think Flickr will be soon overtaken by Instagram, which is already very used (http://bit.ly/ca-flkr) thus the recommendation is to go soon on it.
With Flickr, it is extremely easy to create or join an existing community, such as becoming part of the Official US Government Photostreams, a group comprised of official U.S. federal, state and local government image banks on Flickr.
Flickr’s servers are amazingly stable, and their internet speeds are great.
Awesome. Great move!
Flickr has been know to be sluggish and not as user friendly as other services. http://picasa.com is the way to go.
Awesome. Great move!
i saw yours flickr pages. Nice pictures.
Nice site! Extremely easy to read. Great images as well
Awesome! As Saidur stated, Flickr’s servers are amazingly stable, and their internet speeds are great.
This is a great decision taken.. Flickr can really be a better platform to host NRC photos. I have been using them for over a year now. They have solid servers; however, please keep an eye on the account security too.