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Oregon State University Triga Reactor Annual Report for the Period of July 1, 2005 Through June 30, 2006
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Radiation Center Oregon State University, 100 Radiation Center, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5903 T 541-737-2341 I F 541-737-0480 I hftp://ne.oregonstate.edu/facilities/radiationcenter Oregon State UNIVERSITY October 23, 2006 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555

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Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor (OSTR)

Docket No. 50-243, License No. R-106 In accordance with section 6.7.e of the OSTR Technical Specifications we are hereby submitting the Oregon State University Radiation Center and OSTR Annual Report for the period July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006.

The Annual Report continues the pattern established over the past few years by including information about the entire Radiation Center rather than concentrating primarily on the reactor. Because this report addresses a number of different interests, it is rather lengthy, but we have incorporated a short executive summary which highlights the Center's activities and accomplishments over the past year.

The executive summary indicates that the Radiation Center has had yet another successful and productive year. I would like to emphasize that the achievements of this last year would not have been possible without the support and assistance we received from the invaluable programs administered by the USDOE. In particular, the Reactor Sharing Program and the University Research Reactor Instrumentation Upgrades Program are very const-effective in providing invaluable support to the university reactor community and its users.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

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Alexander Adams, USNRC John Cassady, OSU Craig Bassett, USNRC Rich Holdren, OSU Ken Niles, ODOE Todd Palmer, OSU

01I-0A Anniuq Rpnrtr Annual Report of the Oregon State University Radiation Center and TRIGA Reactor July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006 To satisfy the requirements of:

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, License No. R-106 (Docket No. 50-243), Technical Specification 6.7(e).

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Task Order No. 3, under Subcontract No. C84-110499 (DE-AC07-76ER01953) for University Reactor Fuel Assistance-AR-67-88, issued by EG&G Idaho, Inc.

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Oregon Department of Energy, OOE Rule No. 345-030-010.

Submitted by:

Steven R. Reese, Director Radiation Center Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5903 Telephone: (541) 737-2341 Fax: (541) 737-0480

05-06 Annual Report Part I-Overview Acknowledgements............................................................ 2 Executive Summary.......................................................

4 Introduction...................................................................

5 Overview of the Radiation Center....................................... 5 H isto ry......................................................................

.... 7 Part II-People Radiation Center Staff.....................................................

12 Professional and Research Faculty.....................................

13 Reactor Operations Committee............................................. 15 OSU Graduate Students.................................................... 16 Part III-Facilities Research Reactor...........................................................

18 Analytical Equipment....................................................... 20 Radioisotope Irradiation Sources.......................................

20 Laboratories and Classrooms............................................

21 Instrument Repair and Calibration Facility........................... 22 L ib ra ry.............................................................................. 2 2 Part IV-Reactor Operating Statistics.........................................................

28 Experiments Performed.................................................... 28 Unplanned Shutdowns.....................................................

30 Changes Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.59.................................... 30 Surveillance and Maintenance..........................................

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Table of Conten"fts(cnned Part V-Radiation Protection Introduction...................................................................

52 Environmental Releases.................................................... 52 Liquid Effluents Released............................................ 53 Airborne Effluents Released............................................ 53 Solid Waste Released.................................................... 54 Personnel Doses.............................................................

54 Facility Survey Data.......................................................

55 Environmental Survey Data.............................................. 56 Gamma Radiation Monitoring...................................... 57 Soil, Water, and Vegetation Surveys............................ 58 Radioactive Material Shipments........................................ 59 References.................................................................... 59 Part VI-Work Summary......................................................................

80 T eaching........................................................................ 80 Research and Service.......................................................... 80 Part VII-Words Documents Published or Accepted......................................... 120 Theses and Student Project Reports...................................... 129 Prese ntatio ns..................................................................... 13 1

05-06 Annual Report List of ThAbles Table Title Page III.C.1 Gam m acell 220 60Co Irradiator Use..................................................... 24 III.D.1 Student Enrollment in Courses Which Are Taught or Partially Taught at the Radiation Center.................................................................... 25 IV.A. 1 OSTR Operating Statistics (Using the FLIP Fuel Core)............................ 35 IV.A.2 OSTR Operating Statistics with the Original (20% Enriched)

Standard TRIGA Fuel Core............................................................... 39 IV.A.3 Present OSTR Operating Statistics.................................................... 40 IV.A.4 OSTR Use Time in Terms of Specific Use Categories............................... 41 IV.A.5 OSTR Multiple Use Tim e................................................................ 41 IV.B. 1 Use of OSTR Reactor Experiments..................................................... 42 IV.C.1 Unplanned Reactor Shutdowns and Scrams.......................................

42 V.A.1 Radiation Protection Program Requirements and Frequencies................ 60 V.B.1.a Monthly Summary of Liquid Effluent Releases to the Sanitary Sewer......... 61 V.B.1.b Annual Summary of Liquid Waste Generated and Transferred.................. 62 V.B.2 Monthly Summary of Gaseous Effluent Releases.................................... 63 V.B.3 Annual Summary of Solid Waste Generated and Transferred.................... 64 V.C.1 Annual Summary of Personnel Radiation Doses Received........................ 65 V.D.1 Total Dose Equivalent Recorded on Area Dosimeters Located W ithin the TRIGA Reactor Facility....................................................

66 V.D.2 Total Dose Equivalent Recorded on Area Dosimeters Located W ithin the Radiation Center.............................................................

67 V.D.3 Annual Summary of Radiation and Contamination Levels Observed Within the Reactor Facility and Radiation Center During Routine Radiation Surveys.............. 69 V.E.1 Total Dose Equivalent at the TRIGA Reactor Facility Fence...................... 70 V.E.2 Total Dose Equivalent at the Off-Site Gamma Radiation M o nitoring S tations............................................................................ 7 1 V.E.3 Annual Average Concentration of the Total Net Beta Radioactivity (Minus 3H) for Environmental Soil, Water, and Vegetation Samples.......... 72 II'

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V.E.4 Average LLD Concentration and Range of LLD Values for Soil, Water and Vegetation Sam ples.................................................................

73 V.F.1 Annual Summary of Radioactive Material Shipments Originating From the TRIGA Reactor Facility's NRC License R-106.................................

74 V.F.2 Annual Summary of Radioactive Material Shipments Originating From the Radiation Center's State of Oregon License ORE 90005.............. 76 V.F.3 Annual Summary of Radioactive Material Shipments Exported Under NRC General License 10 CFR 110.23........................................... 77 VI.C.1 Institutions and Agencies Which Utilized the Radiation Center................. 85 VI.C.2 Graduate Student Research Which Utilized the Radiation Center.............. 89 VI.C.3 Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Performed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies............... 93 VI.C.4 Summary of Radiological Instrumentation Calibrated to Support O SU Departm ents............................................................................. Il VI.C.5 Summary of Radiological Instrumentation Calibrated to Support O ther A ge ncies................................................................................. 112 VI.F.1 Summary of Visitors to the Radiation Center......................................... 113 Figure Title Page IV.E.1 Monthly Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)......................... 43 IV.E.2 Quarterly Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)....................... 44 IV.E.3 Semi-Annual Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form).................. 46 IV.E.4 Annual Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)......................... 48 V.D.1 Monitoring Stations for the OSU TRIGA Reactor................................ 78 VI.C.1 Summary of the Types of Radiological Instrumentation Calibrated to Support the OSU TRIGA Reactor and the Radiation Center.......................

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Acknowledgments The Oregon State University (OSU) Radiation Center would not be what it is today if it were not for everyone on the staff doing what they do every single day. Since I became the Director a little over a year ago I've been preaching, "...education, research, and service..." Our success in these areas is directly attributable to this unique group of people, not only because they are incredi-bly competent at what they do but, more importantly, they help each other. With this in mind, this year I'd like to dedicate this

-annual report to them.

Shirley Campbell This year Shirley was nominated by three different organizational lead-ers (including myself) for the Oregon State University Employee of the Year. Although she did not win, the nomination exemplifies the level of appreciation felt.

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Erin Cimbri The Radiation Center has never looked better. This is in a large part due to her efforts on the floors, walls, and all that she takes care of.

She is the first to accommodate her schedule to satisfy the many direc-tions she gets pulled in.

Mike Conrady Perhaps no one has had to make more sacrifices and adjustments over the last year since I became Director than Mike. His increased involve-ment with the academic laboratories and tours has opened new possi-bilities and interaction with campus. It is as important as it is appreci-ated.

Jim Darrouah Jim constantly strives to improve every process he becomes involved with. Additionally, he is probably the most helpful person I have ever met. His personality is such that if you need help, he will drop what ever he is doing to lend a hand.

Mike Hartman I

I've never been as excited about the potential for a new member of the organization as I have been with Mike. Not only does he bring a new research capability for the reactor and an increased integration with aca-demics, he has a personality that is friendly and inclusive. Welcome!

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[Todd Kefle*r His enthusiasm for neutronics has provided the Radiation Center with a very unique resource. He has also graciously stepped in to fill in the shoes of Reactor Administrator over the past year. We could not have gotten through this year without him.

[Scott Menn In the past year I've relied on Scott to "pick up" those items that I for-get to follow up on, initiate what needed to be done when I was dis-tracted, and otherwise prevent things from slipping through the cracks.

Although I haven't said it enough, I REALLY appreciate it.

[Leah Minc Working with Leah has been a delight. In the short time that she has been here she has helped create a much needed balance of research and service to the organization. Her ability to reach out to depart-ments across campus will prove to be a key component to our success.

Allena Paullenova Alena's contribution to the Radiation Center resides firmly in research.

It is a critical piece to the puzzle. She was the first pure researcher brought into the fold in probably 15 years and her recent successes (i.e., NERI, LD/RD, etc) will advance the entire organization.

Dina Pope No one has been a bigger help to me since becoming Director than Dina. Her advice and understanding have been invaluable. This is par-ticularly true when I think of the big events we have scheduled in the coming year. Bringing Dina on board was the first and best decision I made as Director.

Steve Smilth I've relied on his opinion and skill to solve problems in the Radiation Center for nine years now. I often joke that he'll forget more about the reactor than I'll ever learn but it is the truth. I have a lot of respect for him.

Garv Wachs Gary continues to be the conscience of the reactor. His consistency and ability to appreciate the bigger picture keep the facility functioning with the proper sense of safety culture and effectiveness. The excellent inspection reports that we continually receive from our regulator are due primarily to his effort.

~ ~ionCenter Executive The data from this reporting year shows that the use of the Radia-tion Center and the Oregon State TRIGA reactor (OSTR) has con-Summary tinued to grow in many areas.

The Radiation Center supported 54 different courses this year, mostly in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics. About 75% of these courses involved the OSTR.

The number of OSTR hours used for academic courses and train-ing was 52, while 1,800 hours0.00926 days 0.222 hours 0.00132 weeks 3.044e-4 months were used for research projects.

Fifty-one percent of the OSTR research hours were in support of off-campus research projects, reflecting the use of the OSTR nationally and internationally. Radiation Center users pub-lished or submitted 107 articles this year, completed 4 theses/

dissertations, and made 89 presentations on work that involved the OSTR or Radiation Center. The number of samples irradiated in the reactor during this reporting period was 1144. Funded OSTR use hours comprised 96% of the research use.

I Personnel at the Radiation Center conducted 154 tours of the fa-cility, accommodating 2,146 visitors. The visitors included ele-mentary, middle school, high school, and college students; rela-tives and friends; faculty; current and prospective clients; na-tional laboratory and industrial scientists and engineers; and state, federal and international officials. The Radiation Center is a significant positive attraction on campus because visitors leave with a good impression of the facility and of Oregon State Univer-sity.

The Radiation Center projects database continues to provide a useful way of tracking the many different aspects of work at the facility. The number of projects supported this year was 215. Re-actor related projects comprised 72% of all projects. The total re-search supported by the Radiation Center, as reported by our re-searchers, was $6,942,764. The actual total is likely considerably higher. This year the Radiation Center provided service to 75 dif-ferent organizations/ institutions, 4 1% of which were from other states and 16% of which were from outside the U. S. So while the Center's primary mission is local, it is also a facility with a nationalI and international clientele.

The Radiation Center web site provides an easy way for potential users to evaluate the Center's facilities and capabilities as well as 1

to apply for a project and check use charges. The address is:

http://radiationcenter.oregonstate.edu.

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The current annual report of the Oregon State University Radia-tion Center and TRIGA Reactor follows the usual format by includ-ing information related to the entire Radiation Center rather than just the reactor. However, the information is still presented in such a manner that data on the reactor may be examined sepa-rately, if desired. It should be noted that all annual data given in this report covers the period from July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006. Cumulative reactor operating data in this report relate only to the FLIP-fueled core. This covers the period from August 1, 1976 through June 30, 2006. For a summary of data on the reac-tor's original 20% enriched core, the reader is referred to Table IV.A.2 in Part IV of this report or to the 1976-77 Annual Report if a more comprehensive review is needed.

In addition to providing general information about the activities of the Radiation Center, this report is designed to meet the reporting requirements of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.

S. Department of Energy, and the Oregon Department of Energy.

Because of this, the report is divided into several distinct parts so that the reader may easily find the sections of interest.

The Radiation Center is a unique facility which serves the entire OSU campus, all other institutions within the Oregon University System, and many other universities and organizations through-out the nation and the world. The Center also regularly provides special services to state and federal agencies, particularly agen-cies dealing with law enforcement, energy, health, and environ-mental quality, and renders assistance to Oregon industry. In ad-dition, the Radiation Center provides permanent office and labora-tory space for the OSU Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, the OSU Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and for the OSU nuclear chemistry, radiation chemistry, geochemistry and radiochemistry programs. There is no other university facility with the combined capabilities of the OSU Radiation Center in the western half of the United States.

Located in the Radiation Center are many items of specialized equipment and unique teaching and research facilities. They in-clude a TRIGA Mark II research nuclear reactor; a 60Co gamma irradiator; a large number of state-of-the art computer-based gamma radiation spectrometers and associated germanium detec-tors; and a variety of instruments for radiation measurements and Introduction Overview of the Radiation Center

monitoring. Specialized facilities for radiation work include teach-ing and research laboratories with instrumentation and related equipment for performing neutron activation analysis and radio-tracer studies; laboratories for plant experiments involving radio-activity; a facility for repair and calibration of radiation protection instrumentation; and facilities for packaging radioactive materials for shipment to national and international destinations.

A major non-nuclear facility housed in the Radiation Center

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is the one-quarter scale thermal hydraulic advanced plant experimental (APEX) test facility for the Westinghouse AP600 i and AP1000 reactor designs. The AP600 and AP1000 are next-generation nuclear reactor designs which incorporate many passive safety features as well as considerably simpli-fied plant systems and equipment. APEX operates at pres-sures up to 400 psia and temperatures up to 450°F using electrical heaters instead of nuclear fuel. All major compo-nents of the AP600 and AP1000 are included in APEX and all systems are appropriately scaled to enable the experimental Smeasurements to be used for safety evaluations and licens-ing of the full scale plant. This world-class facility meets ex-acting quality assurance criteria to provide assurance of safety as well as validity of the test results.

Also housed in the Radiation Center are the Advanced Ther-mal Hydraulics Research Laboratory (ATHRL), which is used for state-of-the-art two-phase flow experiments, and the Nu-clear Engineering Scientific Computing Laboratory.

The Radiation Center staff regularly provides direct support and assistance to OSU teaching and research programs. Areas of ex-pertise commonly involved in such efforts include nuclear engi-neering, nuclear and radiation chemistry, neutron activation analysis, radiation effects on biological systems, radiation do-simetry, environmental radioactivity, production of short-lived ra-dioisotopes, radiation shielding, nuclear instrumentation, emer-gency response, transportation of radioactive materials, instru-ment calibration, radiation health physics, radioactive waste dis-posal, and other related areas.

In addition to formal academic and research support, the Center's staff provides a wide variety of other services including public tours and instructional programs, and professional consultation associated with the feasibility, design, safety, and execution of experiments using radiation and radioactive materials.

06 aonL L-RF cý- rýý A brief chronology of the key dates and events in the history of the OSU Radiation Center and the TRIGA reactor is given below:

June 1964 Completion of the first phase of the Radiation Center, consisting of 32,397 square feet of office and laboratory space, under the direction of founding Director, C. H. Wang.

July 1964 Transfer of the 0.1 W AGN 201 reactor to the Radiation Center.

This reactor was initially housed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and first went critical in January, 1959.

October 1966 Completion of the second phase of the Radiation Center, consist-.

ing of 9,956 square feet of space for the TRIGA reactor and asso-ciated laboratories and offices.

March 1967 Initial criticality of the Oregon State TRIGA Reactor (OSTR). The reactor was licensed to operate at a maximum steady state power level of 250 kW and was fueled with 20% enriched fuel.

October 1967 Formal dedication of the Radiation Center.

August 1969 OSTR licensed to operate at a maximum steady state power of 1 MW, but could do so only for short periods of time due to lack of cooling capacity.

June 1971 OSTR cooling capacity upgraded to allow continuous operation at 1 MW.

April 1972 OSTR Site Certificate issued by the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council.

September 1972 OSTR area fence installed.

December 1974 AGN-201 reactor permanently shut down.

March 1976 Completion of 1600 square feet of additional space to accommo-date the rapidly expanding nuclear engineering program.

I July 1976 OSTR refueled with 70% enriched FLIP fuel.

July 1977 Completion of a second 1600 square feet of space to bring the Radiation Center complex to a total of 45,553 square feet.

January 1980 Major upgrade of the electronics in the OSTR con-I trol console.

January 1980 Major upgrade to the electronics in the OSTR control console.

July 1980 AGN-201 reactor decommissioned and space released for unre-stricted use.

June 1L982 Shipment of the original 20% enriched OSTR fuel to Westinghouse Hanford Company.

December 1984 C. H. Wang retired as director. C. V. Smith became new director.

August 1986 Director C. V. Smith left to become Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A. G. Johnson became new Director.

December 1988

£ AGN-201 components transferred to Idaho State University for use in their AGN-201 reactor program.

December 1989 OSTR licensed power increased to 1.1 MW.

June 1990 Installation of a 7000 Ci 60Co Gammacell irradiator.

March 1992 25th anniversary of the OSTR initial criticality.

November 1992 Start of APEX plant construction.

June 1994 Retirement of Director A. G. Johnson. B. Dodd became new Direc-to r.

August 1994 APEX inauguration ceremony.

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August 1995 Major external refurbishment: new roof, complete repaint, rebuilt parking lot, addition of landscaping and lighting.

September 1998 B. Dodd left on a leave of absence to the International Atomic En-ergy Agency. S. E. Binney became new Director.

January 1999 Installation of the Argon Production Facility in the OSTR.

April 1999 Completion of ATHRL facility brings the Radiation Center complex to a total of 47,198 square feet.

July 2002 S. E. Binney retired. J. F. Higginbotham became interim director.

October 2002 A. C. Klein became new director.

October 2004 Neutron Radiography Facility completed.

April 2005 A. C. Klein left on leave of absence to Idaho National Laboratory.

S.R. Reese became new Director.

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This section contains a listing of all people who were residents of the Radiation Center or who I

worked a significant amount of time at the Center during this reporting period.

It should be noted that not all of the faculty and students who used the Radiation Center for their teaching and research are listed. Summary information on the number of people involved is givenI in Table VI.C.1, while individual names and projects are listed in Tables VI.C.2 and VI.C.3.

Steve Reese, Director I

Shirley Campbell, Business Manager Erin Cimbri, Custodian I

Brandy Marion, Office Specialist (3-17-06 to 6-30-96)

LaVon Mauer, Office Specialist (7-1-05 to 3-17-06)

Dina Pope, Office Manager Heather Rangner, Marketing and Communications Assistant (8-8-05 to 6-19-06) 1 S. Todd Keller, Interim Reactor Administrator (3-01-04 to 6-30-06), Senior Reactor Operator Gary Wachs, Reactor Supervisor, Senior Reactor Operator I

Scott Menn, Senior Health Physicist Jim Darrough, Health Physicist I

Mike Conrady, Analytical Support Manager Leah Minc, Neutron Activation Analysis Manager Alena Paulenova, Radiochemistry Research Manager Steve Smith, Scientific Instrument Technician, Senior Reactor Operator I

Lindsey Arnold, Health Physics Monitor (Student) i Emily Doughtery, Physics Monitor (Student)

Benjamin Fahlgren, Physics Monitor (Student)

Emily Hertel, Physics Monitor (Student)

Donald Coomes, Nuclear Instrumentation Support (Student) 1 Mike Kennedy (Student)

Anthony Elliott (Student)

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Binney, Stephen E.

Director Emeritus, Radiation Center, Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Conrady, Michael R.

Faculty Research Assistant, Analytical Support Manager, Radiation Center Craig, A. Morrie Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine Daniels, Malcolm Professor Emeritus, Chemistry Duringer, Jennifer Research Associate, College of Veterinary Medicine Groome, John T.

Faculty Research Assistant, ATHRL Facility Operations Manager, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Hamby, David Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Hart, Lucas P.

Faculty Research Associate, Chemistry

Higginbotham, Jack F.

Director, Oregon Space Grant, Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Higley, Kathryn A.

Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Johnson, Arthur G.

Director Emeritus, Radiation Center, Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Keller, S. Tood Interim Reactor Administrator/Reactor Operator, Radiation Center Klein, Andrew C.

Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Krane, Kenneth S.

Professor Emeritus, Physics

Loveland, Walter D.

Professor, Chemistry

Menn, Scott A.

Senior Health Physicist, Radiation Center

OSTR users for research and/or teaching

OSU Radiation Center

Minc, Leah Assistant Professor Senior Research, Radiation Center

Palmer, Todd S.

Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Paulenova, Alena Assistant Professor, Senior Research, Radiation Center Popovich, Milosh Vice President Emeritus, Oregon State University

Reese, Steven R.

Director, Radiation Center

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Department Head, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, ATHRL Principal Investigator Ringle, John C.

Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Robinson, Alan H.

Department Head, Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Schmitt, Roman A.

Professor Emeritus, Chemistry

Wachs, Gary Reactor Supervisor, Radiation Center Wang, Chih H.

Director Emeritus, Radiation Center, Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Walker, Karen Research Assistant, College of Veterinary Medicine Woods, Brian Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Wu, Qiao Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineer and Radiation Health Physics Young, Roy A.

Professor Emeritus, Botany and Plant Pathology

OSTR users for research and/or teaching

05q-O AnniIRI Rpnort John Ringle, Chair Rainier Farmer David Hamby Todd Keller Mario Magana Scott Menn Todd Palmer Wade Richards Steve Reese Gary Wachs Bill Warnes Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Radiation Safety Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Radiation Center Electrical Engineering Radiation Center Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics NIST Radiation Center Radiation Center Mechanical Engineering

OSU Radiation Center Graduate Students Name Abel, Kent Ashbaker, Eric Bak, Alysse Bentley, Blair Benz, Jacob Bland, Jason Broughton, Phillip Brumley, Willis Bruso, Jason Bytwerk, David Castro, Miguel Champine, Brian Courville, Alicia Darrett, Jeannine Frey, Wesley Gambone, Cindy Hall, Gary Hay, Tristan Hooda, Benny Huang, Zhongliang Jackson. R. Brian Keller, S. Todd Kim, Dong W.

Konoff, Daniel Lee, Dongyoung Lobach, Sergiy Lopez, Alejandro Maloy, Kyle Misner, Alex Morda, Anthony Munger, Eric Myers, Margaret Naik, Radhika Napier, Bruce Nassehzadeh-Tabriz, Mike Nes, Razvan Newman, Errol Palotay, Josh Rajan, Ajith Robinson, Adam Rodriguez, John Rogers, Kevin Ropon, Kimberly Schaeffer, Barry Schilling, Raymond Skinner, Jesse Slauson, Marjorie Smith, Angela Sprunger, Peter Staples, Christopher Straiff, Walt Tack, Krystina Tavakoli, Farsoni Wagner, Russ Wong, Jiani Yao, You Yoo, Yeon-Jong Young, Eric Degree, Program PhD, Nuclear Engineering MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MA, Radiation Health Physics MS, Nuclear Engineering MHD, Radiation Heath Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Nuclear Engineering MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MHD, Radiation Health Physics Non-Degree MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Nuclear Engineering MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics PhD, Nuclear Chemistry MS, Nuclear Engineering MS, Nuclear Engineering PHD, Nuclear Engineering MS, Radiation Health Physics MENg, Nuclear Engineering PhD, Nuclear Engineering MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Nuclear Engineering MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics PhD, Nuclear Chemistry PhD, Radiation Health Physics PhD, Radiation Health Physics PhD, Nuclear Engineering MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Nuclear Engineering MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics PhD, Physics MS, Physics Non-Degree MS, Radiation Health Physics PhD, Radiation Health Physics MS, Radiation Health Physics MS, Nuclear Engineering PhD, Nuclear Engineering PhD, Nuclear Engineering MS, Nuclear Engineering Advisor J. N. Reyes S. R. Reese K. A. Higley K. A. Higley T.S. Palmer K.A.

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I Research The Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor (OSTR) is a water-3 cooled, swimming pool type research reactor which uses uranium/

Reactor zirconium hydride fuel elements in a circular grid array. The reac-tor core is surrounded by a ring of graphite which serves to reflect neutrons back into the core. The core is situated near the bottom of a 22-foot deep water-filled tanl',

and the tank is surrounded by a concrete bioshield which acts as a radiation shield and structural support.

The reactor is licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commis-sion to operate at a maximum steady state power of 1.1 MW and I

can also be pulsed up to a peak power of about 2500 MW.

The OSTR has a number of different irradiation facilities including a pneumatic transfer tube, a rotating rack, a thermal column, four beam ports, five sample holding (dummy) fuel elements for spe-cial in-core irradiations, an in-core irradiation tube, and a cad-mium-lined in-core irradiation tube for experiments requiring aI high energy neutron flux. The OSTR also has an Argon Production Facility for the production of 4 1Ar.

The pneumatic transfer facility enables samples to be inserted and removed from the core in four to five seconds. Consequently this facility is normally used for neutron activation analysis involv-ing short-lived radionuclides. On the other hand, the rotating I

rack is used for much longer irradiation of samples (e.g., hours).

The rack consists of a circular array of 40 tubular positions, each of which can hold two sample tubes. Rotation of the rack ensures I

that each sample will receive an identical irradiation.

The reactor's thermal column consists of a large stack of graph-ite blocks which slows down neutrons from the reactor core in or-I der to increase thermal neutron activation of samples. Over 99%

of the neutrons in the thermal column are thermal neutrons.

Graphite blocks are removed from the thermal column to enable samples to be positioned inside for irradiation.

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concrete shield which enable neutron and gamma radiation to stream from the core when a beam port's shield plugs are re-I moved. One of the beam ports contains the argon productionI facility for production of curie levels of 4 1Ar. The neutron radiog-raphy facility utilized the tangential beam port (beam port #3) to produce ASTM E545 category I radiography capability. The other beam ports are available for a variety of experiments.

If samples to be irradiated require a large neutron fluence, espe-cially from higher energy neutrons, they may be inserted into a 11 (1ý

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dummy fuel element. This device will then be placed into one of the core's inner grid positions which would normally be occupied by a fuel element. Similarly samples can be placed in the in-core irradiation tube (ICIT) which can be inserted in the same core location.

The cadmium-lined in-core irradiation tube (CLICIT) enables samples to be irradiated in a high flux region near the center of the core. The cadmium lining in the facility eliminates thermal neutrons and thus permits sample exposure to higher energy neu-trons only. The cadmium-lined end of this air-filled aluminum irra-diation tube is inserted into an inner grid position of the reactor core which would normally be occupied by a fuel element. It is the same as the ICIT except for the presence of the cadmium lining.

The two main uses of the OSTR are instruction and research.

Instruction Instructional use of the reactor is twofold. First, it is used signifi-cantly for classes in Nuclear Engineering, Radiation Health Phys-ics, and Chemistry at both the graduate and undergraduate levels to demonstrate numerous principles which have been presented in the classroom. Basic neutron behavior is the same in small re-actors as it is in large power reactors, and many demonstrations and instructional experiments can be performed using the OSTR which cannot be carried out with a commercial power reactor.

Shorter-term demonstration experiments are also performed for many undergraduate students in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology classes, as well as for visitors from other universities and colleges, from high schools, and from public groups.

The second instructional application of the OSTR involves educat-ing reactor operators, operations managers, and health physicists.

The OSTR is in a unique position to provide such education since curricula must include hands-on experience at an operating reac-tor and in associated laboratories. The many types of educational programs that the Radiation Center provides are more fully de-scribed in Part VI of this report.

During this reporting period the OSTR accommodated a number of different OSU academic classes and other academic programs. In addition, portions of classes from other Oregon universities were also supported by the OSTR. Table III.D.1, provides detailed in-formation on the use of the OSTR for instruction and training.

Analytical Equipment Research The OSTR is a unique and valuable tool for a wide variety of re-search applications and serves as an excellent source of neutrons and/or gamma radiation. The most commonly used experimental technique requiring reactor use is instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). This is a particularly sensitive method of elemen-tal analysis which is described in more detail in Part VI.

The OSTR's irradiation facilities provide a wide range of neutron flux levels and neutron flux qualities which are sufficient to meet the needs of most researchers. This is true not only for INAA, but also for other experimental purposes such as the 39Ar/ 4°Ar ratio and fission track methods of age dating samples.

The Radiation Center has a large variety of radiation detection in-strumentation. This equipment is upgraded as necessary, espe-cially the gamma ray spectrometers with their associated com-puters and germanium detectors. Additional equipment for class-room use and an extensive inventory of portable radiation detec-tion instrumentation are also available.

Radiation Center nuclear instrumentation receives intensive use in both teaching and research applications. In addition, service pro-jects also use these systems and the combined use often results in 24-hour per day schedules for many of the analytical instru-ments. Use of Radiation Center equipment extends beyond that located at the Center and instrumentation may be made available on a loan basis to OSU researchers in other departments.

The Radiation Center is equipped with a 1,644 curie (as of 7/27/01) Gammacell 220 6 0Co irradiator which is capable of deliv-ering high doses of gamma radiation over a range of dose rates to a variety of materials.

Typically, the irradiator is used by researchers wishing to perform mutation and other biological effects studies; studies in the area of radiation chemistry; dosimeter testing; sterilization of food ma-terials, soils, sediments, biological specimen, and other media; gamma radiation damage studies; and other such applications. In addition to the 60Co irradiator, the Center is also equipped with a variety of smaller 6 0Co, 137Cs, 226Ra, plutonium-beryllium, and other isotopic sealed sources of various radioactivity levels which are available for use as irradiation sources.

During this reporting period there was a diverse group of projects using the 60Co irradiator. These projects included the irradiation of a variety of biological materials including different types of seeds.

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In addition, the irradiator was used for sterilization of several me-dia and the evaluation of the radiation effects on different materi-als. Table III.C.1 provides use data for the Gammacell 220 irra-diator.

The Radiation Center is equipped with a number of different radio-Laboratories active material laboratories designed to accommodate research projects and classes offered by various OSU academic depart-And ments or off-campus groups.

Classrooms Instructional facilities available at the Center include a laboratory especially equipped for teaching radiochemistry and a nuclear in-strumentation teaching laboratory equipped with modular sets of counting equipment which can be configured to accommodate a variety of experiments involving the measurement of many types of radiation. The Center also has two student computer rooms equipped with a large number of personal computers and UNIX workstations.

In addition to these dedicated instructional facilities, many other research laboratories and pieces of specialized equipment are regularly used for teaching. In particular, classes are routinely given access to gamma spectrometry equipment located in Center laboratories. A number of classes also regularly use the OSTR and the Reactor Bay as an integral part of their instructional course-work.

There are two classrooms in the Radiation Center which are capa-ble of holding about 35 and 18 students, respectively. In addition, there are two smaller conference rooms and a library suitable for graduate classes and thesis examinations. As a service to the stu-dent body, the Radiation Center also provides an office area for the student chapters of the American Nuclear Society and the Health Physics Society.

This reporting period saw continued high utilization of the Radia-tion Center's thermal hydraulics laboratory. This laboratory is be-ing used by Nuclear Engineering faculty members to accommo-date a one-quarter scale model of the Palisades Nuclear Power reactor. The multi-million dollar advanced plant experimental (APEX) facility was fully utilized by the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide licensing data and to test safety systems in "beyond design basis" accidents. The fully scaled, integral model APEX facility uses electrical heating elements to simulate the fuel elements, operates at 450OF and 400 psia, and responds at twice real time. It is the only facility of its type in the world and is owned by the U. S. Department of Energy and operated by OSU. In addition, a new building, the Air-water Test Loop for Ad-

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All of the laboratories and classrooms are used extensively during the academic year. A listing of courses accommodated at the Ra-diation Center during this reporting period along with their enroll-ments is given in Table III.D.1.

The Radiation Center has a facility for the repair and calibration of essentially all types of radiation monitoring instrumentation. This includes instruments for the detection and measurement of alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron radiation. It encompasses both high range instruments for measuring intense radiation fields and low range instruments used to measure environmental levels of radio-activity.

The Center's instrument repair and calibration facility is used regularly throughout the year and is absolutely essential to the continued operation of the many different programs carried out at the Center. In addition, the absence of any comparable facility in the state has led to a greatly expanded instrument calibration program for the Center, including calibration of essentially all ra-diation detection instruments used by state and federal agencies in the state of Oregon. This includes instruments used on the OSU campus and all other institutions in the Oregon University System, plus instruments from the Oregon Health Division's Radiation Pro-tection Services, the Oregon Department of Energy, the Oregon Public Utilities Commission, the Oregon Health Sciences Univer-sity, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Radiation Center has a library containing a significant collec-tions of texts, research reports, and videotapes relating to nuclear science, nuclear engineering, and radiation protection.

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Library The Radiation Center is also a regular recipient of a great variety of publications from commercial publishers in the nuclear field, from many of the professional nuclear societies, from the U. S.

Department of Energy, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other federal agencies. Therefore, the Center library main-tains a current collection of leading nuclear research and regula-tory documentation. In addition, the Center has a collection of a number of nuclear power reactor Safety Analysis Reports and En-vironmental Reports specifically prepared by utilities for their fa-cilities.

--0 a-l'O'S The Center maintains an up-to-date set of reports from such or-ganizations as the International Commission on Radiological Pro-tection, the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measure-ments, and the International Commission on Radiological Units.

Sets of the current U.S. Code of Federal Regulations for the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Trans-portation, and other appropriate federal agencies, plus regulations of various state regulatory agencies are also available at the Cen-ter.

The Radiation Center videotape library has over one hundred tapes on nuclear engineering, radiation protection, and radiologi-cal emergency response topics. In addition, the Radiation Center uses videotapes for most of the technical orientations which are required for personnel working with radiation and radioactive ma-terials. These tapes reproduced, recorded, and edited by Radia-tion Center staff, using the Center's videotape equipment and the facilities of the OSU Communication Media Center.

The Radiation Center library is used mainly to provide reference material on an as-needed basis. It receives extensive use during the academic year. In addition, the orientation videotapes are used intensively during the beginning of each term and periodi-cally thereafter.

OSU Radiation Center Purpose of Irradiation Samples Dose Range (rads)

Number of Irradiations Use Time (hours) wood, chitosan, implants, 9.OE+05 Sterilization mouse diet, polymers, to 52 2209 soil,syringes 2.5E+06 mouse cells, prostate 1.OE+01 Biological Studies cells, spleen cells, cancer to 117 2

cells, 1.2E+04 wood, flower seeds, plant 3.OE+03 Botanical Studies material, pollen, tomato to 82 102 seeds, radish seeds 2.5E+06 Totals 251 2,313 I

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Summer 2005 Fall 2005 Winter 2006 Spring 2006 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and NE/ RHP 114*

2 Radiation Health Physics 17 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and NE/ RHP 115 2

Radiation Health Physics 18 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and NE/ RHP 116*

2 Radiation Health Physics 17 NE/ RHP 234 4

Nuclear and Radiation Physics I 26 NE/ RHP 235 4

Nuclear and Radiation Physics II 23 Nuclear Radiation Detection and instru-NE/ RHP 236*

4 mentation 19 NE319 3

Societal Aspects of Nuclear technology 148 NE 405H 1-16 R&C/Used Nuclear Fuel: Garbage or Gold 11 RHP 401/501/601 1-16 Research 3

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Nuclear Rules and Regulations 33 NE/ RHP 516*

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4 Neutronic Analysis and Lab I 29 NE 452/552**

4 Neutronic Analysis and Lab II 29 NE 553 3

Neutronic Analysis and Lab III 12 NE 467/567/667 4

Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics 26 NE 474/574 4

Nuclear System Design I 25 NE 475/575 4

Nuclear System Design II 20 NE/RHP 479 1-4 Individual Design Project NE/RHP 481/ 581 4

Radiation Protection 45 NE/RHP 482/582*

4 Applied Radiation Safety 37 RHP 483/583 4

Radiation Biology 40 RHP 488/588 3

Radioecology 12 NE/RHP 490/590 4

Radiation Dosimetry 34 RHP 493 3

Non Reactor Radiation Protection NE/RHP 499 1-16 St/Environmental Aspects Nuclear Systems NE/RHP 503/603 1

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Computational Methods for Nuclear Reactors NE/RHP 535 3

Nuclear Radiation Shielding 13

nst J Rnrfinfinn (tnntpr Summer 2005 Fall 2005 Winter 2006 Spring 2006 NE/RHP 531 3

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Scientists NE 550 3

Nuclear Medicine NE 559 1

St/Nuclear Reactor Analysis: Criticality Safety NE 568 3

Nuclear Reactor Safety NE 569 1-3 St/Thermal Hydraulic Instrumentation NE/RHP 586 3

Advanced Radiation Dosimetry RHP 589 1-3 ST/ Radiation Protection and Risk As-sessment RHP 593 3

Non-Reactor Radiation Protection NE 599 1

ST/ Principals of Nuclear Medicine NE 654 3

Neutron Transport Theory Course From Other OSU Departments CH 123*

General Chemistry 581 CH 222*

5 General Chemistry (Science Majors) 555 CH 225 H 5

Honors General Chemistry 41 CH 462*

3 Experimental Chemistry II Laboratory 14 ENGR 331 4

Momentum, Energy and Mass Transport 81 Geo 300 3

Environmental Conservation 243 PH 202 5

General Physics 474 Courses From Other Institutions GS 105*

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Operating Status Reactor power generation for the operating period between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006 totaled 1152 MWH of thermal power.

This is equal to 48 MWD of generation, and results in a cumulative thermal output by the OSTR FLIP core of 1156.3 MWD from Au-gust 1976 through June 30, 2006.

Table IV.A.1 provides information related to the OSTR annual en-ergy production, fuel usage and use requests. Table IV.A.2 sum-I marizes statistics for the original 20% enriched fuel loading.

The productivity of the reactor irradiation facilities is based on re-actor operation in relation to use categories. Greater productivity is achieved by utilizing a greater number of irradiation facilities at the same time. Tables IV.A.3 through 5 provide this years detail on reactor use and other tracked data.

A normal nine-hour, five-day per week schedule sets the total available reactor operating hours. Critical reactor operation aver-aged 51% of each day. Of the 2277 total available annual operat-I ing hours, 1156 hours0.0134 days 0.321 hours 0.00191 weeks 4.39858e-4 months were at full power, 492 hours0.00569 days 0.137 hours 8.134921e-4 weeks 1.87206e-4 months were spent conducting facility startup and shutdown operation, 350 hours0.00405 days 0.0972 hours 5.787037e-4 weeks 1.33175e-4 months were expended for maintenance and sample decay delays and 279 hours0.00323 days 0.0775 hours 4.613095e-4 weeks 1.061595e-4 months the reactor was not operating for reasons other than listed above.

3 E xperiments During the current reporting period there were nine approved re-Experiments actor experiments available for use in reactor-related programs.

Performed They are:

A-1 Normal TRIGA Operation (No Sample Irradiation).

B-3 Irradiation of Materials in the Standard OSTR Irradiation I

Facilities.

B-11 Irradiation of Materials Involving Specific Quantities of Ura-nium and Thorium in the Standard OSTR Irradiation Facili-I ties.

B-12 Exploratory Experiments.

B-23 Studies Using TRIGA Thermal Column.

I B-29 Reactivity Worth of Fuel.

B-31 TRIGA Flux Mapping.

B-32 Argon Production Facility.

B-33 Irradiation of Combustible Liquids in Rotating Rack.

Of these available experiments, two were used during the report-I ing period. Table IV.B.1 provides information related to the fre-quency of use and the general purpose of their use.

Inactive Experiments Presently 32 experiments are in the inactive file. This consists of experiments which have been performed in the past and may be reactivated. Many of these experiments are now performed un-der the more general experiments listed in the previous section.

The following list identifies these 32 inactive experiments.

A-2 Measurement of Reactor Power Level via Mn Activation.

A-3 Measurement of Cd Ratios for Mn, In, and Au in Rotating Rack.

A-4 Neutron Flux Measurements in TRIGA.

A-5 Copper Wire Irradiation.

A-6 In-core Irradiation of LiF Crystals.

A-7 Investigation of TRIGA's Reactor Bath Water Temperature Coefficient and High Power Level Power Fluctuation.

B-1 Activation Analysis of Stone Meteorites, Other Meteorites, and Terrestrial Rocks.

B-2 Measurements of Cd Ratios of Mn, In, and Au in Thermal Column.

B-4 Flux Mapping.

B-5 In-core Irradiation of Foils for Neutron Spectral Measure-ments.

B-6 Measurements of Neutron Spectra in External Irradiation Facilities.

B-7 Measurements of Gamma Doses in External Irradiation Facilities.

B-8 Isotope Production.

B-9 Neutron Radiography.

B-10 Neutron Diffraction.

B-13 This experiment number was changed to A-7.

B-14 Detection of Chemically Bound Neutrons.

B-15 This experiment number was changed to C-1.

B-16 Production and Preparation of 18F.

B-17 Fission Fragment Gamma Ray Angular Correlations.

B-18 A Study of Delayed Status (n, () Produced Nuclei.

B-19 Instrument Timing via Light Triggering.

B-20 Sinusoidal Pile Oscillator.

B-21 Beam Port #3 Neutron Radiography Facility.

B-22 Water Flow Measurements Through TRIGA Core.

B-24 General Neutron Radiography.

B-25 Neutron Flux Monitors.

B-26 Fast Neutron Spectrum Generator.

B-27 Neutron Flux Determination Adjacent to the OSTR Core.

B-28 Gamma Scan of Sodium (TED) Capsule.

B-30 NAA of Jet, Diesel, and Furnace Fuels.

C-1 PuO2 Transient Experiment.

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There were eight unplanned reactor shutdowns during the current reporting period as detailed in Table IV.C.1.

Changes Pursuant to 10 CFR 50-59 The information contained in this section of the report provides a summary of the changes performed during the reporting period un-der the provisions of 10 CFR 50.59. For each item listed, there is a brief description of the action taken and a summary of the applica-ble safety evaluation.

