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Submittal of Oregon State University Radiation Center and OSTR Annual Report for the Period July 1, 2012 Through June 30, 2013
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oSU Oregon State UNIVERSITY Radiation Center Oregon State University, 100 Radiation Center, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5903 T 541-737-2341 I F 541-737-0480 I http://ne.oregonstate.edu/facilities/radiationcenter October 29, 2013 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 6.7.1 of the OSTR Technical Specifications, we are hereby submitting the Oregon State University Radiation Center and OSTR Annual Report for the period July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.

The Annual Report continues the pattern established over many 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.

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

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Sincerely, R. Reese Director Cc:

Alexander Adams, USNRC Craig Bassett, USNRC Ken Niles, ODOE Rick Spinrad, OSU Rich Holdren, OSU Andy Klein, OSU AcOo

Submitted by:

Steve R. Reese, Director Radiation Center Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5903 Telephone: (541) 737-2341 Fax: (541) 737-0480 To satisy the requirements of:

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

B. Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC; Subcontract Award No. 00074510.

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

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Colntenits Part I-Overview Executive Summary..........

Introduction...............

Overview of the Radiation Center.

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

Reactor Operations Committee..

Professional & Research Faculty.

Part Ill-Facilities Research Reactor............

Analytical Equipment.........

Radioisotope Irradiation Sources.

Laboratories & Classrooms.....

Instrument Repair & Calibration..

Library...................

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4 Part IV-Reactor O perating Statistics......................................

Experim ents Perform ed.............................................

Unplanned Shutdow ns.............................................

Changes Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.59......................................

Surveillance & M aintenance..........................................

Part V-Radiation Protection Introduction........................................................

Environmental Releases...............................................

Personnel Doses......................................................

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

Environm ental Survey Data..........................................

Radioactive Material Shipm ents.......................................

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0 Tables Table Title Page 111.1 Gam m acell 220 6"Co Irradiator Use............................................

11 111.2 Student Enrollment in Courses at the Radiation Center...............................

12 IV.1 Present OSTR Operating Statistics..................................................

17 IV.2 OSTR Use Time in Terms of Specific Use Categories..................................

18 IV.3 OSTR Multiple Use Time.........................................................

18 IV.4 Use of OSTR Reactor Experiments..................................................

19 IV.5 Unplanned Reactor Shutdowns and Scrams.........................................

19 V.1 Radiation Protection Program Requirements and Frequencies...........................

32 V.2 Monthly Summary of Liquid Effluent Releases to the Sanitary Sewer......................

33 V.3 Annual Summary of Liquid Waste Generated and Transferred...........................

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35 V.5 Annual Summary of Solid Waste Generated and Transferred.............................

36 V.6 Annual Summary of Personnel Radiation Doses Received..............................

37 V.7 Total Dose Equivalent Recorded Within the TRIGA Reactor Facility........................

38 V.8 Total Dose Equivalent Recorded on Area Within the Radiation Center......................

39 V.9 Annual Summary of Radiation and Contamination Levels Within the Reactor.................

41 V.10 Total Dose Equivalent at the TRIGA Reactor Facility Fence..............................

42 V.11 Total Dose Equivalent at the Off-Site Gamma Radiation Monitoring Stations.................

43 V.12 Annual Average Concentration of the Total Net Beta Radioactivity.........................

44 V.13 Beta-Gamma Concentration and Range of LLD Values.................................

45 V.14 Radioactive Material Shipments under NRC General License R-106.......................

46 V.15 Radioactive Material Shipments under Oregon License ORE 90005.......................

47 V.16 Radioactive Material Shipments Under NRC General License 10 CFR 110.23.................

48 VI.1 Institutions and Agencies Which Utilized the Radiation Center...........................

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21 IV.3 Sem i-Annual Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)...............................................................................

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25 V.1 M onitoring Stations for the OSU TRIGA Reactor.....................................................................................................

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Executive Summary The data from this reporting year shows that the use of the Radiation Center and the Oregon State TRIGA reactor (OSTR) has continued to grow in many areas.

The Radiation Center supported 46 different courses this year, mostly in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radia-tion Health Physics. About 50% of these courses involved the OSTR. The number of OSTR hours used for academic courses and training was 72, while 5,742 hours0.00859 days <br />0.206 hours <br />0.00123 weeks <br />2.82331e-4 months <br /> were used for research projects. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the OSTR research hours were in support of off-campus research projects, reflect-ing the use of the OSTR nationally and internationally. Radia-tion Center users published or submitted 86 articles this year, and made 99 presentations on work that involved the OSTR or Radiation Center. The number of samples irradiated in the reactor during this reporting period was 3,584. Funded OSTR use hours comprised 82% of the research use.

Personnel at the Radiation Center conducted 103 tours of the facility, accommodating 1,471 visitors. The visitors included elementary, middle school, high school, and college students; relatives and friends; faculty; current and prospective clients; national 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 University.

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 211. Reactor related projects comprised 66% of all projects. The total research dollars in some way supported by the Radiation Center, as reported by our researchers, was $12,181,210.'The actual total is likely considerably higher. This year the Radia-tion Center provided service to 73 different organizations/

institutions, 37% of which were from other states and 23% of which were from outside the U. S. and Canada. So while the Center's primary mission is local, it is also a facility with a national and international clientele.

The Radiation Center web site provides an easy way for potential users to evaluate the Center's facilities and capabili-ties as well as to apply for a project and check use charges. The address is: http://radiationcenter.oregonstate.edu.

Introduction The current annual report of the Oregon State University Radiation Center and TRIGA Reactor follows the usual for-mat by including information relating 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 separately, if desired. It should be noted that all annual data given in this report covers the period from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013. Cumulative reactor operating data in this report relates only to the LEU ffieled core. This covers the period beginning July. 1, 2008 to the present date. For a summary of data on the reactor's two other cores, the reader is referred to previous annual reports.

In addition to providing general information about the activi-ties 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.

Overview of the Radiation Center 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 organiza-tions throughout the nation and the world. The Center also regularly provides special services to state and federal agencies, particularly agencies dealing with law enforcement, energy, health, and environmental quality, and renders assistance to Oregon industry. In addition, the Radiation Center provides permanent office and laboratory space for the OSU Depart-ment of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, the OSU Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and for the OSU nuclear chemistry, radiation chemistry, geochem-istry 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 special-ized equipment and unique teaching and research facilities.

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'Ihey include a TRIGA Mark II research nuclear reactor; a 6"Co gamma irradiator; a large number of state-of-the art computer-based gamma radiation spectrometers and associ-ated germanium detectors; and a variety of instruments for radiation measurements and monitoring. Specialized facilities for radiation work include teaching and research laboratories with instrumentation and related equipment for performing neutron activation analysis and radiotracer studies; laborato-ries for plant experiments involving radioactivity; a facility for repair and calibration of radiation protection instrumen-tation; and facilities for packaging radioactive materials for shipment to national and international destinations.

A major non-nuclear facility housed in the Radiation Center is the one-quarter scale thermal hydraulic advanced plant ex-perimental (APEX) test facility for the Westinghouse AP600 and AP1000 reactor designs. The AP600 and AP1000 are next-generation nuclear reactor designs which incorporate many passive safety features as well as considerably simplified plant systems and equipment. APEX operates at pressures up to 400 psia and temperatures up to 450'F using electrical heaters instead of nuclear fuel. All major components of the AP600 and AP1000 are included in APEX and all systems are appropriately scaled to enable the experimental measure-ments to be used for safety evaluations and licensing of the full scale plant.'Ihis world-class facility meets exacting qual-ity assurance criteria to provide assurance of safety as well as validity of the test results.

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

The Multi-Application Light Water Reactor (MASLWR) is a nuclear power plant test facility that is instrumental in the development of next generation commercial nuclear reac-tors currently seeking NRC certification. The Test Facility is constructed of all stainless steel components and is capable of operation at frill system pressure (1500 psia), and full system temperature (600F).

All components are 1/3 scale height and 1/254.7 volume scale.'Ihe current testing program is examining methods for natural circulation startup, helical steam generator heat transfer performance, and a wide range of design basis, and beyond design basis, accident conditions. In addition, the MASLWR Test Facility is currently the focus of an interna-tional collaborative standard problem exploring the operation and safety of advanced natural circulations reactor concepts.

Over 7 international organizations are involved in this stan-dard problem at OSU.

12-13 Annual Report The Advanced Nuclear Systems Engineering Laboratory (ANSEL) is the home to two major thermal-hydraulic test fa-cilities-the High Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) and the Hydro-mechanical Fuel Test Facility (HMFTF). The HTTF is a 1/4 scale model of the Modular High Temperature Gas Reactor. The vessel has a ceramic lined upper head and shroud capable of operation at 850oC (well mixed helium).

The design will allow for a maximum operating pressure of 1.OMPa and a maximum core ceramic temperature of 1600°C.

The nominal working fluid will be helium with a core power of approximately 600 kW (note that electrical heaters are used to simulate the core power). The test facility also includes a scaled reactor cavity cooling system, a circulator and a heat sink in order to complete the cycle. T-he HTTF can be used to simulate a wide range of accident scenarios in gas reac-tors to include the depressurized conduction cooldown and pressurized conduction cooldown events. The HMFTF is a testing facility which will be used to produce a database of hydro-mechanical information to supplement the qualifica-tion of the prototypic ultrahigh density U-Mo Low Enriched Uranium fuel which will be implemented into the U.S. High Performance Research Reactors upon their conversion to low enriched fuel. This data in turn will be used to verify current theoretical hydro-and thermo-mechanical codes being used during safety analyses. The maximum operational pressure of the HMFTF is 600 psig with a maximum operational temperature of 450°.

The Radiation Center staff regularly provides direct sup-port and assistance to OSU teaching and research programs.

Areas of expertise commonly involved in such efforts include nuclear engineering, nuclear and radiation chemistry, neutron activation analysis, radiation effects on biological systems, ra-diation dosimetry, environmental radioactivity, production of short-lived radioisotopes, radiation shielding, nuclear instru-mentation, emergency response, transportation of radioactive materials, instrument calibration, radiation health physics, radioactive waste disposal, and other related areas.

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

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'This section contains a listing of all people who were residents of the Radiation Center or who 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 given in Table VIi, while individual names and projects are listed in Table VI.2.

Radiation Center Staff Steve Reese, Director Dina Pope, Office Manager Shaun Bromagem, Business Manager Janis Workman, Receptionist S. Todd Keller, Reactor Administrator Gary Wachs, Reactor Supervisor, Senior Reactor Operator Robert Schickler, Senior Reactor Operator Wade Marcum, Reactor Operator ScottMenn, Senior Health Physicist Jim Darrough, Health Physicist Leah Minc, Neutron Activation Analysis Manager Steve Smith, Scientific Instrument Technician, Senior Reactor Operator Erin Cimbri, Custodian Jarvis Caffrey, Reactor Operator (Student)

Trevor Howard, Reactor Operator (Student)

Topher Matthews, Reactor Operator (Student)

Jacob Owen, Reactor Operator (Student)

Kyle Combs, Health Physics Monitor (Student)

Joey DeShields, Health Physics Monitor (Student)

David Robson, Health Physics Monitor (Student)

Reactor Operations Committee Andrew Klein, Chair OSU Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Rainier Farmer OSU Radiation Safety Abi Tavakoli Farsoni OSU Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Michael Hartman University of Michigan Todd Keller OSU Radiation Center Scott Menn OSU Radiation Center Steve Reese (not voting)

OSU Radiation Center Gary Wachs (not voting)

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Professional and Research Faculty Daniels, Malcolm Professor Emeritus, Chemistry

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

Faculty Research Associate, Chemistry

'Higley, Kathryn A.

Department Head, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Keller, S. Todd Reactor Administrator, Radiation Center Klein, Andrew C.

Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Krane, Kenneth S.

Professor Emeritus, Physics

Loveland, Walter D.

Professor, Chemistry

Menn, ScottA.

Senior Health Physicist, Radiation Center

Minc, Leah Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Palmer, Todd S.

Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Paulenova, Alena Associate Professor, Senior Research, Radiation Center Pope, Dina Office Manager, Radiation Center

'Reese, Steven R.

Director, Radiation Center Reyes, Jr., Josi N.

Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics RingleJohn C.

Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Schmitt, Roman A.

Professor Emeritus, Chemistry Krystina Tack Assistant Professor, Medical Physics Program Director

Wachs, Gary Reactor Supervisor, Radiation Center Woods, Brian Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Wu, Qiao Professor, Nuclear Engineer and Radiation Health Physics

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IFI Research Reactor

'The Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor (OSTR) is a water-cooled, swimming pool type research reactor which uses uranium/zirconium hydride fuel elements in a circular grid ar-ray. The reactor core is surrounded by a ring of graphite which serves to reflect neutrons back into the core. The core is situ-ated near the bottom of a 22-foot deep water-filled tank, 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 Commission to operate at a maximum steady state power of 1.1 MW and 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 special in-core irradiations, an in-core irradiation tube, and a cadmium-lined in-core irradiation tube for experi-ments requiring a high energy neutron flux.

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 activa-tion analysis involving short-lived radionuclides. On the other hand, the rotating 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 that each sample will receive an identical irradiation.

The reactor's thermal column consists of a large stack of graphite blocks which slows down neutrons from the reactor core in order 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 col-umn to enable samples to be positioned inside for irradiation.

The beam ports are tubular penetrations in the reactor's main concrete shield which enable neutron and gamma radiation to stream from the core when a beam port's shield plugs are re-moved. The neutron radiography 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, especially from higher energy neutrons, they may be inserted into a 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 neutrons only. The cadmium-fined end of this air-filled aluminum irradiation tube is inserted into an inner grid posi-tion 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 sig-nificantly for classes in Nuclear Engineering, Radiation Health Physics, and Chemistry at both the graduate and undergradu-ate levels to demonstrate numerous principles which have been presented in the classroom. Basic neutron behavior is the same in small reactors as it is in large power reactors, and many dem-onstrations and instructional experiments can be performed using the OSTR which cannot be carried out with a commer-cial power reactor. Shorter-term demonstration experiments are also performed for many undergraduate students in Phys-ics, 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 educating 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 reactor and in associated laboratories. The many types of educational programs that the Radiation Center pro-vides are more fully described in Part VI of this report.

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0 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.

Research The OSTR is a unique and valuable tool for a wide variety of research 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 sen-sitive method of elemental analysis which is described in more detail in Part VI.

'he OSTR's irradiation facilities provide a wide range of neu-tron flux levels and neutron flux qualities which are sufficient to meet the needs of most researchers. "Ihis is true not only for INAA, but also for other experimental purposes such as the 3 9Ar/ 4 0 Ar ratio and fission track methods of age dating samples.

Analytical Equipment The Radiation Center has a large variety of radiation detec-tion instrumentation. This equipment is upgraded as necessary, especially the gamma ray spectrometers with their associated computers and germanium detectors. Additional equipment 12-13 Annual Report for classroom use and an extensive inventory of portable radiation detection instrumentation are also available.

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

Radioisotope Irradiation Sources The Radiation Center is equipped with a 1,644 curie (as of 7/27/01) Gammacell 220 "t°Co irradiator which is capable of delivering 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 perfi)rm mutation and other biological effects studies; studies in the area of radiation chemistry; dosimeter testing; steril-ization of food materials, soils, sediments, biological speci-men, and other media; gamma radiation damage studies; and other such applications. In addition to the "'Co irradiator, the Center is also equipped with a variety of smaller "'°Co, " 7Cs, 22"Ra, plutonium-beryllium, and other isotopic sealed sources 9

Facilities 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 differ-ent types of seeds.

In addition, the irradiator was used for sterilization of several media and the evaluation of the radiation effects on different materials. Table 111.1 provides use data for the Gammacell 220 irradiator.

Laboratories and Classrooms The Radiation Center is equipped with a number of different radioactive material laboratories designed to accommodate research projects and classes offered by various OSU academic departments or off-campus groups.

Instructional facilities available at the Center include a labo-ratory especially equipped for teaching radiochemistry and a nuclear instrumentation teaching laboratory equipped with modular sets of counting equipment which can be configured to accommodate a variety of experiments involving the mea-surement of many types of radiation.The Center also has two student computer rooms.

In addition to these dedicated instructional facilities, many other research laboratories and pieces of specialized equip-ment 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 regu-larly use the OSTR and the Reactor Bay as an integral part of their instructional coursework.

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

All of the laboratories and classrooms are used extensively during the academic year. A listing of courses accommodated at the Radiation Center during this reporting period along with their enrollments is given in Table 111.2.

Instrument Repair & Calibration Facility The Radiation Center has a facility for the repair and calibra-tion of essentially all types of radiation monitoring instru-mentation. 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 radioactivity.

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 radiation detection instruments used by state and federal agencies in the state of Oregon. This includes instru-ments used on the OSU campus and all other institutions in the Oregon University System, plus instruments from the Oregon Health Division's Radiation Protection Services, the Oregon Department of Energy, the Oregon Public Utili-ties Commission, the Oregon Health Sciences University, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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

The Radiation Center is also a regular recipient of a great vari-ety 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 maintains a current collection of leading nuclear re-search and regulatory documentation. In addition, the Center has a collection of a number of nuclear power reactor Safety Analysis Reports and Environmental Reports specifically prepared by utilities for their facilities.

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and Measurements, 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 Transportation, and other appropriate federal agencies, plus regulations of various state regulatory agencies are also available at the Center.

The Radiation Center videotape library has over one hundred tapes on nuclear engineering, radiation protection, and radio-logical 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 materials. These tapes reproduced, recorded, and edited by Radiation Center staff, using the Center's video-tape equipment and the facilities of the OSU Communica-tion Media Center.

The Radiation Center library is used mainly to provide ref-erence 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 periodically thereafter.

Table 111.1 Gammacell 220 60Co Irradiator Use Purpose of Irradiation Samples Dose Range Number of Use Time (rads)

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Sterilization wood 2.5x10 6 to 2.5x10 6 36 4416 Material Evaluation silicon polymers, poly-1.0xlO2 to 3.0x105 14 127 mers, shield wheat seeds, wheat pol-Botanical Studies len, watermelon seed, 5.0x10 to 3.5x10 4 23 9

plant material, millet, camolina seed Biological Studies mice, fish 5.0x102 to 5.0x103 42 2

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CREDIT COURSE TITLE Summer Fall Winter Spring 2012 2012 2013 2013 NE/RHP 114*

2 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Radiation 72 Health Physics NE/RHP 115 2

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Radiation 76 Health Physics NE/RHP 116**

2 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Radiation 68 Health Physics NE/ RHP 234 4

Nuclear and Radiation Physics 1 61 NE/ RHP 235 4

Nuclear and Radiation Physics II 48 NE/ RHP 236*

4 Nuclear Radiation Detection & Instrumentation 44 NE 311 4

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Thermodynamics 24 11 NE 319 3

Societal Aspects of Nuclear technology 61 NE 331 4

Intro to Fluid Mechanics 35 6

NE 332 4

Heat Transfer 10 7

25 NE/RHP 333 3

Mathematical methods for NE/RHP 32 NE/RHP/MP 1-16 Research 12 23 18 20 401/501/601 NE/RHP/MP 1-16 Reading and Conference 1

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405/505/605 NE/RHP/MP 1-16 Projects 1

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Nuclear Engineering Seminar 92 90 85 407/507/607 NE/ RHP/MP 1-12 Internship 1

3 410/510/610 NE/ RHP 415/515 2

Nuclear Rules' and Regulations 72 NE 451/551 4

Neutronic Analysis 44 NE 452/552 4

Neutronic Analysis 41 NE 455/555"*

3 Reactor Operator Training I 5

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3 Reactor Operator Training II 5

NE 457/557**

3 Neuclear Reactor Lab 42 NE 467/567 4

Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics 44 NE 667 4

Nuclear Reactor'Thermal Hydraulics 10 NE/RHP 435/535 3

External Dosimetry & Radiation Shielding 65 NE 474/574 4

Nuclear System Design I 40 NE/RHP 475/575 4

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Student Enrollment in Courses Which are Taught or Partially Taught at the Radiation Center Number of Students Course #

CREDIT COURSE TITLE Summer Fall Winter Spring 2012 2012 2013 2013 NE/RHP 479*

1-4 Individual Design Project NE/RHP 481*

4 Radiation Protection 48 NE/RHP 582*

4 Applied Radiation Safety 25 RHP 483/583 4

Radiation Biology 45 RHP 488/588*

3 Radioecology 30 NE/RHP 590 4

Internal Dosimetry 12 NE/RHP/MP 503/603*

1 Thesis 26 57 42 46 NE/ RHP 516*

4 Radiochemistry 13 4

NE 526 3

Numerical Methods for Engineering Analysis NE/RHP/MP 531 3

Nuclear Physics for Engineers and Scientists 21 NE/RHP/MP 536*

3 Advanced Radiation Detection & Measurement 27 NE/RHP 537 3

Digital Spectrometer Design MP 541 3

Diagnostic Imaging Physics NE 550 3

Nuclear Medicine NE 553*

3 Advanced Nuclear Reactor Physics 11 NE 568 3

Nuclear Reactor Safety Course From Other OSU Departments CH 223*

5 General Chemistry 60 CH 225H*

5 Honors General Chemistry 13 CH 462*

3 Experimental Chemistry II Laboratory 13 ENGR 111*

3 Engineering Orientation 105 17 ENGR 212H*

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10 Operating Status During the operating period between July 1,2012 and June 28,2013, the reactor produced 1815 MWH of thermal power during its 1924 critical hours.

