ML073030057

Letter Submitting Oregon State University Radiation Center and Ostr Annual Report for the Period of July 1, 2006 Through June 30, 2007

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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 1http://ne.oregonstate.edu/facilities/radiation_center October 26, 2007 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555

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Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor (OSTR)

Docket No. 50-243, License No. R-106 In accordance with section 6.7.e of the OSTR Technical Specifications we are hereby submitting the Oregon State University Radiation Center and OSTR Annual Report for the period July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.

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

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

Executed on: /0/zc,/07 Sincerely, Steven R. Reese Director Cc: Alexander Adams, USNRC John Cassady, OSU Craig Bassett, USNRC Rich Holdren, OSU Ken Niles, ODOE Todd Palmer, OSU

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0 C.diation DeatenCfE ergnt uer N.350000 0 ~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. Task Order No. 3, under Subcontract No. C84-1 10499 (DE-

• AC07-76ER01 953) for University Reactor Fuel Assistance-0 su ed by:

Annual Report of the Oregon State University Radiation Center and TRIGA Reactor

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S 0 Contents Part I-Overview 0 Executive Summary ................... 6 Introduction ....................... 6 Overview of the Radiation Center ......... 7 0

Part II-People Radiation Center Staff ................ 8 Professional & Research Faculty .......... 9 Reactor Operations Committee ......... .10 0 OSU Graduate Students .............. 11 Part Ill-Facilities Research Reactor .............. ........ 14 0 Analytical Equipment ................. 15 0 Radioisotope Irradiation Sources ........ 15 0 Laboratories & Classrooms ............ 16 0 Instrument Repair & Calibration ......... .17 Library .......................... 17 0

Part IV-Reactor 0 Operating Statistics ................. . 22 Experiments Performed .............. 22 0 Unplanned Shutdowns .............. 24 0 Changes Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.59 ....... 24 0 Surveillance & Maintenance ........... 24 0 Part V-Radiation Protection Introduction ...................... 42 0 Environmental Releases .............. 42 0 Personnel Doses ................... 43 0 Facility Survey Data ................. 44 Environmental Survey Data ............ 45 0 Radioactive Material Shipments ......... .47 References ........................ 47 0 Part VI-Work Summary ........................ 66 Teaching ........................ . 66 Research & Service ................. 66 Part VII-Words Documents Published or Accepted ...... 104 Presentations ..................... 111

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Ill.C.1 Gammacell 220 60Co Irradiator Use ...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 0

III.D.1 Student Enrollment in Courses at the Radiation Center .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 0 IV.A.1 OSTR Operating Statistics (Using the FLIP Fuel Core) ........... .... ................ 28 0 IV.A.2 OSTR Operating Statistics with the Original Standard TRIGA Fuel Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 0 IV.A.3 Present OSTR Operating Statistics ....................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 1 0 IV.A.4 OSTR Use Time in Terms of Specific Use Categories ............. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 32 0 IV.A.5 OSTR Multiple Use Time .............................. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 32 0 IV.B.1 Use of OSTR Reactor Experiments ........................ .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 33 0 IV.C.1 Unplanned Reactor Shutdowns and Scrams ................. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 33 0

V.A.1 Radiation Protection Program Requirements and Frequencies ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 0

V.B.1 .a Monthly Summary of Liquid Effluent Releases to the Sanitary Sewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 V.B.1 .b Annual Summary of Liquid Waste Generated and Transferred ...... .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 50 0

V.B.2 Monthly Summary of Gaseous Effluent Releases .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 0

V.B.3 Annual Summary of Solid Waste Generated and Transferred ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 0 V.C.1 Annual Summary of Personnel Radiation Doses Received ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 0 V.D.1 Total Dose Equivalent Recorded Within the TRIGA Reactor Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 0 V.D.2 Total Dose Equivalent Recorded on Area Within the Radiation Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 0 V.D.3 Annual Summary of Radiation and Contamination Levels Within the Re eactor .............. 57 0 V.E.1 Total Dose Equivalent at the TRIGA Reactor Facility Fence ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 0 V.E.2 Total Dose Equivalent at the Exported Under NRC General License 10 CFR 110.23 .......... 59 0 VI.C.1 Institutions and Agencies Which Utilized the Radiation Center ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 0 VI.C.2 Graduate Student Research Which Utilized the Radiation Center ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 0

VI.C.3 Listing of Major Research & Service Projects Performed and Their Fund ing ............... 80 VI.C.4 Summary of Radiological Instrumentation Calibrated to Support OSU Departments ......... 98 0

VI.C.5 Summary of Radiological Instrumentation Calibrated to Support Othe r Agencies .......... 99 0

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Acknowledgements We have experienced yet another exciting and successful year. There are many people to thank for this but most of the credit goes to the staff. Steve, Dina, Erin, Shirley, Todd, Gary, Jim, Beth, Alena, Leah, and Scott. Without their efforts none of this

• would be possible. The camaraderie and

• cooperation of this group has created a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment rarely seen in organizations of this size.

0 nuclear engineering students can learn how the reactor works in the classroom, then apply the knowledge ii We had two individuals who departed the Radiation Center this year and we wish both of them the best. After some thirty years, Mike Conrady retired to be closer

• to family. While Mike leaves a legacy of 0 NAA analysis, computers, and networks,

• it was his outreach and activities involv-

• ing students for which he had his greatest

• impact. Mike Hartman who, although he

• was with us for only a short time, contrib-uted more to the Radiation Center both personally and professionally than we have

• seen from any individual in many years.

• T-here are many things we simply could not

• have done without him. They both will be

• missed.

0 PartI-Overview Tedata from this reporting year shows that the use of the Radiation 0 Center and the Oregon State TRIGA reactor (OSTR) has continued/

to grow in many areas.

TeRadiation Center supported 48 different courses this year, mostly in the Department of Nuclear l

Engineering and Radiation Health Physics. About 3 1% of these courses involved the OSTR. The number of OSTR hours used for academic courses and training was 56, while 2,851 hours0.00985 days <br />0.236 hours <br />0.00141 weeks <br />3.238055e-4 months <br /> were used for research projects. Seventy-eight percent of the OSTR research hours were in support of off-campus research projects, reflecting the use of the OSTR nationally and internationally. Radiation Center users published or submit-ted 86 articles this year, completed 6 theses/dissertations, and made 53 presentations on work that involved0 the OSTR or Radiation Center. The number of samples irradiated in the reactor during this reportingS period was 2018. Funded OSTR use hours comprised 96% of the research use.

Personnel at the Radiation Center conducted 148 tours of the facility, accommodating 2,189 visitors. The0 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 visi-tors leave with a good impression of the facility and of Oregon State University.0 The Radiation Center projects database continues to provide a useful way of tracking the many different0 aspects of work at the facility. The number of projects supported this year was 220. Reactor related projects comprised 73% of all projects. The total research supported by the Radiation Center, as reported by our researchers, was $5,769,460. The actual total is likely considerably higher. This year the Radiation Center provided service to 69 different organizations/ institutions, 38% of which were from other states and 16%

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 capabilities as well as to apply for a project and check use charges. The address is: http://radiationcenter.

oregonstate.edu.

The current annual report of the Oregon State University Radiation Center and TRIGA Reactor follows the usual format by including information relating to the entire Radiation Center rather than just the reac-tor. 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, 2006 through June 30, 2007. Cumulative reactor operating data in this report relate only to the FLIP-fu-eled core. Tbis covers the period from August 1, 1976 through June 30, 2007. For a summary of data on the reactor's original 20% enriched core, the reader is referred to Table IVA.2 in Part IV of this report or to the 1976-77 Annual Report if a more comprehensive review is needed.t0 OtSU Radiation Center 6

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0 0 In addition to providing general information about the activities of the Radiation Center, this report is de-

• signed to meet the reporting requirements of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U. S. Depart-ment 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.

0 The Radiation Center is a unique facility which serves the entire OSU campus, all other institutions within the Oregon University System, and many other universities and organizations throughout the nation and the world. The Center also regularly provides special services to state and federal agencies, particularly 0 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 Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, the OSU Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and for the OSU nuclear chemistry, radiation chemistry, geochemistry and S radiochemistry programs. There is no other university facility with the combined capabilities of the OSU

• Radiation Center in the western half of the United States.

• Located in the Radiation Center are many items of specialized equipment and unique teaching and re-

• search facilities. They include a TRIGA Mark II research nuclear reactor; a 60Co gamma irradiator; a large number of state-of-the art computer-based gamma radiation spectrometers and associated germanium de-tectors; 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; laboratories for plant experiments involving radioactivity; a facility for repair and calibration of radiation protection instrumentation; and facilities for

• packaging radioactive materials for shipment to national and international destinations.

A major non-nuclear facility housed in the Radiation Center is the one-quarter scale thermal hydraulic ad-

• vanced plant experimental (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 pres-sures 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 measurements to be used for safety evaluations and licensing of the full scale plant.

This world-class facility meets exacting quality assurance criteria to provide assurance of safety as well as

• validity of the test results.

Also housed in the Radiation Center are the Advanced Thermal Hydraulics Research Laboratory 0 (ATHRL), which is used for state-of-the-art two-phase flow experiments, and the Nuclear Engineering

• Scientific Computing Laboratory.

• The Radiation Center staff regularly provides direct support 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, radiation dosimetry, environmental radioactivity, production of short-lived radioisotopes, radiation shielding, nuclear instru-0 mentation, emergency response, transportation of radioactive materials, instrument calibration, radiation 0 health physics, radioactive waste disposal, and other related areas.

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

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PartIl-People Thbis section contains a listing of all people who were residents of the Radiation Center or who worked a significant amount of time O

at the Center during this reporting period. 0 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 VI.C. 1, while individual names and projects are listed in Tables VI.C.2 and VI.C.3.

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Shirley Campbell, Business Manager Beth Lucason, Receptionist o p o Mike Hartman, Reactor Administrator S. Todd Keller, Senior Reactor Operator 00 Gary Wachs, Reactor Supervisor, Senior Reactor Operator Scott Menn, Senior Health Physicist Jim Darrouigh, Health Physicist Leah Minc, Neutron Activation Analysis Manager Alena Paulenova, Radiochemistry Research Manager Steve Smith, Scientific Instrument Technician, Senior Reactor Operator 0 Erin Cimbri, Custodian Lindsey Arnold, Health Physics Monitor (Student)

Marcus Arnold, Health Physics Monitor (Student)

David Horn, Health Physics Monitor (Student)

Joel Moreno, Health Physics Monitor (Student)

Mike Kennedy, Laborer (Student)

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• Binney, Stephen E.

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

• • Conrady, Michael R.

Faculty Research Assistant, Analytical Support Manager, Radiation Center Craig,A. Morrie Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine

• Daniels, Malcolm Professor Emeritus, Chemistry Duringer,Jennifer 0 Research Associate, College of Veterinary Medicine 0 Groome,Jobn T.

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

• *Hamby,David Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics 0Hart, Lucas P.

Faculty Research Associate, Chemistry

• Higginbotbam,Jack E Director, Oregon Space Grant, Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

• • Higley, Katbryn A.

0Professor,Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Johnson, Arthur G.

Director Emeritus, Radiation Center, Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Keller, S. Todd 0 Interim Reactor Administrator/Reactor Operator, Radiation Center Klein, Andrew C.

Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

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0Professor Emeritus, Physics

• *Loveland, Walter D.

Professor, Chemistry

• Menn, Scott A.