10 CFR 50.59 Changes to the Reactor Facility (Evaluated) 05-01, NRF Radiation Field Measurement Description Safety interlocks on the Neutron Radiography Facility (NRF) were bypassed to allow access to the interior of the NRF during power operation with the shutter open. With the access doors open, ex-ternal radiation scatter field measurements were conducted to de-termine the appropriate alert and alarm set points for dedicated monitors adjacent to the access doors. Radiation monitors were stationed on the outside of the reactor building and reactor power was limited to prevent exceeding an exposure rate on the exterior wall of 1 mrem h-1. All interlocks were returned to normal opera-tion and tested prior to return to operation.

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05-06, Removal of FE #8406 from position F16 Description Removal of fuel element #8406 was evaluated and conducted to decrease core excess due to erbium burnout in the core fuel. Ex-cess reactivity was reduced by a measured $0.28 and increased the shutdown margin from the Technical Specification value of

$0.57 in preparation for annual rod and power calibrations. The master SPOOF calculation parameters were appropriately updated to reflect the reduced number of core fuel elements.

Justification Removal of element 8406 was evaluated as not causing the aver-age fuel element power to exceed the design limit of 25 kW or any of the eight evaluation criteria.

10 CFR 50.59 Changes to the Reactor Procedures (Screened)

Screen 05-05, Changes to OSTROPs 9 and 10 Description OSTROP 9, Control Rod Calibration Procedures and OSTROP 10, Operating Procedures for Reactor Experimental Facilities were cor-rected for minor typographical and sequential errors identified during ROC audits.

Justification The proposed changes are intended to clarify without changing the procedure's intent.

Screen 05-06, Changes to OSTROPs 8, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 Description OSTROP 8, Reactor Power Calibration Procedures, OSTROP 13, 14, 15, and 16, Monthly, Quarterly, Semi Annual, and Annual Sur-veillance and Maintenance Procedures (S&M), along with OSTROP 17, Reactor Room Ventilation System Procedures-were corrected for grammatical and punctuation errors identified during ROC au-dits. Additional maintenance items agreed to by the ROC were added to OSTROPs 15 and 16. OSTROP 17 changes included a diagram correction to conform with "as built" configuration.

Justification The proposed changes are intended to clarify without changing the procedure's intent.

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Description Update changes to OSTROP 26, Background Investigation Proce-dures. Updated form numbering and "summary of rights" attach-I ment associated with Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Justification3 Makes procedure consistent with Fair Credit Reporting Act and easier to implement.

Screen 05-08, Revisions to OSTROPs 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17 and 27 Description I

Various minor typographical or procedural changes noted during ROC audits.

3 Screen 06-0 1, Revisions to OSTROPs 2, 5, 6, 7, 12 and 22 Description Changes to OSTROP 2 clarified operation of the video monitoring system, corrected typographical errors and added temperature monitoring guidance for fan bearings.

Changes to OSTROP 5 removed an extraneous date entry on the 1

control room log sheet.

Changes to OSTROP 6 clarified conditions requiring the presence of the Reactor Supervisor during initial startup and experiments.

Corrected typographical and reference errors.

Changes to OSTROP 7 added detail about the reactor tank level indicating tube markings and the Cooling Tower chemical feed system. Added missing valve to normal position list and position correction for cooling system valve.

Changes to OSTROP 12 clarified level of notification from Reactor Supervisor to Reactor Administrator if additional control rods must I

be removed which require additional fuel to be removed from the core. Corrected reference to TS section.

Changes to OSTROP 22 clarified wording associated with status I

indicating LEDs and updated figure references.

Screen 06-02, Changes to OSTROP 10, Operating Proce-dures for Reactor Experimental Facilities I

Description Corrects a note in OSTROP 10 clarifying the use of the ICIT facility within the G14 position while still using the correct control rod calibration curves consistent with a CLICIT, ICIT or Normal core configuration.

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Screen 06-03, Approval of vertical tube irradiation facility use in grid position G14 Description This change expanded the use of the in-core irradiation facility tube (ICIT) to include core position G14 in addition to position B1.

Screen describes the allowable combinations of in-core tubes and the possible storage locations. The effects of adding an additional in-core tube on the periphery of the core are as-sessed.

Justification This addition does not result in any adverse effect on design function, meets all Technical Specification requirements and falls within the scope of current procedures.

Screen 06-04, Revision to OSTROP 6, Administrative Procedures Description This revision changes the ROC charter to include an audit of the 50.59 SCREENs.

Screen 06-05, Revision to OSTROP 26, Background Xnvestigation Procedures Description This revision adds voluntary request for SSN to assist in develop-ing sufficient credit history for the completion of the investigation and defining actions if SSN is not made available. These changes add clarity to the intent of the procedure.

Screen 06-06, Revision to OSTROP 10 and 21 Description All changes to the procedures are typographical in nature and do not change the intent of the procedure.

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° New RONAN annunciator display panel mounted in the control room.

November 2005

" Facility Services replaced leaking control room steam heating valve I

" Scientific Instrument Technician (SIT) completed connection wiring for new annunciator display panel. Transition to new panel requires coordination with existing alarm functions. Tran-sition in process.

December 2005 o Repaired reactor bay exhaust damper actuator air diaphragm.

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" PPL power company responded to our request for repair of grounded phase lead into the Heat Exchanger room transformer.

" SIT repaired grounded Shim rod magnet.

I March 2006 Reattached the rotating rack drive motor to mount, loose be-cause of missing screws.

April 2006

SIT completed refurbishment of three (2 CIC, 1 UIC) in-core power detectors by fabricating new aluminum housings.

. Replace emergency response pagers with cellular phones.

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Keyless lock entry system installed, replacing Level 2 keys.

" Removed and repaired both reactor bay supply ventilation heat-ing coils due to freeze damage.

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Installed newly fabricated ICIT tube in core position G14. The facility is now referred to as the G Ring ICIT facility (GRICIT).

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Megawatt 451 496 255 571 1005 999 931 943 Hours Megawatt 19.0 20.6 10.6 23.8 41.9 41.6 38.8 39.3 Days Gra U

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Number of Irradiation 44 375 329 372 348 408 396 469 Requests

Operational Data for FLIP Core July 1, 1984 through June 30,1985 July 1, 1985 through June 30, 1986 July 1, 1986 through June 30, 1987 July 1, 1987 through June 30, 1988 July 1, 1988 through June 30, 1989 July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1990 July 1,1990 through June 30, 1991

. July 1, 1991 through June 30, 1992 Operating Hours 1205 1208 1172 1352 1170 1136 1094 1158 (critical)

Megawatt 946 1042 993 1001 1025 1013 928 1002 Hours Megawatt 39.4 43.4 41.4 41.7 42.7 42.2 38.6 41.8 Days GraMS 2 11U 49.5 54.4 51.9 52.3 53.6 53.0 48.5 52.4 Used Hours at Full 904 1024 980 987 1021 1009 909 992 Power Number of Fuel Elements 0

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Megawatt 1026 1122 1117 1105 985 927 1115 852 Hours Megawatt 42.7 46.7 46.6 46.0 41.0 38.6 46.5 35.5 Days GraMS 235U 53.6 58.6 58.4 57.8 51.5 48.5 58.3 44.6 Used Hours at Full 1000 1109 1110 1101 980 921 1109 843 Power Number of Fuel Elements 0

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Operational Data for FLIP Core July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001 July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003 July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004 July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005 July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006 July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007 July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008 Operating Hours 983 1029 1100 977 1084 1348 (critical)

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March 67 through July 76 Operating Hours 904 610 567 855 598 954 705 563 794 353 6903 (Critical)

Megawatt 117.2 102.5 138.1 223.8 195.1 497.8 335.9 321.5 408.0 213.0 2,553.0 Hours Megawatt 4.9 4.3 5.8 9.3 8.1 20.7 14.1 13.4 17.0 9.0 106.4 Days Grams 235u 6.1 5.4 7.2 11.7 10.2 26.0 17.6 16.8 21.4 10.7 133.0 Used Hours at Full Power 429 369 58 856 (250kW)

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Cumulative Values for FLIP Core MWH of energy produced 1152 27,777 MWD of energy produced 48 1156.3 Grams 235U used 65.9 1,449.7 Number of fuel elements added to (+)

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or removed(-) from the core Number of pulses 17 1,426 Hours reactor critical 1348 27,752 Hours at full power (1 MW) 1155 27,358 Number of startup and shutdown 253 8,150 checks Number of irradiation requests proc-201 9,455 essed Number of samples irradiated 1553 116,057 (1)

Fuel Follower Control Rod. These numbers represent the core loading at the end of this reporting period.

05-06 Annuil Renort OSTR Use Category Annual Values (hours)

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_Racýasian, carý,er Introduction The purpose of the radiation protection program is to ensure the safe use of radiation and radioactive material in the Center's teaching, research, and service activities, and in a similar manner to ensure the fulfillment of all regulatory requirements of the State of Oregon, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other regulatory agencies. The comprehensive nature of the pro-gram is shown in Table V.A.1, which lists the program's major ra-diation protection requirements and the performance frequency for each item.

The radiation protection program is implemented by a staff con-sisting of a Senior Health Physicist, a Health Physicist, and several part-time Health Physics Monitors (see Part II.F). Assistance is also provided by the reactor operations group, the neutron activa-tion analysis group, the Scientific Instrument Technician, and the Radiation Center Director.

The data contained in the following sections have been prepared to comply with the current requirements of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Facility License No. R-106 (Docket No. 50-243) and the Technical Specifications contained in that license.

The material has also been prepared in compliance with Oregon Department of Energy Rule No. 345-30-010, which requires an annual report of environmental effects due to research reactor operations.

Within the scope of Oregon State University's radiation protection program, it is standard operating policy to maintain all releases of radioactivity to the unrestricted environment and all exposures to radiation and radioactive materials at levels which are consistently "as low as reasonably achievable" (ALARA).

The annual reporting requirements in the OSTR Technical Specifi-cations state that the licensee (OSU) shall include "a summary of the nature and amount of radioactive effluents released or dis-charged to the environs beyond the effective control of the licen-see, as measured at, or prior to, the point of such release or dis-charge." The liquid and gaseous effluents released, and the solid waste generated and transferred are discussed briefly below. Data regarding these effluents are also summarized in detail in the des-ignated tables.

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Liquid Effluents Oregon State University has implemented a policy to reduce the volume of radioactive liquid effluents to an absolute minimum. For example, water used during the ion exchanger resin change is now recycled as reactor makeup water. Waste water from Radia-tion Center laboratories and the OSTR is collected at a holdup tank prior to release to the sanitary sewer. Whenever possible, liquid effluent is analyzed for radioactivity content at the time it is released to the collection point. However, liquids are always ana-lyzed for radioactivity before the holdup tank is discharged into the unrestricted area (the sanitary sewer system). For this report-ing period, the Radiation Center and reactor made two liquid ef-fluent releases to the sanitary sewer. All Radiation Center and re-actor facility liquid effluent data pertaining to this release are con-tained in Table V.B.1.a.

Liquid Waste Generated and Transferred Liquid waste generated from glassware and laboratory experi-ments is transferred by the campus Radiation Safety Office to its waste processing facility. The annual summary of liquid waste generated and transferred is contained in Table V.B.1.b.

Airborne effluents are discussed in terms of the gaseous compo-nent and the particulate component.

Gaseous Effluents Gaseous effluents from the reactor facility are monitored by the reactor stack effluent monitor. Monitoring is continuous, i.e., prior to, during, and after reactor operations. It is normal for the reac-tor facility stack effluent monitor to begin operation as one of the first systems in the morning and to cease operation as one of the last systems at the end of the day. All gaseous effluent data for this reporting period are summarized in Table V.B.2.

Particulate effluents from the reactor facility are also monitored by the reactor facility stack effluent monitor.

Particulate Effluents Evaluation of the detectable particulate radioactivity in the stack effluent confirmed its origin as naturally-occurring radon daughter products, within a range of approximately 3 x 10-11 pCi/ml to 1 x 10-9 pCi/ml. This particulate radioactivity is predominantly 2 14 Pb and 2 14Bi, which is not associated with reactor operations.

There was no release of particulate effluents with a half life Liqui Effluents Released Airborne Effluents Released

Solid Waste Released' Personnel Dose greater than eight days and therefore the reporting of the average concentration of radioactive particulates with half lives greater than eight days is not applicable.

Data for the radioactive material in the solid waste generated and transferred during this reporting period are summarized in Table V.B.3 for both the reactor facility and the Radiation Center. Solid radioactive waste is routinely transferred to OSU Radiation Safety.

Until this waste is disposed of by the Radiation Safety Office, it is held along with other campus radioactive waste on the Univer-sity's State of Oregon radioactive materials license.

Solid radioactive waste is disposed of by OSU Radiation Safety by transfer to the University's radioactive waste disposal vendor, Thomas Gray Associates, Inc., for burial at its installation located near Richland, Washington.

The OSTR annual reporting requirements specify that the licensee shall present a summary of the radiation exposure received by facility personnel Doses and visitors. For the purposes of this re-port, the summary includes all Radiation Center personnel who may have received exposure to radiation. These personnel have been categorized into six groups: facility operating personnel, key facility research personnel, facilities services maintenance person-nel, students in laboratory classes, police and security personnel, and visitors.

Facility operating personnel include the reactor operations and health physics staff. The dosimeters used to monitor these indi-viduals include quarterly TLD badges, quarterly track-etch/albedo neutron dosimeters, monthly TLD (finger) extremity dosimeters, and pocket ion chambers.

Key facility research personnel consist of Radiation Center staff, faculty, and graduate students who perform research using the reactor, reactor-activated materials, or using other research facili-ties present at the Center. The individual dosimetry requirements for these personnel will vary with the type of research being con-ducted, but will generally include a quarterly TLD film badge and TLD (finger) extremity dosimeters. If the possibility of neutron exposure exists, researchers are also monitored with a track-etch/

albedo neutron dosimeter.

Facilities Services maintenance personnel are normally issued a gamma sensitive electronic dosimeter as their basic monitoring device. A few Facilities Services personnel who routinely perform Ia I

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Students attending laboratory classes are issued quarterly XB (G) TLD badges, TLD (finger) extremity dosimeters, and track-etch/albedo or other neutron dosimeters, as appropriate.

Students or small groups of students who attend a one-time laboratory demonstration and do not handle radioactive materi-als are usually issued a gamma sensitive electronic dosimeter.

These results are not included with the laboratory class stu-dents.

OSU police and security personnel are issued a quarterly XB(y)

TLD badge to be used during their patrols of the Radiation Cen-ter and reactor facility.

Visitors, depending on the locations visited, may be issued a gamma sensitive electronic dosimeters. OSU Radiation Center policy does not normally allow people in the visitor category to become actively involved in the use or handling of radioactive materials.

An annual summary of the radiation doses received by each of the above six groups is shown in Table V.C.1. There were no personnel radiation exposures in excess of the limits in 10 CFR 20 or State of Oregon regulations during the reporting period.

The OSTR Technical Specifications require an annual summary Fcility Survey of the radiation levels and levels of contamination observed dur-ing routine surveys performed at the facility. The Center's com-Data prehensive area radiation monitoring program encompasses the Radiation Center as well as the OSTR, and therefore monitoring results for both facilities are reported.

Area Radiation Dosimeters Area monitoring dosimeters capable of integrating the radiation dose are located at strategic positions throughout the reactor facility and Radiation Center. All of these dosimeters contain at least a standard personnel-type beta-gamma film or TLD pack.

In addition, for key locations in the reactor facility and for cer-tain Radiation Center laboratories a CR-39 plastic track-etch neutron detector has also been included in the monitoring pack-age.

rI II The total dose equivalent recorded on the various reactor facility dosimeters is listed in Table V.D.1 and the total dose equivalent recorded on the Radiation Center area dosimeters is listed in Ta-ble V.D.2. Generally, the characters following the Monitor Radia-tion Center (MRC) designator show the room number or location.

Routine Radiation and Contamination Surveys The Center's program for routine radiation and contamination sur-veys consists of daily, weekly, and monthly measurements throughout the TRIGA reactor facility and Radiation Center. The frequency of these surveys is based on the nature of the radiation I

work being carried out at a particular location or on other factors which indicate that surveillance over a specific area at a defined frequency is desirable.

1 The primary purpose of the routine radiation and contamination survey program is to assure regularly scheduled surveillance over selected work areas in the reactor facility and in the Radiation Center, in order to provide current and characteristic data on the status of radiological conditions. A second objective of the pro-gram is to assure frequent on-the-spot personal observations (along with recorded data), which will provide advance warning of needed corrections and thereby help to ensure the safe use and handling of radiation sources and radioactive materials. A third objective, which is really derived from successful execution of the first two objectives, is to gather and document information which will help to ensure that all phases of the operational and radiation protection programs are meeting the goal of keeping radiation doses to personnel and releases of radioactivity to the environ-ment "as low as reasonably achievable" (ALARA).

The annual summary of radiation and contamination levels meas-ured during routine facility surveys for the applicable reporting period is given in Table V.D.3.

Environmental The annual reporting requirements of the OSTR Technical Specifi-cations include "an annual summary of environmental surveys Survey Data performed outside the facility."

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During this reporting period, each fence environmental station utilized an LiF TLD monitoring packet supplied and processed by Global Dosimetry Solutions, Inc. (GDS), Irvine, California. Each GDS packet contained three LiF TLDs and was exchanged quar-terly for a total of 108 samples during the reporting period (9 sta-tions x 3 TLDs per station x'4 quarters). The total number of GDS TLD samples for the reporting period was 108. A summary of the GDS TLD data is also shown in Table V.E.1.

From Table V.E.1 it is concluded that the doses recorded by the dosimeters on the TRIGA facility fence can be attributed to natural back-ground radiation, which is about 110 mrem per year for Ore-gon (Refs. 1, 2).

Off-site Monitoring The off-site gamma environmental radiation monitoring program consists of twenty monitoring stations surrounding the Radiation Center (see Figure V.E.2) and six stations located within a 5 mile radius of the Radiation Center.

Each monitoring station is located about four feet above the ground (MRCTE 21 and MRCTE 22 are mounted on the roof of the EPA Laboratory and National Forage Seed Laboratory, respec-tively). These monitors are exchanged and processed quarterly, and the total number of TLD samples during the current one-year reporting period was 240 (20 stations x 3 chips per station per quarter x 4 quarters per year). The total number of GDS TLD samples for the reporting period was 204. A summary of GDS TLD data for the off-site monitoring stations is given in Table V.E.2.

After a review of the data in Table V.E.2, it is concluded that, like the dosimeters on the TRIGA facility fence, all of the doses re-corded by the off-site dosimeters can be attributed to natural background radiation, which is about 110 mrem per year for Ore-gon (Refs. 1, 2).

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Soil, Water and Vegetation Surveys,;i The soil, water, and vegetation monitoring program consists of the collection and analysis of a limited number of samples in each category on a annual basis. The program monitors highly unlikely radioactive material releases from either the TRIGA reactor facility or the OSU Radiation Center, and also helps indicate the general trend of the radioactivity concentration in each of the various sub-stances sampled. See Figure V.E.1 for the locations of the sam-pling stations for grass (G), soil (S), water (W) and rainwater (RW) samples. Most locations are within a 1000 foot radius of the reactor facility and the Radiation Center. In general, samples are collected over a local area having a radius of about ten feet at the positions indicated in Figure V.E.1.

There are a total of 22 sampling locations: four soil locations, four water locations (when water is available), and fourteen vegetation locations.

The annual concentration of total net beta radioactivity (minus tritium) for samples collected at each environmental soil, water, and vegetation sampling location (sampling station) is listed in Table V.E.3. Calculation of the total net beta disintegration rate incorporates subtraction of only the counting system back-ground from the gross beta counting rate, followed by application of an appropriate counting system efficiency.

The annual concentrations were calculated using sample results which exceeded the lower limit of detection (LLD), except that sample results which were less than or equal to the LLD were av-eraged in at the corresponding LLD concentration. Table V.E.4 gives the concentration and the range of values for each sample category for the current reporting period.

As used in this report, the LLD has been defined as the amount or concentration of radioactive material (in terms of pCi per unit vol-ume or unit mass) in a representative sample, which has a 95%

probability of being detected.

Identification of specific radionuclides is not routinely carried out as part of this monitoring program, but would be conducted if un-usual radioactivity levels above natural background were de-tected. However, from Table V.E.3 it can be seen that the levels of radioactivity detected were consistent with naturally occurring radioactivity and comparable to values reported in previous years.

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A summary of the radioactive material shipments originating from the TRIGA reactor facility, NRC license R-106, is shown in Table V.F.1. A similar summary for shipments originating from the Radiation Center's State of Oregon radioactive materials li-cense ORE 90005 is shown in Table V.F.2. A summary of radio-active material shipments exported under Nuclear Regulatory Commission general license 10 CFR 110.23 is shown in Table V.F.3.

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U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Estimates of Ion-izing Radiation Doses in the United States, 1960-2000,"

ORP/CSD 72-1, Office of Radiation Programs, Rockville, Maryland (1972).

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U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Radiological Qual-ity of the Environment in the United States, 1977," EPA 520/1-77-009, Office of Radiation Programs; Washington, D.C. 20460 (1977).

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I OSU Radiation Center FREQUENCY RADIATION PROTECTION REQUIREMENT Daily/Weekly/ Monthly Perform Routing area radiation/contamination monitoring Collect and analyze TRIGA primary, secondary, and make-up water.

Exchange personnel dosimeters and inside area monitoring dosime-Monthly ters, and review exposure reports.

Inspect laboratories.

Calculate previous month's gaseous effluent discharge.

Process and record solid waste and liquid effluent discharges.

Prepare and record radioactive material shipments.

Survey and record incoming radioactive materials receipts.

Perform and record special radiation surveys.

As Required Perform thyroid and urinalysis bioassays.

Conduct orientations and training.

Issue radiation work permits and provide health physics coverage for maintenance operations.

