This paper gives an explicit version of Selberg's mean-value estimate under the Riemann hypothesis (RH) [20]. Two applications are given in short-interval results: one for primes, and one for Goldbach numbers. Under RH and for all x ≥ 2, we find at least one prime in (y, y + 37 log 2 y] for at least half the y ∈ [x, 2x], and at least one Goldbach number in (x, x + 864 log 2 x].