Senior Health Physicist, Radiation Center

• • Minc, Leab Assistant Professor Senior Research, Radiation Center

• • Palmer, Todd S.

Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics 0*Paulenova, Alena Assistant Professor, Senior Research, Radiation Center

• Popovicb, Milosb Vice President Emeritus, Oregon State University

• Reese, Steven R.

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Ringle, John C. 0 Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Robinson, Alan H.

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• Wacbs, Gary Reactor Supervisor, Radiation Center 0 Wang Cbib H.

Director Emeritus, Radiation Center, Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics 0 Walker, Karen 0 Research Assistant, College of Veterinary Medicine Woods, Brian 0 Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Wu, Qiao 0 Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineer and Radiation Health Physics 0 Young Roy A. 0 Professor Emeritus, Botany and Plant Pathology 0

Todd Palmer,Chair Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics 0

Rainier Farmer Radiation Safety 0 David Hamby Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics S Michael Hartman Radiation Center/Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics Mario Magana Electrical Engineering Scott Menn Radiation Center 0 Wade Ricbards NIST 0 Steve Reese Radiation Center Gary Wacbs Radiation Center 0 Bill Warnes Mechanical Engineering S 0

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Students Name Degree Program Advisor 0 Barnett, Nathan A. MS Nuclear Engineering T. S. Palmer 0 Belay, Deneke MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Bentley, Blair MA Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Benz, Jacob MS Nuclear Engineering T. S. Palmer Berg, Regina MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley BergmanJoshua PhD Radiation Health Physics T. S. Palmer 0 Berkley,Jonathan M. MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 BlandJason MHP Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Broughton, Phillip MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Brumley, Willis MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley S BrusoJason MS Nuclear Engineering A. Paulenova Bytwerk, David MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley S Castro, Miguel MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Collins, Brian Allen MS Nuclear Engineering B. Woods 0 Courville, Alicia PhD Radiation Health Physics D. M. Hamby Craig, Bridget M MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Darrett, Jeannine MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Elliott, Anthony James MS Nuclear Engineering T.S. Palmer Frey, Wesley PhD Radiation Health Physics D. M. Hamby 0

Galvin, Mark R PhD Nuclear Engineering J. N. Reyes Garcia, Richard M MHP Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Gerber, Ryan L MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Hall, Gary MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Hay, Tristan MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley S Hooda, Benny MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Hout, Jason MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Huang, Zhongliang PhD Radiation Health Physics W. Loveland 0 Jackson, Brian MS Nuclear Engineering J. N. Reyes Jones, Sean Edgar MS Radiation Health Physics B. Woods Keller, Todd MS Nuclear Engineering T. S. Palmer Kim, Dong W. PhD Nuclear Engineering Q.Wu Konoff, Daniel MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Lally, MaryT MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Lambert, Erin MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0

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0 Mangini, Colby D MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0

Marcum, Wade R MS Nuclear Engineering B. Woods 0 Mathew, Mary (Betsey) MS Radiation Health Physics D. M. Hamby 0 Misner, Alex PhD Nuclear Engineering T. S. Palmer 0 Morda, Anthony MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Munger, Eric MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0!

Myers, Margaret MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Naik, Radhika PhD Nuclear Chemistry W. Loveland 0 Napier, Bruce PhD Radiation Health Physics D. M. Hamby 0 Nassehzadeh-Tabriz, Mike PhD Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley/

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Nelson, Roy K. MS Nuclear Engineering J. N. Reyes 0 Nes, Razvan PhD Nuclear Engineering T. S. Palmer 0 Newman, Errol MS Radiation Health Physics D. M. Hamby 0 Palmer, Patricia L MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Patel, Aarti MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Ropon, Kimberly PhD Radiation Health Physics D. M. Hamby 0 Rising, Michael Evan MS Nuclear Engineering T. S. Palmer 0

Robinson, Adam MS Nuclear Engineering B. Woods 0

Robinson, Bethany R MS Nuclear Engineering T. S. Palmer Robinson, Joshua A.

0 MS Nuclear Engineering M. Hartman Rogers, John W MHP Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley S

Rogers, Kevin MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0

Sarsah, Dominic K MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0

Schaeffer, Barry MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Schaub, Candi L MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Schilling, Raymond MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley S Shaw, Christopher Glenn MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Skinner, Jessie MS Nuclear Engineering QWu 0 Smith, Angela MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Soldatov, Alexei PhD Nuclear Engineering Q.Wu 0 Sprunger, Peter PhD Physics W. Loveland 0

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0 STM( ento Name Degree Program Advisor 0 Straiff, Walt Non Degree K. A. Higley Tavakoli, Fasoni PhD Radiation Health Physics D. M. Hamby 0 Van Home-SealyJama MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Wagner, Russ MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley Walker, James R MHP Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Webb, Lindsey S MS Radiation Health Physics K. A. Higley 0 Wilmot, Aaron MHP Radiation Health Physics J. F. Higginbotham 0 Wang, Jiani MS Nuclear Engineering Q.Wu 0 Woodson, Eva M MS Radiation Health Physics D. M. Hamby S Yao, You PhD Nuclear Engineering QWu Young, Eric MS Nuclear Engineering J. N. Reyes 0

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PartIll-Facilities 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 array. The reactor core is surrounded by a ring of0 graphite which serves to reflect neutrons back into the core. The core is situated 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 state0 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 irra-diations, an in-core irradiation tube, and a cadmium-lined in-core irradiation tube for experiments requiring a high energy neutron flux. The OSTR also has an Argon Production Facility for the production of 4lAr.0 The pneumatic transfer facility enables samples to be inserted and removed from the core in four to five seconds. Consequently this facility is normally used for neutron activation analysis 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 column to enable0 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 removed. One of the beam ports contains the argon production facility for production of curie levels of 41Ar. The neutron radiogra-phy facility utilized the tangential beam port (beam port #3) to produce ASTM E545 category I radiogra-phy 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 may0 be inserted into a dummy fuel element. This device will then be placed into one of the core's inner grid posi-tions 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-lined end of this air-filled aluminum0 irradiation tube is inserted into an inner grid position of the reactor core which would normally be occupied by a fuel element. It is the same as the ICIT except for the presence of the cadmium lining.

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

Instruction Instructional use of the reactor is twofold. First, it is used significantly for classes in Nuclear Engineering, Radiation Health Physics, and Chemistry at both the graduate and undergraduate levels to demonstrate numerous principles which have been presented in the classroom. Basic neutron behavior is the same in small reactors as it is in large power reactors, and many demonstrations and instructional experiments can be performed using the OSTR which cannot be carried out with a commercial power reactor. Shorter-term demonstration experiments are also performed for many undergraduate students in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology classes, as well as for visitors from other universities and colleges, from high schools, and from

• public groups.

0 The second instructional application of the OSTR involves educating reactor operators, operations man-

• agers, 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 provides are more fully described in Part VI of this report.

During this reporting period the OSTR accommodated a number of different OSU academic classes and other academic programs. In addition, portions of classes from other Oregon universities were also sup-

• ported by the OSTR. Table III.D.1, provides detailed information on the use of the OSTR for instruction

• and training.

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 sensitive method of

• elemental analysis which is described in more detail in Part VI.

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

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

Radiation Center nuclear instrumentation receives intensive use in both teaching and research applications.

O 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 instrumentation may be made available on a loan basis to OSU researchers in other departments.

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Typically, the irradiator is used by researchers wishing to perform mutation and other biological effects stud-ies; studies in the area of radiation chemistry; dosimeter testing; sterilization of food materials, soils, sedi-ments, biological specimen, and other media; gamma radiation damage studies; and other such applications.

In addition to the 60Co irradiator, the Center is also equipped with a variety of smaller 60Co, 137Cs, 226Ra, plutonium-beryllium, and other isotopic sealed sources of various radioactivity levels which are available for use as irradiation sources.

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

In addition, the irradiator was used for sterilization of several media and the evaluation of the radiation effects on different materials. Table III.C.1 provides use data for the Gammacell 220 irradiator.

Labovacoeis adCB ss vw s 0 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 laboratory especially equipped for teaching radiochem-istry 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 measurement of many types of radiation. The Center also has two student computer rooms equipped with a large number of personal computers and UNIX workstations.

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

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

This reporting period saw continued high utilization of the Radiation Center's thermal hydraulics laboratory.

This laboratory is being used by Nuclear Engineering faculty members to accommodate a one-quarter scale model of the Palisades Nuclear Power reactor. The multi-million dollar advanced plant experimental (APEX) facility was fully utilized by the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide licensing data and to test safety systems in"beyond design basis" accidents. The fully scaled, integral model APEX facility uses electri-cal heating elements to simulate the fuel elements, operates at 450'F and 400 psia, and responds at twice

• real time. It is the only facility of its type in the world and is owned by the U. S. Department of Energy and operated by OSU. In addition, a new building, the Air-water Test Loop for Advanced Thermal-hydraulics Studies (ATLATS), was constructed next to the Reactor Building in 1998. Two-phase flow experiments are conducted in the ATLATS. Together APEX and ATLATS comprise the Advanced Thermal Hydraulics Research Laboratory (ATHRL).

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0 0 The Radiation Center has a facility for the repair and calibration of essentially all types of radiation monitor-ing instrumentation. This includes instruments for the detection and measurement of alpha, beta, gamma, 0 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.

0 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 pro-0 gram for the Center, including calibration of essentially all radiation detection instruments used by state and 0 federal agencies in the state of Oregon. This includes instruments used on the OSU campus and all other institutions in the Oregon University System, plus instruments from the Oregon Health Division's Radia-0 tion Protection Services, the Oregon Department of Energy, the Oregon Public Utilities Commission, the Oregon Health Sciences University, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the U. S. Environmental Protection S Agency.

0 In addition to its educational and research functions, the center provides outreach, offering tours to sch ()Is .dr u-0 0

0 0 The Radiation Center has a library containing a significant collections of texts, research reports, and videotapes 0 relating to nuclear science, nuclear engineering, and radiation protection.

0 The Radiation Center is also a regular recipient of a great variety of publications from commercial publishers in the nuclear field, from many of the professional nuclear societies, from the U. S. Department of Energy, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other federal agencies. Therefore, the Center library maintains a cur-rent collection of leading nuclear research 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 0 by utilities for their facilities.

0 The Center maintains an up-to-date set of reports from such organizations as the International Commission on 0 Radiological Protection, the National Council on Radiation Protection 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 0 regulations of various state regulatory agencies are also available at the Center.

0 The Radiation Center videotape library has over one hundred tapes on nuclear engineering, radiation protection, and radiological 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. Ihese 0 tapes reproduced, recorded, and edited by Radiation Center staff,using the Center's videotape equipment and the facilities of the OSU Communication Media Center.