Prepare, exchange and process environmental TLD packs.

Conduct orientations for classes using radioactive materials.

Quarterly Collect and analyze samples from reactor stack effluent line.

Exchange personnel dosimeters and inside area monitoring dosime-ters, and review exposure reports.

Semi-Annual Leak test and inventory sealed sources.

Conduct floor survey of corridors and reactor bay.

Calibrate portable radiation monitoring instruments and personnel pocket ion chambers.

Calibrate reactor stack effluent monitor, continuous air monitors, re-mote area radiation monitors, water monitor, and air samplers.

Measure face air velocity in laboratory hoods and exchange dust-stop filters and HEPA filters as necessary.

Inventory and inspect Radiation Center emergency equipment.

Annual Conduct facility radiation survey of the 60Co irradiators.

Conduct personnel dosimeter training.

Perform contamination smear survey of Radiation Center ventilation stacks.

Update decommissioning logbook.

Collect and process environmental soil, water, and vegetation sam-ples.

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(2) The OSU operational policy is to subtract only detector background from the water analysis data and not background radioactivity in the Corvallis city water.

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Total Estimated Quantity of Argon-41 Released(2)

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Estimated Atmospheric Diluted Concentration of Argon-41 at Point of Released (pCi/cc)

Fraction of the Technical Specification Annual Average Argon-41 Concentration Limit (0/o)

July 0.14i 0.14 1.22E-08 0.31 August 0.181 0.18 1.56E-08 0.39 September 0.071 0.07 6.07E-09 0.15 October 0.08 0.08 6.39E-09 0.16 November 0.14, 0.14 1.26E-08 0.31 December 0.13 0.13 1.11E-08 0.28 January 0.15 0.15 1.25E-08 0.31 February 0.231 0.23 2.18E-08 0.55 March 0.30, 0.30 2.52E-08 0.63 April 0.161 0.16 1.41E-08 0.35 May 0.20, 0.20 1.71E-08 0.43 June 0.17ý 0.17 1.49E-08 0.37 TOTAL 1.961 1.96 1.41E-08 0.35

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(1)

Airborne effluents from, the OSTR contained no detectable particulate radioactivity resulting fro, reactor operations, and there were no releases of any radioisotopes in airborne effluents in concentrations greater than 20% of the applicable effluent con-centration. (20% is a value taken from the OSTR Technical Specifications.

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OSU Radiation Center Origin of Solid Waste Volume of Solid Waste Packaged"1)

(Cubic Feet)

Detectable Radionuclides in the Waste Total Quantity of Radioactivity in Solid Waste (Curies)

Dates of Waste Pickup for Transfer to the OSU Waste Processing Facility Mn-54, Co-58, Co-60, TRIGA Zn-65, As-74, Cs-134, 8/4/05 Reactor 15.5 Eu-152, H-3, Sc-46, 8.9E-04 2/27/06 Facility Sc-47, Cs-137, Fe-59, As-78, Hg-203 Radiation Sr-90, Am-241, U-238, Center 18.5 Th-232, C-14, H-3, 2.1E-05 8/4/05 Laboratories Ra-226, Sr-85, Cs-137 2/27/06 TOTAL 34 See Above 9.11E-04 I

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Greatest Individual Dose(1 )

Total Person-mrem For the Group(1 )

Personnel Group Whole Whole Whole Body Extremities Body Extremities Body Extremities (mrem)

(mrem)

Facility Operating 90.67 321.5 202 589 544 1929 Personnel Key Facility Research 0

15.16 0

160 0

182 Personnel Facilities Services Maintenance 0

N/A 0

N/A Personnel Laboratory Class

<1 8.26 27 139 42 537 Students Campus Police and

<1 N/A 16 N/A 16 N/A Security Personnel Visitors

<1 N/A 9

N/A 82.8 N/A (1)

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MRCTNE D104:

North Badge East Wall 181 ND MRCTSE D104:

South Badge East Wall 146 ND MRCTSW D104:

South Badge West Wall 343 ND MRCTNW D104:

North Badge West Wall 131 ND MRCTWN D104:

West Badge North Wall 220 ND MRCTEN D104:

East Badge North Wall 270 ND MRCTES D104:

East Badge South Wall 986 ND MRCTWS D104:

West Badge South Wall 373 ND MRCTTOP D104:

Reactor Top Badge 546 ND MRCTHXS D104A:

South Badge HX Room 541 ND MRCTHXW D104A:

West Badge HX Room 185 ND MRCD-302 D302:

Reactor Control Room 289 ND MRCD-302A D302A:

Reactor Supervisor's Office 113 N/A MRCBP1 D104:

Beam Port Number 1 162 ND MRCBP2 D104:

Beam Port Number 2 184 ND MRCBP3 D104:

Beam Port Number 3 666 ND MRCBP4 D104:

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Radiation Center Facility Location (See Figure V.D.1)

Total Recorded Dose Equivalent("

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Neutron (mrem)

MRCA100 A100:

Receptionist's Office 0

N/A MRCBRF A102H: Front Personnel Dosimetry Storage Rack 45 N/A MRCA120 A120:

Stock Room 96 N/A MRCA120A A120A:

NAA Temporary Storage 0

N/A MRCA126 A126:

Radioisotope Research Lab 113 N/A MRCCO-60 A128:

60Co Irradiator Room 271 N/A MRCA130 A130:

Shielded Exposure Room 25 N/A MRCA132 A132:

TLD Equipment Room 153 N/A MRCA138 A138:

Health Physics Laboratory 24 N/A MRCA146 A146:

Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 26 N/A MRCB100 B100:

Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 0 N/A MRCB114 B114:

Lab (226Ra Storage Facility) 1551 ND MRCB119-1 B119:

Source Storage Room 248 N/A MRCB119-2 B119:

Source Storage Room 377 N/A MRCB119A B119A:

Sealed Source Storage Room 4101 1,698 MRCB120 B120:

Instrument Calibration Facility 66 N/A MRCB122-2 B122:

Radioisotope Storage Hood 40 N/A MRCB122-3 B122:

Radioisotope Research Laboratory 56 N/A MRCB124-1 B124:

Radioisotope Research Lab (Hood) 28 N/A MRCB124-2 B124:

Radioisotope Research Laboratory 131 N/A MRCB124-6 B124:

Radioisotope Research Laboratory 40 N/A MRCB128 B128:

Instrument Repair Shop 22 N/A MRCC100 C100:

Radiation Center Director's Office 0

N/A (1)

The total recorded dose equivalent values do not include natural background contribution and, reflect the summation of the results of four quarterly beta-gamma dosimeters or four quarterly fast neutron dosimeters for each location. A total dose equivalent of "ND" indicates that each of the dosimeters during the reporting period was less than the vendor's gamma dose reporting thresh-old of 10 mrem or that each of the fast neutron dosimeters was less than the vendor's threshold of 10 mrem. "N/A" indicates that there was no neutron monitor at that location.

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Custodian Supply Storage 28 N/A MRCC106-H C106H: East Loading Dock 52 N/A MRCC118 C118:

Radiochemistry Laboratory 0

N/A MRCC120 C120:

Student Counting Laboratory 25 N/A MRCF100 F100:

APEX Facility 22 N/A MRCF102 F102:

APEX Control Room 10 N/A MRCB125N B125:

Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 15 N/A MRCN125S B125:

Gamma Analyzer Room 23 N/A MRCC124 C124:

Classroom 67 N/A MRCC130 C130:

Radioisotope Laboratory (Hood) 23 N/A MRCD100 D100:

Reactor Support Laboratory 33 N/A MRCD102 D102:

Pneumatic Transfer Terminal Lab' 205 N/A MRCD102-H D102H: 1st Floor Corridor at D102 87 N/A MRCD106-H D106H: 1st Floor Corridor at D106 223 N/A MRCD200 D200:

Reactor Administrator's Office 201 N/A MRCD202 D202:

Senior Health Physicist's Office 209 N/A MRCBRR D200H: Rear Personnel Dosimetry Storage Rack 55 N/A MRCD204 D204:

Health Physicist Office 191 N/A MRCATHRL F104:

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Whole Body Radiation Levels (mrem/hr)

Contamination Levels(1 )

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Average Maximum Average Maximum TRIGA Reactor Facility:

Reactor Top (D104) 1.12 80

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<500 870 Reactor Bay NW (D104)

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<500 2,391 Reactor Bay NE (D104)

<1 11

<500 2,194 Reactor Bay SE (D104)

<1 12

<500 2,391 Class Experiments (D104, D302)

<1

<500

<500 Demineralizer Tank & Make Up Water Sys-

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Particulate Filter--Outside Shielding

<1 1.60

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<500 (D104A)

Radiation Center:

NAA Counting Rooms (A146, B100)

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<500 Health Physics Laboratory (A138)

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<500 Co 60 Irradiator Room and Calibration

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<500 Rooms (A128, B120, A130)

Radiation Research Labs (A136)

(B108, B114, B122, B124, C126, C130,

<1 100

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Radioactive Source Storage (B119,

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Student Chemistry Laboratory (C118)

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<500 Student Counting Laboratory (C120)

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<500 1,087 RX support Room (D100)

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Station Based on GSD TLDs(1' 2)

(See Figure V.E.1)

(mrem)

MRCFE-1 88 +/- 3 MRCFE-2 85 +/- 4 MRCFE-3 91 + 11 MRCFE-4 85 - 3 MRCFE-5 80 - 3 MRCFE-6 90 - 3 MRCFE-7 81 - 9 MRCFE-8 77 - 5 MRCFE-9 73 - 5 (1)

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Monitoring Station Based on GDS TLDs( 1,2)

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MRCTE-2 80 +/- 4 MRCTE-3 95 +/- 5 MRCTE-4 83 +/- 3 MRCTE-5 90 +/- 3 MRCTE-6 77 +/- 4 MRCTE-7 96 +/- 3 MRCTE-8 96 + 4 MRCTE-9 95 +/- 6 M RCTE-10 72 + 5 MRCTE-12 95 + 4 M RCTE-13 86 + 2 MRCTE-14 74 + 2 MRCTE-15 77 +/- 3 MRCTE-16 86 +/- 3 MRCTE-17 84 +/- 3 MRCTE-18 80 + 5 MRCTE-19 90 +/- 3 MRCTE-20 89 + 3 MRCTE-21 71 +/- 3 MRCTE-22 78 +/- 3 (1)

Average Corvallis area natural background using GDS TLDs totals 75 +/- 8 mrem for the same period.

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Sample Type Annual Average Concentration Of the Total Net Beta (Minus 3 H)

Radioactivity(l)

Reporting Units 1-W Water 4.98E-08 +/- 1.38E-08 (2)

PCi ml-1 4-W Water 4.98E-08 +/- 1.38E-08 (2)

PCi m1-1 11-W Water 4.98E-08 +/- 1.38E-08 (2)

PCi ml 1 19-RW Water 4.98E-08 +/- 1.38E-08 (2) pCi ml' 3-S Soil 3.75E-05 +/- 5.60E-06 pCi g' of dry soil 5-S Soil 1.51E-05 +/- 4.01E-06 pCi g-1 of dry soil 20-S Soil 2.32E-05 +/- 3.51E-06 pCi g-1 of dry soil 21-S Soil 2.87E-05 +/- 4.60E-06 PCi g-1 of dry soil 2-G Grass 3.24E-04 +/- 2.33E-05 pCi g1 of dry ash 6-G Grass 2.97E-04 +/- 2.82E-05 pCi g1 of dry ash 7-G Grass 3.75E-04 +/- 2.64E-05 pCi g1 of dry ash 8-G Grass 2.82E-04 +/- 2.53E-05 pCi g-1 of dry ash 9-G Grass 2.55E-04 +/- 1.81E-05 pCi g 1 of dry ash 10-G Grass 2.80E-04 +/- 2.92E-05 pCi g-1 of dry ash 12-G Grass 6.OOE-05 +/- 1.26E-05 pCi g1 of dry ash 13-G Grass 3.41E-04 +/- 3.15E-05 PCi g1 of dry ash 14-G Grass 2.19E-04 +/- 3.19E-05 pCi g 1 of dry ash 15-G Grass 2.46E-04 +/- 2.63E-05 pCi g-' of dry ash 16-G Grass 2.75E-04 + 3.03E-05 pCi g1 of dry ash 17-G Grass 2.97E-04 +/- 2.91E-05 pCi g-1 of dry ash 18-G Grass 1.87E-04 +/- 2.63E-05 PCi g-1 of dry ash 22-G Grass 3.53E-04 +/-- 3.27E-05 pCi g1 of dry ash I

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pCi ml Vegetation 3.86E-05 2.20E-05 to 5.44E-05 PCi g' of dry ash (1)

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OSU Radiation Center Shipped To Total Activity (TBq)

Number of Shipments Exempt Limited Quantity Yellow Yellow II III Total Berkeley Geochronology Center 1.28-06 8

1 0

0 9

Berkeley, CA USA Brigham Young University 5.99E-09 1

0 0

0 1

Provo, UT USA Brush Wellman, Inc.

8.67E-03 0

0 1

Elmore, OH USA C.O.R.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 7.98E-08 1

0 0

0 1

Madison, WI USA Columbia Generating Station 5.30E-02 0

0 0

1 1

Richland, WA USA Columbia University 9.98E-06 2

2 0

0 4

Palisades, NY USA Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Cntr.

Mass. Gen. Hosp 7.01E-06 0

1 0

0 1

Boston, MA USA Idaho State University 1.36E-05 0

0 5

Pocatello, ID USA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 5.67E-06 0

0 1

Berkeley, CA USA Oregon Health and Science University 2.22E-05 0

0 1

Portland, OR USA Oregon State University 8.32E-06 0

0 2

Corvallis, OR USA Oregon State University Oceanography Department 6.38-06 0

0 2

Corvallis, OR USA Plattsburgh State University 1.84E-08 2

0 0

0 2

Plattsburgh, NY Rutgers 5.14E-07 6

0 0

0 6

Piscataway, NJ USA Stanford University 1.94E-07 4

1 0

0 5

Stanford, CA USA Syracuse University 9.94E-08 1

0 0

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Number of Shipments Exempt Limited Quantity Yellow II Yellow III Total Union College 2.33E-08 4

0 0

0 4

Schenectady, NY USA University of California at Berkeley 4.63E-07 0

0 1

Berkeley, CA USA University of California at Santa Barbara 7.92E-08 1

0 0

0 1

Santa Barbara, CA USA University of Florida 1.54E-07 2

0 0

0 2

Gainesville, FL USA University of Nevada Las Vegas 5.24E-07 0

2 0

0 2

Las Vegas, NY USA University of Oregon 5.44E-08 0

1 0

0 1

Eugene, OR USA University of Washington 1.01E-08 1

0 0

0 1

Seattle, WA USA University of Wisconsin-Madison 5.64E-06 6

0 1

0 7

Madison, WI USA Totals 6.18E-02 39 8

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Limited Quantity Exempt Total CH2M Hill 1.31E-11 0

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Corvallis, OR USA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2.39E-08 1

1 2

Berkeley, CA USA University of Notre Dame 5.59E-07 1

0 1

Notre Dame, IN University of Washington 7.03E-07 3

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Seattle, WA USA Totals 1.29E-06 5

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Geological Survey of Norway 3.74E-09 1

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1 Trondheim, Norway Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences 3.54E-09 2

0 0

2 Prague, Czech Republic QUAD-Lab, Roskilde University 3.72E-09 1

0 0

1 Roskilde, Denmark TRIUMF 9.63E-08 0

0 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Universita' Degli Studi di Bologna 1.97E-08 4

0 0

4 Bologna, Italy Universitat Gottingen 8.33E-10 1

0 0

1 Gottingen, Germany Universitat Potsdam 6.83E-08 2

0 0

2 Postdam, Germany Universitat Tubingen 4.67E-09 2

0 0

2 Tubingen, Germany University of Geneva 2.22E-06 2

0 1

3 Geneva, Switzerland University of Lausanne 2.70E-07 1

1 0

2 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Manchester 7.81E-09 0

0 1

Manchester, United Kingdom University of Queensland 1.70E-061 1

3 Brisbane, Queensland Australia Vrije Universiteit 1.22E-07 2

0 0

2 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Totals 4.53E-06 20 3

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-Cad-Rac11afllnI, Qa n -"a Summary Teaching Research and Service The Radiation Center offers a wide variety of resources for teach-ing, research, and service related to radiation and radioactive ma-terials. Some of these are discussed in detail in other parts of this report. The purpose of this part is to summarize the teaching, re-search, and service efforts carried out during the current report-ing period.

An important responsibility of the Radiation Center and the reac-tor is to support OSU's academic programs. Implementation of this support occurs through direct involvement of the Center's staff and facilities in the teaching programs of various depart-ments and through participation in University research programs.

Tables III.A.1 and III.D.1 plusSection VI.C.5 provide more de-tailed information on the use of the Radiation Center and reactor for instruction and training.

Almost all Radiation Center research and service work is tracked by means of a project database. When a request for facility use is received, a project number is assigned and the project is added to the database. The database includes such information as the pro-ject number, data about the person and institution requesting the work, information about students involved, a description of the project, Radiation Center resources needed, the Radiation Center project manager, status of individual runs, billing information, and the funding source.

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I Table VI.C.1 provides a summary of institutions which used the Radiation Center during this reporting period. This table also in-cludes additional information about the number of academic per-sonnel involved, the number of students involved, and the num-ber of uses logged for each organization. Details on graduate stu-dent research which used the Radiation Center are given in Table VI.C.2.

The major table in this section is Table VI.C.3. This table provides a listing of the research and service projects carried out during this reporting period and lists information relating to the person-nel and institution involved, the type of project, and the funding agency. Projects which used the reactor are indicated by an aster-isk. In addition to identifying specific projects carried out during the current reporting period, Part VI also highlights major Radia-tion Center capabilities in research and service. These unique Center functions are described in Sections VI.C.1 through VI.C.8.

Neutron Activation Analysis Neutron activation analysis (NAA) stands at the forefront of tech-niques for the quantitative multi-element analysis of major, mi-nor, trace, and rare elements. The principle involved in NAA con-sists of first irradiating a sample with neutrons in a nuclear reac-tor such as the OSTR to produce specific radionuclides. After the irradiation, the characteristic gamma rays emitted by the decay-ing radionuclides are quantitatively measured by suitable semi-conductor radiation detectors, and the gamma rays detected at a particular energy are usually indicative of a specific radionu-clide's presence. Computerized data reduc-tion of the gamma ray spectra then yields the concentrations of the various elements in samples being studied. With sequential instrumental NAA it is possible to measure quantitatively about 35 elements in small samples (5 to 100 mg), and for activable elements the lower limit of detection is on the order of parts per million or parts per billion, depending on the element.

The Radiation Center's NAA laboratory has analyzed the major, minor, and trace ele-ment content of tens of thousands of sam-ples covering essentially the complete spectrum of material types and involving virtually every scientific and technical field.

While some researchers perform their own sample counting on their own or on Radiation Center equipment, the Radiation Center provides a complete NAA service for researchers and others who may require it. This includes sample preparation, sequential irra-diation and counting, and data reduction and analysis.

Data on NAA research and service performed during this reporting period are included in Table VI.C.3.

Forensic Studies Neutron activation analysis can also be advantageously used in criminal investigations. The principle underlying such application usually involves matching trace element profiles in objects or sub-stances by NAA. This in turn can help identify materials or prod-ucts (e.g., identify the manufacturer of a given object), and in some cases can match bullets and other materials recovered from a victim to similar materials obtained from suspects. Materials which have been analyzed by the Radiation Center for forensic purposes include bullets, metals, paint, fuses, coats, glass, meat, and salts.

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the listings in Tables VI.C.1 and VI.C.3.

Irrad iations As described throughout this report, a major capability of the Ra-diation Center involves the irradiation of a large variety of sub-stances with gamma rays and neutrons. Detailed data on these irradiations and their use during this reporting period are included I

in Part III as well as in Section C of this part.

Radiological Emergency Response Services 3

The Radiation Center has an emergency response team capable of responding to all types of radiological accidents. This team directly supports the City of Corvallis and Benton County emergency response organizations and medical facilities.

The team can also provide assistance at the scene of any radiological incident anywhere in the state of Oregon on behalf of the Oregon Radiation Protection Services and the I

Oregon Department of Energy.

The Radiation Center maintains dedicated stocks of radio-logical emergency response equipment and instrumenta-tion. These items are located at the Radiation Center and at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis.

3 During the current reporting period, the Radiation Center emergency response team conducted several training ses-sions and exercises, but was not required to respond to any actual incidents.

Training and Instruction In addition to the academic laboratory classes and courses discussed in Parts III.A.2, III.D, and VI.B, and in addition to the routine training needed to meet the requirements of the OSTR Emergency Response Plan, Physical Security Plan, and 1

operator requalification program, the Radiation Center is also used for special training programs. Radiation Center staff are well experienced in conducting these special programs and regularly I

offer training in areas such as research reactor operations, re-search reactor management, research reactor radiation protec-tion, radiological emergency response, reactor behavior (for nu-clear power plant operators), neutron activation analysis, nuclear chemistry, and nuclear safety analysis.

Special training programs generally fall into one of several catego-I ries: visiting faculty and research scientists; International Atomic Energy Agency fellows; special short-term courses; or individual reactor operator or health physics training programs. During this I

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reporting period there were a large number of such people as shown in Part II.B.

As has been the practice since 1985, Radiation Center personnel annually present a HAZMAT Response Team Radiological Course.

This year the course was held at the Oregon State University Ra-diation Center.

Radiation Protection Services The primary purpose of the radiation protection program at the Radiation Center is to support the instruction and research con-ducted at the Center. However, due to the high quality of the pro-gram and the level of expertise and equipment available, the Ra-diation Center is also able to provide health physics services in support of OSU Radiation Safety and to assist other state and fed-eral agencies. The Radiation Center does not compete with private industry, but supplies health physics services which are not read-ily available elsewhere. In the case of support provided to state agencies, this definitely helps to optimize the utilization of state resources.

The Radiation Center is capable of providing health physics ser-vices in any of the areas which are discussed in Part V. These in-clude personnel monitoring, radiation surveys, sealed source leak testing, packaging and shipment of radioactive materials, calibra-tion and repair of radiation monitoring instruments (discussed in detail in Section VI.C.7), radioactive waste disposal, radioactive material hood flow surveys, and radiation safety analysis and au-dits.

The Radiation Center also provides services and technical support as a radiation laboratory to the State of Oregon Radiation Protec-tion Services (RPS) in the event of a radiological emergency within the state of Oregon. In this role, the Radiation Center will provide gamma ray spectrometric analysis of water, soil, milk, food products, vegetation, and air samples collected by RPS radio-logical response field teams. As part of the ongoing preparation for this emergency support, the Radiation Center participates in inter-institution drills.

Radiological Instrument Repair and Calibration While repair of nuclear instrumentation is a practical necessity, routine calibration of these instruments is a licensing and regula-tory requirement which must be met. As a result, the Radiation Center operates a radiation instrument repair and calibration facil-ity which can accommodate a wide variety of equipment.

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The Center's scientific instrument repair facility performs mainte-3 nance and repair on all types of radiation detectors and other nu-clear instrumentation. Since the Radiation Center's own programs regularly utilize a wide range of nuclear instruments, components for most common repairs are often on hand and repair time is therefore minimized.

In addition to the instrument repair capability, the Radiation Cen-3 ter has a facility for calibrating essentially all types of radiation monitoring instruments. This includes typical portable monitoring instrumentation for the detection and measurement of alpha, 3

beta, gamma, and neutron radiation, as well as instruments de-signed for low-level environmental monitoring. Higher range in-struments for use in radiation accident situations can also be cali-brated in most cases. Instrument calibrations are performed using 5

radiation sources certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) or traceable to NIST.

I Table VI.C.4 is a summary of the instruments which were cali-brated in support of the Radiation Center's instructional and re-search programs and the OSTR Emergency Plan, while Table VI.C.5 shows instruments calibrated for other OSU departments and non-OSU agencies.

Consultation I

Radiation Center staff are available to provide consultation ser-vices in any of the areas discussed in this Annual Report, but in particular on the subjects of research reactor operations and use, I

radiation protection, neutron activation analysis, radiation shield-ing, radiological emergency response, and radiotracer methods.

Records are not normally kept of such consultations, as they often I

take the form of telephone conversations with researchers en-countering problems or planning the design of experiments. Many faculty members housed in the Radiation Center have 1

ongoing professional consulting functions with various organizations, in addition to sitting on numerous commit-tees in advisory capacities.

Public Relations The continued interest of the general public in the OSTR is evident by the number of people who have toured the facility. See Table VI.F.1 for statistics on scheduled visi-to rs.

05-06 Annual ReportL Institution, Agency and Groups Number of Projects Number of Time of Faculty Involvement Number of Students Involved Number of Uses of Center Facilities

Oregon State University 33 28 13 277 Corvallis, OR USA AVI Bio Pharma, Inc.

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Corvallis, OR USA Evanite Fiber Corporation 1

0 0

1 Corvallis, OR USA

Linn Benton Community College 1

0 0

4 Albany, OR USA

Marist High School 1

0 0

1 Eugene, OR USA

Non-Educational Tours 1

0 0

1 Corvallis, OR USA Oregon Department of Energy 2

1 0

4 Salem, OR USA Oregon State Fire Marshal 1

0 0

21 Salem, OR USA

Oregon State University - Educational Tours 1916 0

32 Corvallis, OR USA SIGA Technologies, Inc.

2 0

0 4

Corvallis, OR USA

University of Oregon 2

1 0

1 Eugene, OR USA US Environmental Protection Agency 2

0 0

2 Corvallis, OR USA

USDOE Albany Research Center 2

0 0

1 Albany, OR USA

West Albany High School 1

0 0

1 Albany, OR USA Amrhein Associates, Inc 1

0 0

1 Ashland, OR USA ESCO Corporation 1

0 0

5 Portland, OR USA Federal Aviation Administration 1

0 0

4 Portland, OR USA Lebanon Community Hospital 1

0 0

1 Lebanon, OR USA Marquess & Associates Inc.

1 0

0 1

Medford, OR USA Nunhems USA, Inc.

1 1

0 55 Brooks, OR USA Occupational Health Lab 1

0 0

1 Portland, OR USA I

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Oregon Health Sciences University 2

1 0

21 Portland, OR USA Providence St. Vincent Hospital 2

0 0

1 Portland, OR USA Radiation Protection Services 1

0 0

57 Portland, OR USA

Reed College 2

1 0

1 Portland, OR USA Rogue Community College 1

0 0

2 Grants Pass, OR USA Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.

1 0

0 22 Camby, OR USA

Thurston High School 1

1 0

1 Springfield, OR USA US Environmental Protection Agency 2

0 0

2 Newport, OR USA US National Parks Service 1

0 0

3 Crater Lake, OR USA Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging &

Cytopathology 1

0 0

2 Clackamas, OR USA Weyerhaeuser 1

0 0

1 Sweet Home, OR USA Advanced Cochlear Systems 1

0 0

3 Snoqualmie, WA USA

Idaho State University 2

2 0

5 Pocatello, ID USA

University of Washington 1

1 2

2 Seattle, WA USA

Berkeley Geochronology Center 1

0 5

16 Berkeley, CA USA

California State University at Fullerton 2

2 2

1 Fullerton, CA USA Genis, Inc.

1 0

0 12 Petaluma, CA USA

NWT Corp.

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San Jose, CA USA

Stanford University 2

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5 Stanford, CA USA

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ýoen~cies, and Groups Which Utilized th~e'Radiation Ce'nter' Number of Number of Number Tmof Number of Usso Institution, Agency and Groups of Students Projects Faculty Involved Center Involvement Facilities

University of California at Santa Barbara 1

2 0

1 Santa Barbara, CA USA

University of Nevada Las Vegas 1

1 0

2 Las Vegas, NV USA

Brigham Young University 1

1 1

Provo, UT USA CH2M Hill Inc 1

1 0

2 Denver, CO USA

EaglePicher Technologies 1

0 0

4 Quapaw, OK USA

University of Houston 1

1 0

1 Plainview, TX USA University of Wisconsin 2

2 5

8 Madison, WI USA Eastern Michigan University 1

1 0

3 Ypsilanti, MI USA

Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab 1

1 0

9 Ann Arbor, MI USA

University of Michigan 2

1 0

2 Ann Arbor, MI USA

Wayne State University 2

0 0

4 Detroit, MI USA

Brush-Wellman 1

0 0

1 Elmore, OH USA University of Cincinnati 1

0 2

5 Cincinnati, OH USA

Columbia University 2

2 3

3 Palisades, NY USA

George Washington University 2

2 0

1 Washington, DC USA North Carolina State University 1

1 1

1 Raleigh, NC USA

Plattsburgh State University 2

2 0

2 Plattsburgh, NY USA

Roswell Park Cancer Institute 2

4 0

4 Buffalo, NY USA 87

OSU Radiatio n Center Institution, Agency and Groups Number of Projects Number of Time of Faculty Involvement Number of Students Involved Number of Uses of Center Facilities

Syracuse University 2

2 2

1 Syracuse, NY USA

Union College 3

3 8

4 Schenectady, NY USA

Rutgers 3

3 5

7 Piscataway, NJ USA Arch Chemicals Inc.

1 1

0 6

Cheshire, CT USA

University of Florida 1

1 4

1 Gainesville, FL USA

Quaternary Dating Laboratory 1

0 0

2

Roskilde, DENMARK

University of Manchester 1

1 1

1 Manchester, UK

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 1

0 0

2

Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

Geological Survey of Norway 1

1 0

1 Trondheim, NORWAY

Universita' di Bologna 1

1 0

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Bologna, ITALY

Universitat Potsdam

Postdam, GERMANY 1

0 0

2

Universite de Lausanne 1

0 0

2

Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

University of Geneva 1

4 3

Geneva, SWITZERLAND

University of Goettingen 1

1 3

1 Gottingen, GERMANY

Unversity of Tubingen 2

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nF-OSRAnniinI Rpnr~rt Studens Degree Academic Depart Advisor Project Thesis Topic Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Fission track dating of MidEuropean Rhine Link, Katharina PhD Mineralogy Rahn 1595 graben shoulder uplift Berkeley Geochronology Center

Brownlee, PhD Geology Renne 920 Application of 39 Ar.40Ar Geochronology Sarah Chang, Su-chin PhD Geology Renne 920 Application of 39 Ar.40Ar Geochronology Knight, Kim-MA Earth and Renne 920 Geochemical and Isotopic Insights into berly Planetary Science Continental Flood Basalts Morgan, Leah PhD Geology Renne 920 Application of 39 Ar.40Ar Geochronology Experimental Studies of 39Ar Recoil and Paine, Jeffery MS Geology Renne 920 Isotopes Fractional Relevant to 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology California State University at Fullerton Irwin, Christine MS Geological Sci-Armstrong 1625 Uplift of the Puente Hills using fission track ences data Columbia University Downing, Greg PhD Hemming 1705 Application of 39Ar/40 Ar Geochronology Walker, Chris PhD Andres 1705 Application of 39Ar/40 Ar Geochronology North Carolina State University Marine, Earth, and Intrusion-related gold systems: petrologi-

Haynes, PhD Atmospheric Fodor 1684 cal and fluid geochemical characteristics of Elizabeth Sciences gold-hosted granite plutons.

Oregon State University Nuclear Engineer-Determination of neutron flux and spec-Ashbaker, Eric MS ing and Radiation Reese 1702 trum in various OSTR irradiation facilities Health Physics Environmental and The Effects of 2, 3, 7, 8-

Funatake, PhD Molecular Kerkvliet 1725 Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin on the Fate of Castle Toxicology Antigen-Specific T Cells Ex-vivo Suppressive Mechanisms Used by Marshall, Nikki MS Kerkvliet 1725 CD4+ T Cells exposed to TCDD during Graft-vs-Host disease Actinide Chemistry Matteson, Brent PhD Chemistry Paulenova 1751 89

nOSU Rqdiiqtinn Ce'ntpr Studen' Degree Academic Depart Advisor Project Thesis Topic Naik, Radhika PhD Chemistry Loveland 1751 Nuclear Chemistry Age and Composition of Two Large Sinton, Christo-PhD Oceanography Duncan 444 Igneous Provinces: The North Atlan-pher tic Volcanic Rifted Margin and the Caribbean Plateau Sprunger, Peter PhD Chemistry Loveland 1751 Nuclear Chemistry Nutrition and Yan, Michelle MS Exercise Science Ho

1757, Prostate Cell Zinc Deficiency Study Rutgers Dating of Plio-Pleistiocene Homid Braun, Dave PhD Geological Sciences Turrin 1707 Sites, Koobi Fora, Kenya Statigraphy and Chronolgy of the Mollel, Godwin PhD Geological Sciences Turrin 1707 Plio-Plaeistocene Ngorongoro Volcanic Highland Age of metamorphism in the New Price, Rachel MS Geological Sciences Turrin 1708 Jersey Highland Quinn, Rhonda PhD Geological Sciences Turrin 1707 Dating of Plio-Pleistiocene Homid Sites, Koobi Fora, Kenya Petrology and geochemical evolution Young, Amy PhD UCLA Geology Turrin 1423 of the Damavand trachyandesite vol-cano in northern Iran.

Syracuse University Uplift and Exhumation of the West-Earth Sciences Central Pyrenees: Constraining the Evolution of an Intraplate Collisional Orogen Low Temperature Thermochronologic T

s MS Studies in the Adirondack Highlands University of California at Berkeley Herbison, Sarah PhD Department of Nitsche 1468 Applications of NAA Chemistry University of Cincinnati Decompressional Melting as a Mecha-Davidson, Mi-PhD Geology Killinc 1738 nism for Differentiation in Columbia chelle River Basalts Petrology and Geochemistry of the Solpuker, Utku PhD Geology Killinc 1738 Kula Volcanic Province, Western Tur-key I

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GrdaelStudent Researh tilized,1 fthe Raid iati On' Ce-n t er Student's Degree Academic De-Advisor Project Thesis Topic Name part University of Florida Coyner, Samuel PhD Foster 1621 Pb-Pb Geochronology and Thermochronol-ogy of Titanite Using MC-ICP-MS Style and Timing of Mylonitization, Detach-ment, Ductile Attenuation and Metamor-Grice, Warren MS Geology Foster 1621 phism in the Anaconda Metamorphic core Complex, West-Central Montana

Newman, Exhumation of the Ruby Mountains Meta-Virginia MA Geology Foster 1621 morphic Core Complex Long-Term vs. Short-Term Erosion Rates in Columbian Tropical Andean Ecosystems:

Restrepo, Sergio PhD Geology Foster 1621 Measurin The D nsion ofyheH man Measuring the Dimension of the Human Impact University of Geneva Pulsed High Sulfidation Hydrothermal Ac-Baumgartner, PhD Geological Fontbote 1617 tivity in the Cerro de Pasco-Colquijirca Regine Sciences "super district," Peru The Origin and Accretionary History of Luzieux, Leonard PhD Geological Spikings 1617 Basement Forearc Unites in Western Ecua-Sciences dor Vallejo, Cristian MS Geological Spikings 1617 The Syn-and Post-Accretionary History of Sciences the Western Cordillera of Ecuador Villagomez, PhD Geological Spikings 1617 The Late-Cretaceous to Recent Accretion-Diego Sciences ary History of Western Colombia University of Goettingen Institut fur Ge-Exhumation path of different tectonic Angelmaier, PhD ologie und Dunkl 1519 blocks along the central part of the Trans-Petra Palaotologie alp-Traverse (Eastern Alps)

Institut fur Ge-Mesozoic and Tertiary Tectonometamor-Most, Thomas PhD ologie und Dunkl 1519 phic Evolution of Pelagonian Massif Palaotologie Institut fur Ge-Thermochronology and Structural Evolu-Schwab, Martina PhD ologie und Dunkl 1519 tion of Pamir Mts.

Palaotologie University of Manchester Rhyolite volcanism in Iceland: timing and Flude, Stephanie PhD Earth Sciences Burgess 1592 timescales of eruption

OSU Radiation Center Student's Degree Academic Depart Advisor Project Thesis Topic N ame University of Wisconsin Barquero-Molina, PhD Geology and Singer 1612 Applications of 39Ar/4OAr Geochronology Miriam Geophysics Harper, Melissa MS Geology and Singer 1612 Applications of 39Ar/4OAr Geochronology Geophysics Jicha, Brian MS Geology and Singer 1465 Applications of 39Ar/4OAr Geochronology Geosciences Jicha, Brian MS Geology and Singer 1612 Applications of 39Ar/4OAr Geochronology Geosciences Relle, Monica MS Geology and Geo-Foster 1621 Applications of 39Ar/4OAr Geochronology sciences University of Wyoming

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Brigham Young Fission Track Dating Dating of natural rocks and minerals via fission National Science University track methodology.

Foundation Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to measure ra-OSU Oceanography 444 Duncan Oregon State University Oceanographic Datineo diometric ages on basaltic rocks from ocean Department OceaogrphicSamles basins.

481 Le Oregon Health Sciences Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

Oregon Health University Sciences University 488 Farmer Oregon State University Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

departments US Environmental 519 Martin ProEctionAency Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

USEPA-Corvallis Protection Agency 547 Boese US Environmental Survey Instrument Cali-Instrument calibration.

USEPA, Cincinnati, Protection Agency bration OH 664 Reese Oregon State University Good Samaritan Hospital Instrument calibration.

OSU Radiation Instrument Calibration Center Sterilization of Wood Sterilization of wood samples to 2.5 Mrads in OSU Forest 815 Morrell Oregon State University Samples Co-60 irradiator for fungal evaluations.

Products Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine Berkeley Geochro-920 Becke Gecrknly Ar-39/Ar-40 Age Dating ages in various anthropologic and geologic ma-nolgy Cer Geochronology Center terials.

nology Center Ar-40/Ar-39 Dating of Irradiation of mineral grain samples for speci-Stanford University 930 McWilliams Stanford University Geological Samples fied times to allow Ar-40/Ar-39 dating.

ronmental Sci Stanford University Thermal column irradiation of geological sam-Geolog 932 Dumitru Stanford University Fission Track Dating ples for fission track age-dating.

Geology Department 1018 Gashwiler Occupational Health Calibration of Nuclear Instrument calibration.

Occupational Health Lab Instruments Laboratory

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 1072 Markos Army Corps of Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

U.S. Army Engineer Engineers District, Portland.

Activation Analysis Experiment for NE Class.

University of 1075 Teaching University of Activation Analysis Ex-Irradiation of small, stainless steel discs for use California at and Tours California at Berkeley periment for NE Class in a nuclear engineering radiation measure-Berkeley ments laboratory.

1177 Garver Union College Fission Track Analysis of Use of thermal column irradiations to perform Union College, NY Rock Ages fission track analysis to determine rock ages.

C-14 liquid scintillation counting of radiotracers 1188 Salinas Rogue Community Photoplankton Growth in produced in a photoplankton study of southern Rogue Community College Southern Oregon Lakes Oregon lakes: Miller Lake, Lake of the Woods, College Diamond Lake, and Waldo Lake.

University of Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine Earth Sciences, 1191 Vasconcelos Queensland Ar-39/Ar-40 Age Dating ages in various anthropologic and geologic ma-University of terials.

Queensland Snake River plain sanidine phenocrysts to evaluate volcanic stratigraphy; sandine and bio-1267 Hemming Columbia Geochronology by Ar/Ar tite phenocrysts from a late Miocene ash, Mal-Columbia University Methods lorca to more accurately constrain stratigraphic University horizon; hornblends and feldspar from the Amazon to assess climatic cha Radiation Radiological Instrument State of Oregon 1354 Wright Protecition RadioogicalCInstrunn Instrument calibration.

Radiation Protection Services 1366 Quidelleur Universite Paris-Sud Ar-Ar Geochronology Determination of geological samples via Ar-Ar Universite Paris-Sud radiometric dating.

1397 Teach Providence St.

Sterilization of various Sterilization of various biological materials for Oregon Medical Vincent Hospital biological materials St. Vincents Hospital, Portland Laser Institute 1404 Riera-Oregon State Evaluation of wheat DNA Gamma irradiation of wheat seeds OSU Crop and Soil Lizarau University Science 1406 Pate Tracerco Production of Argon-41 Production of Argon-41 for various field uses Tracerco 1408 Gerdemann USDOE Albany Re-Analysis of titanium pow-Measurement of sodium and chlorine in tita-USDOE Albany search Center der nium powder.

Research Center 1415 McGinness ESCO Corporation Calibration of Instru-Instrument calibration ESCO Corporation ments Petrology and geochemical evolution of the 1423 Turrin Rutgers 40Ar/39Ar Analysis Damavand trachyandesite volcano in Northern Department of Iran.

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USDOE Albany Research Center Research Center Ar-40/Ar-39 Dating of Irradiation of geological materials such as vol-1465 Singer University of Wisconsin Young Geologic Materials canic rocks from sea floor, etc. for Ar-40/Ar-39 Wisconsin dating.

1467 Kirner Kirner Consulting, Inc Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

Kirner Consulting University of 1468 Nitsche University of California Chemistry 146 Experi-NAA Laboratory experiment.

California at at Berkeley ment Berkeley 1470 Bolken SIGA Technologies, Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

Siga Inc.

Pharmaceuticals Thermochronologic evi-The integration of apatite fission-track ages and dence linking Adiron-track length based model thermal histories, zir-1489 Roden-Tice Plattsburgh State dack and New England con fission-track ages, and U-Th/He analyses to Plattsburgh State University regions better define the pattern of regional post-Early University Connecticut Valley Re-Cretaceous differential unroofing in northeast-gions ern New York's Federal Aviation Federal Aviation 1492 Stiger Administration Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Administration 1502 Teaching Portland Community Portland Community Col-USDOE Reactor and Tours College lege Tours/Experiments OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

Sharing 1503 Teaching Non-Educational Tours Non-Educational Tours Tours for guests, university functions, student OSU Radiation and Tours recruitment.

Center 1504 Teaching Oregon State OSU Nuclear Engineering USDOE Reactor 1504 and Tours University -

& Radiation Health Phys-OSTR tour and reactor lab.

Sharing Educational Tours ics Department Teaching Oregon State USDOE Reactor 1505 anta t

OSU Chemistry Depart-OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

Educational Tours ment Teaching Oregon State 1506 and Tours University -.

Educational Tours OSU Geosciences De-partment OSTR tour.

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Sharing Educational Tours Teaching Oregon State Adventures in Learning Half Life Demonstration; Eric Miller, Forensic USDOE Reactor 1508 and Tours University - E Class Science Instructor.

Sharing dducational Tours 1509 Teacing Oregon State Teaching OOregon Office of 1509 and Tours University -

HAZMAT course tours First responder training tours.

Energy Educational Tours Teaching Oregon State Science and Mathematics USDOE Reactor 1510 and Tours University -

Investigative Learning Ex-OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

Sharing Educational Tours perience Teaching Oregon State Reactor operation required for conduct of OSU Radiation 1511 and Tours University -

Reactor Staff Use operations testing, operator training, calibra-Center Educational Tours tion runs, encapsulation tests and other.