Experiments Performed During the current reporting period there were nine approved reactor experiments available for use in reactor-related programs. Tfhey are:

A-1 Normal TRIGA Operation (No Sample Irradia-tion).

B-3 Irradiation of Materials in the Standard OSTR Irradiation Facilities.

B-11 Irradiation of Materials Involving Specific Quantities of Uranium and Thorium in the Standard OSTR Irradiation Facilities.

Inactive Experiments Presently 33 experiments are in the inactive file. This consists of experiments which have been performed in the past and may be reactivated. Many of these experi-ments are now performed under the more general experi-ments listed in the previous section. The following list identifies these 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 Measurements.

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

B-7 Measurements of Gamma Doses in External Ir-radiation 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-12 B-23 B-29 B-31 B-33 Exploratory Experiments.

Studies Using TRIGA Thermal Column.

Reactivity Worth of Fuel.

TRIGA Flux Mapping.

Irradiation of Combustible Liquids in Rotating Rack.

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B-35 Irradiation of enriched uranium in the PGNAA Facility.

Of these available experiments, four were used during the reporting period. Table IV.4 provides information related to the frequency of use and the general purpose of their use.

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B-16 B-17 Production and Preparation of 18F.

Fission Fragment Gamma Ray Angular Cor-relations.

B-18 A Study of Delayed Status (n,y) 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 B-25 B-26 B-27 B-28 B-30 B-32 C-1 General Neutron Radiography.

Neutron Flux Monitors.

Fast Neutron Spectrum Generator.

Neutron Flux Determination Adjacent to the OSTR Core.

Gamma Scan of Sodium (TED) Capsule.

NAA of Jet, Diesel, and Furnace Fuels.

Argon Production Facility PuO, Transient Experiment.

12-03, Changes to OSTROPs 7,9, 11, 18 and 21 Description These changes were evaluated as a result of the Reactor Operation Committee audits of assigned procedures.

12-04, Changes to RCHPPs 1, 8,27 and 31 Description These changes were evaluated as a result of the Reactor Operation Committee audits of assigned procedures.

12-05, Pneumatic Transfer System Upgrade Description This screen evaluated the upgrade of the pneumatic rab-bit system to allow automated operation. The existing system was removed and a new system utilizing plastic tubing and a Ti and SS terminus installed. Utilizing a series of PLC controlled valves; samples can be sequen-tially inserted into the rabbit terminus and transferred to several locations for storage, monitoring and disposal from a single control station.

12-06, Changes to OSTROPs 5 and 13 Description These are minor changes for formatting purposes and to incorporate good engineering practices and/or correc-tion of maintenance related information.

13-01, Changes to OSTROP 10 Description Incorporates electrical and mechanical changes to the new pneumatic rabbit system procedures.

13-02, Changes to OSTROP 26 Description Incorporates new requirements imposed by the latest revision to 10 CFR 37 related to background investiga-tions.

Unplanned Shutdowns There were six unplanned reactor shutdowns during the current reporting period. Table IV.5 details these events.

Changes Pursuant tol 0 CFR 50-59 No safety evaluations were performed during this year.

There were nine new screens performed in support of the reactor this year. They were:

12-01, Changes to OSTROPs 1, 2 and 3 Description These changes were evaluated as a result of updates required due to equipment and administrative modifi-cations.

12-02, Changes to OSTROPs 4,5 and 6 Description These changes were evaluated as a result of the Reactor Operation Committee audits of assigned procedures and best practices input from operating staff.

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Reactor 13-03, Temporary fuel storage rack Description T-his screen evaluates a proposed temporary fuel storage rack necessary for the removal of all fuel from the core in order to facilitate a reflector replacement.

13-04, Replacement of the continuous air monitor (CAM) particulate channel Description A standby CAM particulate channel was installed in the reactor top CAM due to an electrical failure of the original equipment.

Surveillance and Maintenance Non-Routine Maintenance July 2012 Repaired faulty solder joint in Stack monitor particu-late calibration potentiometer.

September 2012 Stack monitor pump low lubrication levels prompted shutdown and relube. Pump replaced with new unit.

Cooling tower float stuck open, flooding rooftop.

Makeup valve removed and cleaned.

Replaced secondary cooling tower pump overloads with slightly higher rated ones in response to peri-odic overload trips.

December 2012 Cooling tower city makeup water monitor transmit-ter mounted external to the fan room by drilling a hole thru the D106 wall.

February 2013 Facility Services replaced failed ballasts and lighting fixtures in the reactor bay.

The makeup float valve in the cooling tower failed and was replaced.

March 2013 Facility Services replaced the cooling tower second-ary pump breaker.

May2013 Replaced the Lazy Susan drive motor.

Replaced a broken Stack monitor pump cast Alumi-num pulley with another of the same.

June 2013 The reactor top CAM particulate channel was re-placed with a newer unit, originally designated as the CAM replacement channel in a new assembly. The old channel experienced an electrical failure.

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Reactor Table IV.2 OSTR Use Time in Terms of Specific Use Categories Annual Values Cumulative Values OSTR Use Category (hours)

(hours)

Teaching (departmental and others) 59 13,618.5 OSU Research 1501 17,495 Off Campus research 4241 41,516 Demonstrations 13 38 Reactor preclude time 733 30,930 Facility time 0

7,197 Total Reactor Use Time 6547 110,794.5 Table IV.3 OSTR Multiple Use Time Cumulative Values Number of Users Annual Values (hours)

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Two 454 8,628 Three 466 4,450 Four 314 2,424 Five 233 873 SLx 82 222 Seven 30 67 Eight 3

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Loss of secondary Cooling Pump Percent Power Channel 1

Excessive operator rod withdrawal rate Percent Power Chennel 1

Square wave recovery rod withdrawal Percent Power Chennel 1

Rod calibration rod withdrawal rate excessive Manual 1

Loss of cooling due to gas in primary HX 12-13 Annual Report 19

Figure IV.1 Monthly Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)

OSTROP 13, Rev. LEU-1 Surveillance & Maintenance for the Month of I

AE JDATE REMARKS SURVEILLANCE & MAINTENANCE TARGET DATEDAE RMRK M[TNCELIMITS I

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2 BULK WATER TEMPERATURE ALARM CHECK FUNCTIONAL Tested @__

CHANNEL TEST OF REACTOR TOP CAM AND Rx Top__

STACK CAM 3600+100 cpm Stack MEASUREMENT OF REACTOR PRIMARY 4.AWATER CONDUCTIVITY<5 mho\\cm MIN: 5 4.B PRIMARY WATER Ph MEASUREMENT MAX:

5 N/A MAX: 8.5 BULK SHIELD TANK WATER Ph MIN: 5 MEASUREMENT MAX: 8.5 FILTER 6

CHANGE LAZY SUSAN FILTER CHANED N/A CHANGED 7

REACTOR TOP CAM OIL LEVEL CHECK OSTROP 13.10 NEED OIL?

N/A

> 50%

8 EMERGENCY DIESEL GENERATOR CHECKS T

hor N/A Total hours 9

PRIMARY PUMP BEARINGS OIL LEVEL CHECK OSTROP 13.13 NEED OIL?

N/A 10 WATER MONITOR CHECK N/A II RABBIT SYSTEM RUN TIME Total hours N/A 12 OIL TRANS ROD BRONZE BEARING WD 40 N/A

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OSTROP 14, Rev. LEU-1 Surveillance & Maintenance for the 1st / 2 nd / 3 rd / 4 1h Quarter of 20 SURVEILLANCE & MAINTENANCE TARGET DATE NOT TO DATE REMARKS &

[SHADE INDICATES LICENSE REQUIREMENT]

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REACTOR OPERATION COMMITTEE (ROC) AUDIT QUARTERLY 2

QUARTERLY ROC MEETING QUARTERLY 3

NOT CURRENTLY USED N/A N/A 4

ERP INSPECTIONS QUARTERLY 5

NOT CURRENTLY USED N/A N/A 6

ROTATING RACK CHECK FOR UNKNOWN SAMPLES EMPTY 7

WATER MONITOR ALARM CHECK FUNCTIONAL MOTORS OILED 8

STACK MONITOR CHECKS PART: 1150V+50 V

(OIL DRIVE MOTORS, H.V. READINGS)

GAS: 900 V + 50 V

9 CHECK FILTER TAPE SPEED ON STACK MONITOR I"/HR + 0.2 10 INCORPORATE 50.59 & ROCAS INTO DOCUMENTATION QUARTERLY ALARM ON 11 STACK MONITOR ALARM CIRCUIT CHECKS CONTACT CONTACT

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Quarterly Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)

OSTROP 14, Rev. LEU-1 Surveillance & Maintenance for the Is / 2 nd / 3rd / 4 th Quarter of 20 SURVEILLANCE & MAINTENANCE L

I TARGET DATE NOT TO DATE REMARKS &

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10 11 12 13 14 AUID 12 FUNCTIONAL LIGHT PANEL ANN OPERATOR LOG a) TIME b) OPERATING EXERCISE a) >4 hours: at console (RO) or as Rx. Sup. (SRO) 13 b) Complete Operating Exercise

Date not be exceeded only applies to shaded items. It is equal to the date completed last quarter plus four months.

Figure IV.3 Semi-Annual Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)

OSTROP 15, Rev. LEU-1 Surveillance & Maintenance for the Is / 2 nd Half of 20 SURVEILLANCE & MAINTENANCE DATENTTARGET TO DATE REMARKS

[SHADE INDICATES LICENSE REQUIREMENT]

LIMITS ASFOUND TE TO BE COMPLETED EXCEEDED*

INITIALS NO WITHDRAW NEUTRON SOURCE COUNT RATE INTERLOCK

>5 cps TRANSIENT ROD AIR INTERLOCK NO PULSE FUNCTIONAL PULSE PROHIBIT ABOVE I kW

>1 kW CHECKS OF REACTOR TWO ROD WITHDRAWAL PROHIBIT I only INTERLOCKS PULSE MODE ROD MOVEMENT INTERLOCK NO MOVEMENT MAXIMUM PULSE REACTIVITY INSERTION LIMIT

< $2.25 PULSE INTERLOCK ON RANGE SWITCH NO PULSE 2

SAFETY P3 sec CIRCUIT TEST PERIOD SCRAM 3

NOT CURENTLY USED N/A N/A PULSE #

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TEST PULSE

°C CHANGE oC 5

NOT CURRENTLY USED N/A N/A 6

NOT CURRENTLY USED N/A N/A 7

NOT CURRENTLY USED N/A N/A

Date not to be exceeded is only applicable to shaded items. It is equal to the date last time plus 7 1/2 months.

Figure IV.3 (continued)

Semi-Annual Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)

OSTROP 15, Rev. LEU-1 Surveillance & Maintenance for the I / 2 nd Half of 20 SURVEILLANCE & MAINTENANCE TARGET DATE NOT DATE REMARKS &

[SHADE INDICATES LICENSE REQUIREMENT]

LIMITS AS FOUND DATE TO BE COMPLETED INITIALS JEXCEEDED*

8 CLEANING & LUBRICATION OF TRANSIENT ROD CARRIER INTERNAL BARREL 9

LUBRICATION OF BALL-NUT DRIVE ON TRANSIENT ROD CARRIER 10 LUBRICATION OF THE ROTATING RACK BEARINGS lOW OIL II CONSOLE CHECK LIST OSTROP I5.XI 12 INVERTER MAINTENANCE See User Manual 13 STANDARD CONTROL ROD MOTOR CHECKS LO-17 Bodine Oil I

NONE SAFETY CHANNEL NONl ION CHAMBER RESISTANCE MEASUREMENTS WITH (Info Only)

MEGGAR INDUCED VOLTAGE NONE

%/POW ER CHANNEL(IfOny (Info Only) y) 100 V. 1=

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K2 HIGH 16 FUNCTIONAL CHECK OF HOLDUPTANK WATER LEVEL ALARMS OSTROP 15.XVIII FULL BRUSH INSPECTION INSPECTION OF THE PNEUMATIC TRANSFER SOLENOID VALVE INSPECTION FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM SAMPLE INSERTION TIME CHECK

<6 SECONDS

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OSTROP 16, Rev. LEU-1 Annual Surveillance and Maintenance for 20 TDATE NOT TREMARKS SURVEILLANCE AND MAINTENANCE AS TARGET TE DATE R

LIMITS TO BE

[SHADE INDICATES LICENSE REQUIREMENT]

FOUND DATE EXCEEDED.

COMPLETED INITIALS FFCRS BIENNIAL INSPECTION OF CONTROL RODS:

TRANS 2

ANNUAL REPORT NOVI OCTI NOVI NORMAL 3

CONTROL ROD CALIBRATION:

CLICIT OSTROP 9.0 ICIT/DUMMY 4

REACTOR POWER CALIBRATION OSTROP 8.0 5

CALIBRATION OF REACTOR TANK WATER TEMP OSTROP16.5 TEMPERATURE METERS CONTINUOUS Particulate Monitor 6

AIR MONITOR RCHPP 18 CALIBRATION:

Gas Monitor STACK MONITOR Particulate Monitor RCHPP 7

CALIBRATION Gas Monitor 18 & 26 8

AREA RADIATION MONITOR CALIBRATION RCHPP 18.0 9

DECOMMISSIONING COST UPDATE N/A N/A AUGUST 1

Date not be exceeded is only applicable to shaded items. It is equal to the date completed last year plus 15 months.

For biennial license requirements, it is equal to the date completed last time plus 2 1/2 years.

Figure IV.4 (continued)

Annual Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)

OSTROP 16, Rev. LEU-1 Annual Surveillance and Maintenance for 20 SURVEILLANCE AND MAINTENANCE AS TARGET DATE NOT DATE REMARKS

[SHADE INDICATES LICENSE REQUIREMENT]

LIMITS FOUND DATE TO BE COMPLETED

& INITIALS EXCEEDED*_____

10 SNM PHYSICAL INVENTORY N/A N/A OCTOBER 1 II MATERIAL BALANCE REPORTS N/A N/A NOVEMBER 12 STANDARD CONTROL ROD DRIVE INSPECTION OSTROP 16.13 NORMAL 13 CORE EXCESS

<$7.55 ICIT CLICIT CFD TRAINING GOOD SAM TRAINING ERP REVIEW ERP DRILL EMERGENCY FIRST AID FOR:

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PLAN FIRST AID FOR:

EVACUATION DRILL AUTO EVAC ANNOUNCEMENT TEST ERP EQUIPMENT INVENTORY BIENNIAL SUPPORT AGREEMENTS OSP/DPS TRAINING PSP REVIEW PHYSICAL PSP DRILL 15 SECURITY PLAN LOCK/SAFE COMBO CHANGES AUTHORIZATION LIST UPDATE SPOOF MEASUREMENTS

Date not be exceeded is only applicable to shaded items. It is equal to the date completed last year plus 15 months.

For biennial license requirements, it is equal to the date completed last time plus 2 1/2 years.

Figure IV.4 (continued)

Annual Surveillance and Maintenance (Sample Form)

OSTROP 16, Rev. LEU-1 Annual Surveillance and Maintenance for 20 DATE NOT SURVEILLANCE AND MAINTENANCE AS TARGET DATE REMARKS

[SHADE INDICATES LICENSE REQUIREMENT]

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SHUTDOWN TEST SECONDS 2nd Floor 19 CALIBRATION OF THE FUEL ELEMENT Per TEMPERATURE CHANNEL Checksheet

> 20 FE's inspected FUEL ELEMENT INSPECTION No damage, deteriora.tion or swell.

FOR SELECTED ELEMENTS At least one FE from each ring inspected.

100% of irradiated FE's inspected after 5 years.

21 REACTOR TANK AND CORE COMPONENT NO WHITE SPOTS INSPECTION 22 EMERGENCY LIGHT LOAD TEST RCHPP 18.0 ANNUAL REQUALIFICATION BIENNIAL MEDICAL EVERY 6 YEARS LICENSE REACTOR OPERATOR LICENSE CONDITIONS WRITTEN OPERATING TEST APPLICATION EXPIRATION EXAM DATE DUE DATE DATE DATE DATE DATE DUE DATE COMPLETED DUE DATE DATEDUE PPASSED PASSED DATE MAILED 23 NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY FACILITY INTERLOCKS

Date not be exceeded is only applicable to shaded items. It is equal to the date completed last year plus 15 months.

For biennial license requirements, it is equal to the date completed last time plus 2 1/2 years.

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

The radiation protection program is implemented by a staff consisting of a Senior Health Physicist, a Health Physicist, and several part-time Health Physics Monitors (see Part II).

Assistance is also provided by the reactor operations group, the neutron activation 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 con-tained 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 pro-tection 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).

Environmental Releases The annual reporting requirements in the OSTR Technical Specifications state that the licensee (OSU) shall include "a summary of the nature and amount of radioactive effluents released or discharged to the environs beyond the effective control of the licensee, as measured at, or prior to, the point of such release or discharge." 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 designated tables.

Liquid Effluents Released Liquid Effluents Oregon State University has implemented a policy to re-duce 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 Radiation Center laboratories and the OSTR is collected at a holdup tank prior to release to the sanitary sewer.

Liquid effluent are analyzed for radioactivity content at the time it is released to the collection point. For this reporting period, the Radiation Center and reactor made seven liquid ef-fluent releases to the sanitary sewer. All Radiation Center and reactor facility liquid effluent data pertaining to this release are contained in Table V.2.

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.3.

Airborne Effluents Released Airborne effluents are discussed in terms of the gaseous com-ponent 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 reactor facility stack effluent monitor to begin operation as one of the first systems in the morning and to cease opera-tion 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.4.

Particulate effluents from the reactor facility are also moni-tored 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 3x10`

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Solid Waste Released Data for the radioactive material in the solid waste generated and transferred during this reporting period are summarized in Table V.5 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 University's State of Oregon radioac-tive materials license.

Solid radioactive waste is disposed of by OSU Radiation Safety by transfer to the University's radioactive waste disposal vendor.

Personnel Dose The OSTR annual reporting requirements specify that the licensee shall present a summary of the radiation exposure re-ceived by facility personnel and visitors. The summary includes all Radiation Center personnel who may have received expo-sure to radiation. These personnel have been categorized into six groups: facility operating personnel, key facility research personnel, facilities services maintenance personnel, 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 in-dividuals include quarterly TLD badges, quarterly track-etch/

albedo neutron dosimeters, monthly TLD (finger) extremity dosimeters, pocket ion chambers, electronic dosimetry.