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

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S NE/ RHP 236* 4 t IInstrumentation 23 0 NE 319 3 Societal Aspects of Nuclear technology 96 0 NE 405H 1-16 R&C/Used Nuclear Fuel: Garbage or Gold 11 RHP 401/501/601 1-16 Research 4 9 7 12 NE/RHP 405/505/605 1-16 Reading and Conference 1 7 3 3 NE/RHP 406/506/606 1-16 'Projects 1 1 4 3 0 NE/RHP 407/507/607 1 jNuclear Engineering Seminar 55 45 44 0

NE/ RHP 410/510/610 0 1-12 Internship 3 2 6 13 0 NE/ RHP 415/515 2 1Nuclear Rules and Regulations 47 NE/ RHP 516* 4 Radiochemistry 7 0 NE 451/551** 4 Neutronic Analysis and Lab I 19 NE 452/552** 4 Neutronic Analysis and Lab II 19 NE 553* 3 Neutronic Analysis and Lab III 8 NE 467/567/667 4 Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics 25 NE 474/574 4 Nuclear System Design I 25 NE 475/575 4 Nuclear System Design II 22 0 NE/RHP 479 1-4 'Individual Design Project 0 NE/RHP 481 4 lRadiation Protection 20 NE/RHP 482/582* 4 Applied Radiation Safety 17 RHP 483/583 4 Radiation Biology 38 RHP 488/588* 3 'Radioecology 29 0 NE/RHP 490/590 4 'Radiation Dosimetry 34 0 RHP 493 3 jNon Reactor Radiation Protection 0

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3 'Computational Methods for Nuclear Reactors NE/RHP 535 3 Nuclear Radiation Shielding 34 NE/RHP 531 3 Nuclear Physics for Engineers and Scientists 27 0 NE 550 3 Nuclear Medicine ST/Nuclear Reactor Analysis: Criticality NE 559 1 Sft Safety S NE 568 3 Nuclear Reactor Safety NE 569 1-3 ST/Ihermal Hydraulic Instrumentation 0 NE/RHP 586 3 Advanced Radiation Dosimetry RHP 589 1-3 ST/Radiation Protection and Risk Assessment 0

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CH 123* General Chemistry 165 0 CH 222* 5 General Chemistry (Science Majors) 232 CH 225H* 5 !Honors General Chemistry 34 CH 462* 3 Experimental Chemistry II Laboratory 18 0

ENGR 331 4 'Momentum, Energy and Mass Transport 135 43 0 GEO 330*

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Reactor power generation for the operating period between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007 totaled 1328 MWH of thermal power. This is equal to 55 MWD of generation, and results in a cumulative thermal output by the OSTR FLIP core of 1211 MWD from August 1976 through June 30, 2007.

Table IV.A.1 provides information related to the OSTR annual energy production, fuel usage and use re-quests. Table IV.A.2 summarizes statistics for the original 20% enriched fuel loading.

The productivity of the reactor irradiation facilities is based on reactor operation in relation to use categories.

Greater productivity is achieved by utilizing a greater number of irradiation facilities at the same time. Tables IV.A.3 through 5 provide this years detail on reactor use and other tracked data.

A normal nine-hour, five-day per week schedule sets the total available reactor operating hours. Critical reac-tor operation averaged 60% of each day. Of the 2259 total available annual operating hours, 1121 hours0.013 days <br />0.311 hours <br />0.00185 weeks <br />4.265405e-4 months <br /> were at full power, 484 hours0.0056 days <br />0.134 hours <br />8.002645e-4 weeks <br />1.84162e-4 months <br /> were spent conducting facility startup and shutdown operation, 362 hours0.00419 days <br />0.101 hours <br />5.98545e-4 weeks <br />1.37741e-4 months <br /> were expended for maintenance and sample decay delays and 101 hours0.00117 days <br />0.0281 hours <br />1.669974e-4 weeks <br />3.84305e-5 months <br /> the reactor was not operating for reasons other than listed above.

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

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

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

B-12 Exploratory Experiments.

0 B-23 Studies Using TRIGA Thermal Column.

B-29 Reactivity Worth of Fuel.

B-31 TRIGA Flux Mapping.

B-33 Irradiation of Combustible Liquids in Rotating Rack.

0 Of these available experiments, two were used during the reporting period. Table IV.B.1 provides informa-tion related to the frequency of use and the general purpose of their use.

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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 experiments are now performed under the more general experi-0 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 TRIGAs Reactor Bath Water Temperature Coefficient and High Power Level Power

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

0 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 Irradiation Facilities.

B-8 Isotope Production.

• B-9 Neutron Radiography.

• B-10 Neutron Diffraction.

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

• B-14 Detection of Chemically Bound Neutrons.

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

• B-16 Production and Preparation of 18F.

B-17 Fission Fragment Gamma Ray Angular Correlations.

• B-18 A Study of Delayed Status (n, 0 Produced Nuclei.

• B-19 Instrument Timing via Light Triggering.

• B-20 Sinusoidal Pile Oscillator.

• B-21 Beam Port #3 Neutron Radiography Facility.

B-22 Water Flow Measurements Through TRIGA Core.

• B-24 General Neutron Radiography.

B-25 Neutron Flux Monitors.

B-26 Fast Neutron Spectrum Generator.

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

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

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

B-32 Argon Production Facility C-1 PuO2 Transient Experiment.

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• July 2006 Replaced original reactor tank underwater camera with an updated version.

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+ Removed swollen and stuck wooden plug from beam port #4.

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÷ Inspected all fuel elements for possible swelling using the upper core plate holes as a stan-dard. One element removed form core due to inspection and replace with racked spare.

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'Operational Augustli, 1976' July 1 1977 .July.A, 1978 3uY.y1,, 1979 Julyl,. 1980 Julyl,. 1981 July,;1, 1982 July-.,11983 Data fbr 'through.0through" .thrdugh through through througto through, FILIPCore June 30,A977 June 30,197.78..June 30, 1979' June-30, 1980. June 30, 1981 June 30, 1982 June 30, 198.3 une '30, 19.84,

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OMar-8, '67 Jul 1, 68 Jul1i-69 Apr'1 70 Apr I- 7ýi Apr1, 72 Apr 1, 73 Ap 1, 74' Ape, 7:5 A*r *, 76 Ma~ h 67 Data for 20°/6 tlirough .through. throuh throUgh . through ýthrough throdgh ;through through trhrugh Enihdd: through, CJoun 30, 68 Jun 30, 69 Mar 31,.!70 Mar.31,-71: Mar 31, 72 Mar'31,.73 Mar 3.1, 74 M1ar31,7'5. Mar 31j7 Jul 26,76 Jul.,y 76 Operating Hours ;904 6i0 567 :855" 598 954 705 563 794 -353, 6903 (Critica),

Megowatt 117.2 102.5 138.1, 223'.8S 195.1 497.8 335.9 321.5 408.0 2-13:0 2,553.0 Hours' Megawatt 4.9 4.3 5.8 9.3 8.1 20.7 14; -1 13.4 17.,0i. 9.0: 1064 Days Grams, 23 U , 6.1 5.A4 7.2 11.7 10.2. 26.0 17.6 i6.8 21.4 10.7 1-33.0.:

Used Hours at full Power, 429 369 58 856 (2,50kW)'

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Number of Fuel" Elements .70,('Inintal) 2 13. 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 94q Added It6the Nuniber*of irradjation 429. 43 391 s528 3"7 550 452 396 357 217v 4100:

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Number of fuel elements added to (+) or re- 0 77+3 FFCR( 1) 0 moved(-) from the core 0

Number of pulses 20 1,446 0

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Number of startup and shutdown checks 251 8,401 Number of irradiation requests processed 252 9,707 Number of samples irradiated 2,018 118,075 0

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Off Campus research 2,246 25,065 0 Forensic Services 0 234(2) 0 Reactor preclude time 845 25,332 0 Facility time(3) 0 7,191 0 Total Reactor Use Time 3,752 82,301 0

(1) See Tables I1I.A.1 and III.D.1 for teaching statistics (reactor tours are not logged as use).

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Anomalous indication of"Beam Port #4 Shield Plug Removed;"

Manual Scram 1 'determined to be moisture related.

Actuation of transient rod manual scram button vs. withdrawal but-Manual Scram 1 ton during rod calibrations.

I)Power transient caused by withdrawal of cadmium covered sample Safety Channel Scram 1 following short exposure.

Failure of K16 relay removed all power from console rod controls 0 :and alarm inputs. Position indicators and annunciators failed "as is."

0 "Silent Scram" 1 All rods inserted upon loss of magnet power, manual verified.

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The purpose of the radiation protection program is to ensure the safe use of radiation and radioactive material in the Center's teaching, J research, and service activities, and in a similar manner to ensure the fulfillment of all regulatory requirements of the State of Oregon, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other regulatory agencies. The comprehensive nature of the program is shown in Table V.A.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.F). 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 Techni-cal Specifications contained in that license. The material has also been prepared in compliance with Oregon Department of Energy Rule No. 345-30-010, which requires an annual report of environmental effects due to research reactor operations.

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

0 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.

0 ILho-lud FFlems Meased Liquid Effluents Oregon State University has implemented a policy to reduce the volume of radioactive liquid effluents to an absolute minimum. For example, water used during the ion exchanger resin change is now recycled as reactor makeup water. Waste water from Radiation Center laboratories and the OSTR is collected at a holdup tank prior to release to the sanitary sewer. Whenever possible, liquid effluent is analyzed for radioactivity content at the time it is released to the collection point. However, liquids are always analyzed for radioactivity before the holdup tank is discharged into the unrestricted area (the sanitary sewer system). For this reporting pe-riod, the Radiation Center and reactor made two liquid effluent releases to the sanitary sewer. All Radiation Center and reactor facility liquid effluent data pertaining to this release are contained in Table V.B.1.A.

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

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• nc v Ia§ RDL e 0 Airborne effluents are discussed in terms of the gaseous component and the particulate component.

0Gaseous 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 efflu-ent monitor to begin operation as one of the first systems in the morning and to cease operation as one of the

• last systems at the end of the day. All gaseous effluent data for this reporting period are summarized in Table S V.B.2.

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

0Particulate Effluents Evaluation of the detectable particulate radioactivity in the stack effluent confirmed its origin as naturally-oc-

• curring radon daughter products, within a range of approximately 3 x 10-11 laCi/ml to 1 x 10-9 piCi/ml. This particulate radioactivity is predominantly 214Pb and 214Bi, which is not associated with reactor operations.

There was no release of particulate effluents with a half life greater than eight days and therefore the reporting of the average concentration of radioactive particulates with half lives greater than eight days is not applicable.

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

• it is held along with other campus radioactive waste on the University's State of Oregon radioactive materials

• license.

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

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• The OSTR annual reporting requirements specify that the licensee shall present a summary of the radia-tion exposure received by facility personnel Doses and visitors. For the purposes of this report, the summary includes all Radiation Center personnel who may have received exposure to radiation. These personnel have 0been 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.

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

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Key facility research personnel consist of Radiation Center staff, faculty, and graduate students who per-form research using the reactor, reactor-activated materials, or using other research facilities present at the Center. The individual dosimetry 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.

0 Facilities Services maintenance personnel are normally issued a gamma sensitive electronic dosimeter as their basic monitoring device. A few Facilities Services personnel who routinely perform maintenance on mechanical or refrigeration equipment are issued a quarterly XB(y) TLD badge and other dosimeters as ap-propriate for the work being performed.

Students attending laboratory classes are issued quarterly X13(G) TLD badges, TLD (finger) extremity dosimeters, and track-etch/albedo or other neutron dosimeters, as appropriate.

Students or small groups of students who attend a one-time laboratory demonstration and do not handle radioactive materials are usually issued a gamma sensitive electronic dosimeter. These results are not in-cluded with the laboratory class students.

OSU police and security personnel are issued a quarterly XS(y) TLD badge to be used during their patrols of the Radiation Center and reactor facility.

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

An annual summary of the radiation doses received by each of the above six groups is shown in Table V.C.1.

There were no personnel radiation exposures in excess of the limits in 10 CFR 20 or State of Oregon regula-tions during the reporting period.

FaolK Surwy [Da0 0 The OSTR Technical Specifications require an annual summary of the radiation levels and levels of contam-ination 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 RadiationDosimeters Area monitoring dosimeters capable of integrating the radiation dose are located at strategic positions throughout the reactor facility and Radiation Center. All of these dosimeters contain at least a standard personnel-type beta-gamma film or TLD pack. In addition, for key locations in the reactor facility and for certain Radiation Center laboratories a CR-39 plastic track-etch neutron detector has also been included in the monitoring package.

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

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0 Routine Radiation and ContaminationSurveys The Center's program for routine radiation and contamination surveys consists of daily, weekly, and monthly measurements throughout the TRIGA reactor facility and Radiation Center. The frequency of these surveys

• is based on the nature of the radiation work being carried out at a particular location or on other factors

• which indicate that surveillance over a specific area at a defined frequency is desirable.

The primary purpose of the routine radiation and contamination survey program is to assure regularly scheduled surveillance over selected work areas in the reactor facility and in the Radiation Center, in order to provide current and characteristic data on the status of radiological conditions. A second objective of the 0 program is to assure frequent on-the-spot personal observations (along with recorded data), which will pro-

• vide advance warning of needed corrections and thereby help to ensure the safe use and handling of radiation sources and radioactive materials. A third objective, which is really derived from successful execution of the first two objectives, is to gather and document information which will help to ensure that all phases of the S operational and radiation protection programs are meeting the goal of keeping radiation doses to personnel

• and releases of radioactivity to the environment "as low as reasonably achievable" (ALARA).

0 The annual summary of radiation and contamination levels measured during routine facility surveys for the

• applicable reporting period is given in Table V.D.3.

The annual reporting requirements of the OSTR Technical Specifications include "an annual summary of

• environmental surveys performed outside the facility" 0 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 VB.2 and nine environmental moni-

• toring stations.

• During this reporting period, each fence environmental station utilized an LiF TLD monitoring packet sup-

• plied and processed by Global Dosimetry Solutions, Inc. (GDS), Irvine, California. Each GDS packet con-tained 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 number of GDS TLD samples for the reporting

• period was 108. A summary of the GDS TLD data is also shown in Table VE.1.

• From Table VE.1 it is concluded that the doses recorded by the dosimeters on the TRIGA facility fence can

• be attributed to natural back-ground radiation, which is about 110 mrem per year for 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.E.2) and six stations located within a 5 mile radius of the

• Radiation Center.

Each monitoring station is located about four feet above the ground (MRCTE 21 and MRCTE 22 are 0 mounted on the roof of the EPA Laboratory and National Forage Seed Laboratory, respectively). These

• monitors are exchanged and processed quarterly, and the total number of TLD samples during the current one-year reporting period was 240 (20 stations x 3 chips per station per quarter x 4 quarters per year). The total number of GDS TLD samples for the reporting period was 204. A summary of GDS TLD data for the

• off-site monitoring stations is given in Table V.E.2.

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0 After a review of the data in Table V.E.2, it is concluded that, like the dosimeters on the TRIGA facility fence, all of the doses recorded by the off-site dosimeters can be attributed to natural background radiation, 0 which is about 110 mrem per year for Oregon (Refs. 1, 2).

100 The soil, water, and vegetation monitoring program consists of the collection and analysis of a limited num-ber 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.E.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 positions indicated in Figure V.E.1.

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

and fourteen vegetation locations.

The annual concentration of total net beta radioactivity (minus tritium) for samples collected at each environmental soil, water, and vegetation sampling location (sampling station) is listed in Table V.E.3.

Calculation of the total net beta disintegration rate incorporates subtraction of only the counting system back-ground from the gross beta counting rate, followed by application of an appropriate counting system efficiency.

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

As used in this report, the LLD has been defined as the amount or concentration of radioactive material (in terms of ýtCi 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.E.3 it can be seen that the levels of radioactivity detected were consistent with naturally occurring radioactivity and comparable to values reported in previous years.

In"a *aliaD c2 We M§ial Silo Bi 0 A summary of the radioactive material shipments originating from the TRIGA reactor facility, NRC license R-106, is shown in Table V.F.1. A similar summary for shipments originating from the Radiation Center's State of Oregon radioactive materials license ORE 90005 is shown in Table V.F.2. A summary of radioac-tive material shipments exported under Nuclear Regulatory Commission general license 10 CFR 110.23 is shown in Table V.F.3.

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• 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, "Radiological Quality of the Environment in the United States, 1977;' EPA 520/1-77-009, Office of Radiation Programs; Washington, D.C. 20460 (1977).

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Collect and analyze TRIGA primary, secondary, and make-up water. 0 Exchange personnel dosimeters and inside area monitoring dosimeters, and review Monthly exposure reports.

0 Inspect laboratories. 0 Calculate previous month's gaseous effluent discharge. 0 Process and record solid waste and liquid effluent discharges.

0 Prepare and record radioactive material shipments. 0 Survey and record incoming radioactive materials receipts.

Perform and record special radiation surveys.

As Required iPerform thyroid and urinalysis bioassays.

0 Conduct orientations and training. 0 Issue radiation work permits and provide health physics coverage for maintenance 0 operations.

0 Prepare, exchange and process environmental TLD packs. 0 Conduct orientations for classes using radioactive materials. 0 Quarterly Collect and analyze samples from reactor stack effluent line.

Exchange personnel dosimeters and inside area monitoring dosimeters, and review 0

exposure reports. 0 0

Leak test and inventory sealed sources.

Semi-Annual Conduct floor survey of corridors and reactor bay. 0 0

Calibrate portable radiation monitoring instruments and personnel pocket ion 0 chambers.

Calibrate reactor stack effluent monitor, continuous air monitors, remote area 0 radiation monitors, water monitor, and air samplers. 0 Annual Measure face air velocity in laboratory hoods and exchange dust-stop filters and HEPA filters as necessary.

0 Inventory and inspect Radiation Center emergency equipment. 0 Conduct facility radiation survey of the 60Co irradiators. 0 Conduct personnel dosimeter training.

Update decommissioning logbook.

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Motl Su mr of Liqi EfletRlae to the SaiaySee ,2 0OT Cotibto Shw in ) an Bod rit Average Specific Activity Total Percent of Total Concentration For Each Quantity of Applicable Volume of Total Of Released Detectable Each Monthly Average Liquid Date of Quantity of Detectable Radioactive Radionuclide in Detectable Concentration for Effluent Discharge Radioactivity Radio-Nuclides in Material at the the Waste, Where Radionuclide Released Released (Month and Year) Released the Waste Point of The Release Concentration Released in Radioactive Including (Curies) Release Was>1 x 10-7 the Waste Material Diluent (4)

(1 .iCi mVl 1)

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January 2007 0 N/A 0 0 0 0 1628 August 2006 0 N/A 0 0 0 0 1574 Annual Total for Radiation Center N/A 0 3202 OSTR Contribution to N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Above (1) OSU has implemented a policy to reduce the absolute minimum radioactive wastes disposed to the sanitary sewer. There were no liquid effluent released during months not listed.

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

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

(4) The total volume of liquid effluent plus diluent does not take into consideration the additional mixing with the over 250,000 gallons per year of liquids. And sewage normally discharged by the Radiation Center complex into the same sanitary sewer system.

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6 Radiation Center 1.26 Th-232, U-238 7.34x10- 11/13/06 Laboratories S

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S July 0.18 0.18 1.53x10- 8 0.38 0

August 0.08 0.08 7.06x10- 9 0.18 0 September 0.13 0.13 1.10x10" 8 0.28 0 October 0.10 0.10 8.53x10"9 0.21 1.23x10- 8 0 November 0.14 0.14 0.31 0 December 0.12 0.12 9.76x10- 9 0.24 S January 0.13 0.13 1.06x10" 8 0.27 0 February 0.16 0.16 1.45x10" 8 0.36 March 0.17 0.17 1.48x10- 8 0.37 0 April 0.28 0.28 2.41x10" 8 0.60 May 0.15 0.15 1.27x10 8 0.32 0 June 0.13 0.13 1.14x10- 8 0.28 TOTAL 0 ('06-'07) 1.76 1.76 1.27x10" 8 (3) 0.32(3)

(1) Airborne effluents from, the OSTR contained no detectable particulate radioactivity resulting fro, reactor operations, and there were no 0 releases of any radioisotopes in airborne effluents in concentrations greater than 20% of the applicable effluent concentration. (20% is a value taken from the OSTR Technical Specifications.

(2) Routine gamma spectroscopy analysis of the gaseous radioactivity in the OSTR stack discharge indicated the only detectable radionu-S (3) clide was argon-41.

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Ga-72, Cs-134, Eu-154 0 Radiation U-238, Th-232, Sr-90, Co-60, 11/13/06 Center 23.3 Eu-152, H-3, Rb-89, Eu-154, 7.9x10-5 Laboratories Ra-226, C-14 5/3/07 0

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S Facility Operating 0 Personnel 93 198.57 170 409 651 1390 S Key Facility 0 Research Personnel 0 12.42 0 117 0 149 Facilities Services 0 Maintenance Personnel 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A Laboratory Class Students 2.66 3.14 101 65 332 392 0 Campus Police and Security Personnel <1 N/A 13 N/A 13 N/A 0

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MRCTNE D104: North Badge East Wall 190 ND 0 MRCTSE D104: South Badge East Wall 172 ND MRCTSW D104: South Badge West Wall 484 ND 0 MRCTNW D104: North Badge West Wall 140 ND 0 MRCTWN D104: West Badge North Wall 259 ND 0 MRCTEN D104: East Badge North Wall 271 ND 0 MRCTES D104: East Badge South Wall 1272 ND 0

MRCTWS D104: West Badge South Wall 442 ND MRCTTOP D104: Reactor Top Badge 511 ND 0 MRCTHXS D104A: South Badge HX Room 617 ND MRCTHXW D104A: West Badge HX Room 206 ND 0 MRCD-302 D302: Reactor Control Room 315 ND MRCD-302A D302A: Reactor Supervisor's Office 99 N/A MRCBP1 D104: Beam Port Number 1 172 ND 0

MRCBP2 D104: Beam Port Number 2 194 ND MRCBP3 D104: Beam Port Number 3 1260 ND 0 MRCBP4 D104: Beam Port Number 4 752 ND (1) The total recorded dose equivalent values do not include natural background contribution and, reflect the summation of the results of four 0 quarterly beta-gamma dosimeters or four quarterly fast neutron dosimeters for each location. A total dose equivalent of"ND" indicates that each of the dosimeters during the reporting period was less than the vendor's gamma dose reporting threshold of 10 itoem 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.

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

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S MRCA100 A100: Receptionist's Office 0 N/A 0 MRCBRF A102H: Front Personnel Dosimetry Storage Rack 60 N/A 0 MRCA120 IA120: Stock Room 64 N/A S MRCA120A !A120A: NAA Temporary Storage 28 N/A MRCA126 A126: Radioisotope Research Lab 123 N/A 0 MRCCO-60 A128: 60Co Irradiator Room 397 N/A 0 MRCA130 IA130: Shielded Exposure Room 49 N/A 0 MRCA132 IA132: TLD Equipment Room 251 N/A MRCA138 A138: Health Physics Laboratory 63 N/A 0 MRCA146 A146: Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 211 N/A MRCB100 B100: Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 0 N/A 0 MRCB114 B114: Lab (226Ra Storage Facility) 1,643 ND MRCB119-1 B119: Source Storage Room 308 N/A MRCB119-2 B119: Source Storage Room 397 N/A MRCB119A B119A: Sealed Source Storage Room 5,601 3,205 MRCB120 B120: Instrument Calibration Facility 74 N/A MRCB122-2 B122: Radioisotope Storage Hood 49 N/A 0 MRCB122-3 B122: Radioisotope Research Laboratory 46 N/A MRCB124-1 B124: Radioisotope Research Lab (Hood) 49 N/A 0 MRCB124-2 B124: Radioisotope Research Laboratory 83 N/A MRCB124-6 B124: Radioisotope Research Laboratory 51 N/A MRCB128 B128: Instrument Repair Shop 49 N/A 0 MRCC100 C100: Radiation Center Director's Office 24 N/A (1) The total recorded dose equivalent values do not include natural background contribution and, reflect the summation of the results of four quarterly beta-gamma dosimeters or four quarterly fast neutron dosimeters for each location. A total dose equivalent of"ND" indicates that each of the dosimeters during the reporting period was less than the vendor's gamma dose reporting 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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MRCC120 C120: Student Counting Laboratory 31 N/A 0

MRCF100 F100: APEX Facility 12 N/A MRCF102 F102: APEX Control Room 22 N/A 0 MRCB125N B125: Gamma Analyzer Room (Storage Cave) 12 N/A MRCN125S B125: Gamma Analyzer Room 26 N/A MRCC124 C124: Classroom 54 N/A MRCC130 C130: Radioisotope Laboratory (Hood) 14 N/A MRCD100 D100: Reactor Support Laboratory 55 N/A MRCD102 D102: Pneumatic Transfer Terminal Lab' 368 N/A MRCD102-H D102H: 1st Floor Corridor at D102 104 N/A 0

MRCD106-H D106H: 1st Floor Corridor at D106 212 N/A 0 MRCD200 D200: Reactor Administrator's Office 206 N/A 0 MRCD202 D202: Senior Health Physicist's Office 238 N/A MRCBRR D200H: Rear Personnel Dosimetry Storage Rack 62 N/A 0

MRCD204 D204: Health Physicist Office 216 N/A MRCATHRL F104: ATHRL 35 N/A 0 MRCD300 D300" 3rd Floor Conference Room 172 N/A 0 (1) The total recorded dose equivalent values do not include natural background contribution and, reflect the summation of the results of four quarterly beta-gamma dosimeters or four quarterly fast neutron dosimeters for each location. A total dose equivalent of"ND" indicates 0

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0 Reactor Top (D104) <1 85 <500 21,153 Reactor 2nd Deck Area (D104) 3.48 31 <500 4,423 Reactor Bay SW (D104) <1 4 <500 2,115 Reactor Bay NW (D104) <1 70 <500 9,423 Reactor Bay NE (D104) <1 9 <500 15,192 Reactor Bay SE (D104) <1 17 <500 3,653 0 Class Experiments (D104, D302) <1 <1 <500 <500 Demineralizer Tank & Make Up Water System <1 6 <500 <500 0 (D104A)

Particulate Filter--Outside Shielding (D104A) <1 2 <500 576 0 Radiation Center:

NAA Counting Rooms (A146, B100) <1 3 <500 <500 S Health Physics Laboratory (A138) <1 <1 <500 <500 0 Co60 Irradiator Room and Calibration Rooms <1 50 <500 <500 (A128, B120, A130)

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<1 9 <500 <500 (B108, B114, B122, B124, C126, C130, C132A)

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Student Chemistry Laboratory (C118) <1 <1 <500 <500 0 Student Counting Laboratory (C120) <1 <1 <500 <500 0 Operations Counting Room (B136, C125) <1 <1 <500 <500 0 Pneumatic Transfer Laboratory (D102) <1 8 <500 9,423 S RX support Room (D100) <1 <1 <500 <500 0 (1) <500 dpm/100 cm2 =Less than the lower limit of detection for the portable survey instrument used.

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13-G Grass 1.71x10"4 +/- 2.17x10"5 pCi g- 1 of dry ash 14-G Grass 1.99x10"4 +/- 3.20x10"5 PCi g- 1 of dry ash 0

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0 Brush Resources Inc. 3.44x10 0 Delta, UT USA 0 0 7 7 0

Brush Wellman Inc. 2.28x10.2 2 2 0 Elmore, OH USA 0 Cal State Fullerton 6.78x10"9 0 0 1 0 Fullerton, CA USA 0

Columbia University 8.33x10"7 4 0 0 0 4 Palisades, NY USA 0 Idaho State University 3.31x10. 5 1 0 7 0 8 0 Pocatello, ID USA 0 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 7.76x10"6 0 0 1 0 1 0 Berkeley, CA USA New Mexico Geochronology Research Lab. 8.27x10 6 0 0 1 0 1 0

Socorro, NM 0 Oregon Health and Science University 4.33x10- 6 0 0 1 0 1 0 Portland, OR USA 0 Oregon State University 1.02x10"5 0 0 3 0 3 Corvallis, OR USA 0

Plattsburgh State University 3.30x10. 9 1 0 0 0 1 0 Plattsburgh, NY USA 0 Rutgers 9.90x10"7 0 8 0 Piscataway, NJ USA Stanford University 7.98x10"8 4 0 0 0 4 0

Stanford, CA USA 0 Syracuse University 5.56x10-6 0 2 0 Syracuse, NY USA 0 Union College Schenectady, NY USA 7.17x10"8 0 0 5 0

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0 University of Nevada Las Vegas 5.49x10 1 1 1 0 3 Las Vegas, NV USA 0

University of Southern California 1.61x10 8 2 0 0 0 2 0 Los Angeles, CA USA 0 University of Wisconsin-Madison 6.63x10 6 2 2 1 0 5 0 Madison, WI USA Totals 5.73x10" 2 38 4 18 9 69 0

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0 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 concentrations of the various elements in samples being studied. With sequential instrumental NAA it is possible to measure quantitatively about 35 elements in small samples (5 to 100 mg), and for acti-

• vable elements the lower limit of detection is on the order of parts per million or parts per billion, depending

• D 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 Radiation Center provides a complete NAA service for researchers and others who may require it. This 0 includes sample preparation, sequential irradiation and counting, and data reduction and analysis.

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

0 Forensic Studies Neutron activation analysis can also be advantageously used in criminal investigations. The principle un-derlying such application usually involves matching trace element profiles in objects or substances by NAA.

0 This in turn can help identify materials or products (e.g., identify the manufacturer of a given object), and in

• some cases can match bullets and other materials recovered from a victim to similar materials obtained from suspects. Materials which have been analyzed by the Radiation Center for forensic purposes include bullets, metals, paint, fuses, coats, glass, meat, and salts.

• Forensic studies performed in this reporting period are included in the listings in Tables VI.C.1 and VI.C.3.

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 during this reporting period are included in Part III as well as in Section C of this part.

• RadiologicalEmergency 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 organi-zations and medical facilities. The team can also provide assistance at the scene of any radiological incident anywhere in the state of Oregon on behalf of the Oregon Radiation Protection Services and the Oregon Department of Energy.

The Radiation Center maintains dedicated stocks of radiological emergency response equipment and instru-mentation. These items are located at the Radiation Center and at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis.

During the current reporting period, the Radiation Center emergency response team conducted several train-ing 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.A.2, III.D, and VI.B, and in addition to the routine training needed to meet the requirements of the OSTR Emergency Response Plan, Physical Security Plan, and operator requalification program, the Radiation Center is also used for special training programs. Radiation Center staff are well experienced in conducting these special programs and regularly offer training in areas such as research reactor operations, research reactor management, research 0

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reactor radiation protection, radiological emergency response, reactor behavior (for nuclear power plant operators), neutron activation analysis, nuclear chemistry, and nuclear safety analysis.

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

As has been the practice since 1985, Radiation Center personnel annually present a HAZMAT Response Team Radiological Course. This year the course was held at the Oregon State University Radiation Center.

RadiationProtection Services The primary purpose of the radiation protection program at the Radiation Center is to support the instruc-tion and research conducted at the Center. However, due to the high quality of the program and the level of expertise and equipment available, the Radiation Center is also able to provide health physics services in sup-port 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 elsewhere.

In the case of support provided to state agencies, this definitely helps to optimize the utilization of state resources.

The Radiation Center is capable of providing health physics services in any of the areas which are discussed 0

in Part V. These include personnel monitoring, radiation surveys, sealed source leak testing, packaging and shipment of radioactive materials, calibration and repair of radiation monitoring instruments (discussed in 0 detail in Section VI.C.7), radioactive waste disposal, radioactive material hood flow surveys, and radiation safety analysis and audits.

The Radiation Center also provides services and technical support as a radiation laboratory to the State of Oregon Radiation Protection Services (RPS) in the event of a radiological emergency within the state of Oregon. In this role, the Radiation Center will provide gamma ray spectrometric analysis of water, soil, milk, 0 food products, vegetation, and air samples collected by RPS radiological response field teams. As part of the ongoing preparation for this emergency support, the Radiation Center participates in inter-institution drills.

RadiologicalInstrument Repair and Calibration 0 While repair of nuclear instrumentation is a practical necessity, routine calibration of these instruments is a licensing and regulatory requirement which must be met. As a result, the Radiation Center operates a radia-tion instrument repair and calibration facility which can accommodate a wide variety 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 Center's own programs regularly utilize a wide range of nuclear instruments, components for most common repairs are often on hand and repair time 0 is therefore minimized.

In addition to the instrument repair capability, the Radiation 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. Instrument calibrations are performed using radiation sources certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) or traceable to NIST.

Table VI.C.4 is a summary of the instruments which were calibrated in support of the Radiation Center's Ai . . OSU Radiation Center 68

0 instructional and research programs and the OSTR Emergency Plan, while Table VI.C.5 shows instruments 0 calibrated for other OSU departments and non-OSU agencies. ~~j4 ~<

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S nual Report, but in particular on the subjects of research reactor operations and use, radiation protection, neutron activation analysis, radiation shielding, radiological emergency response, and radiotracer methods.

0 0 Records are not normally kept of such consultations, as they often take the form of telephone conversations with researchers encountering problems or planning the design of experiments. Many faculty members 0 housed in the Radiation Center have ongoing professional consulting functions with various organizations, 0 in addition to sitting on numerous committees in advisory capacities.

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

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• Linn Benton Community College 1 0 0 4 Albany, OR USA

• Marist High School 1 Eugene, OR USA Oregon Department of Energy 1 1 0 4 Salem, OR USA Oregon State Fire Marshal 10 0 7 Salem, OR USA

• Oregon State University - Educational Tours 5 Corvallis, OR USA USDOE Albany Research Center 1 10 0 3 Albany, OR USA

• West Albany High School 1 0 0 1 Albany, OR USA Amrhein Associates, Inc 0 1 0 Ashland, OR USA City of Gresham 1 0 0 0 66 0 Gresham, OR USA ESCO Corporation 1 0 0 5 Portland, OR USA Federal Aviation Administration Portland, OR USA Lebanon Community Hospital 1 0 0 1 Lebanon, OR USA

• Lincoln High School 1 0 Portland, OR USA Marquess & Associates Inc. 1 0 0 1 Medford, OR USA Nunhems USA, Inc.

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• Oregon Health Sciences University 2 1 0 12 0 Portland, OR USA Radiation Protection Services 1 0 0 37 0 Portland, OR USA

• Reed College 1 1 0 1 S Portland, OR USA 0 Rogue Community College 1 0 0 1 Grants Pass, OR USA

• Stayton High School 0 Stayton, OR USA 1 0 0 1 0 Tangent Construction 1 0 0 1 Tangent, OR USA 0 Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc 1 0 0 23 S Canby, OR USA.

0 *Thurston High School 1 1 0 1 0 Springfield, OR USA 0 US National Parks Service 1 0 0 4 Crater Lake, OR USA Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging &

0 Cytopathology 1 0 0 1 Clackamas, OR USA Weyerhaeuser 1 0 0 1 Sweet Home, OR USA

• Idaho State University 2 2 0 6 Pocatello, ID USA

• Berkeley Geochronology Center 0 Berkeley, CA USA 1 0 5 13 0 *Occidental College 1 1 0 1 0 Los Angeles, CA USA 0 *Stanford University 2 2 0 4 Stanford, CA USA

• University of California at Berkeley 1 2 1 2 Berkeley, CA USA

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• EaglePicher Technologies 0 0 2 0

Quapaw, OK USA 0

• University of Chicago 2 0 1 0 Chicago, IL USA 0

• University of Wisconsin 0 Madison, WI USA 0

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,na7 oýEanTh MIftb ai ufiM ApaffiiEc 00 gtpob Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Thermal column irradiations of apatite and zircon samples for fission track production to determine rock 321 Murphy University of Wyoming Fission Track Dating age. University of Wyoming Dating of natural rocks and minerals via fission track 335 Kowallis Brigham Young University Fission Track Dating methodology. National Science Foundation Ar-40/Ar-39 Dating of Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to measure radiomet- OSU Oceanography Depart-444 Duncan Oregon State University Oceanographic Samples ric ages on basaltic rocks from ocean basins. ment Oregon Health Sciences Oregon Health Sciences Uni-481 Le University Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. versity 488 Farmer Oregon State University Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. OSU - various departments US Environmental Protec-519 Martin tion Agency Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. USEPA-Corvallis US Environmental Protec- Survey Instrument Calibra-547 Boese tion Agency tion Instrument calibration. USEPA, Cincinnati, OH Good Samaritan Hospital 664 Reese Oregon State University Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. OSU Radiation Center Sterilization of Wood Sterilization of wood samples to 2.5 Mrads in Co-60 815 Morrell Oregon State University Samples irradiator for fungal evaluations. OSU Forest Products Berkeley Geochronology Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine ages in Berkeley Geochronology 920 Becker Center Ar-39/Ar-40 Age Dating various anthropologic and geologic materials. Center Ar-40/Ar-39 Dating of Irradiation of mineral grain samples for specified times Stanford University Geological 930 McWilliams Stanford University Geological Samples to allow Ar-40/Ar-39 dating. & Environmental Sci Thermal column irradiation of geological samples for Stanford University Geology 932 Dumitru Stanford University Fission Track Dating fission track age-dating. Department Calibration of Nuclear Occupational Health Labora-1018 Gashwiler Occupational Health Lab Instruments Instrument calibration. tory U.S. Army Engineer District, 1072 Markos Army Corps of Engineers Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. Portland.

40Ar-39 Ar Dating of 1074 Wijbrans Vrije Universiteit Rocks and Minerals 40Ar-39Ar dating of rocks and minerals. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

0 Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Activation Analysis Experiment for NE Class. Irradia-Teaching and University of California at Activation Analysis Experi- tion of small, stainless steel discs for use in a nuclear University of California at 1* 1075 Tours Berkeley ment for NE Class engineering radiation measurements laboratory. Berkeley 0

Fission Track Analysis of Use of thermal column irradiations to perform fission 1177 Garver Union College Rock Ages track analysis to determine rock ages. Union College, NY C-14 liquid scintillation counting of radiotracers pro-duced in a photoplankton study of southern Oregon Photoplankton Growth in lakes: Miller Lake, Lake of the Woods, Diamond Lake, 1188 Salinas Rogue Community College Southern Oregon Lakes and Waldo Lake. Rogue Community College Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine ages in Earth Sciences, University of 1191 Vasconcelos University of Queensland Ar-39/Ar-40 Age Dating various anthropologic and geologic materials. Queensland Snake River plain sanidine phenocrysts to evaluate volcanic stratigraphy; sandine and biotite phenocrysts from a late Miocene ash, Mallorca to more accurately Geochronology by Ar/Ar constrain stratigraphic horizon; hornblends and feld-1267 Hemming Columbia University Methods spar from the Amazon to assess climatic cha Columbia University Radiation Protection Radiological Instrument State of Oregon Radiation 1354 Wright Services Calibration Instrument calibration. Protection Services Determination of geological samples via Ar-Ar radio-1366 Quidelleur Universite Paris-Sud Ar-Ar Geochronology metric dating. Universite Paris-Sud Providence St. Vincent Sterilization of various Sterilization of various biological materials for St. Vin-1397 Teach Hospital biological materials cents Hospital, Portland Oregon Medical Laser Institute 1404 Riera-Lizarau Oregon State University Evaluation of wheat DNA Gamma irradiation of wheat seeds OSU Crop and Soil Science 1415 McGinness ESCO Corporation Calibration of Instruments Instrument calibration ESCO Corporation Petrology and geochemical evolution of the Damavand Department of Geological 1423 Turrin Rutgers 40Ar/39Ar Analysis trachyandesite volcano in Northern Iran. Sciences 1431 Patterson AVI Bio Pharma Instrument Calibrations Instrument calibration AVI Bio Pharma

Th~E~h W7OZOZ Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding USDOE Albany Research USDOE Albany Research 1464 Slavens Center Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. Center Ar-40/Ar-39 Dating of Irradiation of geological materials such as volcanic 1465 Singer University of Wisconsin Young Geologic Materials rocks from sea floor, etc. for Ar-40/Ar-39 dating. University of Wisconsin 1467 Kirner Kirner Consulting, Inc Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. Kirner Consulting University of California at University of California at 1468 Nitsche Berkeley Chemistry 146 Experiment NAA Laboratory experiment. Berkeley 1470 Bolken SIGA Technologies, Inc. Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. Siga Pharmaceuticals The integration of apatite fission-track ages and track Thermochronologic evi- length based model thermal histories, zircon fission-dence linking Adirondack track ages, and U-Th/He analyses to better define the Plattsburgh State Univer- and New England regions pattern of regional post-Early Cretaceous differential 1489 Roden-Tice sity Connecticut Valley Regions unroofing in northeastern New York's Plattsburgh State University Federal Aviation Adminis- Federal Aviation Administra-1492 Stiger tration Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration tion Teaching and Portland Community Col- Portland Community Col-1502 Tours lege lege Tours/Experiments OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Tours for guests, university functions, student recruit-1503 Tours Non-Educational Tours Non-Educational Tours ment. OSU Radiation Center a OSU Nuclear Engineering c Teaching and Oregon State University & Radiation Health Phys-m 1504 Tours - Educational Tours ics Department OSTR tour and reactor lab. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Oregon State University OSU Chemistry Depart-0 1505 Tours - Educational Tours ment OSTR tour, teaching labs, and/or half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Oregon State University OSU Geosciences Depart-1506 Tours - Educational Tours ment OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Oregon State University 1507 Tours - Educational Tours OSU Physics Department OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing

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• 0 Teaching and Oregon State University Adventures in Learning Half Life Demonstration; Eric Miller, Forensic Science 1508 Tours - Educational Tours Class Instructor. USDOE Reactor Sharing 0

Teaching and Oregon State University 1509 Tours - Educational Tours HAZMAT course tours First responder training tours. Oregon Office of Energy Science and Mathemat-Teaching and Oregon State University ics Investigative Learning 1510 Tours - Educational Tours Experience OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Reactor operation required for conduct of operations Teaching and Oregon State University testing, operator training, calibration runs, encapsula-1511 Tours - Educational Tours Reactor Staff Use tion tests and other. OSU Radiation Center Teaching and Linn Benton Community Linn Benton Community 1512 Tours College College Tours/Experiments OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Apatite Fission Track 1514 Sobel Universitat Potsdam Analysis Age determination of apatites by fission track analysis. Universitat Potsdam Fission track dating method on apatites: use of fission Fission Track Analysis of tracks from decay of U-238 and U-235 to determine 1519 Dunkl University of Goettingen Apatites the cooling age of apatites. University of Tuebingen Teaching and 1520 Tours Western Oregon University Western Oregon University OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing 1522 Wachs Oregon State University General Reactor Operation Reactor operation when no other project is involved. OSU Radiation Center Teaching and 1525 Tours Life Gate High School Life Gate High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing 1526 Crawford Hot Cell Services Instrument calibration Instrument calibration. Hot Cell Services Teaching and Oregon State University 1527 Tours - Educational Tours Odyssey Orientation Class OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Oregon State University 1528 Tours - Educational Tours Upward Bound OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Teaching and Oregon State University 1529 Tours - Educational Tours OSU Connect OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1530 Tours Newport School District Newport School District OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Central Oregon Commu- Central Oregon Commu-1531 Tours nity College nity College Engineering OSTR tour for Engineering USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1535 Tours Corvallis School District Corvallis School District OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Irradiation of samples for Introduction to Nuclear Nuclear Engi- Gamma Irradiations for Engineering and Radiation Health Physics courses 1536 neering Faculty Oregon State University NE/RHP 114/115/116 NE/RHP 114/115/116. OSU Radiation Center Teaching and Oregon State University 1537 Tours - Educational Tours Naval Science Department OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Oregon State University 1538 Tours - Educational Tours OSU Speech Department OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1540 Tours McKay High School McKay High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Oregon State University Engineering Sciences 1542 Tours - Educational Tours Classes OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Veterinary Diagnostic Im- Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging 0 1543 Bailey aging & Cytopathology Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. & Cytopathology C

Teaching and O° 1544 Tours West Albany High School West Albany High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing 0D Teaching and Oregon State University 1545 Tours - Educational Tours OSU Educational Tours OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Willamette Valley Willamette Valley Commu-1548 Tours Community School nity School OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing

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Irradiation to induce U-235 fission for fission track Mthermal "0 history dating, especially for hydrocarbon o Fission track thermochro- exploration. The main thrust is towards tectonics, in 1555 Fitzgerald Syracuse University nology particular the uplift and formation of mountain ranges. Syracuse University Measurement of neutron 1564 Krane Oregon State University capture cross sections Measurement of neutron capture cross sections. USDOE Reactor Sharing Irradiation of rocks and minerals for Ar/Ar dating to University of Nevada Las Ar/Ar dating of rocks and determine eruption ages, emplacement 1568 Spell Vegas minerals histories, and provenances studies. University of Nevada Las Vegas Teaching and 1583 Tours Neahkahnie High School Neahkahnie High School OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Reed College Staff &

1584 Tours Reed College Trainees OSTR tour for Reed College Staff& Trainees USDOE Reactor Sharing Nuclear irradiation of rock chips in cadmium-lined Ar-Ar dating of Icelandic irradiation facility for Ar-Ar dating studies of Icelandic 1592 Burgess University of Manchester rhyolites rhyolites. University of Manchester Teaching and 1594 Tours Jefferson High School Jefferson High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing 1601 Crutchley Josephine County Instrument Calibrations Instrument calibration. Josephine County Public Works Teaching and Thurston High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment for Chemistry 1603 Tours Thurston High School Chemistry Class USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1611 Tours Grants Pass High School Grants Pass High School OSTR tour.. USDOE Reactor Sharing 0 Determination of age of

• Eocene and Quaternary Determination of age of Eocene and Quaternary volca-1612 Singer University of Wisconsin volcanic rocks nic rocks by production of Ar-39 from K-39. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1613 Tours Silver Falls School District Silver Falls School District OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1614 Tours Marist High School Marist High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing

PiThTite i Fu Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Teaching and Liberty Christian High Liberty Christian High 1615 Tours School School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing 1616 Doyle Evanite Fiber Corporation Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration. Evanite Fiber Corporation 1617 Spikings University of Geneva Ar-Ar geochronology Argon dating of Chilean granites. University of Geneva Teaching and 1618 Tours Falls City High School Fall City High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1619 Tours Sheridan High School Sheridan High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1620 Tours Eddyville High School Eddyville High School OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Irradiation for Ar/Ar 1621 Foster University of Florida Analysis Ar/Ar analysis of geological samples. University of Florida Flux Measurements of Measurement of neutron flux in various irradiation 1622 Reese Oregon State University OSTR facilities. OSU Radiation Center University of Southern Cali-1623 Blythe Occidental College Fission Track Analysis Fission track Thermochronology of Tibetian Geology fornia California State University Measurement of fission track ages to determine erosion 1625 Armstrong at Fullerton Fission Track Irradiations amounts and timing. USDOE Reactor Sharing The primary project is the use of tracks to study the leaching out of imbedded radionuclides from alpha-0 activity in materials. The radionuclide could be a C decay product of U-238 or Th-232 in studying the 1627 Fleischer Union College Fission Track Irradiations geochemistry of natural materials, or of Rn-222 in USDOE Reactor Sharing 0.

1628 Garver Union College Fission Track Irradiations Use of fission track to determine age dating of apatites. USDOE Reactor Sharing P+

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REE Geochemistry of George Washington Uni- Meta-Igneous Rocks using NAA of apatite samples to determine metal composi-1634 Tollo versity INAA (TBC) tion in ingneous rocks. USDOE Reactor Sharing University of California at Age dating of Neogene Age dating of rock samples from Sierra Nevada, So-1640 Gans Santa Barbara volcanism nora, Mexico, and Chilean Andes USDOE Reactor Sharing

(D Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Independent Study of o, 1641 Hughes Idaho State University NAA Development of NAA for Thesis Research USDOE Reactor Sharing 0

Fission-track Dating of Fission-track Dating of Zircon from the Exhumation 1648 Stewart University of Washington Zircon of Avaloatz Mountians in California University of Washington Teaching and Madison High School 1653 Tours Madison High School Senior Science Class OSTR tour for Senior Science Class USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1655 Tours Future Farmers of America OSTR Tour OSTR tour USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1657 Tours Richland High School Richland High School OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Isotope and Container 1660 Reese Oregon State University Testing Testing of containers and source material OSU Radiation Center Teaching and Douglas High School AP 1666 Tours Douglas High School Physics Class OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1670 Tours Toledo High School Toledo High School OSTR tour and half-life experiment. USDOE Reactor Sharing Plattsburgh State Univer- Use of fission tracks to determine location of U-235 1671 Roden-Tice sity Fission Track Dating and Th232 in natural rocks and minerals USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and Heal College Physics De-1673 Tours Heal College partment OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing Radiological emergency support ot OOE related to ins-trument calibration, radiological and RAM transport Oregon Department of Radiological Emergency consulting, and maintenance of radiological analysis 1674 Niles Energy Support laboratory at the Radiation Center. Oregon Department of Energy Au labelled antibodies are used use in cancer studies.

NAA tracks the presence of the antibodies in various 1676 Minc Oregon State University NAA of labelled antibodies organs. University of Michigan Use of fission track from U-235 to determine uranium 1677 Zuffa Universita' di Bologna Fission Track Dating content in rock Universita' di Bologna Low-temperature geochronology using He and fission 1680 Danisik Unversity of Tubingen Fission Track Dating track dating. University of Tuebingen

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Teaching and Nuclear Engineering Puls-1683 Tours Idaho State University ing Lab Reactor Pulsing laboratory for ISU NE students. USDOE Reactor Sharing North Carolina State Uni-1684 Fodor versity Geochemical Investigation NAA to determine rare earth composition. USDOE Reactor Sharing Production of haploid and Irradiated melon pollen will be used to polliate female dihaploid melon plants melon plants to induce parthenogenetic embryos.

induced with irradiated These embryos will be rescued and cultured for plant 1686 Miller Nunhems USA, Inc. pollen production. Sunseeds Teaching and 1687 Tours Inavale Grade School Reactor Tour General reactor tour USDOE Reactor Sharing Northwest Construction Northwest Construction 1688 Moore Surveying & Testing Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Surveying & Testing Teaching and 1690 Tours Wilson High School Reactor Tour D300 Reactor Tour USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1691 Tours Lost River High School Reactor Tour D300 Reactor Tour USDOE Reactor Sharing This is to build up basic knowledge on the efficacy of a Screening Tests of Wood copper based preservative in preventing decay of wood 1692 Choi Arch Chemicals Inc. Decay inhabiting basidiomycetes. Arch Chemical Inc.

Teaching and 1695 Tours Transitional Learning Reactor Tour Reactor Tour in D300 only USDOE Reactor Sharing 0 1696 Sayer Marquess & Associates Inc. Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Marquess & Associates Inc.

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1697 Tours School School AP Physics Class Radiation Center staff USDOE Reactor Sharing n Teaching and Tour of NAA and gas chromatograph capabilities in 1699 Tours Philomath High School Reactor Tour the Radiation Center USDOE Reactor Sharing 1700 Frantz Reed College Instrument calibration Instrument calibration Reed College 00 Geochronology by Ar/Ar 00 1705 Hemming Columbia University Methods Geochronology by Ar/Ar methods USDOE Reactor Sharing 0*1000 4000 040 0 0 00000 0000 0* 0000*090 0 ***o***O

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Ar/Ar Chronology Analy- Statigraphy and Chronology of the Plio-Pleistocene 1707 Turrin Rutgers sis Ngoronogoro volcanic highland USDOE Reactor Sharing e-I Ar/Ar Chronology Analy- Preliminary analysis on refining the age of the Monon 1708 Turrin Rutgers sis Lake and Laschamp geomagnetic polarity events. USDOE Reactor Sharing Lebanon Community 1714 Hospital Instrument Calibration Lebanon Community Hospital Providence St. Vincent Irradiate elastin coated cardio stent devices to reduce 1715 Teach Hospital Stent Project thrombic reaction. Providence NW Hospital 1717 Webb Syracuse University Ar/Ar Dating Ar/Ar Dating Syracuse University Teaching and Portland Community Col-1719 Tours lege Upward Bound OSTR Tour for Upward Bound USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1720 Tours Saturday Academy OSTR Tour OSTR Tour USDOE Reactor Sharing The petrologic relationships between granitoids and Petrologic Evolution of gneisses of the Mesoproterozoic Basement in the Blue Mesoproterozoic Basement Ridge Province, Virginia are contrained through trace George Washington Uni- Rocks, Blue Ridge Province,element geochemistry, petrology and detailed field stud-1722 Tollo versity Virginia ies. USDOE Reactor Sharing 1724 Stebbins-Boaz Willamette University Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Willamette University Consequences of AhR- The basic goal of this project is to understand the cel-mediated signaling in T lulr and molecular basis for the immune suppression OSU Environmental and Mo-1725 Kerkvliet Oregon State University lymphocytes. induced by Ah receptor (AhR) ligands. lecular Toxicology Teaching and Oregon State University Academic Learning Ser-1726 Tours - Educational Tours vices Cohort Class 199 USDOE Reactor Sharing Study of interactions of the onshore and offshore parts Geological Survey of Nor- of the Norwegian continental margin near Lofoten and 1729 Hendriks way Recycling of an Orogen Vesteralen Islands Geological Survey of Norway Neutron Radiography using the real-time and film 1730 Reese Oregon State University Neutron Radiography imaging methods OSU Radiation Center

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding INAA to determine inter-lab calibration based on New 1735 Minc Oregon State University INAA of SRMs Ohio Red Clay and NIST SRMs. OSU Radiation Center Determination of the effect of radiation damage on 1736 Rauch Nu-Trek, Inc GaAs Damage Studies GaAs for use in X-ray detectors Nu-Trek, Inc.

Oregon Health Sciences Silver Activation for Radio- Oregon Health Sciences Uni-1737 Roullet University label Production of Ag-il0m for Radiolabeled Molecules versity INAA of geological Geochemical analysis of rock and mineral samples for 1738 Kilinc University of Cincinnati samples. graduate student projects. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1739 Tours Daly Middle School Reactor Tour Reactor Tour USDOE Reactor Sharing Determination of neutron response for SIRAD dosim-1741 Higley Oregon State University SIRAD Evaluation eter. OSU NERHP Eastern Michigan Univer- INAA of Bricks and Clays INAA of bricks and clays from historic St. Marys City, 1742 Armitage sity from St. Marys City MD. USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1743 Tours West Salem High School Reactor Tour Reactor Tour USDOE Reactor Sharing Use of gamma spectroscopy to determine radioactive Oregon Department of Gamma Spectroscopy of contaminants in the sediments in the Columbia River 1744 Niles Energy Columbia River Sediments downstream from Hanford Oregon Department of Energy 1745 Girdner US National Parks Service C14 Measurements LSC analysis of samples for C14 measurements. US National Parks Service 0

1746 Loveland Oregon State University Tantalum Tracer Produce tantalum tracer for LBNL USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and East Linn Christian Acad-

0) 1747 Tours emy Reactor Tour Reactor Tour for Chemistry Class USDOE Reactor Sharing m.

0 Black Bean Nutritional Activation of black bean powder for nutritional study.

(D 1748 Hamby Oregon State University Study The chief isotopes are zinc, iron, and sodium. OSU Radiation Center

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

0 Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding "14 The Environmental Radiotracers (ERT) Project em-ploys natural and artificial radionuclides to identify and 0

model important particle transport processes in diverse Great Lakes Environmental INAA of Great Lakes systems including the Laurentian and other Great 1750 Robbins Research Lab Sediments Lakes, smaller freshwater bodies, wetlands a NOAA-GLERL OSU Chemistry Loveland 1751 Loveland Oregon State University Tracer Preparation Tracer preparation for chemistry. DOE INAA of organic-based pigment samples for halogen 1753 Rosencrans Flink Ink INAA of pigment samples (Cl, Br, I) content. Flint Ink The goal of this study is to determine how zinc defi-Prostate Cell Zinc Defi- ciency modulates the ability of normal healthy cells to 1757 Ho Oregon State University ciency Study respond to DNA damage. OSU HHS Teaching and Oregon State University 1758 Tours - Educational Tours Kids Spirit OSTR tour USDOE Reactor Sharing 1760 Helmhotz NWT Corp. Na Production Production of Na-24 for use as an tracer. NWT Corp Suppression of Prostate One new area in both prevention and treatment in-Cancer in Xenograft Model volves the use of histone deacetylate inhibitors to turn by Histone Deacetylase on tumor suppressor genes. Tumor suppression genes 1761 Ho Oregon State University Inhibitors can supress and reverse cancer cell growth. OSU HHS Column studies to look at Sr-90 sorption in Hanford 1762 Day CH2M Hill Inc Sr-90 Column Studies soils. CH2M Hill Academy of Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the 1763 Svojtka Czech Republic Fission Track Fission Track Czech Republic 0 The goal of this project is the development of radioav-Nanoparticle delivery of tive nanoparticles with surfacefuctionalization that will 0 1764 Kelly Oregon State University therapeutic tumor radiation result in localization at tumor sites. OSU Radiation Center 0

1765 Beaver Weyerhaeuser Instrument Calibration Calibration of radiological instruments. Weyerhaeuser Foster

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Universite de Lausanne, Hu-1766 Cosca Universite de Lausanne Ar/Ar Geochronology mense Genera Modifications using Use of gamma and fast neutron irradiations for genetic 1767 Korlipara Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc. gamma Irradiation studies in genera. Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.

Antimony Source Produc-1768 Bringman Brush-Wellman tion Production of Sb-124 sources Brush-Wellman OSU Radiation Center, Paule-1769 Paulenova Oregon State University Cerium Study Production of Ce-141/143. nova Analyze lab swipes for contamination using liquid 1770 Iverson AVI Bio Pharma, Inc. Lab Swipes scintillation counter. AVI Bio Pharma 1771 Otjen Oregon State Fire Marshal Instrument calibration Calibration of radiological response kits Oregon State Fire Marshall Impurities of Boro-Silicate INAA to determine trace impurities of Boro-silicate 1773 Utley EaglePicher Technologies Matrix matrix Eagle Picher Technologies Age dating of meteorites using the Ar/Ar dating 1774 Cohen University of New Mexico method University of New Mexico Advanced Cochlear Sys- Working under a grant proposing to correct old-age 1775 Carson tems Presbycusis Implant hearing loss from Strial Presbycusis with an implant. Advanced Cochlear Systems SIGA Technologies is attempting to develop a safe, effective subunit vaccine delivery system using the bac-terial commensal vector Streptococcus gordonii. The O Development of S. gordonii proposed studies will examine the immune response C 1776 Hruby SIGA Technologies, Inc. as a vaccine vector after vaccination of mice with the bacterial v SIGA Technologies, Inc.

Quaternary Dating Labora- Production of Ar-39 from K-39 to determine radio-1777 Storey tory Quaternary Dating metric ages of geological materials. Quaternary Dating Laboratory This project subjects chitosan polymer in 40 and 70%

DDA formulations to 9 and 18 Kgy, boundary doses for commerical sterilization for the purpose of deter-Gamma Exposure of Chi- mine changes in the molecular weight and product 1778 Campbell Genis, Inc. tosan polymer formulation properites. Genis, Inc.

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Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding Teaching and 1779 Tours Lebanon High School Teaching and tours OSTR tour. USDOE Reactor Sharing INAA of Archaeological INAA of Inca-period archaeological ceramics from 0o4 1780 Bray Wayne State University Ceramics South America. USDOE Reactor Sharing Roswell Park Cancer INAA of Au nanocompos- INAA to determine biodistribution Au nanocompos- Department of Defense, Ro-1781 Balogh Institute ites. ites in mouse tissue samples. swell Park Cancer Institu Effects of gamma radiation on the germination and Determine the effects of different doses of gamma 1782 Rajagopal Oregon State University growth of radish seeds radiation on radish seeds. OSU Radiation Center 1783 Amrhein Amrhein Associates, Inc Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Amrhein Associates, Inc.

DOE Instrumentation 1784 Reese Oregon State University Grant Refurbishment of Cornell and OSTR ion chambers DOE Instrumentation Teaching and Oregon State University 1786 Tours - Educational Tours Anthropology Department Anth 430/530 NAA class with Minc USDOE Reactor Sharing INAA of hydrothermal Trace-element analysis of marine core samples from the 1788 Gleason University of Michigan sediments. South Pacific. University of Michigan Irradiation of pressure ves- Fast neutron CLICIT irradiation of steel samples and 1789 Was University of Michigan sel steels. sample analysis DOE University Reactor Share Teaching and Oregon State University 1790 Tours - Educational Tours OSTR Tour Teaching and Oregon State University 1791 Tours - Educational Tours RX Tour Determination of neutron radiography imaging capa-Neutron Radiography of bility on saturated and unsaturated fluid flow in various 1792 Dragila Oregon State University Fluid Flow in Sand sands using sodium as a tracer USDOE Reactor Sharing 1793 Widow Valero Refining Company INAA of Crude Oil Valero Refining Co.

1794 O'Kain Tangent Construction Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Tangent Construction

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 1795 Zubek Eugene Sand & Gravel, Inc Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration 1796 Hardy CH2M Hill Inc Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration Teaching and Oregon State University 1797 Tours - Educational Tours RX Tour Neutron Radiography of Use of neutron radiography to look at joints in compos-1798 Muszyfiski Oregon State University Wood Products ite wood samples. USDOE Reactor Sharing Oregon Department of Oregon Department of Enviro-1799 Haigh Environmental Quality Instrument Calibration Instrument calibration mental Quality Sediment Characteristics Characterization of soil chemistry using INAA to de-and Aquatic Macrophyte termine how sediment characteristics affect the distri- US DOE University Reactor 1800 Montante Wayne State University Distribution bution of aquatic macrophytes. Share Sterilize seawater for use as a culturing media. Inac-tivate bacteria and viruses without cooking dissolved OSU Microbiology Depart-1801 Giovannoni Oregon State University Seawater Sterilization organic carbon, ment To characterize for the purposes of modelling irradi-Characterization of Irradi- ated microwave circuits consisting of HEMT elements.

ated High-Electron Mobil- Substrates are placed in a reactor for neutron bombar-ity Transistor (HEMT) ment. Post irradiated measurements are compared to 1802 Settaluri Oregon State University based microwave circuits preirradiated performance to changes. USDOE Reactor Sharing Determination of Aztec pottery provenance using 0 1803 Valdos Tulane University INAA of Aztec Pottery trace-element data generated by INAA. USDOE Reactor Sharing C

INAA of 19th century Trace-element analysis of 19th century European 0I 1804 Hale Oregon State University European ceramics, ceramics using INAA. USDOE Reactor Sharing M INAA to characterize obsidian sources in Armenia and

iD INAA of Armenian obsid- determine provenance of Early Bronze age obsidian 1805 Cherry Brown University ian artifacts. Brown University INAA of Oaxacan Ceram- Trace-element analysis of archaeological ceramics from 1807 Minc Oregon State University ics the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico to determine provenance. OSU Radiation Center, Minc

0~ DAM (W M~ ~ Mutký ýmfa Rnjc Epagfýi (I f n Fbundin Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding INAA to characterize obsidian sources in Armenia and INAA of Armenian obsid- determine provenance of Early Bronze age obsidian 1808 Cherry Brown University ian artifacts. US DOE Reactor Share Evaluation of gold nanopar- INAA of gold concentration in zebrafish embryos to 1809 Harper Oregon State University tide uptake evaluate nanoparticle uptake. US DOE Reactor Share INAA of Bronze Age Ce- INAA of archaeological ceramics to determine prov-1810 Smith University of Chicago ramics from Armenia enance. University of Chicago INAA of Bronze Age Ob- INAA of archaeological obsidian to determine prov-1811 Smith University of Chicago sidian from Armenia enance. University of Chicago This project involves development of medical device material. To that end, placement of the material into living tissue is the goal, which necessitates having a ster-Entron Material Develop- ile material. The literature indicates that other forms of 1812 Bird Oregon State University ment sterilization are likeley to Entek Manufacturing Pre-proposal irradiations of cretaceus tektite, geochro-1813 Turrin Rutgers Ar/Ar Cretaceus Tektite nology studies student research US DOE Reactor Share Trace-element analysis of Aztec pottery to determine 1814 Minc Oregon State University INAA of Aztec Pottery provenance. US DOE Reactor Share Proof of Concept for Beta/Gamma Coincindent Cobalt source for simultaneous beta/gamma spectros-1815 Hamby Oregon State University Counting copy OSU NERHP, Hamby

• Geologisch-Palaontolo- Geologisch-Palaontologisches 1816 Kounov gisches Institut Fission Track Analysis Geochronology analysis using fission track dating Institut 1817 Costigan City of Gresham Instrument Calibration Calibration of instruments City of Gresham Antimony source produc-

• 1818 Sabey. Brush Wellman tion (Utah) Brush-Wellman University of California at University of California at 1819 Vetter Berkeley NE-104A INAA source Stainless Steel disk source for INAA lab. Berkeley

Project Users Organization Name Project Title Description Funding 1820 Jolivet Universite Montpellier II Fission Track Analysis Use of fission track analysis for geochronology. University of Montpellier II Utilization of neutron radiography to analyze two- Oregon State University -

1821 Reese Oregon State University Two Phase Flow Imaging phase flow characteristics WNSA Measurement of reactor parameters in support of con- Oregon State University -

1822 Hartman Oregon State University Reactor Measurement version from HEU to LEU fuel HEU to LEU Conversion Evaluation of Au nanopar- INAA of gold concentrations in zebrafish embryos to OSU Environmental Health 1823 Harper Oregon State University tide uptake evaluate nanoparticle uptake Sciences Center Low temperature thermochronology is being used to answer questions relating in general to tectonics and basin analysis. The current project covers studies in Madagascar, southern India, Sri Lanka where they are Geologisches Institut, ETH 1824 Seward Geologisches Institut Fission Track Analysis trying to understand what happened to the Zentrum Trace-element analysis to determine provenance of 1825 Peterson Oregon State University INAA of Oregon pottery historic Oregon pottery.

Teaching and 1826 Tours North Eugene High School OSTR Tour and half-life experiment USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1827 Tours Stayton High School OSTR Tour and half-life experiment USDOE Reactor Sharing Teaching and 1828 Tours Lincoln High School OSTR Tour and half-life experiment USDOE Reactor Sharing RADFET dosimeter cali- RADFET dosimeter calibration and testing using 0 1829 Rauch Nu-Trek, Inc bration and testing gamma and neutron sources. Nu-Trek, Inc.

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8/1/2006 29 Chemistry 222 0 8/4/2006 3 IPommier, Regis 0 8/8/2006 2 Toler, Mary & Stiles, Dennis 0 8/9/2006 2 AREVA S 8/9/2006 1 Bretthaeur, Todd - Department of Defense 0 8/15/2006 12 School Teachers 0

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M.H., 2006, Tectonics, climate, and landscape evolution of the southern Central Andes.:

The Argentine Puna Plateau and adjacent Regions between 22 and 280 S lat: in Oncken, 0.,

Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P., Go~tze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., and Wigger, P., editors, The Andes - Active Subduction Orogeny: Frontiers in Earth Sciences, v. 1, Springer Verlag, p.

265-283.

Ambrose S.H., Bell, C.J., Bernor, R.L., Boisserie,J.R., Darwent, C.M., DeGusta, D., Deino, A.,

Garcia, N., Haile-Selassie, Y., Head,J.J., Howell, F.C., Kyule, M.D., Manthi, F.K., Mathu, E.M., Nyamai, C.M., Pickford, M., Saegusa, H., Stidham, T.A., Williams, M.A.J., Hlusko, L.J., 2007, The paleoecology and paleogeographic context of Lemudong'o Locality 1, a late Miocene terrestrial fossil site in southern Kenya: Kirtlandia 56: in press.

Beardsley, A.G., Sisson, V.B., Ave Lallemant, H.G., and Roden-Tice, M.K. Shallow Level Exhu-mation History of the Leeward Antilles, