ML20235D040

Forwards Annual Rept of Oregon State Univ Radiation Ctr & Triga Reactor Jul 1987 - June 1988, for Review.Rept Reflects Major Rev in Terms of Scope & Format & Includes Significantly More Info

ML20235D040
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Site:	Oregon State University
Issue date:	01/31/1989
From:	Andrea Johnson Oregon State University, CORVALLIS, OR
To:	NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
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University corvams. oregon 97331 mos> m.mi January 31,.1989 gggg NOTE ADUN#

Radiati , sver 5t U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission OrcGo" CenterAh0 9

3pS903 ATTENTION: Document Control Desk Radiat OR 4 Washington, D. C. 20555 Coroa l Gentlemen: )

Reference:

Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor (OSTR), Docket No. 50-243, License No. R-106 As an enclosure accompanying a cover letter to you dated September 13, 1988, Oregon State University transmitter a document containing all annual report information required by applicable sections of the OSTR Technical Specifications. However, in that letter we also indicated that at a later date we would submit an annual report covering the entire OSU Radiation Center and TRIGA Reactor. We are now providing you with our more comprehensive report for your review. Please note that we are also using this letter of transmittal to send one copy of the current report to Mr. Al Adams, Division of Licensing, USNRC, Washington, D.C.; to Mr.

Don Carlson, Division of Reactor Inspection & Safeguards, USNP_C, Washington D.C.; and to the USNRC's Region V office.

This year's final version of our annual report reflects a major re-vision in terms of scope and format, and now includes significantly more information about the entire Radiation Center rather than concentrating primarily on the reactor. Because the report addresses a number of dif-ferent interests, it is rather lengthy, but for the first time we have incorporated a shott executive summary which highlights the Center's activ-ities and accomplishments over the past year. We hope you will find this summary helpful .

The 1987-88 reporting period was very successful for the Radiation Center, and was in fact the best and most productive year we have had n for quite some time. While I will try to avoid simply restating information J@ presented in the executive summary, I would like to report that we experi-nga. enced increased use of the Radiation Center and reactor in essentially Ec3 every category that we measure. The Center cor.tinued to accommodate a Q number of undergraduate and graduab classet, experienced a 65% increase over last year in the number of student projects accommodated, and showed

@$ a 66% overall increase in the number of reactor hours devoted to teaching

@@ and research. We also finished up the year with a large (92%) increase e< in the number of other universities using the Radiation Center for research E purposes, an 85% increase in the number of research and service projects gg performed, and a twelve-fold increase in the number of times these research go to n.x Tr }

Oregon State University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer

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• USNRC January 31, 1989 and service projects were repeated. We are particularly pleased with these results because they reflect a measurable increase in our assis- j tance to OSU as well as to other universities within (and outside) the Oregon State System of Higher Education, and to a number of state and federal agencies.

Scholarly publications involving a major contribution by the Radiation Center also increased (approximately 100%). Considering publications 1 currently in print, plus those we expect will be published, a total of about 100 refereed articles involving a significant contribution by the Radiation Center during the 1987-88 interval will ultimately appear in  !

the technical literature.

In addition to the increased use of the OSU reector, we are equally pleased to report that We were able to reduce the amount of argon-41 re - ,

leased by another 11% over Isst year's value, which as you may recall was approximately 9% below the previous year's total.

As a final statistic, the Radiation Center continued to be a popular place to_ visit. Once again we hosted over 800 visitors during the year.

We hope you will find this more detailed report to be of interest.

Should there be any questions, please let me know.

Cordially, M ... %

A. G. lJo son Direct W AGJ/ef/AR-026 Enclosure cc w/ enclosure:

Standardization and Special Projects Branch, Division of 1.icensing, USNRC, Washington, D.C., ATTN: Mr. Al Adams (1 copy)

Division of Reactor Inspection & Safeguards, USNRC, Washington, D.C.,

ATTN: Mr. Donald Carlson (1 copy)

Regional Administrator USNRC, Region V, Walnut Creek, CA (1 copy)

Mr. Harry North, USNRC, Region V, Walnut Creek, CA (1' copy) cc w/out enclosure:

M. Alsworth, Oregon Department of Energy T. V. Anderson, OSTR Reactor Supervisor, OSU S. E. Binney, Chairman, OSTR Reactor Operations Committee B. Dodd, OSTR Reactor Administrator, OSU J. F. Higginbotham, Senior Health Physicist, OSU

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