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 facilities present at the Center. The individual dosim-etry requirements for these personnel will vary with the type of research being conducted, 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 is-sued a gamma sensitive electronic dosimeter as their basic monitoring device. A few Facilities Services personnel who routinely perform maintenance on mechanical or refrigeration equipment are issued a quarterly XM*(y) TLD badge and other dosimeters as appropriate for the work being performed.

Students attending laboratory classes are issued quarterly X9(y) 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 lab demonstration and do not handle radioactive materials are usually issued a gamma sensitive electronic dosimeter. These results are not included with the laboratory class students.

OSU police and security personnel are issued a quarterly Xl'(y) TLD badge to be used during their patrols of the Ra-diation Center and reactor faciityý Visitors, depending on the locations visited, may be issued a gamma sensitive electronic dosimeters. OSU Radiation Center 29 12-13 Annual Report

Radiation Protection policy does not normally allow people in the visitor category to become actively involved in the use or handling of radioac-tive materials.

An annual summary of the radiation doses received by each of the above six groups is shown in Table V.6. There were no personnel radiation exposures in excess of the limits in 10 CFR 20 or State of Oregon regulations during the reporting period.

Facility Survey Data The OSTR Technical Specifications require an annual summary of the radiation levels and levels of contamination observed during routine surveys performed at the facility. The Center's comprehensive 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 radia-tion 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 fa-cility and for certain Radiation Center laboratories a CR-39 plastic track-etch neutron detector has also been included in the monitoring package.

TIhe total dose equivalent recorded on the various reactor facility dosimeters is listed in Table V.7 and the total dose equivalent recorded on the Radiation Center area dosimeters is listed in Table V.8. Generally, the characters following the Monitor Radiation Center (MRC) designator show the room number or location.

Routine Radiation and Contamination Surveys The Center's program for routine radiation and contamina-tion surveys consists of daily, weekly, and monthly measure-ments throughout the TRIGA reactor facility and Radiation Center. The frequency of these surveys is based on the nature of the radiation work being carried out at a particular loca-tion or on other factors which indicate that surveillance over a specific area at a defined frequency is desirable.

The primary purpose of the routine radiation and con-tamination 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 condi-tions. A second objective of the program 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 objec-tives, is to gather and document information which will help to ensure that all phases of the operational and radiation protec-tion programs are meeting the goal of keeping radiation doses to personnel and releases of radioactivity to the environment "as low as reasonably achievable" (ALARA).

The annual summary of radiation and contamination levels measured during routine facility surveys for the applicable reporting period is given in Table V.9.

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

Gamma Radiation Monitoring On-site Monitoring Monitors used in the on-site gamma environmental radiation monitoring program at the Radiation Center consist of the reactor facility stack effluent monitor described in Section V and nine environmental monitoring stations.

During this reporting period, each fence environmental sta-tion utilized an LiF TLD monitoring packet supplied and pro-cessed by Mirion Technologies, Inc., Irvine, California. Each GDS packet contained three LiF TLDs and was exchanged quarterly for a total of 108 samples during the reporting period (9 stations x 3 TLDs per station x 4 quarters).The total num-ber of GDS TLD samples for the reporting period was 108. A summary of the GDS TLD data is also shown in Table V.10.

From Table V.10 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 Oregon (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.1) and six stations located within a 5 mile radius of the Radiation Center.

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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, respectively). Tfhese 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 report-ing period was 240. A summary of GDS TLD data for the off-site monitoring stations is given in Table V.11.

After a review of the data in Table V.11, it is concluded that, like the dosimeters on the TRIGA facility fence, all of the doses recorded by the off-site dosimeters can be attributed to natural background radiation, which is about 110 mrem per year for Oregon (Refs. 1, 2).

Soil, Water, and Vegetation Surveys T-he 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 substances sampled. See Figure V.1 for the locations of the sampling 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 posi-tions indicated in Figure V.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 (mi-nus tritium) for samples collected at each environmental soil, water, and vegetation sampling location (sampling station) is listed in Table V.12. Calculation of the total net beta disin-tegration rate incorporates subtraction of only the count-ing 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 12-13 Annual Report the LLD were averaged in at the corresponding LLD con-centration. Table V.13 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 iCi per unit volume 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 unusual radioactivity levels above natural background were detected. However, from Table V.12 it can be seen that the levels of radioactivity detected were consis-tent with naturally occurring radioactivity and comparable to values reported in previous years.

Radioactive Materials Shipments A summary of the radioactive material shipments originat-ing from the TRIGA reactor facility, NRC license R-106, is shown in Table V.14. A similar summary for shipments originating from the Radiation Center's State of Oregon radioactive materials license ORE 90005 is shown in Table V.15. A summary of radioactive material shipments exported under Nuclear Regulatory Commission general license 10 CFR 110.23 is shown in Table V.16.

References

1. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Estimates of Ionizing Radiation Doses in the United States, 1960-2000," ORP/CSD 72-1, Office of Radiation Programs, Rockville, Maryland (1972).

2.

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Radio-logical Quality of the Environment in the United States, 1977," EPA 520/1-77-009, Office of Radia-tion Programs; Washington, D.C. 20460 (1977).

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0 Radiation Protection Table V.1 Radiation Protection Program Requirements and Frequencies 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 dosimeters, and review Monthly 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.

As Required Perform and record special radiation surveys.

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 dosimeters, 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, remote area radiation monitors, and air samplers.

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

Inventory and inspect Radiation Center emergency equipment.

Conduct facility radiation survey of the 60Co irradiators.

Conduct personnel dosimeter training.

Update decommissioning logbook.

Collect and process environmental soil, water, and vegetation samples.

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00 Table V.2 Monthly Summary of Liquid Effluent Release to the Sanitary Sewer")

Total Specific Activity For Each Total Quantity of Average Percent of Applicable Total Volume Date of Detectable Radionuclide in Each Detectable Concentration Monthly Average Discharge ofiQuantity of Detectable the Waste, Where T-he Radionuclide Of Released Concentration for of Liquid Effluent ha Radioactivity Radionuclide in Release Concentration Released in the Radioactive Material Released Radioactive Diluent (Month and Released the Waste Was>1 x 10-7 Waste at the Point of Release Material Year)

(Curies)

( pCi ml1)

(Curies)

( aCi mV1-)

(%)(2)

(gal)

September 2012 3.49x10 1 H-3 1.2x10-4 3.49x10'-

1.2x10-4 1.18 776,688 October 2012 1.63x101 H-3 1.34x10-4 1.63x10'-

1.34x10-4 1.34 322,299 December 2012 i.60xi01 H-3 H-3, 4.28x10-4 H-3, 1.60x10-1 H-3, 4.28x10-4 H-3, 4.2 98,803 Cr-51 Cr-51, 4.19x10-6 Cr-51, 1.12x10-8 Cr-51, 0.0002 H-3, 4.84x10-2 H-3, 6.28x10-5 H-3, 0.62 January 2013 4.84x10-2 H-3, Co-58, H-3, 6.28x10-5 Co-58, 1.20x10 7 Co-58, 1.55x101° Co-58, 0.00008 203,946 Co-60 Co-60, 5.50x10"7 Co-60, 7.13x10-10 Co-60, 0.002 H-3, 1.78x10-1 H-3, 5.90x105-H-3, 0.59 H-3, Na-24, Na-24, 5.54xi0-7 Na-24, 1.83x10-10 Na-24, 0.00004 February 2013 1.78x10'-

Cr-51, Co-58, H-3, S.90xi05-Cr-51, 8.33xi0-6 Cr-51, 2.75x10-9 Cr-51, 0.00005 800,464 Co-60 Co-58, 5.49x10-7 Co-58, 1.8ix10 0-1 Co-58, 0.00009 Co-60, 5.67x10-7 Co-60, 1.87xi0-10 Co-60, 0.0006 H-3, 2.18x10-1 H-3, 4.72x10-4 H-3, 4.72 March 2013 2.18x10-1 H-3, Cr-Si, H-3,4.72xiCr-51, 1.48x105 Cr-51, 3.19x10-8 Cr-51, 0.0006 122,315 Co-58, Co-60 Co-58, 8.46xi0 7 Co-58, 1.83x10-9 Co-58, 0.0009 Co-60, 1.11xi0-6 Co-60, 2.39xi0-9 Co-60, 0.008 H-3, 1.39x10-1 H-3, 1.49x10-4 H-3, 1.49 H-3, Cr-51, Cr-51, 1.09x10-6 Cr-51, 1.16x10-9 Cr-51, 0.00002 May 2013 1.39x10-1 Co-58, Co-60, H-3, 1.49x10-4 Co-58, 3.06x10-6 Co-58, 3.27x10-9 Co-58, 0.002 247,008 Mn-54 Co-60, 6.37xi0-6 Co-60, 6.81x10-9 Co-60, 0.02 Mn-54, 3.32x10-7 Mn-54, 3.56x10-'0 Mn-54, 0.0001 Annual Total H-3, Na-24, for Radiation 1.25 Mn-54, Cr-51, 1.42x10-3 H-3.,1.25 1.42x10-3 14.17 2,571,523 Center Co-58, Co-60 (1) TIhe OSU operational policy is to subtract only detector background from the water analysis data and not background radioactivity in the Corvallis city water.

(2) Based on values listed in 10 CFR 20, Appendix B to 20.1001 - 10.2401, Table 3, which are applicable to sewer disposal.

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Waste Processing Facility TRIGA H-3, Co-60, Rb-89, Ag-Reactor 11.5 110m, Sb-122, Sb-124, 2.43x10-3 12/12/12 Facility Tc-99m, Eu-152 Radiation Center 0

Laboratories TOTAL 11.5 See above 2.43x10-3 (1) OSTR and Radiation Center liquid waste is picked up by the Radiation Safety Office for transfer to its waste processing facility for final packaging.

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Table V.4 Reactor Gaseous Waste Discharges and Analysis Monthly TRIGA Estimated Fraction of the Technical Total Total Atmospheric Diluted Specification Month Estimated Estimated Quantity of Concentration of Annual Average Activity Argon-41 Argon-41 at Point of Argon-41 Released (Curies)

Released") (Curies)

Release Argon-41

( 1i~/cc)Concentration Limit (%)

(FaCi/cc)

July 0.25 0.25 1.9 7x10-8 0.49 August 0.44 0.44 3.50x10s 0.88 September 0.35 0.35 2.88x10-8 0.72 October 0.40 0.40 3.16xlO-0.79 November 0.29 0.29 2.36x108-0.59 December 0.33 0.33 2.6 1x10-8 0.65 January 0.64 0.64 5.10x10-8 1.27 February 0.60 0.60 5.33x105 1.33 March 0.41 0.41 3.24x10 5-0.81 April 0.28 0.28 2.31x10-8 0.58 May 0.58 0.58 4.63x10 8-1.16 June 0.64 0.64 5.2 8x105-1.32 TOTAL

('12-'13) 5.21 5.21 3.53xlO-1 (2) 0.88 (2)

(1)

(2)

Routine gamma spectroscopy analysis of the gaseous radioactivity in the OSTR stack discharge indicated the only detectable radionuclide was argon-41.

Annual Average.

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0 Radiation Protection Table V.5 Annual Summary of Solid Waste Generated and Transferred Volume of Detectable Total Quantity Dates of Waste Pickup Origin of Solid Waste Radionuclides of Radioactivity for Transfer to the OSU Solid Waste Packaged) in the Waste in Solid Waste Waste Processing (Cubic Feet)

(Curies)

Facility TRIGA Sc-46, Cr-51, Mn-54, Co-58, 12/12/12 Reactor 33.5 Co-60, Zn-65, As-74, Sr-85, 4.62x10_3 3/21/13 Facility Ag-il0m, Sb-124, Eu-152, Eu-154, Se-75, Sb-125, H-3, Cs-134, Na-24 5/15/12 Cs-134, Cs-137, Co-60, Am-241, 12/12/12 Radiation Am-243, H-3, Sr-90, Sr-85, U-238, Center 32.5 Cf-252, Na-22, Pu-239, Np-237, 1.94x10 4 3/21/13 Laboratories Tc-99, Mo-99, Eu-152, Eu-154, Th-232, U-235 5/15/13 TOTAL 66.0 See Above 4.81x10-3 (1) OSTR and Radiation Center laboratory waste is picked up by OSU Radiation Safety for transfer to its waste processing facility for final packaging.

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Table V.6 Annual Summary of Personnel Radiation Doses Received Average Annual Greatest Individual Total Person-mrem Dose")*

Dose0)

For the Group(,,

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

(mrem)

Facility Operating 123.86 277.00 203 778 867 1938 Personnel Key Facility Research 1.92 10.15 14 96 25 132 Personnel Facilities Services Maintenance

<1 N/A 1.3 N/A 4.3 N/A Personnel Laboratory Class 2.22 7.94 52 80 547 286 Students Campus Police and 2.63 N/A 28 N/A 79 N/A Security Personnel Visitors

< 1 N/A 11.2 N/A 198.45 N/A (1) "N/A" indicates that there was no extremity monitoring conducted or required for the group.

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Radiation Protection R-Table V.7 Total Dose Equivalent Recorded on Area Dosimeters Located Within the TRIGA Reactor Facility Total TRIGA Reactor Rorde Dose Equivalent*1*2)

Moitr Facility Location I.D.

(See Figure V.1)

X8(7)

Neutron (mrem)

(mrem)

MRCTNE D104:

North Badge East Wall 258 ND MRCTSE D104:

South Badge East Wall 113 ND MRCTSW D104:

South Badge West Wall 766 ND MRCTNW D104:

North Badge West Wall 202 ND MRCTWN D104:

West Badge North Wall 409 ND MRCTEN D104:

East Badge North Wall 318 ND MRCTES D104:

East Badge South Wall 1453 ND MRCTWS D104:

West Badge South Wall 481 ND MRCTTOP D104:

Reactor Top Badge 742 ND MRCTHXS D104A: South Badge FIX Room 966 ND MRCTHXW D104A: West Badge HX Room 592 ND MRCD-302 D302:

Reactor Control Room 480 ND MRCD-302A D302A: Reactor Supervisor's Office 121 N/A MRCBP1 D104: Beam Port Number 1 352 ND MRCBP2 D104: Beam Port Number 2 216 ND MRCBP3 D104: Beam Port Number 3 797 ND MRCBP4 D104: Beam Port Number 4 559 ND (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" in-dicates that each of the dosimeters during the reporting period was less than the vendor's gamma dose reporting threshold 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.

(2) These dose equivalent values do not represent radiation exposure through an exterior wall directly into an unrestricted area.

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Table V.8 Total Dose Equivalent Recorded on Area Dosimeters Located Within the Radiation Center Total Recorded Monitor Radiation Center Dose Equivalent(')

I.D.

Facility Location (See Figure V.1)

Xf(y)

Neutron (mrem)

(mrem)

MRCA100 A100:

Receptionist's Office 0

N/A MRCBRF A102H: Front Personnel Dosimetry Storage Rack 80 N/A MRCA120 A120:

Stock Room 42 N/A MRCA120A A120A: NAA Temporary Storage 0

N/A MRCA126 A126:

Radioisotope Research Lab 358 N/A MRCCO-60 A128:

60Co Irradiator Room 355 N/A MRCA130 A130:

Shielded Exposure Room 145 N/A MRCA132 A132:

TLD Equipment Room 57 N/A MRCA138 A138:

Health Physics Laboratory 56 N/A MRCA146 A146:

Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 153 N/A MRCB100 B100:

Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 103 N/A MRCB114 B114:

Lab (226Ra Storage Facility) 1493 111 MRCB119-1 B119:

Source Storage Room 264 N/A MRCB119-2 B119:

Source Storage Room 363 N/A MRCB119A B119A: Sealed Source Storage Room 4212 2770 MRCB120 B120:

Instrument Calibration Facility 87 N/A MRCB122-2 B122:

Radioisotope Hood 343 N/A MRCB122-3 B122:

Radioisotope Research Laboratory 71 N/A MRCB124-1 B124:

Radioisotope Research Lab (Hood) 48 N/A MRCB124-2 B124:

Radioisotope Research Laboratory 80 N/A MRCB124-6 B124:

Radioisotope Research Laboratory 51 N/A MRCB128 B128:

Instrument Repair Shop 36 N/A MRCB136 B136 Gamma Analyzer Room 68 N/A MRCC100 C100:

Radiation Center Director's Office 45 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 equiva-lent of"ND" indicates that each of the dosimeters during the reporting period was less than the vendor's gamma dose report-ing threshold of 10 mrem or that each of the fast neutron dosimeters was less than the vendor's threshold of 10 mrem. "NIA' indicates that there was no neutron monitor at that location.

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Total Dose Equivalent Recorded on Area Dosimeters Located Within the Radiation Center Total Recorded Monitor Radiation Center Dose Equivalent(')

I.D.

Facility Location (See Figure V.1)

Xf8(y)

Neutron (mrem)

(mrem)

MRCC106A C106A: Office 61 N/A MRCC106B C106B: Custodian Supply Storage 25 N/A MRCC106-H C106H: East Loading Dock 64 N/A MRCC118 C118:

Radiochemistry Laboratory 27 N/A MRCC120 C120:

Student Counting Laboratory 47 N/A MRCF100 F100:

APEX Facility 27 N/A MRCF102 F102:

APEX Control Room 33 N/A MRCB125N B125:

Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 20 N/A MRCN125S B125:

Gamma Analyzer Room 72 N/A MRCC124 C124:

Classroom 49 N/A MRCC130 C130:

Radioisotope Laboratory (Hood) 97 N/A MRCD100 D100:

Reactor Support Laboratory 65 N/A MRCD102 D102:

Pneumatic Transfer Terminal Lab' 250 ND MRCD102-H D102H:

1st Floor Corridor at D102 110 ND MRCD106-H D106H:

1st Floor Corridor at D106 227 N/A MRCD200 D200:

Reactor Administrator's Office 146 ND MRCD202 D202:

Senior Health Physicist's Office 264 ND MRCBRR D200H: Rear Personnel Dosimetry Storage Rack 77 N/A MRCD204 D204:

Health Physicist Office 238 ND MRCATHRL F104:

ATHRL 39 N/A MRCD300 D300:

3rd Floor Conference Room 198 ND (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 equiva-lent of"ND"indicates that each of the dosimeters during the reporting period was less than the vendor's gamma dose report-ing threshold 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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(See Figure V.1)

(mrem/hr)

(dpm/cm2)

Average Maximum Average Maximum TRIGA Reactor Facility:

Reactor Top (D104) 1.7 90

<500 4355 Reactor 2nd Deck Area (D104) 6.5 37

<500 2679 Reactor Bay SW (D104)

<1 27

<500

<500 Reactor Bay NW (D104)

<1 70 965 141,935 Reactor Bay NE (D104)

<1 19

<500 8871 Reactor Bay SE (D104)

<1 5

<500

<500 Class Experiments (D104, D302)

<1

<500

<500 Demineralizer Tank & Make Up Water System

< 1 25

<500

<500 (DI04A)

Particulate Filter--Outside Shielding (D104A)

<1 8

<500 1452 Radiation Center:

NAA Counting Rooms (A146, B100)

<1 3.5

<500

<500 Health Physics Laboratory (A138)

<1

<500

<500 60Co Irradiator Room and Calibration Rooms (A128, B 120, A130)

<_1_25___500___50 Radiation Research Labs (A126, A136)

<1 4

<500 1607 (B108, B114, B122, B124, C126, C130, C132A)

Radioactive Source Storage (B119, B119A,

<1 30

<500

<500 A120A, A132A)

Student Chemistry Laboratory (C118)

< 1

<500

<500 Student Counting Laboratory (C120)

< 1

<500

<500 Operations Counting Room (B136, B125)

<1

<500

<500 Pneumatic Transfer Laboratory (D102)

< 1 10

<500

<500 RX support Room (D100)

< 1

<500

<500 (1) <500 dpm/100 cm2 = Less than the lower limit of detection for the portable survey instrument used.