Teaching Linn Benton Linn Benton Community USDOE Reactor 1512 and Tours Community College College Tours/Experiments OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

Sharing 1514 Sobel Universitat Potsdam Apatite Fission Track Analy-Age determination of apatites by fission Universitat Potsdam sis track analysis.

University of Fission Track Analysis of Fission track dating method on apatites: use University of 1519 Dunkl Goettingen Apatites of fission tracks from decay of U-238 and U-Tuebingen 235 to determine the cooling age of apatites.

Teaching Western Oregon Western Oregon University OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

USDOE Reactor 1520 and Tours University Sharing 1522 Wachs Oregon State General Reactor Operation Reactor operation when no other project is OSU Radiation University involved.

Center Universita' Degli Studi Fission track analysis of Fission track analysis of apatites.

Universita' Degli 1523 Zattin di Bologna apatites Studi di Bologna 1524 Thomson Ruhr-Universitat Fission track analysis of Fission track analysis of apatites and zircon.

Ruhr-Universitat Bochum apatites and zircon Bochum Teaching Life Gate High School Life Gate High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

USDOE Reactor 1525 and Tours Sharing 1526 Crawford Hot Cell Services Instrument calibration Instrument calibration.

Hot Cell Services 1527 Teaching Oregon State 1527 ang University -

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USDOE Reactor and Tours Educational Tours Sharing Teaching Oregon State Univer-1528 and Tours sity - Educational Tours Upward Bound OSTR tour.

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Sharing 9 and Tours Educational Tours 1530 Teaching Newport School District Newport School District OSTR tour.

USDOE Reactor 150 and Tours Sharing 1531 Teaching Central Oregon Corn-Central Oregon Commu-USDOE Reactor and Tours munity College nity College Engineering OSTR tour for Engineering Sharing 1535 Teaching Corvallis School District Corvallis School District OSTR tour.

USDOE Reactor and Tours Sharing Nuclear Oregon State Gamma Irradiations for Irradiation of samples for Introduction to OSU Radiation 1536 Engineering Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Center Faculty University NE/RHP 114/115/116 Physics courses NE/RHP 114/115/116.

Teaching Oregon State Naval Science Depart-USDOE Reactor 1537 and Tours University -

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OSU Speech Department OSTR tour.

Sharing and Tours Educational Tours 1539 Most Universitat Tubingen Fission track studies Age dating by the fission track method.

Universitat Tubingen 1540 Teaching McKay High School McKay High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

USDOE Reactor 150 and Tours Sharing Teaching Oregon State Engineering Sciences USDOE Reactor 1542 and Tours University -

Classes Sharing Educational Tours Veterinary Diagnostic Veterinary Diagnostic 1543 Bailey Imaging &

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Cytopathology Cyt 1544 Teaching West Albany High West Albany High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

USDOE Reactor and Tours School Sharing Teaching Oregon State USDOE Reactor 1545 University -

OSU Educational Tours OSTR tour.

Sharing 1545 and Tours Educational Tours

1548 Teaching Willamette Valley Willamette Valley OSTR tour.

USDOE Reactor and Tours Community School Community School Sharing Irradiation to induce U-235 fission for fission Fission track track thermal history dating, especially for 1555 Fitzgerald Syracuse University thermochronology hydrocarbon exploration. The main thrust is Syracuse University towards tectonics, in particular the uplift and formation of mountain ranges.

Oregon State Measurement of Measurement of neutron capture cross sec-USDOE Reactor 1564 Krane Orsty neutron capture cross tions.

Sharing eUniversity sections Irradiation of rocks and minerals for Ar/Ar 1568 Spell University of Nevada Ar/Ar dating of rocks dating to determine eruption ages, emplace-University of Nevada Las Vegas and minerals ment Las Vegas histories, and provenances studies.

1583 Teaching Neahkahnie High Neahkahnie High OSTR tour.

USDOE Reactor and Tours School School Sharing 1584 Teaching Reed College Reed College Staff &

OSTR tour for Reed College Staff & Trainees USDOE Reactor and Tours Trainees Sharing University of Ar-Ar dating of Nuclear irradiation of rock chips in cadmium-University of 1592 Burgess MUnivesty oA-rang of lined irradiation facility for Ar-Ar dating stud-Univestyo urgess Manchester Icelandic rhyolites ies of Icelandic rhyolites.

Manchester 1594 Teaching Jefferson High School Jefferson High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

USDOE Reactor 154 and Tours Sharing Albert-Ludwigs-Fission Track Dating of Dating of the shoulder uplift along the Mid-German Science 1595 Rahn Universitaet the Mid-European European Rhine graben shoulders by the fis-Foundation Rhine Graben Shoulder sion track technique.

1601 Crutchley Josephine County Instrument Calibrations Instrument calibration.

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Determination of age of Eocene and Quater-nary volcanic rocks by production of Ar-39 from K-39.

OSTR tour.

OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

Instrument calibration.

Argon dating of Chilean granites.

OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

OSTR tour.

Ar/Ar analysis of geological samples.

Funding USDOE Reactor Sharing USDOE Reactor Sharing USDOE Reactor Sharing USDOE Reactor Sharing USDOE Reactor Sharing Evanite Fiber Corporation University of Geneva USDOE Reactor Sharing USDOE Reactor Sharing USDOE Reactor Sharing University of Florida

r'rojecr users urganization riame vroject i mie uescription runuing 1622 Reese Oregon State Flux Measurements Measurement of neutron flux in various irra-OSU Radiation University of OSTR diation facilities.

Center 1623 Blythe University of Southern Fission Track Fission track Thermochronology of Tibetian University of California Analysis Geology Southern California 1625 Armstrong California State Fission Track Measurement of fission track ages to deter-USDOE Reactor S University at Fullerton Irradiations mine erosion amounts and timing.

haring The primary project is the use of tracks to study the leaching out of imbedded radionu-Fission Track clides from alpha-activity in materials. The USDOE Reactor 1627 Fleischer Union College Irradiations radionuclide could be a decay product of U-Sharing 238 or Th-232 in studying the geochemistry of natural materials, or of Rn-222 in Fission Track Use of fission track to determine age dating of USDOE Reactor 1628 Garver Union College Irradiations apatites.

Sharing REE Geochemistry 1634 Tollo George Washington of Meta-Igneous NAA of apatite samples to determine metal USDOE Reactor University Rocks using INAA composition in ingneous rocks.

Sharing (TBC) 1640 Gans University of California Age dating of Neo-Age dating of rock samples from Sierra Ne-USDOE Reactor at Santa Barbara gene volcanism vada, Sonora, Mexico, and Chilean Andes.

Sharing 1641 Hughes Idaho State University fStudy Development of NAA for Thesis Research.

USDOE Reactor 161 Hghs Iah tteUieriy of NAA Sharing 1647 Graefe GeoForschungsZen-Fission Track I Use of fission track to study zircon.

GeoForschungsZen-trum Potsdam rradiations trum Potsdam 1648 Stewart University of Fission-track Fission-track Dating of Zircon from the Exhu-University of Washington Dating of Zircon mation of Avaloatz Mountians in California.

Washington Teaching and Madison High USDOE Reactor 1653 Tours Madison High School School Senior OSTR tour for Senior Science Class.

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USDOE Reactor Tours America Sharing 1656 Mourich AVI Bio Pharma Avasive anticancer vac-cine mechanism of immuno-protein Using a mouse model for cancer. Tumor cells are irradiated and then coated with anitbodies produced by the vaccine. This complex is use to vaccinate mice to determine if subsequent anti-tumor specific immune responses are qenerated.

AVI Bio Pharma 1657 Teaching and Richland High School Richland High School OSTR tour.

USDOE Reactor Tours Sharing Oregon State Isotope and Container Testing of containers and source material.

OSU Radiation 1660 Reese University Testing Center Vectron International Gamma Irradiation of Vectron 1661 Wroblewski NrakIn.PtsGamma irradiation of parts.Ineatol Norwalk, Inc.

Parts International Teaching and Douglas High School Douglas High School AP OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

USDOE Reactor 1666 Tours Physics Class Sharing 1670 Teaching and Toledo High School Toledo High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

USDOE Reactor Tours Sharing Plattsburgh State Use of fission tracks to determine location of USDOE Reactor 1671 Roden-Tice University Fission Track Dating U-235 and Th232 in natural rocks and miner-Sharing als.

Universityivrsiats hrn 1672 Brix Ruhr-Universitat Fission track analysis of Fission track analysis of apatites and zircon.

Ruhr-Universitat Bochum apatites and zircon Bochum Teaching and Heal College Physics USDOE Reactor 1673 Tours Department Sharing Radiological emergency support ot OOE re-Oregon Department Radiological Emergency lated to instrument calibration, radiological Oregon 1674 Niles of Energy Support and RAM transport consulting, and mainte-Department of nance of radiological analysis laboratory at the Energy Radiation Center.

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List of Major Rese~arch and Service Projects Performed or In Progress At the Radiation Center and Their Funding. Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Oregon State NAA of labeled Au labeled antibodies are used use in can-1676 Minc cer studies. NAA tracks the presence of University of Michigan cUniversity antibodies the antibodies in various organs.

1677 Zuffa Universita' di Bologna Fission Track Dating Use of fission track from U-235 to deter-Universita' di Bologna mine uranium content in rock.

Iterative irradiations to test the effects of 1679 Miyahira California Institute of Neutron Damage on neutron damage upon various electronic Jet Propulsion Laboratory a Technology Electronics components.

1680 Danisik Unversity of Tubingen Fission Track Dating Low-temperature geochronology using He University of Tuebingen and fission track dating.

1681 Yang University of Michigan Detection of Metals in Use of NAA to detect various metals in USDOE Reactor Sharing Zeolite Catalysts zeolite catalysts and sorbents.

Effect of Gamma Radiation on the Effect of gamma radiation on the expres-1682 Devi AVI Bio Pharma Expression of XIAP in sion of XIAP in prostate and lung cancer AVI Bio Pharma Prostate and Lung cells.

Cancer Cells 1683 Teaching Idaho State University Nuclear Engineering Reactor Pulsing laboratory for ISU NE stu-USDOE Reactor Sharing and Tours Pulsing Lab dents.

1684 Fodor North Carolina State Geochemical Investi-NAA to determine rare earth composition.

USDOE Reactor Sharing University gation Oregon State short-stay Belen ph vs OSU Crop and Soil OUniversity heavy metals experi-Gamma irradiation of soils.

Science ment Irradiated melon pollen will be used to pol-Production of haploid liate female melon plants to induce parthe-addihaploid melon 1686 Miller Nunhems USA, Inc.

plants induced with nogenetic embryos. These embryos will Sunseeds dantsd pbe rescued and cultured for plant produc-irradiated pollen tion.

1687 Teaching Inavale Grade School Reactor Tour General reactor tour USDOE Reactor Sharing and Tours Northwest Construction Northwest Construction 1688 Moore Surveyin stin Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Surveyin stin Surveying & Testing Surveying & Testing 1689 Gardner Oregon State Count Gamma Rays Determination of 181Hf cross section.

USDOE Reactor Sharing University from 181Hf

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Screening Tests of efficacy of a copper based preservative in Arch Chemical Inc.

Wood Decay preventing decay of wood inhabiting basidiomycetes.

1693 Ferguson Tru-Tec Radiotracer Production Production of radioisotopes for use as in-Tru-Tec dustrial tracers.

1695 Teaching and Transitional Learning Reactor Tour Reactor Tour in D300 only USDOE Reactor Sharing Tours Marquess & Associates Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Marquess & Associates 1696 Sayer Inc.

Inc.

This project supports the advanced place-Teaching and Crescent Valley High Crescent Valley High ment physics class at Cresent Valley High 1697 Tours School School AP Physics School. It will utilize the reactor in ongoing USDOE Reactor Sharing Class research projects sponsored by Radiation Center staff.

1699 Teaching and Philomath High School Reactor Tour Tour of NAA and gas chromatograph capa-USDOE Reactor Sharing Tours bilities in the Radiation Center 1700 Frantz Reed College Instrument calibration Instrument calibration Reed College 1701 Minc Oregon State NAA of Au labeled An-Radiolabeling with Au of antibodies in mice USDOE Reactor Sharing University tibodies Determination of the neutron flux and 172 ReeOregon State Neutron S pectrual 1702 Reese University Analysis spectrum in various OSTR irradiation facili-USDOE Reactor Sharing ties.

1705 Hemming Columbia University Geochronology by Geochronology by Ar/Ar methods USDOE Reactor Sharing Ar/Ar Methods Irradiated liquid metal is poured in the 1706 Wongsawaeng University of California Liquid Metal Bonding pellet-cladding gap in a mock nuclear fuel University of California at at Berkeley Tracer rod. Gold is used as a tracer to study the Berkeley liquid metal bond inte rity.

Ar/Ar Chronology Statigraphy and Chronology of the Plio-USDOE Reactor Sharing 1707 Turrin Rutgers Analysis Pleistocene Ngoronogoro volcanic highland Ar/Ar Chronology Preliminary analysis on refining the age of 1708 Turrin Rutgers Analysis the Monon Lake and Laschamp geomag-USDOE Reactor Sharing netic polarity events.

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Determination of Major, minor, and trace element of clast in 11 Fm g ovenan oMuru conglomerates may reveal the lithologi-USDOE Reactor C70 FPovng eatces Nw cal porvenance of this important tectonic ter-Sharing Zeagla s N rane at an extinct subduction zone.

Zealand Determination of Analysis of trace and minor elements in apa-Petrogenesis of Ore tite and granodiorite rocks of magnetite-USDOE Reactor 1711 Johnson University of Houston Deposits in the Blue sphalerite ore deposits in the Blue Mountains, Sharing Mountains, Oregon Oregon 1714 Lebanon Community Instrument Calibration Lebanon Community Hospital Hospital Providence St. Vincent Irradiate elastin coated cardio stent devices Providence NW Hospital to reduce thrombic reaction.

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M. K. Gems and Mineral irradiations to Mineral irradiations to determine color charac-M. K. Gems &

1716 Garcia Mdetermine color Minerals teristics.

Mi neralIs characteristics 1717 Webb Syracuse University Ar/Ar Dating Ar/Ar Dating Syracuse University 1718 Armstrong California State Fission Track Dating Fission track age dating of apatite grains from Department of University at Fullerton Santa Ana Mountains, California Geological Sciences Teaching and Portland Community Upward Bound OSTR Tour for Upward Bound USDOE Reactor 1719 Tours College Sharing Teaching and USDOE Reactor 1720 Tours Saturday Academy OSTR Tour OSTR Tour ShaRing ToursSharing Sedlimentology of The objective of this project is to analyze gold Oregon State Ocean Sand Using and silver in medium sized quartz sand. The USDOE Reactor 1721 Lewis University Stable Activatable tracer material is dispersed on the sea-floor, Sharing Tracers sampled periodically, and analyzed for its Au and Ag content.

Petrologic Evolution of The petrologic relationships between grani-PMesoproterozoic toids and gneisses of the Mesoproterozoic 1722 Tollo Basement Rocks, Blue Basement in the Blue Ridge Province, Virginia USDOE Reactor University are contrained through trace element geo-Sharing Ridgeiroince chemistry, petrology and detailed field stud-Virginia ies.

Oregon State Assessing Mechanisms Assessing Mechanisms that control C02 re-OSU Crop and Soil 1723 Sulzman Orsty that control C02 University release from soils lease from soils.

Science 1724 Stebbins-Boaz Willamette University Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Willamette University

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List of Major Research and Service Projects Performed or, In Progress Atthe Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Consequences of AhR-The basic goal of this project is to understand OSU Environmental 1725 Kerkvliet Oregon State mediated signaling in T the cellulr and molecular basis for the immune and Molecular T University lymphocytes.

suppression induced by Ah receptor (AhR) ligandsoxicology ympoyes.ligands.

Teaching Oregon State Academic Learning Ser-USDOE Reactor Shar-1726 University -

vices ing 176 and Tours Educational Tours Gamma radiation effects To determine the effects and evaluate the re-1727 Leber Heritage University sulting physical and organoleptic properties of Heritage University y on cork strength grape seed oil corks after gamma irradiation.

1728 Minc Oregon State Flux mapping Flux mapping of irradiation facilities OSU Radiation University Center Study of interactions of the onshore and off-Geological Survey of 1729 Hendriks Norway Recycling of an Orogen shore parts of the Norwegian continental mar-Norway gin near Lofoten and Vesteralen Islands 1730 Reese Oregon State Neutron Radiography Neutron Radiography using the real-time and OSU Radiation University film imaging methods Center One new area in both prevention and treatment Suppression of Prostate involves the use of histone deacetylate inhibi-Oregon State Cancer in Xenograft Model Linus Pauling 1731 Dashwood UiestbyHsoeDatlse tors to turn on tumor suppressor genes. TumorIntue University by Histone Deacetylase gupeso ee a

sprs n ees Institute Inhibitors suppression genes can suprress and reverse cancer cell growth.

Roswell Park Cancer Biodistribution of Gold Irradiation of mouse tissues to evaluate the Ford Nuclear 1732 Balogh Nancer Biodisito l

biodistribution of gold nanocomposites engi-Reactor, University of Institute anocomposites neered to target cancer cells.

Michigan Effect of Gamma Radiation Small test samples of polydimethyl siloxane elastomers cured by platinum addition chemis-1733 Green OxiBo ad iaoei try. These test samples will then be examined OxiBio Corp.

cal and Material Properties by chemical and material analysis for changes of Silicone Text Polym in material properties.

Origin of INAA to determine a suite of REE, Ba, Sr, and OSU Radiation 1734 Retallack University of Oregon O

oBarite Nodules, Nb in barite nodules from middle Miocene pa-Center Cucaracha, Panama leosols in the Cucaracha Formation, Panama.

1735 Minc Oregon State INAA of Arms INAA to determine inter-lab calibration based OSU Radiation Center University on New Ohio Red Clay and NIST SRMs.

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 1736 Rauch Nu-Trek, Inc GaAs Damage Studies Determination of the effect of radiation dam-Nu-Trek, Inc.

age on GaAs for use in X-ray detectors 1737 Roullet Oregon Health Silver Activation for Production of Ag-110m for Radiolabeled Mole-Oregon Health Sciences Sciences University Radiolabel cules University 1738 Kilinc University of Cincinnati INAA of geological Geochemical analysis of rock and mineral sam-USDOE Reactor Sharing samples.

pies for graduate student projects.

1739 Teaching Daly Middle School Reactor Tour Reactor Tour USDOE Reactor Sharing and Tours 1740 Freitag University of Jena Fission Track Analysis Apatite fission track dating to determine uplift Universitaet Jena hisotry of Tien Shan in Kamchatka.

1741 Higley Oregon State SIRAD Evaluation Determination of neutron response for SIRAD OSU NERHP University dosimeter.

Eastern Michigan INAA of Bricks and INAA of bricks and clays from historic St.

USDOE Reactor Sharing 1742 rma e aiersica Clays from St. Marys Marys City, MD.

1742 Armitage University City 1743 Teaching West Salem High Reactor Tour Reactor Tour USDOE Reactor Sharing and Tours School Oregon Department of Gamma Spectroscopy Use of gamma spectroscopy to determine ra-Oregon Department of 1744 Niles Energy of Columbia River dioactive contaminants in the sediments in the Energy Sediments Columbia River downstream from Hanford 1745 Girdner US National Parks C14 Measurements LSC analysis of samples for C14 measure-US National Parks Service ments.

Service 1746 Loveland Oregon State Tantalum Tracer Produce tantalum tracer for LBNL USDOE Reactor Sharing University 1747 Teaching East Linn Christian Reactor Tour Reactor Tour for Chemistry Class USDOE Reactor Sharing and Tours Academy Oregon State Black Bean Nutritional Activation of black bean powder for nutritional 1748 Hamby study. The chief isotopes are zinc, iron, and OSU Radiation Center University Study sodium.

Grant is focused upon nitrogen cycling in soil at 1749 Bottomley Oregon State Hot Spots of Nitrogen the small scale. We are trying to understand OSU Crop and Soil University Cycling in Soil how physical and biological parameters control Science the fate of ammonium and nitrate in soil.

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OSU Chemistry/Loveland University DOE 1752 Pringle Massachusetts I Ar/Ar Irradiations Irradiations of geological samples for Ar/Ar dat-Massachusetts Institute nstitute of Technology ing of Technology 1753 Rosencrans Flink Ink INAA of pigment sam-INAA of organic-based pigment samples for Flint Ink ples.

halogen (Cl, Br, I) by INAA.

1754 Wolfler Unversity of Tubingen Fission Track Irradia-Fission track age dating.

University of Tuebingen tions 1756 Wang University of Oregon NV Color Centers in Evaluation of optical properties due to displace-University of Oregon Diamond ment of carbon atoms in diamond.

State Prostate Cell Zinc Def-The goal of this study is to determine how zinc 15 HoOregon ett rsaeCl in DefiHH deficiency modulates the ability of normal OSU HHS oUniversity ciency Study healthy cells to respond to DNA damage.

Teaching Oregon State 1758 and Tours University -

Kids Spirit OSTR tour.

USDOE Reactor Sharing Educational Tours 1760 Helmhotz NWT Corp.

Na Production Production of Na-24 for use as an tracer.

NWT Corp One new area in both prevention and treatment Suppression of Pros-involves the use of histone deacetylate inhibi-1761 Ho University graft Model by Histone tors to turn on tumor suppressor genes. Tumor OSU HHS Deacetylase Inhibitors suppression genes can supress and reverse cancer cell growth.

1762 Day CH2M Hill Inc Sr-90 Column Studies Column studies to look at Sr-90 sorption in CH2M Hill Hanford soils.

1763 Svojtka Academy of Sciences Fission Track Fission Track Academy of Sciences of of the Czech Republic the Czech Republic

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Nanoparticle delivery The goal of this project is the development of 1764 Kelly Oregon State of therapeutic tumor radioavtive nanoparticles with surfacefuctionali-OSU Radiation Center University radiation zation that will result in localization at tumor sites.

1765 Beaver Weyerhaeuser Instrument Calibration Calibration of radiological instruments.

Weyerhaeuser Foster Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine Universite de 1766 Cosca Universite de Lausanne Ar/Ar Geochronology ages in various anthropologic and geologic ma-Lausanne, Humense terials.

Terra Nova Nurseries, Genera Modifications Use of gamma and fast neutron irradiations for Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.

using gamma Irradia genetic studies in genera.

Inc.

1767 Korlparation 1768 Bringman Brush-Wellman Antimony Source Pro-Production of Sb-124 sources Brush-Wellman duction 1769 Paulenova Oregon State Cerium Study Production of Ce-141/143.

OSU Radiation Center, University Paulenova 1770 Iverson AVI Bio Pharma, Inc.

Lab Swipes Analyze lab swipes for contamination using liq-AVI Bio Pharma uid scintillation counter.

1771 Otjen Oregon State Fire Instrument calibration Calibration of radiological response kits Oregon State Fire Marshal Marshall 1773 Utley EaglePicher INAA of Boro-silicate INAA to determine trace impurities of Boro-OSU Radiation Center Technologies matrix silicate matrix 1774 Cohen University of New Mex-Ar/Ar Geochronology Age dating of meteorites using the Ar/Ar dating University of New ico method Mexico Advanced Cochlear Working under a grant proposing to correct old-Advanced Cochlear 1775 Carson Systems Presbycusis Implant age hearing loss from Strial Presbycusis with an Systems implant.

SIGA Technologies is attempting to develop a safe, effective subunit vaccine delivery system 1776 HrubyolIGAe gorDevelopment of S.

using the bacterial commensal vector Strepto-SIGA Technologies, Inc.

vector coccus gordonii. The proposed studies will ex-Inc.

amine the immune response after vaccination of mice with the bacterial v Quaternary Dating Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine Quaternary Dating 1777 Storey Laboratory Quaternary Dating ages in various anthropologic and geologic ma-Laboratory terials.

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Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding This project subjects chitosan polymer in 40 and 70% DDA formulations to 9 and 18 Kgy, Gamma Exposure of Chi-boundary doses for commerical sterilization 1778 Campbell Genis, Inc.

tosan polymer for the purpose of determine changes in the Genis, Inc.

molecular weight and product formulation properites.

1779 Teaching Lebanon High School Teaching and tours OSTR tour.

USDOE Reactor 179 and Tours Sharing Wayne State INAA of Archaeological INAA of Inca-period archaeological ceramics USDOE Reactor 1780 Bray University Ceramics from South America.

Sharing Roswell Park Cancer INAA of Au nanocompo-INAA to determine biodistribution Au nano-Department of 1781 Bv cgh Institute sites.

composites in mouse tissue samples.

Defense, Roswell Park Cancer Institu Effects of gamma radia-1782 Rajagopal Oregon State tion on the germination Determine the effects of different doses of OSU Radiation Center University and growth of radish gamma radiation on radish seeds.

seeds 1783 Amrhein Amrhein Associates, Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Amrhein Associates, Inc Inc.

1784 Reese Oregon State DOE Instrumentation Refurbishment of Cornell and OSTR ion cham-DOE Instrumentation University Grant bers Teaching Oregon State Anthropology Depart-1786 and Tours University -

ment Anth 430/530 NAA class with Minc USDOE Educational Tours 1789 Was University of Michigan Irradiation of pressure Fast neutron CLICIT irradiation of steel sam-DOE University Reactor vessel steels.

pies and sample analysis Share Teaching Oregon State USDOE Reactor 1790 University -

OSTR Tour OSTR Tour Sharing and Tours Educational Tours Sharing Wayne State Sediment Characteristics Characterization of soil chemistry using INAA US DOE University 1800 Montante Wynversita and Aquatic Macrophyte to determine how sediment characteristics Reactor Share 1800 Montae University Distribution affect the distribution of aquatic macrophytes.

OSU Radiation Center Figure VI.C.1 Summary of the Types of Radiological Instrumentation Calibrated to Support the OSU TRIGA Reactor and the Radiation Center Number of Calibrations 50-45 40 35-30-25-20-15-10-5-

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Biochemistry/Biophysics 4

Botany and Plant Pathology 5

Center for Gene Research 1

Chemistry 1

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering 2

Crop Science 2

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5 Environmental Health and Safety 1

Fisheries and Wildlife 1

Food Sciences 2

Forest Engineering 1

Horticulture 1

LPI 3

Mechanical Engineering 1

Microbiology 7

Nutrition and Food Management 2

Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) 3 Pharmacy 3

Physics 5

Radiation Safety 19 Veterinary Medicine 8

Zoology 2

Total 80 111

OSU Radiation Center Agency Number of Calibrations Amnhein Associates 1

DOE Albany Research Center 3

ESCO Corporation 5

Evanite Fiber Corporation 1

FAA (TSA) 4 Good Samaritin Hospital 5

Lebanon Community Hospital 1

Marquess and Associates, Inc.

1 Occ. Health Lab 1

Oregon Department of Energy 29 Oregon Department of Transportation 5

Oregon Health Sciences University 25 Oregon Public Utilities Commission 4

Oregon State Health Division 54 Rogue Community College 1

Romic Environmental 1

State Fire Marshall 17 USDA Agricultural Research Service 2

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2

Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging Cytopathology 1

Weyerhaeuser 1

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05-06 Annual Renort Date Number of Visitors Name of Group 7/12/2005 13 Adventures in Learning 7/15/2005 20 Adventures in Learning 7/15/2005 20 Adventures in Learning-Forensic Science Class 7/15/2005 4

Incoming Undergrad Students 7/18/2005 15 Adventures in Learning-Forensic Science Class 7/19/2005 11 Adventures in Learning 7/19/2005 7

Adventures in Learning 7/20/2005 16 Kid Spirit 7/28/2005 12 Trillium Farm Home 7/29/2005 2

Barnett, Nathan 8/1/2005 2

Nesbitt, Gregory 8/3/2005 25 Ch 123 - Richardson, Alan 8/9/2005 3

Prospective Student - Berg, Rhett and Haley, and Tom Janusz 8/18/2005 3

Reed College - Drill 8/26/2005 1

Prospective Grad Student-Hrnciar, Daniel 8/29/2005 2

Prospective Customers - Michalsen, Mandy & Ben Garcia 8/29/2005 2

Prospective Student - Fisker, Nathanial and Sue 8/31/2005 22 U.N. Group from International Atomic Energy Agency 9/2/2005 2

Prospective Student - Olfson, Adam & Mark 9/14/2005 2

Family-Grundt,Ryan 9/19/2005 23 ACE meeting 9/20/2005 1

Robbins, John 9/29/2005 4

OSU Undergrads -Maggie James 10/10/2005 8

Odyssey - Peer - Sarah Bos 10/10/2005 5

Family - Barnett, Nathan 10/12/2005 14 Odyssey - Garrison Dyer 10/14/2005 3

Prospective UG - Adam/Roy Wheeler & James Brennwald

OSU Radiation Center Date Number of Visitors Name of Group 10/14/2005 15 Chemistry Advisory Board 10/18/2005 23 Engineering 111 - SeclO 10/18/2005 22 Engineering 111 - Sec13 10/18/2005 23 Engineering 1il - Sec12 10/18/2005 23 Engineering 111 - SecIl 10/19/2005 3

Corvallis Leadership Group 10/19/2005 17 Engineering 111 - Sec18 10/20/2005 24 Engineering 111 - Sec14 10/20/2005 23 Engineering 111 - Sec15 10/20/2005 23 Engineering 111 - Sec17 10/20/2005 22 Engineering 111 - Sec 16 10/24/2005 3

Family - Tack, Krysie 10/26/2005 1

OSHSU, Thomas, Charles 10/28/2005 3

Family - Karnes, Brittany 11/2/2005 1

Exchange Student - MacQuigg, Meridith 11/4/2005 1

Exchange Student - - MacQuigg, Meridith 11/4/2005 13 Robotics Group - Jeff McMorran 11/7/2005 16 Odyssey - Moira Dempsey 11/9/2005 6

Odyssey - Willett, Awbry 11/12/2005 207 Dad's Weekend 11/12/2005 13 Boy Scouts - Jack Standeven 11/15/2005 5

WOU Nuclear Chem Course - Rahim Kazerouni 11/15/2005 4

Washington State visitors 11/16/2005 6

Austin Entreupership Class (BA 260H) 11/17/2005 17 Odyssey - Shannon Kennedy 11/23/2005 30 Engineering 350H 12/2/2005 2

Potential Donor-Bill Lanfri I

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05-06 Annual Report Date Number of Visitors Name of Group 12/9/2005 2

Bevens, Eldon 12/12/2005 25 University Advancement Group 12/23/2005 4

Family - Grundt, Ryan 1/4/2006 5

Prospective UG -

Barrick, Alex 1/12/2006 18 NE 115 & RHP 115 1/12/2006 18 Chemistry 462 1/13/2006 2

Brad Singer-University of Wisconsin at Madison 1/17/2006 5

Chemistry 462 1/19/2006 11 Lebanon High School 1/24/2006 6

Chemistry 462 1/31/2006 9

Chemistry 462 1/31/2006 1

Dr. R~gis P. Babinet 2/8/2006 3

Family-Slauson, Marge 2/13/2006 6

Department of Graduate Review 2/14/2006 22 Chemistry 225H - SeclO 2/15/2006 21 General Science 152 2/16/2006 21 Chemistry 225H - Sec1l 2/17/2006 2

Potential Donor-Keith Pauley 2/17/2006 2

Iro, Said and Laura Moscowitz 2/20/2006 2

Prospective Student - Bowersox, Michael 2/20/2006 2

Prospective Student - Simpkins, Kyle 2/21/2006 23 Chemistry 222 - Sec12 2/21/2006 23 Chemistry 222 - Sec13 2/21/2006 22 Chemistry 222 - Sec14 2/21/2006 24 Chemistry 222 - Sec66 2/22/2006 18 Chemistry 222 - Sec33 2/22/2006 21 Chemistry 222 - Sec37 2/23/2006 21 Chemistry 222 - Sec42

OSU Radiation Center Date Number of Visitors Name of Group 2/23/2006 19 Chemistry 222 - Sec43 2/23/2006 24 Chemistry 222 - Sec62 2/23/2006 23 Chemistry 222 - Sec78 2/28/2006 22 Chemistry 222 - Sec26 2/28/2006 23 Chemistry 222 - Sec15 2/28/2006 24 Chemistry 222 - Sec17 2/28/2006 21 Chemistry 222 - Sec16 3/1/2006 21 Chemistry 222 - Sec32 3/1/2006 20 Chemistry 222 - Sec36 3/1/2006 23 Chemistry 205-Sec32 3/2/2006 18 Chemistry 222 - Sec46 3/2/2006 23 Chemistry 222 - Sec110 3/2/2006 22 Chemistry 222 - Sec63 3/2/2006 22 Chemistry 222 - Sec79 3/3/2006 8

Math Counts 3/6/2006 10 Weblos Scouts - Gail Bartholomew 3/6/2006 20 Chemistry 205-Sec22 3/7/2006 23 Chemistry 222 - Sec48 3/7/2006 19 Chemistry 205-Sec12 3/7/2006 24 Chemistry 222 - Sec252 3/8/2006 23 Chemistry 205-Sec36 3/8/2006 23 Chemistry 205-Sec18 3/9/2006 24 Chemistry 222 - Sec52 3/9/2006 22 Chemistry 222 - Sec38 3/9/2006 21 Chemistry 205-Sec54 3/10/2006 10 Prospective Grad Students 3/13/2006 24 Chemistry 205-Sec26 3/13/2006 25 AP Chemistry and AP Physics Seniors I

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05-06 Annual Report Date Number of Visitors Name of Group 3/14/2006 2

Vice Admiral John J. Grossenbacher 3/14/2006 23 Chemistry 205-Sec14 3/14/2006 22 Chemistry 205-Sec16 3/15/2006 22 Chemistry 205-Sec42 3/16/2006 23 Chemistry 222 - Sec53 3/21/2006 2

Lande, Aaron 3/24/2006 8

Boy Scouts -Jack Standeven 3/27/2006 6

Impact Movement 3/29/2006 4

German Exchange Student - Alexander 4/4/2006 26 Thurston High School Students 4/4/2006 4

Tsinghua University 4/10/2006 3

Prospective Student - Mieloszyk, Alex 4/11/2006 3

Prospective Student -Lewis, Reid 4/11/2006 2

Prospective Student - Young, Mitchell 4/11/2006 1

Potential Donor-Rockett, Eric 4/14/2006 2

Prospective Student - Swearingen 4/14/2006 1

Prospective Student - Quennoz, John 4/18/2006 10 OSU Student Affairs 4/19/2006 2

Register Guard - Bolt, Greg 4/19/2006 3

Building Design Group 4/21/2006 8

Bennion, John 5/6/2006 119 Mom's Weekend 5/10/2006 0

General Science 152 5/10/2006 0

GS 151 5/17/2006 3

Olson, Matt 5/17/2006 5

Anth 430/530 5/19/2006 8

Emergency Response Leadership Class 5/19/2006 2

Stevenson, John

OSU R;;dinfitin C'.ntpr Date Number of Visitors Name of Group 5/22/2006 2

Schuette, Taylor 5/24/2006 16 Science 5/25/2006 20 AP Biology 5/26/2006 11 Health Physics (X-Ray Tech class) 6/1/2006 1

Prospective Student - Jenkins, Chris 6/7/2006 1

Family - Marion, Brandy 6/12/2006 4

Family - Campbell, Shirley 6/14/2006 7

Family - Lopez, Alex 6/15/2006 1

Family - Marion, Brandy 6/19/2006 3

Family - Elliot, Tony 6/20/2006 10 Energy Center Planners 6/22/2006 16 National Guard 6/23/2006 9

7th - 12th Grade 4Hers 6/23/2006 16 7th - 12th Grade 4Hers 6/26/2006 4

START group 6/27/2006 3

Pohl Family Total 2146 I

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ft iIlota lions Alienikoff, I.N., Wintsch, R. P., Tollo, R.P., Unruh, D.M., Fanning, C.M.,

Schimtz, M.DAges and origin of the Killingworth complex and relatedI rocks, south-central connecticut: Implications for the tectonic evolu-tion of southern New England, American Journal of Science, accepted for publication.

Alonso, R.N., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Haschke, M., Hilley, G.E., Schoen-bohm, L., Sobel, E. R., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H., Tectonics, cli-mate, and landscape evolution of the southern Central Andes: The Ar-!

gentine Puna Plateau and adjacent Regions between 22 and 28 S lat:

in Oncken, 0., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P., G^tze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., and Wigger, P., editors, The Andes - Active Subduc-tion Orogeny: Frontiers in Earth Sciences, Springer Verlag, in press.

Armitage, R. A, Minc, L., Hill, D. V., and Hurry, S. D "Characterization of Bricks and Tiles from 17th-Century Maryland." In Proceedings of the 3 4 th International Symposium on Archaeometry, J. Perez-Arantegui, I

Ed. Institucion <<Fernando el Catolico>>: Zaragoza, Spain, 2006, pp 387-392.

Armitage, R. A., Minc, L., Hill, D. V., and Hurry S. D.. "Characterization of Bricks and Tiles from the 17th-century Brick Chapel, St. Mary's City, Maryland in Journal of Archaeological Science, 33 (2006): 615-627.

Armitage, R.A., Minc, L., Hurry, S.D., and Doolin, M., "Characterization of 3

building materials from the brick chapel at Historic St. Mary's City" In Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation, M. Glascock, Ed. ACS Symposium Series, Washington, D.C., in press, 2006.

Bailey, C.M., Southworth, C.S., and Tollo, R.P., 2006, Tectonic history of the Blue Ridge in north-central Virginia, in Pazzaglia, F.A., ed., Excur-sions in Geology and History: Field Trips in the Middle Atlantic States:

I Geological Society of America Field Guide 8, p. 113-134, doi. 10. 1130/2006.fld.008(07).

Batenkov, 0.1., Eismont, V.P., Majorov, M.J., Smirnov, A.N., Aleklett, K.,

Loveland, W., Blomgren, I., Conde, H., Duijvestijn, M., and Koning, A.,

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Wang, L.L., Zhu, D.C., and Liao, Z.L., 2006, Post-collisional ultrapotas-sic rocks in Lhasa block, Tibetan Plateau: Spatial and temporal distri-bution and its implications: Acta Petrologica Sinica 22 (4): 787-794.

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Brownlee, Sarah (Advisor: Renne, UC Berkeley) Paleomagnetism and Thes and Thermochronology of the Ecstall Pluton, British Columbia, (PhD candi-P date).

Stud*ent Pr*o~j*ct Bruso, Jason (Advisor: Alena Paulenova) Speciation of Plutonium and Repor Neptunium in UREX + Extration Systems (MS, Nuclear Engineering).

Chang, Su-chin (Advisor: Renne, UC Berkeley) Geochronology of the Permo-Triassic Transition (PhD candidate).

Cleveland, Matthew (Advisor: Alena Paulenova) Hydrolytical Stability of Acetohydroxamic Acid in the Nitric Acid/TBP Extraction Systems (BS, Nuclear Engineering).

Coyner, Samuel (Advisor: D. Foster) Pb-Pb geochronology and thermo-chronology of titanite using MC-ICP-MS (PhD - University of Florida, in progress).

Davidson, Michelle (Advisor: Attila Kilinc) Petrology and Geochemistry of the Columbia River Basalts (Master of Science).

Deeken, Anke (Advisors Dr. Sobel / Dr. Scheuber) Age of Initiation and Growth Pattern of the Puna Plateau, NW-Argentina, Constrained by AFT Thermochronology (Diploma student, Freie Universitaet, Berlin).

Doolin, Melissa. Undergraduate participant in ongoing project; will not have a thesis based on OSU-related work. (BS - Chemistry)

Dorsett, Skye (advisor K. S. Krane), MS in physics; expected June 2007.

Eastman, Micah (Advisor K. S. Krane), Neutron Capture Cross Sections and Resonance Integrals of Tellurium Isotopes (BS in physics, June 2006).

Funatake,Castle J. (Advisor: Nancy Kerkvliet) The Influence of Aryl Hy-drocarbon Receptor Activation on T Cell Fate (PhD in May 2006).

Gifford, Jennifer N. (Advisor:

D. Foster) Quantifying Eocene and Miocene Extension in the Sevier Hinterland, NE Nevada (Masters - University of Florida, in progress).

Grice, Warren (Advisor: D. Foster) Style and Timing of Mylonitization, Detachment, Ductile Attenuation and Metamorphism in the Anaconda Metamorphic Core Complex, West-Central Montana (Masters - Univer-sity of Florida, completed 2006).

Jarboe, Nick (Advisor: Coe, UC Santa Cruz) Paleomagnetism and Geo-chronology of the Steens Mountain Polarity Transition (PhD candidate).

Knight, Kim (Advisor: Renne, UC Berkeley) Applications of Noble Gas Geochronology (PhD candidate).

Levine, Jonathan (Advisor: Muller, UC Berkeley) Geochronology of Lunar Impact Melt Spherules from the Apollo 12 Site (PhD completed 2005).

Lobach, Sergiy Y. (Advisor: Alena Paulenova) Mass-Spectroscopic Charac-terization of Organometallic Complexes in Biphasic Extraction Systems (PhD, Nuclear Engineering).

I Marshall, Nikki B. (Advisor: Nancy Kerkvliet) The ex-vivo characterization of allo-reactive CD4÷ T cells isolated from TCDD-treated mice during I

an acute GvH response (PhD student).

Matteson, Brent (Advisor: Alena Paulenova) Speciation of Tetravalent Metals in Biphasic Extraction Systems (PhD, Chemistry).

Montario, M. (Advisor: John Garver), Canyon incision of the western flank of the Andes in northern Peru (MSc, SUNY Albany, Active student).

I Monteleone, Brian (Advisor: Suzanne Baldwin) Timing and Conditions of the Formation of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, SE Papua New Guniea (PhD candidate).

I Mora, Andrts (PhD student, Uni. Potsdam, with Dr. Strecker): Late Ceno-zoic uplift and deformation of the eastern flank of the Columbian East-ern Cordillera 3

Morgan, Leah (Advisor: Renne, UC Berkeley) Geochronology of the Middle Stone Age Archeological Complex (PhD candidate).

Naik, R. (Advisor: Walt Loveland) Two studies of nuclear reactions 3

(Chemistry, PhD).

Neeway, J. (Advisor: Walt Loveland) Inverse Fission (Chemistry, PhD).

3 Parra, Mauricio (Advisor: Dr. Strecker) Neogene and Quaternary synoro-genic sedimentation and exhumation history of the eastern foreland fold-and-thrust belt of the Columbian Andes (PhD student, Uni. Pots-dam).

I Perry, S.E. (Advisor: John Garver), Provenance of strata on the yakatuk block, Alaska. (MSc, SUNY Albany, finished August 2006).

Sadi, Supriyadi (Advisor: Alena Paulenova) Radiation Changes in the Tar-get Backing Materials (PhD, Radiation Health Physics).

Solpuker, Utku (Advisor: Attila Kilinc) Dissertation title: Petrology of the 3

Kula Volcanic Province, Western Turkey (PhD candidate).

Sprunger, P. (Advisor: Walt Loveleand) Neutron Multiplicities in the Fis-sion of the Actinides (Physics, PhD).

Stroud, Misty (Advisor:

D. Foster) Significance of 2.4 Ga orogeny in SW Laurentia (PhD - University of Florida, in progress).

1 Tack, Krystina M. (Advisor: Kathy Higley) Determining the Bioavailability of Soil-Associated Radium using In-vitro Methodology (May 2006).

Takahashi, Ken (Advisor: K. S. Krane), BS in physics, expected June 2007.

Taylor, Joshua (Advisors: Paul Fitzgerald and Laura Webb,) Thermochro-nology and Tectonics of intraplate deformation in SE Mongolia (PhD I

aspirant).

Terrien, Jessica (Advisor: Suzanne Baldwin) Integration of Thermochro-nology, Gravity and Aeromagnetic Data from the Catalina Metamorphic Core Complex, AZ: Insight in to the Role of Magmatism and the Timing of Deformation (PhD aspirant).

Union College: Farrell, Jeremy, Herrmann, Rachel C., MacDonald, Jona-than, Zalesky, Marek, Hadley, Stephen, A., Meyer, Nicholas, R, D. Lo, and at the University at Albany (State University of New York): E. A.

Albert.

Vinodkumar, A.M. (Advisor: Walt Loveland).

Yan, Michelle. (Advisor: Ho Emily) Zinc, gene expression and DNA integ-rity. (PhD candidate).

Alienikoff, J.N., Tollo, R.P., Yacob, E.Y., and Fanning, C.N., 2005, SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of Grenville gneissses and granitoids: Geological Presentations Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 1, p. 9.

Armitage, R. A., Minc, L., Hurry, S.D., and Hill, D.V., "Characterization of building materials from the brick chapel at Historic St. Mary's City" 2 3 1st ACS National Meeting, Archaeological Chemistry Symposium, Atlanta, GA (March 2006).

Armitage, R. A., Minc, L., Hurry, S.D., Hill, D.V., and Doolin, M.,

"Characterization of building materials from the brick chapel at Historic St. Mary's City" 3 6 th International Symposiu, on Archaeometry, Que-bec City, QC (May 2006).

Ave Lallemant, H.G., Francis, A. H., Sisson, V. B., Hemming, S. R., Ro-den-Tice, M., Brueckner, H.K., and Harlow, G. E.

(2005). Two Jadeit-ite Belts in the Montagua Valley Fault Zone, Guatemala: Two Subduc-tion Events or One Subduction Event with Retrogression? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT in October 2005.

Baldwin S.L., Webb, L.E., Monteleone, B., Little, T.A., Fitzgerald, P.G.,

Peters, K., and Chappell, J.L., 2006. Continental Crust Subduction and Exhumation: insights from eastern Papua New Guinea. 16th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, August 27-September 1, 2006, Mel-bourne, Australia.

Baldwin, S.L., 2005, Thermochronology of active plate boundaries, GSA Abstracts with Programs, vol. 37, No. 7, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City October 16-19, 2005.

Baldwin, S.L., Monteleone, B.D., Little, T.A., Webb, L.E., and Fitzgerald, P.G., 2006, Subduction to rifting evolution of the Australian-Woodlark plate boundary zone of eastern Papua New Guinea: insights into the 4-D nature of continental subduction and exhumation processes, G.S.A.

annual meetings abstract, in press.

Baldwin, S.L., Webb, L.E., Monteleone, B.D., Little, T.A., Fitzgerald, P.G.,

Chappell, J.L., 2005, Metamorphism and exhumation of the youngest known HP/UHP terrane on Earth, eastern Papua New Guinea Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V54B-01.

Beardsley, A. G., Sisson, V. B., Ave Lallemant, H. G., and Roden-Tice, M.K. (2006). Shallow Level Emplacement of the Leeward Antilles, Off-shore Venezuela:

Using Fluid Inclusion Analysis. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, in press. National Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Philadelphia, PA on October 22-25, 2006.

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I Brownlee*, S.J., Renne, P.R., and Hollister, L.S., 2005, Refining the Ther-mal History of the Ecstall Pluton, British Columbia: A Test of the Re-I magnetization Hypothesis: Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl.,

Abstract V13A-0513. *PhD Student Bruso, Jason E., Tkac, Peter, Matteson, Brent and Paulenova, Alena, "Reduction and complexation kinetics of M(IV) in the presence of ace-tohydroxamic acid" American Chemical Society, Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Symposium, Atlanta, March 2006.

I Carrapa, B. & DeCelles, P.G.., 2006, Detrital apatite fission track thermo-chronology of the Argentine Puna: implications for early plateau devel-opment, in Ventura, B., and Lisker, F., eds., European Conference on I

thermochronology, Volume 49: Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesell-schaft fuer Geowissenschaften: Bremen, p. 19.

Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., and Gehrels,G., Eocene detrital record of the 3

Argentine Puna: implications for early plateau development, 96thAn-nual Meeting Geologische Vereinigung, Potsdam 2006, Terra Nostra, v.

2006/3, p. 37-38.

Chang*, S., Knight*, K.B., and Renne, P.R., 2005, Calibration of the Permo-Triassic Magnetostratigraphic Time Scale: Constraints from the Dewey Lake Formation, West Texas: Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V13A-0520. *PhD Student Deeken, A. et al., 2006. Construction of the southern Eastern Cordillera, NW-Argentina: from early Cretaceous extension to middle Miocene shortening, constrained by apatite fission track thermochronometry.

i In: B. Ventura and F. Lisker (Editors), European Conference on ther-mochronology. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Geowis-senschaften, Bremen, pp. 31.

Deeken, A., Sobel, E.R., Coutand, I., Riller, U., and Strecker, M.R., Lat-eral growth of an orogen: insights from apatite fission-track thermo-chronometry, southern Eastern Cordillera, NW-Argentina, 96thAnnual Meeting Geologische Vereinigung, Potsdam 2006, Terra Nostra, v.

2006/3, p.41.

Fodor, R.V., and Vetter, S.K., 2006. Mid-Cenozoic magmatism of central Arizona: petrology of alkalic basalts of the Superstition-Goldfield vol-canic province. Talk presented at "Volcanic flows and falls: a confer-ence honoring Dr. M.F. Sheridan, University of Buffalo, May 10-12, 2005.

Foster, D.A., and Gray, D.R., 2005, Strain rate in a Paleozoic accretionary orogen: the western Lachlan Orogen, Australia: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 16-19, 2005, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 552.

Foster, D.A., Coyner, S., Mueller, P.A., Kamenov, G.D., Gray, D.R., and Goscombe, B., 2006, Linking metamorphism, deformation, and geo-chronology of accessory phases: examples from the Kaoko Belt, Na-mibia, 16th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts, July.

Grice, W.C. Jr., Foster, D.A., and Kalakay, T.J., 2005, Quantifying exhu-mation and cooling of the Eocene Anaconda metamorphic core com-plex, western Montana: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 16-19, 2005, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 230.

Haire, Jonathan M., Lobach, Sergiy Y., "Cask Size and Weight Reduction Through the Use of Depleted Uranium Dioxide-Concrete Material",

32nd Waste Management Conference, Tucson, AZ, February 26-March 2, 2006.

Haynes, E.A., Fodor, R.V., Coleman, D.S., Jensen, P., 2005. Geochemical and isotopic compositions of the Imid-Cretaceous Fort Know and Asso-ciated plutons, Fairbanks, Alaska: implications for intrusion-related gold systems. Talk presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Oct. 2005.

Heermance, R., Chen, J., Burbank, D., and Sobel, E.R., 2005, Initiation of foreland basin deposition and evidence for syn-tectonic Xiyu conglom-erate in the Kashi foreland basin, W. China, AGU Fall meeting: Eos, Trans. AGU: San Francisco.

Higley, K. Assessing and Evaluating the Self-indicating Instant Radiation Alert Dosimeter (SIRAD) was prepared for presentation at the HPS 2005 meeting in Spokane.

Ho, Emily, 2006, NIH/NIAAA Workshop-Zinc, Alcohol and Immunity, (invited speaker] plenary talk "Zinc status, DNA integrity and oxidative stress.

Jarboe*, N.A., Coe, R.C., Glen, J.M., and Renne, P.R., 2005, Compilation of a Composite Geomagnetic Polarity Reversal Path Recorded in Ba-salts Erupted During Initial Yellowstone Hotspot Volcanism: Eos Trans.

AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GP21A-0016. *PhD Student Jourdan, F., Renne, P.R., and Mundil, R., 2005, Ar/Ar and U/Pb Ages and Geochemistry of the Benton Range Dike Swarm, SE California: New Evidence for an Independence Poly-phased Dike Swarm: Eos Trans.

AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V21D-0634.

Karner, D.B., Marra, F., Palladino, D.M., Renne, P.R., and Sottili, G.,

2005, Should Rome Worry? The Sabatini Volcanic District, Central It-aly: Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V44B-06.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "Activation of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Alters the Differentiation of CD4÷ T cells", presented by Dr. Castle Funatake at the Earle A. Chiles Research Institute in Portland, OR. on June 1, 2006.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "AHR mediated induction of CD4*CD25÷ T regulatory cells as a mechanism of TCDD immunotoxicity", presented by Dr.

Nancy Kerkvliet at the Sixth Duesseldorf Symposium on Immunotoxi-cology: Biochemistry and Function of the Aryl hydrocarbon Receptor and other PAS-bHLH proteins, Duesseldorf, Germany, Sept 28-30, 2005.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "Dendritic Cells as Targets for Immunosuppression",

presented by Dr. Nancy Kerkvliet, International Society of Toxicology, Cracow, Poland, Sept 12, 2005.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "Donor CD4÷ cells isolated during an acute GvH re-sponse share characteristics with T-regulatory cells", Poster presenta-tion by Nikki Marshall at the May 2006 Federation of Clinical Immunol-ogy Societies (FOCIS) meeting in San Francisco.

I Kerkvliet, Nancy, "Examining the Role of IL-2 in TCDD-mediated suppres-sion of the GVH response", presented by Castle Funatake to the Cas-cade Cytometry Users Group on February 7, 2006 in Corvallis.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "Exposure to TCDD leads to the generation of CD4+ T cells with regulatory T cell characteristics", Platform presentation by Castle Funatake on Sept 9, 2005 at the Pacific NW Association of Toxi-cologists meeting in Astoria, OR.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "Flow Cytometry is Key to Elucidating the Mechanisms of Dioxin Immunotoxicity", presented by Dr. Nancy Kerkvliet to the Cascade Cytometry User's Group, Corvallis, Feb 7, 2006.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "From Regulated Chemical to Regulatory T cells...Update on Dioxin", presented by Dr. Nancy Kerkvliet to the OSU Dept. of Mi-crobiology, Spring Colloquium, May 11, 2006.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "Ligation of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) Dif-ferentially Modulates Activation of CD4÷ and CD8*T cells," presented by Dr. Castle Funatake at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immu-nology, San Diego, CA on August 25, 2006.

Kerkvliet, Nancy, "The Influence of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activation on T Cell Fate", Thesis defense by Castle Funatake presented to Ore-gon State University on May 1, 2006.

I Knight*, K.B., and Renne, P.R., 2005, Evidence for Extended (5-10 Ma)

Emplacement of Ferrar Dolerite from 4 0Ar/ 39Ar Geochronology: Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V23A-0684. *PhD Stu-I dent Krane, Ken, "Neutron capture cross sections: An undergraduate research program," Department of Physics, Kent State University, March 2006.

I Krane, Ken, "Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Tellurium Isotopes," M.

Eastman and K. S. Krane, Annual Meeting of the Northwest Section of the APS, Tacoma WA, May 2006.

Little, T.A., Monteleone, B.D., Baldwin, S.L., and Fitzgerald, P.G., 2006, Rapid slip-rate and low shear strength of a high finitie-slip low-angle normal fault: Normanby Island, Woodlark Rift, Papua new Guinea, Eos.

I Trans. AGU Fall meeting, in press.

Loveland, W. ""Synthesis of Transactinide Nuclei using Radioactive beams," Nuclear Chemistry Gordon Conference, June, 2006.

I Loveland, W. "Attempt to confirm superheavy element production the 48Ca + 238U reaction," APS DNP meeting, Maui, Hawaii, September, 2005.

Loveland, W. "Neutron Multiplicities and Energy Spectra in the Fission of Actinide Nuclei," SSAA Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, August, 2005.

Loveland, W. "Overview of the synthesis of the heaviest elements," Nu-clear Structure 06, Oak Ridge, TN, July, 2006.

Loveland, W. "Radiochemistry as a tool in RIB studies" MARC VII, Kona, Hawaii, April, 2006.

Loveland, W. "Study of fusion enhancement/hindrance with 132Sn," APS DNP meeting, Maui, Hawaii, September, 2005.

Loveland, W. "Survival of Hot Heavy Nuclei," ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, April, 2005.

Loveland, W. "Synthesis of the heaviest elements" TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, May, 2006.

Loveland, W. "Synthetic paths to the Heaviest Elements," Invited semi-nar, TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, July, 2005.

Loveland, W., Gilfillan, F.A "Modern Alchemy:The Synthesis of the Heavi-est Elements," Award Lecture, Oregon State University, June, 2005.

Matteson, Brent, Bruso, Jason E., Tkac, Peter, Paulenova, Alena, "Speciation of Hexavalent U and Tetravalent Pu in Urex+ Extraction Systems", 32nd Waste Management Conference, Tucson, AZ, Febru-ary 26-March 2, 2006.

Matteson, Brent, Bruso, Jason E., Tkac, Peter and Paulenova, Alena, "Effects of nitrate on extraction of tetravalent metals in UREX+"

American Chemical Society, Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Sym-posium, Atlanta, March 2006.

Matteson, Brent, Tkac, Peter, Bruso, Jason E.,

Lobach, Sergiy and Paulenova, Alena, "Extraction of Tetravalent Metals by TBP: Effect of Nitrate and Acetohydroxamic Acid", Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry - Marc VII, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, April, 3-7, 2006.

Monteleone, B.D., Baldwin, S.L., Fitzgerald, P.G., and Little, T.A., 2006, Thermochronologic constraints for metamorphic core complex forma-tion on Normanby Island, southeastern Papua New Guinea, Geological Society of America Northeastern Sectional Meeting Abstract, in press.

Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R. & Sobel, E.R, Erosion and the struc-tural geometry of inversion orogens: insights from the Eastern Cordil-lera of Colombia, 96thAnnual Meeting Geologische Vereinigung, Pots-dam 2006, Terra Nostra, v. 2006/3, p.75.

Morgan*, L.E., Renne, P.R., WoldeGabriel, G., and White, T.D., 2005, Geochronology and geochemistry.of volcanic glasses associated with early Homo sapiens in Ethiopia: Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet.

Suppl., Abstract U43A-0822. *PhD Student Mortimer, E., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E.R.,

Sosa, Gomez, J, and Strecker, M.R., Fragmentation of a foreland ba-sin in response to out-of-sequence basement uplifts and structural re-activation: El Cajon-Campo del Arenal basin, NW Argentina, 96thAn-nual Meeting Geologische Vereinigung, Potsdam 2006, Terra Nostra, v.

2006/3, p. 76.

Mueller, P.A., Foster, D, Mogk, D., Wooden J., Vogl, J., and Kamenov, G.D., 2005, Tectonic and Paleogeographic implications of detrital min-eral ages from the Uinta Mountain Group, Utah: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 16-19, 2005, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 218.

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Nomade, S., Knight*, K.B., Beutel, E., Renne, P.R., Verati, C., and Feraud, G., 2005, Duration and Eruptive Chronology of CAMP: Implica-tions for Central Atlantic Rifting and the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary:

Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V13A-0519. *PhD Student Orentzel, L., Kuhlman, M., and Tollo; R.P., 2005, Preliminary results from field mapping and petrologic analysis of Grenville-age basement rocks, Washington and Woodville 7.5-minute quadrangles: Geological Society I

of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 1, p. 25.

Oskin, M., Burbank, D.W., and Sobel, E.R., 2005, Transient landscape evolution of a progressively exhumed basement-cored uplift: Kyrgyz I

Range, Tien Shan, AGU Fall meeting: Eos, Trans. AGU: San Francisco.

Parra, M, Mora, A., Jaramillo, C., Rueda, M. & Strecker, M.R., Palaeogene mountain building in the northeastern Andes reflected by syntectonic I

sediments in the Medina Basin, Eastern Cordillera (4-5_N), Colombia, 96thAnnual Meeting Geologische Vereinigung, Potsdam 2006, Terra Nostra, v. 2006/3, p. 81.

Paulenova, Alena, Tkac, Peter, "Complexation of Uranium (VI) with Acetohydroxamic Acid in Tributylphosphate-Nitric Acid Extraction System" 1 5th Radiochemical Conference, Marianske Lazne, April 23-28, 2006.

I Paulenova, Alena, Tkac, Peter, Cleveland, Mathew, Bruso, Jason E., Lo-bach, Sergiy and Matteson, Brent, "Reactivity of Acetohydroxamic Acid in HNO3/TBP Biphasic System" 9th International Information ex-I change Conference, Nimes, France, September 25-29, 2006.

Renne, P.R., Feinberg*, J.M., Waters, M.R., Cabrales, J.A., Castillo, P.O.,

Campa, M.P., and Knight*, K.B., 2005, Age of the Xalnene Ash, Cen-I tral Mexico and Archeological Implications: Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52),

Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U42A-04. *PhD Student Roden-Tice, Mary K., Raymond, Sarah M*., and West, David P. Jr.

3 (2006). Early to Late Cretaceous Cooling Across New Hampshire Based on Apatite Fission-Track Ages. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p. 91. Northeastern Section Meeting of the Geo-logical Society of America in Harrisburg, PA on March 20-22, 2006.

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undergraduate students at Plattsburgh State University Sobel, E.R., and Seward, D., 2006, Influence of etching conditions on apatite fission track etch pit diameter, in Ventura, B., and Lisker, F.,

eds., European Conference on thermochronology, Volume 49:

Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Geowissenschaften:

Bremen, p. 128-130.

Sobel, E.R., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Deeken, A.D., Hilley, G.E., and Strecker, M.R., 2005, Influence of aridity and internally-drained con-tractional basins on formation of the Central Andean Plateau, 19th Col-loquium on Latin American Geosciences, Volume 2005/1: Terra Nostra: Potsdam, p. 111-112.

Sobel, E.R., Chen, J., and Heermance, R., 2005, Late Oligocene initiation of shortening in the Southwestern Chinese Tian Shan: Implications for Neogene shortening rate variations, AGU Fall meeting: Eos, Trans.

AGU: San Francisco.

006AnmiuaLReorL Sobel, Edward R., Coutand, Isabelle, Deeken, Anke, Links between rock erodability, topographic growth and flexural subsidence, 96thAnnual Meeting Geologische Vereinigung, Potsdam 2006, Terra Nostra, v.

2006/3, p. 94.

Stone, Kathleen A.* and Roden-Tice, Mary K. (2006). A Comparison of U-Th-Total Pb Microprobe Ages and Apatite Fission-Track Ages for Clo-sure Temperature Estimates in the Southern and Eastern Adirondacks.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p. 5.

Northeastern Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Harrisburg, PA on March 20-22, 2006. *undergraduate students at Plattsburgh State University Tack, K. Determining the Bioavailability of Soil-Associated Radium using In-vitro Methodology - HPS Annual Meeting, June 2006, Providence Rhode Island.

Tengku Hassan, T.M.S., Tollo, R.P., and Michel, L.A., 2006, Petrologic and tectonic significance of Grenville-age biotite-bearing granitoids, Blue Ridge province, northern Virginia:, Geological Society of America Ab-stracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 2, p. 76.

Terrien, J.J, Finn, C., and Baldwin S.L., 2005, Reassessment of the role of magmatism in the evolution of the Catalina MCC: evidence for a felsic-intermediate pluton at shallow depths, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T13C-0484.

Terrien, J.J., and Baldwin, S.L., 2005, Thermal histories of the Wilderness suite granitoids from the Catalina metamorphic core complex revealed by K-feldspar 4 0Ar/ 39Ar ages and MDD models, GSA Abstracts with Pro-grams, vol. 37, No. 7, p 448.

Thiede, R. & Hoth, S., To what extent is mountain building in the Hima-laya triggered by erosion?, 96thAnnual Meeting Geologische Vere-inigung, Potsdam 2006, Terra Nostra, v. 2006/3, p. 98.

Thiede, R.C. et al., 2006. Timing of dome formation in the Tethyan Hima-laya, Leo Pargil (NW India). In: B. Ventura and F. Lisker (Editors),

European Conference on thermochronology. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Geowissenschaften, Bremen, pp. 144.

Thiede, R.C., Arrowsmith, J. Bookhagen, R, B, McWilliams, M., Sobel, E.R., Strecker, M.R., Timing of dome formation and extension in the Tethyan Himalaya, Leo Pargil, NW-India, 96thAnnual Meeting Geolo-gische Vereinigung, Potsdam 2006, Terra Nostra, v. 2006/3, p. 98.

Thiede, R.C., Arrowsmith, R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M., Sobel, E.,

and Strecker, M., (2005). From tectonically to erosionally controlled development of the Himalayan Orogen. HKT-Worshop 2005 Aussois, France, Abstract, Glologie Alpine MEmoire H.S. N_ 44.

Thiede, R.C., Arrowsmith, R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M., Sobel, E.,

and Strecker, M. (2005). Mid Miocene to recent E-W extension in the Tethyan Himalaya, Leo Parigil Dome, NW-India HKT-Workshop 2005 Aussois, France, Abstract, Gtologie Alpine Mlmoire H.S. N_ 44.

I 0-SL R2diatian C~enter-U Thiede, R.C., Bookhagen, B., Arrowsmith, R., Sobel, E. and Strecker, M.R., (2005). Erosion or channel flow? What controls the development of the Himalayan fold-and-thrust; EGU05 Vienna, Geophysical Re-search Abstracts, Vol. 7, 04767, 2005.

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