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Radiation Protection Table V.1 0 Total Dose Equivalent at the TRIGA Reactor Facility Fence Fence Total Recorded Dose Equivalent Environmental Monitoring Station (Including Background)

(See Figure V.1)

Based on Mirion TLDs(1.2)

(mrem)

MRCFE-1 93 +/- 3 MRCFE-2 91 +/- 4 MRCFE-3 88 +/- 5 MRCFE-4 98 +/- 4 MRCFE-5 97 +/- 4 MRCFE-6 95 +/-5 MRCFE-7 107 +/- 11 MRCFE-8 105 +/- 17 MRCFE-9 97 +/- 7 (1) Average Corvallis area natural background using Mirion TLDs totals 85 t 8 mrem for the same period.

(2) t values represent the standard deviation of the total value at the 95% confidence level.

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Table V.11 Total Dose Equivalent at the Off-Site Gamma Radiation Monitoring Stations Off-Site Radiation Total Recorded Dose Equivalent Monitoring Station (Including Background)

MoneFitoring Stan Based on Mirion TLDs(1.2)

(See Figure V.1)

(mrem)

MRCTE-2 94 +/- 3 MRCTE-3 73 +/- 4 MRCTE-4 91 +/- 5 MRCTE-5 100 +/- 3 MRCTE-6 96 +/-11 MRCTE-7 95+/- 5 MRCTE-8 106 +/- 7 MRCTE-9 98+/- 3 MRCTE-10 85 6

MRCTE-12 102 5

MRCTE-13 71+/- 5 MRCTE-14 98+/- 7 MRCTE-15 89+/- 3 MRCTE-16 98+/- 6 MRCTE-17 89 +/- 5 MRCTE-18 93+/- 5 MRCTE-19 93+/- 6 MRCTE-20 91+/- 4 MRCTE-21 85 5

MRCTE-22 86 4

(1) Average Corvallis area natural background using Mirion TLDs totals 85 - 8 mrem for the same period.

(2)

+/- values represent the standard deviation of the total value at the 95% confidence level.

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-r Table V.12 Annual Average Concentration of the Total Net Beta Radioactivity (minus 3H) for Environmental Soil, Water, and Vegetation Samples Sample Annual Average Concentration Location Sample Of the Total Net Beta (Minus 3H)

Reporting (See Fig. V.1)

Type RadioactivitY)Re Units 1-W Water 5.24x10-6121 lCi m1-1 4-W Water 5.24x10-6(2) iCi ml1-11-W Water 5.24x10-6(2 )

iCi m 1-1 19-RW Water 5.24x10-6(2)

PCi m1-1 3-S Soil 4.86x10- 5 + 8.88x10-6 pCi g1 of dry soil 5-S Soil 2.35x10 5.70x10- 6 pCi g-1 of dry soil 20-S Soil 2.79x10- 5 +/- 6.85x10-6 PCi g-1 of dry soil 21-S Soil 3.58x10 7.09x10-6 aCi g-1 of dry soil 2-G Grass 3.91x10-4 +/- 2.79x10- 5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 6-C Grass 3.20x10-4 +/- 3.72x10-5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 7-G Grass 2.19x10- 4 _ 2.45x10- 5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 8-G Grass 3.00x10- 4 +/- 3.58x10-5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 9-G Grass 3.44x10- 4 _ 3.35x10-5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 10-G Grass 3.61x10- 4 + 3.59x10-5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 12-G Grass 2.93x10- 4 +/- 3.38x10-5 PCi g-1 of dry ash 13-G Grass 2.95x10- 4 + 3.48x10-5 l-Ci g-1 of dry ash 14-G Grass 3.43x10- 4 _ 3.81x10- 5 l-Ci g-1 of dry ash 15-G Grass 2.10x10- 4 3.14x10- 5 PCi g-1 of dry ash 16-G Grass 2.66x10- 4 _ 2.73x10- 5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 17-G Grass 2.97x10- 4 +/- 3.54x10- 5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 18-G Grass 1.88x10- 4 +/- 3.19x10- 5 pCi g-1 of dry ash 22-G Grass 2.11x10- 4 + 2.09x10- 5 pCi g-1 of dry ash (1) _ values represent the standard deviation of the value at the 95% confidence level.

(2)

Less than lower limit of detection value shown.

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+

Reporting Units PCi g-1 of dry soil 1.45x10-5 Water Vegetation 5.24x10_6 "I i

-4 5.24x10_

6 3.51x10- 5 to 6.67x10-5 PCi m1-1 pCi g-1 of dry ash 5.62x10-5 (1) Less than lower limit of detection value shown.

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Radiation Protection Table V.14 Annual Summary of Radioactive Material Shipments Originating From the TRIGA Reactor Facility's NRC License R-106 Number of Shipments Total Activity Exempt Limited (TBq)

Quantity Yellow II Yellow III Total Arizona State University 3.93xlO-s 1

0 0

0 1

Tucson, AZ USA Berkeley Geochronology Center 720 0-7 5

1 0

0 6

Berkeley, CA USA Cal State Fullerton Fullerton, CA USA Lawrence Livermore National Lab Livermore, CA USA Lehigh University 3.98x10s 2

0 0

0 2

Bethlehem, PA USA Materion Coperation 2.84x10-2 0

0 0

3 3

Elmore, OH USA Materion Natural Resources 1.19X10' 0

0 0

23 23 Delta, UT USA NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center 1.08x10-6 0

1 1

0 2

Huntsville, AL USA Occidental College 5.27x10-9 2

0 0

0 2

Los Angeles, CA USA Oregon State University 3.76x10 6 1

0 4

0 5

Corvallis, OR USA Plattsburgh State University 1.46x105-1 0

0 0

1 Plattsburgh, NY USA Syracuse University 1.45x10-8 2

0 0

0 2

Syracuse, NY USA Union College 5.06xl0-'

2 0

0 0

2 Schenectady, NY USA University of Arizona 1.24x10-7 3

0 0

0 3

Tucson, AZ USA University of California at Berkeley 4.37x10-6 0

0 3

Berkeley, CA USA University of California at Santa Barbara 5.71x10- 5 1

0 0

0 1

Santa Barbara, CA USA University of Cincinnati 2.10xl0O-1 0

0 0

1 Cincinnati, OH USA University of Florida 2.86xl0-7 2

2 0

0 4

Gainesville, FL USA University of Minnesota 7.18xl0-'

1 0

0 0

1 Minneapolis, MN USA University of Vermont 4.32x103-2 0

0 0

2 Burlington, VT USA University of Wisconsin-Madison 1.07x10 5-1 1

4 0

6 Madison,WI USA Totals 1.47x10-1 29 5

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Exempt Limity White I Yellow II Total Argonne National Lab 6.75x10-7 4

3 0

1 8

Argonne, IL USA Idaho State University 2.83x1O-5 1

1 0

0 2

Pocatello, ID USA Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2.57x10-7 3

0 0

0 3

Berkeley, CA USA Los Alamos National Lab Los Alamos, NM USA Oregon Health and Science University 9.40x10_` 0 1

0 0

0 1

Portland, OR USA Totals 2.49x10-6 9

6 1

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Table V.16 Annual Summary of Radioactive Material Shipments Exported Under NRC General License 10 CFR 110.23 Number of Shipments Shipped To Total Activity Exempt Limited llow Total (TBq)

Quantity Glasgow University 1.98x10' 2

0 0

2 Glasgow SCOTLAND Institute of Geology, Academy of Science 2.16x10 8 2

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2 Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC Lanzhou University 9.06x10-9 1

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7 East Kilbride, SCOTLAND Universidade de Brasilia 6.11x10- 8 4

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Summary

'The Radiation Center offers a wide variety of resources for teaching, research, and service related to radiation and radioac-tive materials. Some of these are discussed in detail in other parts of this report. The purposeof this section is to summarize the teaching, research, and service efforts carried out during the current reporting period.

Teaching An important responsibility of the Radiation Center and the reactor is to support OSU's academic programs. Implementa-tion of this support occurs through direct involvement of the Center's staff and facilities in the teaching programs of various departments and through participation in University research programs. Table 111.2 plus the "Training and Instuction" sec-tion (see next page) provide detailed information on the use of the Radiation Center and reactor for instruction and training.

Research and Service 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 project number, data about the person and institution requesting the work, information about students in-volved, a description of the project, Radiation Center resources needed, the Radiation Center project manager, status of indi-vidual runs, billing information, and the funding source.

Table VIA provides a summary of institutions which used the Radiation Center during this reporting period. This table also includes additional information about the number of academic personnel involved, the number of students involved, and the number of uses logged for each organization.

The major table in this section is Table VI.2. This table pro-vides a listing of the research and service projects carried out during this reporting period and lists information relating to the personnel and institution involved, the type of project, and the funding agency. Projects which used the reactor are indi-cated by an asterisk. In addition to identifying specific projects carried out during the current reporting period, Part VI also highlights major Radiation Center capabilities in research and service. These unique Center functions are described in the following text.

Neutron Activation Analysis Neutron activation analysis (NAA) stands at the forefront of techniques for the quantitative multi-element analysis of major, minor, trace, and rare elements.The principle involved in NAA consists of first irradiating a sample with neutrons in a nuclear reactor such as the OSTR to produce specific radionuclides.

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the decaying radionuclides are quantitatively measured by suitable semiconductor radiation detectors, and the gamma rays detected at a particular energy are usually indicative of a specific radionuclide's presence. Computerized-data reduction of the gamma ray spectra then yields the concen-trations 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, depend-ing on the element.

The Radiation Center's NAA laboratory has analyzed the major, minor, and trace element content of tens of thousands of samples 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 Radia-tion Center provides a complete NAA service for researchers and others who may require it. Ihis includes sample prepara-tion, sequential irradiation and counting, and data reduction and analysis.

Irradiations As described throughout this report, a major capability of the Radiation Center involves the irradiation of a large variety of substances with gamma rays and neutrons. Detailed data on these irradiations and their use are included in Part III as well as in the "Research & Service" text of this section.

Radiological Emergency Response Services 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.'Ihe 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 Oregon Department of Energy.

'he Radiation Center maintains dedicated stocks of radio-logical emergency response equipment and instrumentation.

These items are located at the Radiation Center and at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis.

12-13 Annual Report During the current reporting period, the Radiation Center emergency response team conducted several training sessions 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, and VI, and in addition to the routine training needed to meet the requirements of the OSTR Emergency Response Plan, Physical Security Plan, and op-erator 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 offer training in areas such as research reactor operations, research reactor management, research reactor radiation protection, radiological emergency response, reactor behavior (for nuclear power plant operators), neutron activa-tion analysis, nuclear chemistry, and nuclear safety analysis.

Special training programs generally fall into one of several categories: visiting faculty and research scientists; Interna-tional Atomic Energy Agency fellows; special short-term courses; or individual reactor operator or health physics train-ing programs. During this reporting period there were a large number of such people as shown in the People Section.

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 Oregon State University.

Radiation Protection Services The primary purpose of the radiation protection program at the Radiation Center is to support the instruction and research conducted at the Center. However, due to the high quality of the program and the level of expertise and equip-ment available, the Radiation Center is also able to provide health physics services in support of OSU Radiation Safety and to assist other state and federal agencies. The Radiation Center does not compete with private industry, but supplies health physics services which are not readily available else-where. 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 phys-ics services in any of the areas which are discussed in Part V.

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TIhe Radiation Center also provides services and techni-cal support as a radiation laboratory to the State of Oregon Radiation Protection Services (RPS) in the event of a radio-logical 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 radiological response field teams.

As part of the ongoing preparation for this emergency sup-port, the Radiation Center participates in inter-institution drills.

Radiological Instrument Repair and Calibration While repair of nuclear instrumentation is a practical neces-sity, routine calibration of these instruments is a licensing and regulatory requirement which must be met. As a result, the Radiation Center operates a radiation instrument repair and calibration facility which can accommodate a wide vari-ety of equipment.

The Center's scientific instrument repair facility performs maintenance and repair on all types of radiation detectors and other nuclear instrumentation. Since the Radiation Cen-ter'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 Radia-tion Center 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, beta, gamma, and neutron radiation, as well as instruments designed for low-level environmental monitoring. Higher range instruments for use in radiation accident situations can also be calibrated in most cases. In-strument calibrations are performed using radiation sources certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technol-ogy (NIST) or traceable to NIST Table VI.3 is a summary of the instruments which were calibrated in support of the Radiation Center's instructional and research programs and the OSTR Emergency Plan, while Table VI.4 shows instruments calibrated for other OSU departments and non-OSU agencies.

Consultation Radiation Center staff are available to provide consultation services in any of the areas discussed in this Annual Report, but in particular on the subjects of research reactor operations and use, radiation protection, neutron activation analysis, radia-tion shielding, radiological emergency response, and radiotracer methods.

Records are not normally kept of such consultations, as they often take the form of telephone conversations with research-ers encountering problems or planning the design of experi-ments. Many faculty members housed in the Radiation Center have ongoing professional consulting functions with various organizations, in addition to sitting on numerous committees in advisory capacities.

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Oregon State University`

24 52 12 274(2)

Corvallis, OR USA

Oregon State University - Educational Tours 3

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14 Corvallis, OR USA Albany Fire Department 1

0 0

13 Albany, OR USA CH2M Hill Inc Corvallis, OR USA City of Salem 1

0 0

2 Salem, OR USA NETL Albany, OR USA Nunhems USA, Inc.

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0 4

Salem, OR USA Oregon State Fire Marshal 1

0 0

16 Salem, OR USA

University of Oregon 2

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Eugene, OR USA Cascade Research Group 1

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2 Grants Pass, OR USA ESCO Corporation 1

0 0

4 Portland, OR USA Feline Thyroid Clinic 1

0 0

2 Springfield, OR USA Gene Tools, LLC 1

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3 Philomath, OR USA Grande Ronde Hospital 1

0 0

5 La Grande, OR USA Knife River 2

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3 Roseburg, OR USA I

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Institutions, Agencies and Groups Which Utilized the Radiation Center Number of Number of Number of Number of Times of Suden of Center Intuitions, Agencies and Groups Projects Faculty Involvement Students Uses of Center Involved Facilities Kinetic Force, Inc.

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Roseburge, OR USA Knife River Tangent, OR USA Malheur Experiment Station Ontario, OR USA 1

1 0

3 Occupational Health Lab 0

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Portland, OR USA Oregon Health Sciences University 1

0 0

10 Portland, OR USA Portland State University 1

0 0

10 Portland, OR USA Radiation Protection Services 2

0 0

62 Portland, OR USA Silverton Hospital 1

0 0

5 Silverton, OR USA Simplexity Health 1

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2 Klamath Falls, OR USA US National Parks Service 1

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2 Crater Lake, OR USA Weyerhaeuser 1

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1 Sweet Home, OR USA

Berkeley Geochronology Center 1

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15 Berkeley, CA USA

California State University at Fullerton 1

1 0

1 Fullerton, CA USA

Occidental College 1

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2 Los Angeles, CA USA

Royal Ontario Museum 0

3 Toronto, Ontario CANADA 1

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University of California at Berkeley 2

1 0

3 Berkeley, CA USA

University of California at Santa Barbara 1

1 0

1 Santa Barbara, CA USA

University of Manitoba 1

1 0

1 Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA

Materion Natural Resources 1

0 0

20 Delta, UT USA

Arizona State University 1

1 0

2 Tempe, AZ USA

University of Arizona 3

3 1

5 Tucson, AZ USA The Land Institute Salina, KS USA 1

0 0

2

University of Minnesota 1

0 0

1 Minneappolis, MN USA

Field Museum 1

2 Chicago, IL USA

Southern Illinois University 1

2 0

12 Carbondale, IL USA

University of Chicago 1

1 0

3 Chicago, IL USA

University of Wisconsin 1

1 0

12 Madison, WI USA

University of Michigan 1

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2 Ann Arbor, MI USA Lonza 1

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Materion Brush, Inc.

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acifCter Involved Facilities

NASA 1

0 0

2 Huntsville, AL USA

University of Cincinnati 1

1 1

Cincinnati, OH USA

Cornell University 1

2 0

4 Ithaca, NY USA Lehigh University 1

0 0

2 Bethlehem, PA USA

Plattsburgh State University 1

1 0

1 Plattsburgh, NY USA

Syracuse University 2

2 4

4 Syracuse, NY USA

Union College 1

1 0

1 Schenectady, NY USA

University of Vermont 1

1 0

1 Burlington, VT USA

Benjamin Mutin 1

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5 Cambridge, MA UAA

University of Florida 1

1 6

3 Gainesville, FL USA

Quaternary Dating Laboratory 1

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Roskilde, Denmark

Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre 0

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University of Glasgow 1

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Universite Rennes 1 Rennes, FRANCE 1

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Institutions, Agencies and Groups Which Utilized the Radiation Center Number of Number of Times of Number of Number of Intuitions, Agencies and Groups Projects Faculty Involvement Students Uses of Center Involved Facilities ETH Zurich 1

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Krakow, POLAND Universita' Degli Studi di Padova

Padova, 1

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Universitat Potsdam 1

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2

Postdam, GERMANY

University of Geneva 1

4 6

Geneva, SWITZERLAND

University of Goettingen 5

1 Gottingen, GERMANY

University of Waikato 1

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4 Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND

University of Melbourne 0

2 Melbourne, Victoria AUSTRALIA

University of Queensland 1

0 6

Brisbane, Queensland Australia Totals 103 118 44 681 (1)

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Project which involves the OSTR.

Use by Oregon State University does not include any teaching activities or classes accommodated by the Radiation Center.

This number does not include on going projiects being performed by residents of the Radiation Center such as the APEX project, others in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics or Department of Chemistry or projects conducted by Dr. Walt Loveland, which involve daily use of the Radiation Center facilities.

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0 Table Vl.2 Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project IUsers Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 444 Duncan Oregon State University Ar-40/Ar-39 Dating of Oceanographic Samples Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to measure radiometric ages on basaltic rocks from ocean basins.

OSU Oceanography Department 481 Le Oregon Health Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

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

OSU - various University departments 664 Reese Oregon State Good Samaritan Hospital Instrument Instrument calibration.

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

GeochronoroBerkeley Ar-39/Ar-40 Age Dating Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine ages in Berkeley t

Geochronology Center various anthropologic and geologic materials.

Geochronology Center 932 Dumitru Stanford University Fission Track Dating Thermal column irradiation of geological samples for Stanford University fission track age-dating.

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

Occupational Health Lab Laboratory Teaching and University of Activation Analysis Experiment for NE Activation Analysis Experiment for NE Class.

University of California 1075 Tours California at Berkeley Class Irradiation of small, stainless steel discs for use in a University nuclear engineering radiation measurements laboratory.

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

1185 Elting University of Oregon Instrument Calibration Radiological instrument calibration for the University of Oregon Environmental Health and Safety Office.

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

_ and Waldo Lake.

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

University of

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Radiation Protection State of Oregon 1354 Lindsay Services Radiological Instrument Calibration 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.

1404 Riera-Lizarau Oregon State Evaluation of wheat DNA Gamma irradiation of wheat seeds OSU Crop and Soil University Science 1415 McGinness ESCO Corporation Calibration of Instruments Instrument calibration ESCO Corporation Oregon State Study of N=90 isotone structure (Sm-152, Gd-154, Dy-OSU Physics 1419 J Krane Univerensita Nuclear Structure of N=90 Isotones 156) from decays of Eu-152, Eu-152m, Eu-154,Tb-1419 Krane University 154, and Ho-156. Samples will be counted at LBNL.

epartment 1464 Slavens USDOE Albany Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

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

Wisconsin 1470 Shatswell SIGA Technologies, Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

Siga Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Sf Federal Avia calibration.

Federal Aviation 1492 iger Administration Administration 1503 Teaching and Non-Educational Non-Educational Tours Tours for guests, university functions, student NA Tours Tours recruitment.

Teaching and Oregon State OSU Nuclear Engineering & Radiation OSTR tour and reactor lab.

NA 1504 TourEducational Tours Health Physics Department Teaching and Oregon State 1505 Tours University -

OSU Chemistry Department OSTR tour, teaching labs, and/or half-life experiment.

NA Educational Tours Oregon State 1506 Teaching and University -

OSU Geosciences Department OSTR tour.

NA Tours Educational Tours Teaching and Oregon State 1507 Tours University -

OSU Physics Department OSTR tour.

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies

-e Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Teaching and Oregon State 1509 Tours University -

HAZMAT course tours First responder training tours.

NA Educational Tours Teaching and nOregon State Science and Mathematics Investigative OSTR tour and haf-life experiment.

1510 Teacingan University -

LannExeineOT toradhl-fexpimt.NA 1510 Tours Educational Tours Learning Experience Teaching and Oregon State Reactor operation required for conduct of operations 1511 Tours University -

Reactor Staff Use testing, operator training, calibration runs, encapsulation NA Educational Tours tests and other.

1512 Teaching and Linn Benton Linn Benton Community College OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

NA Tours Community College Tours/Experiments 1514 Sobel Universitat Potsdam Apatite Fission Track Analysis Age determination of apatites by fission track analysis.

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

1523 Zattin Universita' Degli Studi Fission track al fAtt Fission track dating method on apatites by fission track NA di Padova anysis opaies analysis.

Teaching and Oregon State 1527 Tours University -

Odyssey Orientation Class OSTR tour.

NA Educational Tours Oregon State 1528 Teaching and University -

Upward Bound OSTR tour.

NA Educational Tours Teaching and Oregon State 1529 Tours University -

OSU Connect OSTR tour.

NA Educational Tours 1530 Teaching and Newport School Newport School District OSTR tour.

NA Tours DistrictOTRtu.N 1531 Teaching and Central Oregon Central Oregon Community College OSTR tour for Engineering NA Tours Community College Engineering 1535 Teaching and Corvallis School Corvallis School District OSTR tour.

NA Tours District I.

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 7 Teaching and Oregon State 1537nTours University -

Naval Science Department OSTR tour.

NA Educational Tours Teaching and Oregon State 1538 Tours University -

OSU Speech Department OSTR tour.

NA Educational Tours Teaching and Oregon State 1542 Tours University -

Engineering Sciences Classes OSTR tour.

NA Educational Tours Veterinary Diagnostic Veterinary Diagnostic 1543 Bailey Imaging &

Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

Imaging &

Cytopathology 9ytopathology 1544 Teaching and West Albany High West Albany High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

NA Tours School Teaching and Oregon State 1545 Tours University -

OSU Educational Tours OSTR tour.

NA Educational Tours 1548 Teaching and Willamette Valley Willamette Valley Community School OSTR tour.

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

1583 Teaching and Neahkahnie High Neahkahnie High School OSTR tour.

NA Tours School 1584 Teaching and Reed College Reed College Staff &Trainees OSTR tour for Reed College Staff &Trainees NA Tours 1611 Teaching and Grants Pass High Grants Pass High School OSTR tour.

NA Tours School 1613 Teaching and Silver Falls School Silver Falls School District OSTR tour.

NA Tours District

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 1614 Teaching and Marist High School Marist High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment.

NA Tours 1617 Spikings University of Geneva Ar-Ar geochronology and Fission Track Argon dating of Chilean granites.

University of Geneva dating 1621 Foster University of Florida Irradiation for Ar/Ar Analysis Ar/Ar analysis of geological samples.

University of Florida 1622 Reese Oregon State Flux Measurements of OSTR Measurement of neutron flux in various irradiation NA Universit facilities.

1623 Blythe Occidental College Fission Track Analysis Fission track'Ihermochronology of geological samples Occidental College 1653 Tear and Madison High School Madison High School Senior Science OSTR tour for Senior Science Class NA ToursClass 1655 Teaching and Future Farmers of OSTR Tour OSTR tour NA Tours America 1657 Teaching and Richland High School Richland High School OSTR tour.

NA Tours 1660 Reese Oregon State Isotope and Container Testing Testing of containers and source material NA University 1667 Teaching and Yamhill-Carlton High Teaching and Tour NA ToursTeaching and 1673 Teaching and Heal College Heal College Physics Department OSTR tour.

NA Tours Radiological emergency support ot OOE related to 1674 Niles Oregon Department of Radiological Emergency Suport instrument calibration, radiological and RAM transport Oregon Department of Energy pp consulting, and maintenance of radiological analysis Energy laboratory at the Radiation Center.

1687 Teaching and Inavale Grade School Reactor Tour General reactor tour NA Tours 1690 Teaching and Wilson High School Reactor Tour D300 Reactor Tour NA Tours 1691 Teaching and Lost River High Reactor Tour D300 Reactor Tour NA Tours School i.

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding This is to build up basic knowledge on the efficacy of a 1692 Choi Arch Chemicals Inc.

Screening Tests of Wood Decay copper based preservative in preventing decay of wood Arch Chemical Inc.

inhabiting basidiomycetes.

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

Inc.

1699 Teaching and Philomath High Reactor Tour Tour of NAA and gas chromatograph capabilities in the NA Tours School Radiation Center 1700 Frantz Reed College Instrument calibration Instrument calibration Reed College 1714 Lebanon Community Instrument Calibration Lebanon Community Hospital Hospital 1717 Baldwin Syracuse University Ar/Ar Dating Ar/Ar Dating Syracuse University California StateDeatntf 1718 Armstrong UniforniayatFler Fission Track Dating Fission track age dating of apatite grains.

Department of 178 rmtrng University at Fullerton Geological Sciences Teaching and Portland Community Upward Bound OSTRTour for Upward Bound NA 1719 Tours College 1720 Teaching and Saturday Academy OSTR Tour OSTR Tour NA Tours Teaching and Oregon State 1726 Tours University -

Academic Learning Services Cohort Class 199 NA Educational Tours 1730 Reese Oregon State Neutron Radiography Neutron Radiography using the real-time and film NA University__

Neutro R o

p imaging methods 1739 Teaching and Daly Middle School Reactor Tour Reactor Tour NA Tours 1743 Teaching and West Salem High Reactor Tour Reactor Tour NA Tours School 175 GrnrUS National Parks US National Parks 1745 Girdner C 14 Measurements LSC analysis of samples for C14 measurements.

Service 1747 Teaching and East Linn Christian Reactor Tour Reactor Tour for Chemistry Class NA Tours Academy

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Teaching and Oregon State 1758 Tours University -

Kids Spirit OSTR tour NA Educational Tours 1765 Beaver Weyerhaeuser Instrument Calibration Calibration of radiological instruments.

Weyerhaeuser Foster 1768 Bringman Brush-Wellman Antimony Source Production Production of Sb-124 sources Brush-Wellman 1771 Otjen Oregon State Fire Instrument calibration Calibration of radiological response kits Oregon State Fire Marshal Marshall 1777 Storey Quaternary Dating Quaternary Dating Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine Quaternary Dating Laboratory radiometric ages of geological materials.

Laboratory 1779 Teaching and Lebanon High School Teaching and tours OSTR tour.

NA Tours 1783 Amrhein Amrhein Associates, Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Amrhein Associates, Inc Inc.

Teaching and Oregon State 1790 Tours University -

OSTR Tour OSTR Tour NA Educational Tours Oregon State 1791 Teaching and University -

OSTR Tour RX Tour NA Educational Tours 1794 O'Kain Knife River Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Tangent Construction 1795 Zubek Eugene Sand &

Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Eugene Sand & Gravel, Gravel, Inc.

Inc.

1796 Hardy CH2M Hill, Inc.

Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration CH2M Hill, Inc.

7Teaching and Oregon State 1797nTours University -

OSTR Tour OSTR Tour NA Educational Tours Geologisch-Geologisch-1816 Kounov Palaontologisches Fission Track Analysis Geochronology analysis using fission track dating.

Palaontologisches Institut Institut 1817 Costigan City of Gresham Instrument Calibration Calibration of instruments City of Gresham 1818 Sabey Brush Wellman Antimony source production (Utah)

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies I*

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 11 VeerUniversity of Uiest fClfri 1819 Vet California at Berkeley NE-104A INAA source Stainless Steel disk source for INAA lab.

University of California 1820 Jolivet Universite Montpellier Fission Track Analysis Use of fission track analysis for geochronology.

University of II Montpellier II 1823 Harper Oregon State Evaluation of Au nanoparticle uptake INAA of gold concentrations in zebrafish embryos to OSU Environmental 183 arerUniversity evaluate nanoparticle uptake.

Health Sciences Center I Teaching and North Eugene High OSTR Tour and haf-life experiment NA 1826 Tours School 1827 Teaching and Stayton High School OSTR Tour and half-life experiment OSTR Tour and half-life experiment NA

_____Tours iTeaching and N

1828 Tours Lincoln High School OSTR Tour and half-life experiment OSTR Tour and half-life experiment NA Tours 1831 Thomson University of Arizona Fission Track Fission track thermochronometry of the Patagonian Yale University 1831__

-AAndes and the Northern Apennines, Italy 1840 Burgess University of Ar/Ar Dating Production of Ar-39 from K-39 for Ar-40/Ar-39 dating University of Manchester of geological samples Manchester 1841 Swindle University of Arizona Ar/Ar dating of ordinary chondritic Ar/Ar dating of ordinary chondritic meterorites University of Arizona meterorites 1843 Fletcher Empiricos LLC Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Empiricos LLC 1847 Higley Oregon State Ultra-trace uptake studies for allometric NAA of ultra-trace elements in plant samples for NERHP CRESP University studies application in allometric studies Grant Antimicrobial activity of silanized silica co-polymer and nisin association.

TIhe project is 1852 McGuire Oregon State microspheres with covalently attached aimed at finding effective methods for coating surfaces Chemical,Biological &

University PEO-PPO-PEO to enhance protein repellant activity and antimicrobial Env Engineering activity using nisin.

Grande Ronde Grande Ronde 1853 Ivestor Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Hospital Hospital 1855 Anczkiewicz Polish Academy of Fission Track Services Verification of AFT data for illite-mechte data Polish Academy of Sciences Sciences 1858 Arbogast Gene Tools, LLC Instrument Calibration Calibration of instruments Gene Tools, LLC 1861 Page Lund University Lund University Geochronology Ar/Ar Geochronology Lund University i

1864 Gans University of California at Santa Barbara Ar-40/Ar-39 Sample Dating Production of Ar-39 from K-40 to determine radiometric ages of geologic samples.

University of California at Santa Barbara

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies or Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding University of FApatite fission track to reveal the exhumation history of 1865 Carrapa Un tyomi Fission Track Irradiations rocks from the ID-WY-UY postion of the Sevier fold University of Wyoming aWyoming and thrust belt, Nepal, and Argentina.

102nd Oregon Civil 102nd Oregon Civil 1875 Hosmer Support Unit Instrument Calibration Calibration of instruments Support Unit Oregon State Utilization of the Prompt Gamma Development and utilization of the Prompt Gamma asac Neutron Activation Analaysis Facility for use as a user NA eUniversity Neutron Activation Analysis Facility facility 1878 Roden-Tice Plattsburgh State Fission-track research Use of fission tracks to detrmine location of 235U, Plattsburgh State University 232Th in natural rocks and minerals University, Determine whether deletion of the geme encoding thioredoxin reductase in liver 1)increases or decreases 1880 Merrill Oregon State Selenium,T'-hioredoxin Reductase and the rate of liver cancer, 2)impacts the cancer-preventive OSU Biochemistry &

University Cancer activity of dietary selenium, 3)effects the pathways by Biophysics wich cells protect themselves from oxicative stress and cancer 1887 Farsoni Oregon State Xenon Gas Production Production of xenon gas OSU NERHP University T-he goal of this project is to determine the effects of hydrolysis and radiolysis on the extraction ability of a 9a Oregon State Hydrolysis and Radiolysis of synergistic diamide and chlorinated cobalt dicarbollide (CCD).

O889 PUnivresita Hydrolysands RadolyisCCD and the diamide are synergistic extractants NA a University extractants and will be together in solution for hydrolysis and radiolysis experiments. Effects will be measured with IR spectroscopy and extraction distribution ratios 1891 Reese Oregon State Development of a Neutron Depth Development and use of a Neutron Depth Profiling NA University Profiling Instrument instrument in conjunction with PGNAA facility 1894 Greene University of Chicago INAA of Late Bronze-Age Ceramics, Trace-element analyses of ceramics from Tsaghkahovit, University of Chicago Armenia Armenia, to determine provenance 1895 Filip Academy of Sciences Bojemian Massif Fission-track dating Academy of Sciences of of the Czech Republic the Czech Republic Oregon State Beta Source Creation 'Ihrough Activation of various materials for beta radiation 1896 Hamby University Activation sources used in the development of beta spectroscopy OSU NERHP instrumentation University of Fission Track Services Use of fission tracks to determine location of 235U, University of 1898 Fayon Minnesota 232'"h in natural rocks and minerals.

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 1899 Loveland Oregon State Target Production Production of actinide targets for used in neutron beams NA University We used an artificial soil media (clay minerals, glass 1900 Keiluweit Oregon State Manganese chemistry and lignin beads, manganese oxides) for our experiments. This OSU Crop and Soil University decomposition artificial soil needs to be sterile for our experiments to Science succeed.

1903 Napier Pacific Northwest INAA of Fruits and Soils Trace-element analysis to determine values for food-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory chain pathway.

National Laboratory 1904 Minc Oregon State INAA of Archaeological Ceramics from Trace-element analyses of ceramics from Ecuador for NA University Ecuador provenance determination.

1905 Fellin ETH Zurich Fission Track Analysis Use of fission tracks to determine location of 235U, Geologisches Institut, 232Th in natural rocks and minerals.

ETH Zurich 1906 Torgeson Yaquina River Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration.

Yaquina River Constructors Constructors ofOSU Environmental Oregon State Nanoparticle Uptake in Zebrafish INAA to determine the uptake by zebrafish embryos of and Molecular 1907 Tanguay University Embryos various metals in nanoparticle form.

Toxicology Six (6) basalt cores approximately 6" in height and Oregon State Sterilization of Basalt Core using approximately 2" in diameter will be sterilized using a 1908 ColwellUniveresiaty GammaeIrradiation oCo-60 source in order to prepare the cores for microbial OSU COAS 1908 Colwell University Gamma Irradiation incubation experiments. Each core will be individually wrapped in aluminum foil and duplic 1909 Hamby Oregon State Use of Batteries as Acitivation Detectors Use of Li-ion batteries as activation detectors by looking NA University at activation of metals in the the battery.

Suboxic soil environments contain a disproportionately Soil Manganese Redox Cycling in higher concentration of highly reactive free radicals 1910 Maynard U.S. EPA Suboxic Zones: Effects on Soil Carbon relative to the surrounding soil matrix, which may have U.S. EPA Stability significant implications for soil organic matter cycling and stabilization. This project e Trace-element analysis of ceramic from ancient Iran to National Science 1911 Alden University of Michigan INAA of Ancient Iranian Ceramics moirtad.Fuain monitor trade.

a Foundation 1912 Thornton University of INAA of Ancient Iranian Ceramics Trace-element analyses of archaeological ceramics from National Science Pennsylvania Iran.

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Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Oregon State Fission Yield Determination Using Use of neutron activation to determine fission yields e University Gamma Spectroscopy for various fissile and fertile materials using gamma NA spectroscopy Scottish Universities Scottish Universities 1914 Barfod Environmental Ar/Ar Age Dating Ar/Ar age dating.

Research and Reactor Research Centre Centre 102nd Oregon Civil Counting different media with different instruments to NA Sample countg determine isotopic composition.

1918 Jander Oregon State Radiation effects on Magnetic

'This project is to study the changes of the structural and Electrical Engineering University Tunnelling Junction devices electrical properties of Magnetic Tunneling junction and Computer Science exposing in gamma radiation.

1919 Baker Lake District Hospital Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Lake District Hospital 1921 Fear City of Salem Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration City of Salem 1922 Hallmark Coos County Public Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Coos County Public Health Health 1923 McAllister NETL Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration NETL 1925 Macnab Allied Waste Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Allied Waste 1928 Schleifer Mushka Dairy Dairy/Vegetation Radionuclide Determination if contamination of dairy/vegetation NA Detection from radionuclides exists.

1929 Farsoni Oregon State Source Activation Irradiation of different materials to make sources for NA University detection experiments.

1930 Brown University of Glasgow Fission Track Irradiation Use of fission tracks to determine location of 235U, University of Glasgow 232Th in natural rocks and minerals.

Irradiation by gamma radiation will make sterile pollen 1931 Emori Nunhems USA, Inc.

Pollen Sterilization which can be used on female flowers to produce fruit Nunhems USA Inc.

with haploid embryos in some of the seed.

Oregon State Induced mutation and in vitro Gamma rays and chemical mutagens will be used to OSU Crop and Soil 1932 Yilma University techniques as a method to screen induce variation in shoot -tips culture of selected potato Science drought tolerance in potatoes varieties for further evaluation.

1933 Loveland Oregon State Pt radiochemistry Production of tracer for testing chemical separation of Pt

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LUniversity from Pb 1934 Denardo ATI Allegheny Neutron Absrober Qualification Determination of transmission factor for qualification of boron based metallic neutron absorber.

1935 Higley Oregon State Fukushima Detection and Analysis Efficiency and calibration of detectors relating to OSU NERIP University samples in and around the Fukushima reactors.

1936 Hicks Clair Company Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Clair Company i.

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding INAA of ceramics from ancient Shahr-I Trace-element analysis of ceramics from the site of OSU Radiation Center, 1940 Mutin Benjamin Mutin Sokhta, Iran Shahr-I Sokhta, to investigate interregional exchange Minc systems.

Minc 1941 Wright University of Michigan INAA of ceramics from ancient Jebel Trace-element analyses of ceramics from the site ofJebel OSU Radiation Center, Aruda, Syria Aruda, Syria to investigate interregional exchange.

Minc Determine the neutron and gmasniiiyo PLbrtreIc 1943 Patel JP Laboratories, Inc Dosimetry Card Sensitivity dosimetry cards.

gamma sensitivity of JP Laboratories, Inc.

1944 Jander Oregon State Neutron Effects on Magnetic Tunneling Neutron Effects on Magnetic Tunneling Junction University Junction 1946 Carpenter Pacific Analytical For Carnation-Leaf Agar Meduium Irradiation of carnation leaves to kil fngal spores.

Pacific Analytical Laboratory Fusarium ID Project Laboratory 1947 Sane Lonza Deodorant Screening Project Tfhis project uses pig skin as a model for human skin in Lonza our screening of potential deodorant actives.

1948 Trappe Oregon State Bioaccumulation by PNW Fungi Passive gamma counting of activity in mushrooms and 98 TrpeUniversity associated soils from the PNW.

1949 Reichel Royal Ontario INAA of Ceramics from Godin Tepe, Trace-element analyses of ancient ceramics from Iran NSF Collaborative Museum Iran using INAA.

Research Project 1950 Yanchar Oregon State INAA of Ecuadorian Ceramics Trace-element analyses of ceramics from N. highland University Ecuador.

1951 Brennan Agate Engineering, Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Agate Engineering, Inc.

Inc.

1952 Jahinuzzaman Intel Electronic Fault Irradiations Determination of the neutron fluence necessary to cause Intel Corporation 1952 nEeofaults in integrated circuits.

Lehigh has a geochronology lab for dating rock and mineral samples using the 40Ar/39Ar method, which 1953 Idleman Lehigh University Lehigh University Ar/Ar Dating has been in operation since about 1990. Fast neutron Lehigh University irradiation of these samples produces 40Ar from 40K and is an essential step in the 40Ar/39Ar dating Inflammation contributes to the etiology of several Oregon State The Role of Leptin in Inflammation-common metabolic bone diseases, including arthritis, Department of periodontal disease, and postmenopausal and senile Nutrition and Exercise University driven Bone Loss osteoporosis. T-he proposed research will test the novel Sciences hypothesis that leptin (a hormone that act 1955 igleyOregon State 1955 Higley University Uptake of radionuclides in plants Determine concentration ratios in plants.

OSU NERHP PPortland State 1956 Jaqua PorandInstrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Uvrsty University InstrumentICalibration_

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Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 1957 Phillips University of Radiometric age dating of geologic A

age dating.

University of Melbourne samples Melbourne 1958 Minc Oregon State INAA of Oaxaca Ceramics Trace-element analyses of prehistoric ceramics from NSF Collaborative University Oaxaca, Mexico, to determine provenance.

Research Project 1959 Mutin Benjamin Mutin Tepe Yahya INAA of archaeological ceramics from Tepe Yahya, Iran. NSF Collaborative Research Project 1960 Minc Oregon State Nineveh INAA of archaeological ceramics from the British NSF Collaborative University Museum's collection from ancient Nineveh.

Research Project Geochronology of Terrestrial and of Earth-based, lunar and meteorite samples. University of Alabama 1961 Cohen NASA Extraterrestrial Samples Age dating at Huntsville Oregon State Antimicrobial activity of honey and We are conducting research on the antimicrobial activity 1962 Daeschel Oniveregnstate mori r ts oof these foods and need to have them sterile without OSU Horticulture University coriander seeds.usnhet using heat.

Various foils will be irradiated in different OSTR 1963 Marcum Oregon State Neutron Spectra Characterization irradiation facilities in order to characterize the neutron University spectra in the OSTR.

1965 Webb University of Vermont Ar/Ar age dating Irradiation with fast neutrons to produce Ar-39 from University of Vermont K-39 for Ar/Ar geochronology.

1966 Macnab Coffin Butte Landfill Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Coffin Butte Landfill 1967 Evans Feline Ihyroid Clinic Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Feline Thyroid Clinic 1969 Wilkes James Wilkes Radiation Contamination of Salmon Determine if salmon is contaminated with Cs134/137.

Fission track dating of apatite samples from China in 1972 Danisik University of Waikato Fission Track dating order to investigate exhumation history of ultra high University of Waikato pressure rocks in Dabie-Shan region.

1973 Khatchadourian Cornell University INAA of ceramics from Armenia Trace-element analyses of ancient pottery from Armenia. Cornell University Oregon State Investigation of Malformation and Determination of the minimum lethal dose of fish 1974 Higginbotham University Mortality Frequency as a Function of embryos.

Gamma Ray Doses up to 50 Gray Wheatgrass chromosome 4E carries a major gene for 1976 Wang Tlhe Land Institute Perennial wheat perenniality. By treating chromosome 4E addition line, Tlhe Land we intend to induce different length of deletions on this chromosome and map the gene.

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1978 Shock Malheur Experiment Change the Photo-perios Response of The plant blooms too late, after winter and spring soil Station Camalina water is exhausted. By treatment with gamma radiation we hope to identify a couple of viable plants with early blooming.

1979 Paulenova Oregon State Med Matrix Extraction Testing Multi-element, transition metal salt production for 979 auenUniversity mixed matrix extraction testing.

Radiation Protection 1980 Carpenter Services Sample counting Sample counting State of Oregon 11 Walsh University of Oregon INAA of KoreanCeramics Trace-element analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age 1981 Wceramics from SW Korea.

Oregon State INAA of Archaeological Ceramics from Trace-element analyses of ancient ceramics and clays NSF Collaborative from Yaasuchi, Oaxaca to examine ceramic technology Research Project 1983 Minc University Yaasuchi, Oaxaca and trade.

______ResearchProject 1984 Baxter Silverton Hospital Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Silverton Hospital 1985 Faulseit Southern Illinois INAA of Classic Zapotec Ceramics Trace-element analyses of Classic period ceramics from NSF Collaborative University Macuilxochitl, Oaxaca.

Research Project 1986 Feinman Field Museum INAA of Archaelogical Ceramics from Trace-element analyses of Classic-period ceramics from NSF Collaborative El Palmillo, Oacaca the site of El Palmillo, Oaxaca.

Research Project Trace-element determination via INAA of ceramic from NSF Collaborative 1987 Alden University of Michigan Kunji Cave Kunji Cave, Iran.

Research Project 1988 Petrie University of Mamasani Trace-element analyses via INAA of archaeological NSF Collaborative Cambridge ceramics from Mamasani.

Research Project 1989 Minc Oregon State Tell Hadidi, Syia JNAA of Late Uruk ceramic containers.

NSF Collaborative University Research Project The induction of genetic mutations in hop (Humulus 1990 Townsend Oregon State Hop irradiation lupulus L.) will be attempted using radiation treatment.

OSU Crop and Soil University Generated stable mutations may lead to new hop Science varieties and assist with genetic research.

1991 Enjelmann University of Fission Track Da Apatite fission track dating, study of Yukon and University of Cincinnati a

ing southeastern Alaska geological evolution.

Cincinnati INAA of samples from mineralized fault zone, Virgin 1992 Castonguay University of Oregon Structure of Amargosa Chaos Spring Phase of the Amargosa Chaos, Southern Death Valley, California.

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C Listing of Major Research and Service Projects Preformed or in Progress at the Radiation Center and Their Funding Agencies Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding irelted to Trace-element analysis of sedimentary deposits left 1993 Goldfinger University earthquake hazards by 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake to determine OSU COAS details about the earthqueake rupture.

1985 Camacho University of Manitoba Ar/Ar dating Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine radiometric ages of geological materials.

University of Manitoba 1996 Pahle Kinetic Force Inc Shielding Evaluation Material shielding evaluation.

1997 Brier Albany Fire Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration City of Albany Department 1998 Dryden Knife River Instrument Calibration Instrument Calibration Knife River I*

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CH2MHiII 2

City of Salem 2

Doug Evans, DVM 2

ESCO Corporation 5

Fire Marshall 67 Gene Tools 3

Grand Ronde Hospital 5

Health Division 103 Knife River 4

Lebanon Community Hospital 6

NETL 3

Occupational Health Lab 7

ODOE/ Hazmat 19 ODOT 13 Oregon Health Sciences University 23 PSU 16 Republic Services 1

Samaritan Hospital 13 Siga Technologies 2

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& Sadradze, N. - Far-field tectonic effects of the Arabia-Eurasia collision and the inception of the North Anatolian Fault system. Geological Magazine, in press.

Alden, J.R, Minc, L. and Alizadeh, A. 2013. INAA analysis of ceramics from three Iranian sites: trace element signatures and evidence for ceramic exchange as seen from Tal-e Geser. Appendix A in Alizadeh, A.

Ancient Settlement Patterns and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran. Oriental Institute Publications 140. Chicago, Oriental Institute.

Anczkiewicz, A., Srodon,J. & Zattin, M. (2013) - Thermal history of the Podhale Basin in the internal Western Carpathians from the perspective of apatite fission track analyses. Geologica Carpathica, 64,2, 141-151.

Andreucci, B., Zattin, M., Mazzoli, S., Szaniawski, R. &

Jankowski, L. - Burial and exhumation history of Polish Outer Carpathians inferred from low temperature thermochronology. Tectonophysics, in press.

Baldwin, S.L., P.G. Fitzgerald and L.E. Webb, 2012. Tectonics of the New Guinea region. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 40; 495-520.

Becker, E.M, Farsoni, A.T., Alhawsawi, A.M., Alemayehu, B. "Small Prototype Gamma Spectrometer Using CsI(Tl) Scintillators Coupled to a Solid-State Photomultiplier," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 60, No. 2: 968 - 972, 2013.

Biological Remediation Strategy for Immobilizing Cs-137 in Soils Final Report, Senior Design Project, Oregon State UniversityJune 2012.

Br6cker, M., Baldwin, S. & Arkudas, R. (2013). The geologic significance of 40Ar/39Ar and Rb-Sr white mica ages from Syros and Sifnos, Greece: a record of continuous (re)crystallization during exhumation?

Journal of Metamorphic Geology, DOI: 10.1111/

jmg.1203 7 12-13 Annual Report Brown, M.C.,Jicha, B.R., Singer, B.S., ShawJ., 40Ar/39Ar age of a large amplitude directional fluctuation during the Matuyama-Brunhes reversal, Guadeloupe.

Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems (accepted pending revision).

Brown, R., Beucher, R., Roper, S., Persano, C., Stuart, F.

and PG. Fitzgerald, 2013. Natural age dispersion arising from the analysis of broken crystals, Part I.

Theoretical basis and implications for the apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometer, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi.org/10.1016/j.

gca.2013.05.041.

Caffrey, E.A., Higle)y K.A. 2013. Creation of a Voxel Phantom of the ICRP Reference Crab.Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 120, pp. 14-1 8.

Caffrey, E.A., Higley, K.A. Carbon-14 Background, Pathway, and Dose Optimization Analysis. Presentation given at: BIOPROTA Carbon-14 Workshop 2013.12-14 February, Stockholm, Sweden.

Cardarelli, R., Oliver, G., Hood, D., Caffrey, E.A., Higley, K.A. 2013. Carbon-14 Background, Pathway, and Dose Calculation Analysis. Electric Power Research Institute forthcoming report.

Cardarelli, R., Wendland, B., Higley, K.A., Paulenova, A.,

Caffrey, E.A., Ruirui, L. 2013. Assessment of Tritium Removal Technologies. Electric Power Research Institute Interim Report # 3002000608.

Cohen, B.E., Knesel, K.M., Vasconcelos, P.M., and Schellart, W.P. (2013) Tracking the Australian plate motion through the Cenozoic: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Tectonics, in press.

Dill,J.K., AuxierJ.A., Schilke, K.F., McGuire,J. Quantifying nisin adsorption behavior at pendant PEO layers.J.

Colloid Interface Sci. 395:300-305. 2013.

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Farsoni, A.T., Alemayehu, B., Alhawsawi, A., Becker, E. M.

"A Phoswich Detector with Compton Suppression Capability for Radioxenon Measurements," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 60, No. 1: 456 - 464,2013.

Farsoni, A.T, Alemayehu, B., Alhawsawi, A., Becker, E.

M. "Real-Time Pulse-Shape Discrimination and Beta-Gamma Coincidence Detection in Field-Programmable Gate Array," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research - Section A. 712: 75-82; 2013.

Farsoni, A.T, Alemayehu, B., Alhawsawi, A., Becker, E.M.

"A Compton-Suppressed Phoswich Detector for Gamma Spectroscopy,"Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Vol. 296, No. 1; 63-68; 2013.

Feigl, K.L., LeMevel, H., Ali, S.T, Cordova-Varas, M.L.,

Andersen, N.L., DeMets, C., Singer, B.S., Rapid uplift in Laguna del Maule volcanic field of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone (Chile) 2007-2012.

Geophysical Journal International (in press).

Gessner, K., Gallardo, L.A., Markwitz, V., Ring, U. &

Thomson, S.N. (2013). Transtensional Shearing and Metamorphic Core Complexes in Continental Arcs:

Denudation of the Menderes Massif, Western Turkey.

Gondwana Research, doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.01.005.

Gonzalez,J.M. and Morrell,J.J. 2012. Effects of environmental factors on decay rates of selected white-and brown-rot fungi. Wood and Fiber Science 343-356.

Heintz, K., Schilke, K.F., SniderJ., Lee, W.-K.,Truong, M.,

Coblyn, M.,Jovanovic, G., McGuire,J. Preparation and evaluation of PEO-coated materials for a microchannel hemodialyzer. J. Biomed. Mater. Res.

B. Appl. Biomater., submitted April 2013.

Higley, K.A., ANS, Finding Purpose In The Aftermath Of Fukushima Dai-Ichi, Special Session of the American Nuclear Society, November 12,2012, Sacramento CA.

Higley, K.A., Kocher, D.C., Real, A.G., and Chambers, D.B.,

RBE and radiation weighting factors in the context of animals and plants, Ann ICRP. 2012 Oct;41(3-4):233-45. doi: 10.1016/j.icrp.2012.06.014. Epub 2012 Aug 22.

Higley, K.A., The Role of Radioecology in the Development of Nuclear Energy, BIT's 2nd New Energy Forum, 2012, Guaungzhou, China., October 19-21st, 2012.

Hoke, G.D., N.R. GraberJ.E Mescua, L.B. Giambiagi, P.G. Fitzgerald and J.R. Metcalf, 2013, in revision. Near pure surface uplift of the Argentine Frontal Cordillera: insights from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry and geomorphic analysis.

Geological Society of London Special Publication on the Andes of central Chile and Argentina.

Jicha, B.R., Rhodes J.M., Singer, B.S., Garcia, M.O. (2012) 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of submarine Mauna Loa volcano, Hawaii. Journal of Geophysical Research, v.

117, doi: 10.1029/2012JB009373.

K. E. Holbert, T. Stannard, A. Christie, T. Zhang, E. B.

Johnson, "Modeling and Exposure of LiMnO2 Batteries to Reactor Neutrons,"Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, vol. 108, Atlanta, GA, June 2013, pp. 2 82 -2 84.

K. E. Holbert, A. Kaczmarowski, T. Stannard, E. B.Johnson, "MCNP Estimation of Trace Elements in Lithium-Ion Batteries Subjected to Neutron Irradiation,"

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, vol.

107, San Diego, CA, November 2012, pp. 347-349.

Knutz, P.C., Storey, M. and Kuijpers, A. 2013. Greenland iceberg emissions constrained by 40Ar/39Ar hornblende ages: Implications for ocean-climate variability during last deglaciation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.

epsl.2013.06.008.

Kolata, J.J., Roberts, M. Howard, A.M., Shapira, D., Liang, J.F., Gross, C.J., Varner, R.L., Kohley, Z., Villano, A.N., Amro, H., Loveland, W., and Chavez, E.

"Fusion of 124,132Sn with 40,48Ca", Phys. Rev. C 85, 054603 (2012).

Krane, K.S. "The Decays of 70,72Ga to Levels of 70,72Ge and the Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Ga,"Applied Radiation and Isotopes 70,1649 (August 2012).

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LiJ.W., Bi, SJ., Selby, D., Chen, L., Vasconcelos, P.,Thiede, D., Zhou, M.E, Zhao, X.F., Li, Z.K., Qiu, H.N.

(2012). Giant Mesozoic gold provinces related to the destruction of the North China craton. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 349-350, 26-37.

Li, S., Freitag, C.M., Morrell,J.J., and Okabe,T 2012.

Antifungal effects of hinokitiol and its sodium salt for wood protection. BioResources 7(4):5312-5318.

L6bens, S., Sobel, E.R., Bense, F.A., Wemmer, K., Dunkl, I., and Siegesmund, S., 2013, Refined exhumation history of the Northern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Tectonics, v. 32, p. 453-472, doi:10.1002/

tect.20038.

Loveland, W. "Synthesis of new neutron rich heavy nuclei:

An experimentalist's view" Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Fission and the Properties of Neutron Rich Nuclei' (submitted for publication).

Loveland, W. "Synthetic paths to the heaviest elements",

Phys.: Conf. Series: 420 012004 (2013).

Loveland, W., Yao, L., Asner, D.M., Baker, R.G., Bundgaard, J., Burgett, E., Cunningham, M., Deaven,J., Duke, D.L., Greife, U., Grimes, S., Heffner, M., Hill,T, Isenhower, D., KlayJ.L., Kleinrath, V., Kornilov, N.,

Laptev, A.B., Massey, TN., Meharchand, R., Qu, H.,

RuzJ., Sangiorgio, S., Selhan, B., Snyder, L., Stave, S., Tatishvili, G., Ihornton, R.T., Tovesson, F., Towell, D., Towell, R.S., Watson, S., Wendt, B., and Wood, L.

"Targets for Precision Measurements", Nuclear Data Sheets (submitted for publication).

Lu~ar-Oberiter, B., Mikes, T., Dunkl, I., Babi&.#263;, L. and von Eynatten, H. (2012): Provenance of Cretaceous synorogenic sediments from the NW Dinarides (Croatia). Swiss J Geosci., 105, 377-399. DOI 10.1007/s00015-012-0107-3 Macaulay, E.A., Sobel, E.R., Mikolaichuk, A., Kohn, B., and Stuart, FM., in review, Cenozoic deformation and exhumation history of the Central Kyrgyz Tien Shan:

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Kohn, B., and Stuart, F., 2013,'rhermochronologic insight into Late Cenozoic deformation in the basement-cored Terskey Range, Kyrgyz Tien Shan.

Tectonics, v. 32, p. 487-500, doi:10.1002/tect.20040.

Maoz, M., KarchesyJJ., and Morrell,JJ. 2012. Ability of natural extracts to limit mold growth on Douglas-fir sapwood. BioResources 7(4):5415-5421.

Meharchand, R., Asner, D.M., Baker, R.G., Bundgaard,J.,

Burgett, E., Cunningham, M., Deaven,J., Duke, D.L., Greife, U., Grimes, S., Heffner, M., Hill, T.,

Isenhower, D., KlayJ.L., Kleinrath, V., Kornilov, N.,

Laptev, A.B., Loveland, W., Massey, TN., Qu, H.,

RuzJ., Sangiorgio, S., Selhan, B., Snyder, L., Stave, S., Tatishvili, G., Ihornton, R.T, Tovesson, F., Towell, D., Towell, R.S., Watson, S., Wendt, B. and Wood, L. "Commissioning the NIFFTE Time Projection Chamber: the 238U /235U (n,f) cross-section ratio",

Nuclear Data Sheets (submitted for publication).

Miller, S.R., S.L. Baldwin and P.G. Fitzgerald, P.G. 2012.

Transient Fluvial Incision and Surface Uplift ofActive Metamorphic Core Complexes in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and Suckling-Dayman Massif, Papua New Guinea, Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L135.1.

Morrell,J.J. 2012. Solvents for oilborne wood preservatives:

An update on biodiesel and other additives. In:

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Ort, M.H., DeSilva, S.L.,Jimenez, N.,Jicha, B.R., Singer, B.S. (2013) Correlation of ignimbrites using characteristic remanent magnetism and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, Central Andes, Bolivia.

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Perri, F., Critellis, S., Martin-Algarra, A., Martin-Martin, M.,

Perrone, V., Mongelli, G., Sonnino, M. & Zattin, M.

(2013) - Triassic redbeds in the Malaguide Complex (Betic Cordillera - Spain): petrography, geochemistry, and geodynamic implications. Earth Science Reviews, 117, 1-28.

Piacentini, T., Vasconcelos, P.M., and Farley, K.A. (2013) 40Ar/39Ar constraints on the age and thermal history of the Urucum Neoproterozoic banded iron-formation, Brazil. Precambrian Research 228, 48-62.

Rivera, T.A., Storey, M., Schmitz, M.D. and Crowley, J.L.

2013. Age intercalibration of 40Ar/39Ar sanidine and chemically distinct U/Pb zircon populations from the Alder Creek Rhyolite Quaternary geochronology standard, Chemical Geology, 345, 87-98, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.02.021.

Roden-Tice, M.K., Anderson, Aj., Amidon, W.H., Eusden, J.D.,Jr., Anderson, B., Wintsch, R.P. (2013).

Accelerated Late Cretaceous exhumation in the White Mountains regionof New Hampshire based on apatite fission-track, U-Th/He and 4He/3He analyses. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, p. 131, Northeastern Section Meeting, Bretton Woods, NH, March 18-20,2013.

Rosenbaum, G., Menegon, L., Glodny, J., Vasconcelos, P.,

Ring, U., Massironi, M., Thiede, D., Nasipuri, P.

(2012). Dating deformation in the Gran Paradiso Massif (NW Italian Alps): Implications for the exhumation of high-pressure rocks in a collision belt.

Lithos 144-145, 130-144.

Ruedig, E., Gomez-Fernandez, M., Higley, K. A. Comparison of Dose Rate in Voxelized Versus Simplified Models for Four of ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants.J Environ Radioact 2013 [submitted].

Ruedig, E., Rowan, D., Higley, K.A. Calculation of absorbed fractions for a heterogeneous voxelized aquatic snail phantom and comparison with results from a simplified model.J Environ Radioact 2013

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Sadi, S., Paulenova, A., Loveland, W., Watson, P.R., Greene, J.P, Zhu, S. and Zinkann, G. "Surface Morphology and Phase Stability of Titanium Foils Irradiated by 136 MeV 136Xe", Nucl. Instru. Meth. Phys. Res. B (submitted for publication).

Sageman, B.B., Singer, B.S., Meyers, S.R, Siewert, S.R.,

Walaszczyk, I., Condon, Dj.,Jicha, B.R., Obradovich, J.D., Sawyer, D.A., Integrating 40Ar/39Ar, U-Pb, and astronomical clocks in the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Western Interior Basin, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin (in review).

Schilke, K.F., Snider, J.,Jansen, L., McGuire,J. Direct imaging of the surface distribution of immobilized cleavable polyethylene oxide-polybutadiene-polyethylene oxide triblock surfactants by atomic force microscopy. Surf.

Interface Anal. 45:859-864. 2013.

Singer, B.S., A Quaternary geomagnetic instability time scale.

Quaternary Geochronology (in revision).

Singer, B.S., Guillou, H.,Jicha, B.R., Zanella, E., Camps, P. (2013) Refining the Quaternary geomagnetic instability time scale (GITS): Lava flow recordings of the Blake and Post-Blake excursions. Quaternary Geochronology. published on-line at: http://dx.doi.

org/10.1016/j.quageo.2012.12.005.

Singer, B.S.,Jicha, B.R., Fournelle,J.H,. Beard, B.L.,Johnson, C.M., Smith, K.E., Greene, S.E., Kita N.T., Valley, J.W., Spicuzza Mj., Rogers, N.W. (2013) Lying in wait: Deep and shallow evolution of dacite beneathVolcdn de Santa Maria, Guatemala. in:

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Q_, H., Ruz,J., Sangiorgio, S., Selhan, B., Stave, S.,

Tatishvili, G., Thornton, R.T., Tovesson, R., Towell, D., Towell, R.S., Watson, S., Wendt, B. and Wood, L.

"Measuring the a/SF Branching Ratio of 252Cf with the NIFFTE TPC", Nuclear Data Sheets (submitted for publication).

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Stave,S., Asner, D.M., Baker, R.G., Bundgaard,J., Burgett, E.,

Cunningham, M., Deaven,J., Duke, D.L., Greife, U., Grimes, W., Heffner, M., Hill, T, Isenhower, D., KlayJ.L., Kleinrath, V., Kornilov, N., Laptev, A.B., Loveland, W., Massey, TN., Meharchand, R.,

Qu, H., Ruz,J., Sangiorgio, S., Selhan, B., Snyder, L., Tatishvili, G., Thornton, R.T, Tovesson, F.,

Towell, D., Towel, R.S., Watson, S. and Wendt, B, and L. Wood, "The Data Analysis Framework for the NIFFTE Fission Time Projection Chamber",

Nuclear Data Sheets (submitted for publication).

Storey, M., Roberts, R.G., and Saidin, M. 2012.

Astronomically calibrated 40Ar/39Ar age for the Toba supereruption and global synchronization of late Quaternary records, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 109,18684-18688, doi:10.1073/pnas.1208178109.

Szaniawski, R., Mazzoli, S.,Jankowski, L. & Zattin, M. - No large-magnitude tectonic rotations of the Subsilesian Unit of the Outer Western Carpathians: Evidence from primary magnetization recorded in hematite-bearing Wqgl6wka Marls (Senonian to Eocene).

Journal of Geodynamics, in press.

Thiede, R.C., Sobel, E.R., Chen J., Schoenbohm, L.M.,

Stockli, D.F., Sudo, M., and Strecker, M.R., 2013, Late Cenozoic extension and crustal doming in the India-Eurasia collision zone: New thermochronologic constraints from the NE Pamir. Tectonics, v. 32, p.

763-779, doi: 10. 1002/tect.20050.

Thomson, S.N., Reiners, P.W., Hemming, S.R. & Gehrels, G.E. (2013). The contribution of glacial erosion to shaping the hidden East Antarctic landscape. Nature Geoscience, 6, p. 203-207, doi:10.1038/ngeol722.

Tochilin, CJ, Reiners, P.W., Thomson, S.N., Gehrels, G.E., Hemming, S.R. & Pierce, E.L. (2012).

Erosional history of the Prydz Bay sector of East Antarctica from detrital apatite and zircon geo-and thermochronology multidating.

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13, Q11015, doi:10.1029/2012GC004364.

12-13 Annual Report Torrel, S. and Krane, K.S. "Neutron Capture Cross Sections of 136,138,140,142Ce and the Decays of 137Ce,"

Physical Review C 86,034340 (September 2012).

Tremblay, A., Roden-Tice, M.K., Brandt,J.A., and Megan, T.W.1 (2013) Mesozoic fault reactivation along the St. Lawrence rift system, Eastern Canada:

Thermochronologic evidence from apatite fission-track dating. Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B30703.

V.J., Riera-Lizarazu, 0., Gunn H.L., Lopez, K., Kianian, S.F.,

and Leonard, J.M. (2012) Endosperm Tolerance of Paternal Aneuploidy Allows Radiation Hybrid Mapping of the Wheat D-Genome and a Measure of 0 Ray-Induced Chromosome Breaks. PLoS ONE 7(11):e48815.

Vasconcelos, P.M., Heim,J.A., Farley, K.A., Monteiro, H. S.,

Waltenberg, K.M. (2013). 4OAr/39Ar and (U-'Th)/

He - 4He/3He geochronology of landscape evolution and channel iron deposit genesis at Lynn Peak, Western Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 117,283-312.

Vinodkumar, A.M., Loveland, W., Yanez, R., Leonard, M.,

Yao, L., Bricault, P., Dombsky, M., Kunz, P., Lassen, J., Morton, A.C., Ottewell, D., Preddy, D., and Trinczek, M. "The interaction of 1 1Li with 208Pb",

Phys.Rev. C 87, 044603 (2013).

Waight, T.E., Frei, D. and Storey, M. 2012. Geochronological constraints on granitic magmatism, deformation, cooling and uplift on Bornholm, Denmark, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 60,23-46.

Wang, J., Li, S., Freitag, C., Morrell, J.J. and KarchesyJ.J. 2012.

Antifungal activities of four cedar foliage oils to wood stain and decay fungi. J. Advanced Materials Research 365:375-381.

Wang, Y., Chang,J., Morrell,J.J., Freitag, C.M., and Karchesy, J.J. 2012. An integrated approach using Bacillus subtilis B 26 and essential oils to limit fungal discoloration of wood. BioResources 7(3):3132-3141.

WhitlowJ. Earthfort ProVide testing - testing of a soil inoculant for immobilization of radio-cesium.

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Klay,J.L., Kleinrath, V., Kornilov, N., Laptev, A.B.,

Loveland, W., Massey, TN., Meharchand, R., Qu, H., RuzJ., Sangiorgio, S., Selhan, B., Snyder, L.,

Stave, S., Tatishvili, G.,'Ihornton, R.T, Tovesson, F.,

Towell, D., Towell, R.S., Watson, S. and Wendt, B.

"An Ethernet-Based Data Acquisition System for the NIFFTE Time Projection Chamber", Nuclear Data Sheets (submitted for publication).

Wu, X., Ryder, M.P., McGuireJ., Schilke, K.F. Adsorption, structural alteration and elution of peptides at pendant PEO layers. Colloids Surf B. Biointerfaces, in press.

Yanez, R., Loveland, W., Barrett, J.S., Yao, L., Back, B.B., Zhu, S. and Khoo, TL. "The measurement of the fusion probability PCN for hot fusion reactions", Phys. Rev.

C 88,014606 (2013).

Yanez, R., Loveland, W., Beckerman,J., Leonard, M., Gross, CJ., Shapira, D., Liang,J.F., Kohley, Z. and Varner, R.L. "Search for the inverse fission of uranium", Phys.

Rev. C 85,044620 (2012).

Zattin, M., Andreucci, B.,Thomson, S.N., Reiners, P.W. &

Taliarico, EM. (2012) - New constraints on the provenance of the ANDRILL AND-2A succession (western Ross Sea, Antarctica) from apatite triple dating. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13, Q10016.

Presentations Albino, I., Cavazza, W., Zattin, M., Okay, A.I., Adamia, A. &

Sadradze, N. (2012) - Apatite fission-track analysis of the tectonic effects of the Arabia-Eurasia collision.

EGU General Assembly, Wien, 22-27 April.

Albino, I., Cavazza, W., Zattin, M., Okay, A.I., Adamia, S.&

Sadradze, N. (2012) - Apatite fission-track analysis of the tectonic effects of the Arabia-Eurasia collision.

860 Congresso Societ. Geologica Italiana, Cosenza, 18-20 September, Rend. Online, 21, 59-60.

And6, S., Malusa, M. G., Baldwin, S. L., Fitzgerald, P. G.,

Aliatis, I., Vezzoli, G. and E. Garzanti, 2013, Raman spectroscopy of detrital garnet and the exhumation othigh-pressure rocks (Papua New Guinea), European Geosciences Union General Assembly 7-12 April, 2013, Vienna, Austria.

Andreucci, B., Zattin, M., Castelluccio, A., Mazzoli, S., Szaniawski, R. &Jankowski, L. (2013) -

Geodynamics of the Carpathian-Pannonian region:

Insights from low temperature thermochronology of the Polish and Ukrainian Carpathians. EGU General Assembly, Wien, 7-12 April.

Andreucci, B., Zattin, M., Mazzoli, S., Szaniawski, R. &

Jankowski, L. (2012) - Variable thermal histories along the northern Outer Carpathians: new thermochronological and thermal maturity data from Ukraine. EGU General Assembly, Wien, 22-27 April.

Ascione, A., Capalbo, A., Capolongo, D., Mazzoli, S.,

Pazzaglia, EJ., Valente, E. & Zattin, M. (2012) -

Uplift vs. denudation in the southern Apennines:

geomorphologic evidence and constraints from terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides and apatite (U-TIh)/

He data. 86' Congresso SocietA Geologica Italiana, Cosenza, 18-20 September, Rend. Online, 21, 1102-1104.

Auxier,J., Schilke, K. and McGuireJ. ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA. 2012.

Baldwin, S. L., Fitzgerald, P. G., Bermudez, M. A., Catalano, J., Zirakparvar, N. A., Webb, L. E., Gordon, S.

and Little,T. A. 2012. The magmatic evolution of Goodenough Island: implications for the timing and rates of exhumation in the Late Miocene (U)

HP terrane, Woodark Rift, Papua New Guinea. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August, Brisbane, Australia.

Baldwin, S. L., Fitzgerald, P. G., Bermudez, M. A., Catalano, J., Zirakparvar, N. A., Webb, L. E., Gordon, S.

and Little, T. A., 2012. The magmatic evolution of Goodenough Island: implications for the timing and rates of exhumation in the Late Miocene (U)

HP terrane, Woodark Rift, Papua New Guinea. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August, Brisbane, Australia.

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HP exhumation globally (invited). Abstract T12A-04 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.

Baldwin, S. L., Fitzgerald, P. G., Bermudez, M. A., Webb, L. E., Moucha, R., Miller, S. R., Catalano and Zirakparvar, N. A. 2012. Linking deep earth to surface processes in the Woodlark Rift of Papua New Guinea: a framework for understanding (U)

HP exhumation globally (invited). Abstract T12A-04 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif, 3-7 Dec.

Bande, A., Sobel, E.R., Macaulay, E. A., and Mikolaichuk, A. Oligo-Miocene onset of exhumation in the Tien Shan. Darius Programme, Central Asia Workshop 26-27 February 2013, Bonn - Germany.

Bande, A., Sobel, E. R., Mikolaichuk, A., Auxietre,J-L.,

Munsch, H. Oligo-Miocene onset of exhumation of the Tien Shan: the role of the Talas-Fergana strike-slip fault. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, 2012.

Benowitz, J. A., Bemis, S. P., O'Sullivan, P. B., Layer, P. W.

and Fitzgerald, P. G. 2012.Tlhe Mount McKinley restraining bend: Denali fault, Alaska. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Nov 4-7, Charlotte, NC.

Berm6dez, M. A., Baldwin, S. L. Fitzgerald, P. G., Braun,J.,

Webb, L. E. and Little, T. A. 2012, Understanding the thermal history, exhumation patterns, and role of fault systems on Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinea:

Insights from 3D thermo-kinematic modeling.

Abstract T43E-2718 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.

Bermfidez, M. A., Baldwin, S. L. Fitzgerald, P. G., Braun,J.,

Webb, L. E. and Little,T. A. 2012, Understanding the thermal history, exhumation patterns, and role of fault systems on Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinea:

Insights from 3D thermo-kinematic modeling.

Abstract T43E-2718 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.

12-13 Annual Report Bermtidez, M. A., Baldwin, S., Fitzgerald, P. G., and Braun, J. (2012): The exhumation of gneiss domes in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, eastern Papua New Guinea, the role of diapirism versus rifting: Insights from 3D thermo-kinematic modelling. 46th Brazilian Geological Congress and 1st Geological Congress of the Portuguese-speaking Countries. September 30 to October 05, 2012. Santos-Sao Paulo.

Berm6dez, M. A., Baldwin, S., Fitzgerald, R G., and Braun, J., (2012): The exhumation of gneiss domes in the D'EntrecasteauxIslands, eastern Papua New Guinea, the role of diapirism versus rifting: Insights from 3D thermo-kinematic modelling. 46th Brazilian Geological Congress and 1st Geological Congress of the Portuguese-speaking Countries. September 30 to October 05,2012. Santos-Sao Paulo.

Brown, R. W., Beucher, R., Roper, S., Persano, C., Stuart, F and Fitzgerald, P. G. 2012. Why thermal history information can be derived from the natural dispersion of single grain (U-Th)/He ages of broken crystals, 13th International Conference on Thermochronology, Guilin.

Caffrey, E.A., Higley, K.A. Carbon-14 Background, Pathway, and Dose Optimization Analysis. Presentation given at: Health Physics Society 58th Annual Meeting 2013. 7-11 July, Madison, WI.

Caffrey, E.A., Higley, K.A. Improvements in the Dosimetric Models of Selected Benthic Organisms. Presentation given at: Health Physics Society 57th Annual Meeting 2012. 22-26 July, Sacramento, CA.

Camisassa, I., Vasconcelos, P. and Nalini, H. Alunite deposition at the Springsure weathering profile, Queensland, Australia. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p.

3211.

Carmo, I and Vasconcelos, P. M. 40Ar/39Ar weathering geochronology on manganese oxides from Bahia, NE Brazil. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p. 3504.

Castelluccio, A., Andreucci, B., Zattin, M., Mazzoli, S., Szaniawski, R. &Jankowski, L. (2012) -

Tectonothermal evolution of the Polish and Ukrainian Outer Carpathians: interplay between erosion and extensional tectonics within exhumation.

13th International Conference on Thermochronology, Guilin (China), 18-22 August, Abstract volume, 7-8.

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Cohen, B. E., Vasconcelos, P. M., Kohn, B. P, Knesel, K. M.,

Ireland, T R., and Thiede, D. Cooling history of two large Early Miocene shield volcanoes, eastern Australia, constrained by U-Pb, 40Ar/39Ar, and (U-'Ih-Sm)/He chronology. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p. 3505.

Corrda da Costa, P. C., Weska, R. K., Vitorio Girardi, V. A.,

Comin-Chiaramont, P., Vasconcelos, P. M., 'Thiede, D., Galk, M. G. Idade Ar-Ar e comportamento isot6pico (Sr-Nd) dos basaltos da regido de Alto Diamantino, Sudeste do Estado de Mato Grosso. 460 Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 30 September - 05 October 2012.

da Silva Monteiro, H., Vasconcelos, P. M., Farley, K. A., Spier, C. A. and Mello, C. L. Armoring of the landscape at the Quadrilitero Ferrffero, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012

- Brisbane, Australia, p. 2721.

DeCelles, P. G., Painter, C. S., Carrapa, B., Gehrels, G. E.

&'Ihomson, S. N. (2013). Detrital multi-dating of Cordilleran foreland basin clastic rocks: implications for foreland basin stratigraphic models. GSA Abstracts with Programs, GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Accepted Abstract.

Dill,J., Schilke, K. and McGuireJ. ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA. 2012.

Fagan, A., Neal, S. R., Beard, S. P and Swindle, T D. (2013)

Bulk composition and 40Ar-39Ar age dating suggests impact melt 67095 may be exotic to the Apollo 16 site. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XLIV, Houston, Abstract #3075.

Farsoni, A.T., Alemayehu, B., Alhawsawi, A., Becker, E. M.

"FPGA Based Pulse Shape Discrimination and Coincidence Energy Measurement for a Phoswich Detector,"'rhe IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Anaheim, CA. Oct. 29-Nov. 4,2012.

Farsoni, A.T., Alemayehu, B., Alhawsawi, A., Becker, E.

M.; "Real-Time Pulse Shape Discrimination and Radioxenon Measurement in Field Programmable Gate Array,"'Ihe 34th Monitoring Research Review.

Albuquerque, NM, September 17-20, 2012.

Fitzgerald, P. G., Baldwin, S. L., Bermudez, M. A., Miller, S. R., Webb, L. E. and Little, T. A. 2012. Low-temperature thermochronologic constraints on cooling and exhumation trends along conjugate margins, within core complexes and eclogite-bearing gneiss domes of the Woodlark rift system of eastern Papua New Guinea. Abstract T43E-2717 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif, 3-7 Dec.

Fitzgerald, P. G., Baldwin, S. L., Bermudez, M. A., Miller, S. R., Webb, L. E. and Little, T A. 2012. Low-temperature thermochronologic constraints on cooling and exhumation trends along conjugate margins, within core complexes and eclogite-bearing gneiss domes of the Woodlark rift system of eastern Papua New Guinea. Abstract T43E-2717 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif.,

3-7 Dec.

Fitzgerald, P. G., Baldwin, S. L., Bermtidez, M. A., Moucha, R., Miller, S. R., Webb. L. E. and Little, T.A. 2012.

Rift-triggered exhumation of eclogite-bearing gneiss domes in eastern Papua New Guinea:

Constraints from regional geology and patterns of thermochronologic data. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August, Brisbane, Australia.

Fitzgerald, P. G., Baldwin, S. L., Bermtidez, M. A., Moucha, R., Miller, S. R., Webb. L. E. and Little, T. A. 2012.

Rift-triggered exhumation of eclogite-bearing gneiss domes in eastern Papua New Guinea:

Constraints from regional geology and patterns of thermochronologic data. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August, Brisbane, Australia.

Flowerdew, M., Tyrrell, S., Peck, V., Vaughan, A. &

Thomson, S. N. (2012). Sourcing ice rafted debris deposited around Antarctica using the Pb isotopic composition of detrital feldspar: insights on the sites of Late Holocene subglacial erosion. 2012 Annual General Meeting of the British Sedimentological Research Group (BSRG), Dublin, Ireland.

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Delano, J. W., and Roberge, W.G., 2012. Diffusion of Ar in Lunar Impact Glass.'Ihe 13th International Conference on "Thermochronology, Guilin, China, 31.

Gombosi, D.J., Baldwin, S. L., Watson, E. B., Swindle, T D., Delano, J. W., and Roberge, W. G., 2012. Argon Diffusion in Lunar Impact Glass. 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2364.

Hemming, S. R,Thomson, S. N., Reiners, P. W., Formica, A., Pierce, E. L. &Williams,T.J. (2013).

Characterizing the ice-covered geology and erosion history of East Antarctica from multiple detrital thermochronometers. Eos Transactions AGU, AGU Fall Meeting, Accepted Abstract.

Houser, E, Bytwerk, D., Leonard, M., Higley, K. Foliar translocation and root uptake of Cesium in tea plants (Camellia sinensis). Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society. Sacramento, CA, July 23-26, 2012.

Houser, E. Assessing radiological impacts on non-human biota. IAEA's MODARIA kick-off meeting.

Vienna, Austria, November 19-22, 2012.

Houser, E. Non-human biota dose-effects relationships at Chalk River Laboratories. Chalk River Laboratories 2012 Annual Research & Development Symposium.

Deep River, Ontario, Canada, August 23, 2012.

Jicha, B. University of California, Santa Barbara [June 7, 2012] "Geological, geochemical, and geophysical evidence for rhyolite caldera inception at Laguna del Maule, southern Chilean Andes."

Leonard, M., and Higley, K., Knox, A. "Applications of Chitosan for Environmental Remediation."

Presentation given at the 2013 Meetings of the Health Physics Society, July 7-11, Madison, WI.

Leonard, M., and Higley, K., Knox, A. "Applications of Chitosan for Environmental Remediation."

Presentation given at the 2013 American Chemical Society NORM Division Meetings,July 21-24, Corvallis, OR.

Li, J-W., Vasconcelos, P, Thiede, D. and Chen, L. Plio-Pleistocene supergene oxidation and enrichement of massive sulfide deposits, northern Tibetan Plateau:

40Ar/39Ar constraints and tectonic implications.

34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p. 2509.

12-13 Annual Report Little,T A., Hacker, B., Ellis, S., Gordon, S., Wallace, L.,

Baldwin, S. L., Korchinski, M. and Fitzgerald, P. G.

2012. Post-Collisional Exhumation of the world's youngest UHP terrane in the Woodlark Rift, Papua New Guinea. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August, Brisbane, Australia.

Liu, R., Wang, C., Pan,J. "Study on sampling and measurement of natural radionuclides in waste streams of coal-fired power plant", 7th International Symposium on Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM), Beijing, 2013.

Liu, R., Wang, C., Pan, J. Xiong, W. "Study on sampling and measurement of natural radionuclides in waste streams of coal-fired power plant", Health Physics, vol.105, NO.1,JULY 2013,p. 538,2013.

Livesay, B., Schilke, K. and McGuire,J. AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. 2012.

L6bens, S. Doctoral Dissertation: Structural and morphotectonic evolution of the Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina) constrained by a multithermochronometer approach. Georg-August-Universirtd G6ttingen, 13.12.2012.

Loveland, W. "Synthesis of new neutron rich nuclei," Fifth International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron Rich Nuclei, Sanibel Island, FL, November, 2012.

Loveland, W. "Target preparation for precision measurements,"

ND2013, New York, NY, March 2013.

Loveland, W. "'The Periodic Table: Exploring the Limits of Chemical Stability," Livermorium Celebration, Livermore, CA,June 2013.

Loveland, W. "-he Quest for Superheavy Elements," AAPT Summer Meeting, Portland, OR,July 2013.

Marinho de Morais Neto,J., Vasconcelos, P. and Stone,J.

Controles termocronol6gicos na hist6ria de exumag1o p6s-riifte da Borborema Oriental, Nordeste do Brasil.

460 Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Santos, Sdo Paulo, Brazil, 30 September - 05 October 2012.

Marinho Morais Neto,J., Vasconcelos, P., Stone, J. and da Guia Lima, M. Denudation patterns in the Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil: constraints from cosmogenic 10Be isotope analysis. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p. 2 72 2.

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E.,T1hiede, D. S. and Buchanan, M.J. Stratigraphic geochronology in the Omo-Turkana Basin, east Africa. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p. 2742.

Murray, K. E., Reiners, P. W. & Thomson, S. N. (2013).

Low-temperature thermochronology from laccolith aureoles constrains late Cenozoic exhumation in the north-central Colorado Plateau. GSA Abstracts with Programs, GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Accepted Abstract.

Myers, M., Higley, K. US Army, Use of GIS Software to Map Contaminant Distributions and Deter-'mine Integrated Dose for Purposes of Assessing Impact to Biota, 57th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, 22-26 July 2012, Sacramento, California.

Napier, J., Higley, K., Houser, E., Bytwerk, D., Minc, L.

Establishment of concentration ratios for riparian and shrub steppe areas of the eastern Washington columbia basin.

Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society. Sacramento, California, USA, July 23-26, 2012.

Neville, D. Gomez-Fernandez, M.Jia,J., Higley, K. Finding Radiotrophic Mutualist Mycorrhizae Suitable for Bioremediation. Health Physics Society Annual Meeting, July 2013. Madison, WI. Speaker.

Neville, D., Brodeur, R., Phillips, A.J., Higley, K. October 2012. Assessment and characterization of radionuclide concentrations from the Fukushima Reactor release in the plankton and nekton communities of the Northern California Current.

PICES 2012 Annual Meeting, Hiroshima, Japan.

Speaker.

Neville, D., Phillips, A.J., Brodeur, R. D., Higley, K.,

Ciannelli, L. "Radionuclide transport in the Northern California Current Food Web: Impacts of Fukushima

& Migratory Albacore Tuna. October 2012, Heceta Head Coastal Conference, Florence OR.

Neville, D., Phillips, A.J., Brodeur, R. D., Higley, K.,

Ciannelli, L. Radionuclide transport in the Northern California Current Food Web: Impacts of Fukushima

& Migratory Albacore Tuna. Poster presentation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute special Fukushima symposium in November 2012.

Neville, D., Phillips, A. J., Higley, K., Ciannelli, L. June 2013.

Radionuclides in the California Current Pelagic Food Web. Presented at International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (ICOBTE 2013), Athens, GA. Poster.

Neville, D., Phillips, Aj., Higley, K., Ciannelli, L.July 2013.

Fukushima effluents and 'Thunnus alalunga: Applying tracers to migration & stock structure questions.

American Chemical Society NORM Division Meeting July, 2013, Corvallis, OR. Speaker.

Neville, D., Phillips, A.J., Higley, K., Ciannelli, L. May 2013.

Fukushima effluents and Thunnus alalunga: Applying tracers to migration & stock structure questions.

Cascade Chapter Health Physics Society Annual Meeting. Invited Speaker.

Niihara, T., Beard, S. P, Swindle, T. D., and Kring, D. A.

(2013) Evidence for multiple impact events from centimeter-sized impact melt clasts in Apollo 16 ancient regolith breccias: Support for late stage heavy bombardment of the Moon. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XLIV, Houston, Abstract #2083.

Niihara, T., Beard, S. P., Swindle, T D., and Kring, D. A.

(2013) Evidence for Late Stage Heavy Bombardment from Centimeter-sized Impact Melt Clasts in Apollo 16 Regolith Breccias.Japan Geoscience Union meeting 2013. (Chiba City, Japan).

Painter, C. S., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P. G., Gehrels, G. E.

&Thomson, S. N. (2013). From source to sink:

exhumation of the North America Cordillera revealed by multi-dating of detrital minerals from the Late Jurassic-Late Cretaceous foreland-basin deposits. Eos Transactions AGU, AGU Fall Meeting, Accepted Abstract.

Perlingeiro, G., Vasconcelos, P., Knesel, K., Cordani, U.G.

and Ulbrich, M. Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the origin of the intraplate alkaline volcanism of Fernando de Noronha, equatorial Atlantic Ocean. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p.

1672.

Perry, S. E., Fitzgerald, P. G. and BenowitzJ. A. 2012.

"Thermochronologic constraints on Miocene topographic development of the central Alaska Range south of theDenali fault within the McKinley restraining bend. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Nov 4-7, Charlotte, NC.

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Piacentini, T., Farley, K. and Vasconcelos, P. Age of the Neoproterozoic Urucum deposit through hematite dating. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p. 58.

Riccio, S.J., Fitzgerald, P. G., Benowitz, J. A. and Roeske, S. R., 2012. Thermochronologic constraints on the exhumation history of the Sustina Glacier thrust fault, Eastern Alaska Range, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Nov 4-7, Charlotte, NC.

Ring, U., Gessner, K., Thomson, S. N. & Markwitz, V.

(2013). Along-strike variations in the Hellenide-Anatolide Orogen: A tale of different lithospheres and consequences. 13th Congress of the Greek Geological Society.

Ring, U., Gessner, K.,'homson, S. N. & Markwitz, V. (2013).

Along-strike variations in the Hellenide-Anatolide Orogen: A tale of different lithospheres and consequences. 13th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Rivera, T., Storey, M., Schmitz, M., Zeeden, C., Crowley, J., Chesner, C., 2012. Refining the Quaternary geomagnetic polarity timescale. 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia.

Roden-Tice, M. K., Anderson, A.J., Amidon, W, H., Eusden, J. D.,Jr., Anderson, B., Wintsch, R. P. (2013).

Accelerated Late Cretaceous exhumation in the White Mountains regionof New Hampshire based on apatite fission-track, U-'I/He and 4He/3He analyses. Presented at the Geological Society of America Northeastern Section Meeting, Bretton Woods, NH, March 18-20, 2013.

Ruedig, E. A comparison of dose rates in voxelized versus simplified models for four ICRP RAPs. IAEA's MODARIA WG8 (Biota Modeling) Meeting.

Vienna, Austria, May 27-28, 2013.

Ruedig, E. and Higley, K. Issues and Approaches to Evaluating Radiation Effects on Non Human Biota.

BIOPROTA Radiological and Hazardous Waste Workshop. Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 22-24,2013.

Ruedig, E. and Leonard, M. Stoichiometric cycling of Sr and its homologue Ca in freshwater ecosystems at Chalk River Laboratories. 12th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements. Athens, Georgia, USA,June 16-20, 2013.

12-13 Annual Report Ruedig, E. Radiation dose-effects relationships in populations of the aquatic snail, Campeloma decisum.

Rising Stars in Nuclear Science & Engineering Symposium. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, March 4, 2013.

Ruedig, E. Sampling experience in a wetland ecosystem (Duke Swamp). BIOPROTA 14C Workshop.

Stockholm, Sweden, February 12-14,2013.

Ruedig, E., Beresford, N.,Johansen M. Dose Rate variation in Fish due to inclusion/exclusion of radionuclides in Gastrointestinal Tract. IAEAs MODARIA WG8 (Biota Modeling) Meeting. Vienna, Austria, May 27-28,2013.

Schilke, K. and McGuire, J. ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA. 2012.

Silvana B. Riffel, S. B., Vasconcelos, P. M., Farley, K. A.

and Carmo, I. 0. 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He geochronology applied to supergene minerals as temporal indicators in denutation chronology, Parand, southern Brazil. 34th International Geological Congress, 5-10 August 2012 - Brisbane, Australia, p. 2720.

Sobel, E. R., Chen,J., Schoenbohm, L. M., Thiede, R.,

Stockli, D. F., Sudo, M., and Strecker, M. R.

Oceanic-style subduction controls late Cenozoic deformation of the Northern Pamir Orogen. Darius Programme, Central Asia Workshop 26-27 February 2013, Bonn - Germany.

Sobel, E. R., Chen,J., Schoenbohm, L. M.,Thiede, R.,

Stockli, D. F., Sudo, M., and Strecker, M. R.

Oceanic-style Subduction Controls Late Cenozoic Deformation of the Northern Pamir and Alai. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, 2012.

Swindle, T. D., Beard, S. P., Isachsen, C. E., and Kring, D. A.

(2012) 40Argon-39Argon ages of centimeter-sized impact melt clasts from ancient regolith breccia 60016. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 47, Abstract #5048.

Szaniawski, R., Mazzoli, S., Jankowski, L. & Zattin, M.

(2013) - Kinematic history of the frontal part of the Carpathians fold-and-thrust belt in eastern Poland and origin of its curved shape (so-called' Przemygl Sigmoid'): Insights from integrated anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and structural analyses. EGU General Assembly, Wien, 7-12 April.

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Wang, X. X., Zattin, M. & Song, C. H. (2012) - Cenozoic uplift history of Western Qinling determined by fission-track and paleomagnetic stratigraphies of the Tianshui basin, northeastern margin of Tibetan Plateau. 13th International Conference on TIhermochronology, Guilin (China), 18-22 August, Abstract volume, 101.

Whitney, D., Lefebvre, C.,Thomson, S. N., Cosca, M.,

Teyssier, C. & Kaymakci, N. (2013). Effects of the Arabia-Eurasia collision on strike-slip faults in central Anatolia? Eos Transactions AGU, AGU Fall Meeting, Accepted Abstract.

Willner, A., Barr, S. M., GlodnyJ., Massonne, H.-J., Sudo, M.,'Ihomson, S. N., van Staal, C. R. &Whit, C. E.

(2013). Influence of fluid flow and deformation on ages (Ar-Ar, Rb-Sr, fission track) of very low to low grade metamorphic processes in SE Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada). DMG / GV Annual Meeting, Ttibingen, Germany.

Zattin, M., Andreucci, B., Balestrieri, M. L., Olivetti, V.,

Reiners, P. W. & Thomson, S. N. (2012) - Detrital dating on drill-core records from McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica: provenance and paleo-climatic implications. 13th International Conference on TIhermochronology, Guilin (China), 18-22 August, Abstract volume, 110-111.

Zattin, M., Andreucci, B., Balestrieri, M.L., Olivetti, V.,

Pace, D., Reiners, P.W., Rossetti, F., Talarico, F. &

Thomson, S.N. (2012) - Detrital dating on drill-core records from McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea (Antarctica). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 December 2012.

Students Albino, I. "Tectonic effects of the Arabia-Europa collision".

PhD project at the University of Bologna. Advisor:

Prof. William Cavazza.

Alemayehu, B. (PhD Candidate).

Alhawsawi, A. (PhD Candidate).

Andersen, N. (PhD student, 2011-present), advisor Brad Singer.

Andreucci, B. "'Thermochronology of Outer Carpathians".

PhD project at the University of Padova. Advisor:

Prof Massimiliano Zattin.

Auxier,J. Retention of protein repulsive character and antimicrobial activity of PEO brush layers following nisin entrapment (MS CHE).

Bande, A. (doctorate expected in 2014): Constraining deformation history of the Talas-Fergana strike-slip fault and kinematically-linked thrust faults, Kyrgyz Republic. Advisor: apl. Prof. E. Sobel.

Barrett, S. (Loveland, "Tripartition", PhD).

Becker, E. (MS student).

Birsic, E. (MS student, 2012-present), advisor Brad Singer.

Caffrey, E.A. OSU MS Thesis, Improvements in the dosimetric models of selected benthic organisms.

October 2012 (MS Candidate).

Castelluccio, A. "-hermo-tectonic evolution of the Carpathian chain". PhD project at the University of Padova.

Advisor: Prof. Massimiliano Zattin.

Catalano, J. (2012 MSc), Prof. Suzanne Baldwin, advisor; "Age and geochemistry of volcanism in the Woodlark Rift".

de Carvalho Leitdo Perlingeiro, G. (PhD 2013). Magmatic evolution of the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, Brazil: geochronological and geochemical constraints.

Ph.D. Ihesis funded by IPRS and UQ.Argon Laboratory. Co-Supervisor.

Deeken, A. (doctorate expected in 2013): Long-term erosion and exhumation rates across different climatic zones in the Indian NW Himalaya. Advisor: Prof. M.

Strecker.

Di Fiore, G. "Thermal modelling of the Simplon and Brenner regions". PhD project at the University of Bologna.

Advisor: Prof. William Cavazza.

Dill, J. Quantifying nisin adsorption behavior at pendant polyethylene oxide brush layers (MS CHE).

Gombosi, D. (2013 PhD), Prof Suzanne Baldwin, advisor.

"Determining Ar and Ne Diffusion Characteristics in Lunar Impact Glasses and Developing Electron Microprobe Zircon Fission-Track Geochronology".

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Heintz, K. Synthesis and evaluation of PEO-coated materials for microchannel-based hemodialysis (MS CHE).

Idleman, L. (University of Minnesota) - Advisor: Donna Whitney, MS Student, Project

Title:

Burial and exhumation cycles tracked by 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology in a strike-slip fault zone, central Turkey.

King,J. (Loveland, "239Pu-neuts", PhD).

Lampi, M. Molecular origins of peptide entrapment within polyethylene oxide layers (BS BICE).

Li, P. ((PhD 2013)). Origin and evolution of the New England oroclines, Eastern Australia. Ph.D. Thesis partially funded by UQArgon Laboratory. Associate Supervisor.

L6bens, S. (doctorate received in 2013; Georg-August-Universitiit G6ttingen: Structural and morphotectonic evolution of the Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina) constrained by a multithermochronometer approach. Advisor: apl.

Prof. S. Siegesmund.

Macaulay, E. (doctoral thesis submitted on August 6, 2013):

Has late Cenozoic climate change lead to enhanced erosion in the Kyrgyz and Chinese Tien Shan?

Advisor: apl. Prof E. Sobel.

Milde, E. Advisor Fitzgerald, Using Low-Temperature Thermochronology to Constrain the Role of the Totschunda Fault in Southeastern Alaskan Tectonics, MS Murray, K. (University of Arizona) - Advisor: Peter Reiners, Ph.D. Student, Project

Title:

Low-temperature thermochronology from laccolith aureoles constrains late Cenozoic exhumation in the north-central Colorado Plateau.

Napier,J.B. OSU MS Thesis, Establishment of Concentration Ratios for Riparian and Shrub Steppe Areas of the Eastern Washington Columbia Basin. October 2012 (MS Candidate).

Pace, P. "Sedimentary provenance in the Victoria Land Basin (Antarctica)". PhD project at the University of Siena.

Advisor: Prof. Franco Talarico.

Painter, C. (University of Arizona) - Advisor:

Barbara Carrapa, MS Student,Thesis

Title:

Thermochronology of Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene deposits in the central Cordilleran foreland basin.

Perry, S. Advisor Fitzgerald, Thermotectonic Evolution of the Alaska Range: Low-Temperature Thermochronologic Constraints, PhD Piacentini, T. (current student). Iron and manganese ores evolution, Urucum deposit, Brazil. Ph.D. Thesis funded by CNPq - Brazil and UQArgon Laboratory.

Ranjbar, L. (PhD Pre-candidate).

Riccio, S. Advisor Fitzgerald, The Cenozoic deformation history of Susitna Glacier Thrust Fault region of the Denali Fault system, MS Riffel, S. B. ((PhD 2012). 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He dating of weathered landsurfaces on the rifted continental margin of southern Brazil. Ph.D. Thesis Funded by CAPES - Brazil and UQArgon Laboratory.

Supervisor Rivera, T. (PhD awarded May 2013). Supervisor: Michael Storey. Thesis title: Geomagnetic reversal boundaries of the last 3 Myr: what is their real age?

Ruedig, E. Dose-effects relationships in non-human biota:

development of field sampling, dosimetric and analytic techniques through a case study of the aquatic snail Campeloma decisum at Chalk River Laboratories (PhD Candidate).

Schaen, A. (MS student, 2012-present), advisor Brad Singer.

Snider, J. Characterization and application of PEO-containing triblock copolymer surfactants (BS BIOE).

Stone, D. Site Specific Reference Person Parameters and Derived Concentration Standards for the Savannah River Site, June 2013 (MS Candidate).

Students Toraman, E. (University of Minnesota) - Advisor: Christian Teyssier, Ph.D. Student, Project

Title:

Low-temperature thermochronologic record of Eocene migmatite dome emplacement and late Cenozoic landscape development, Shuswap core complex, British Columbia.

Waltenberg, K. M. ((PhD 2013)). Mineral physics and Crystal chemistry of minerals suitable to weathering geochronology: an Australian-Mars analogue study. Ph.D. Thesis funded by APA and UQArgon Laboratory. Supervisor.

Yao, L. (Loveland, "Neutron multipliciities", PhD).

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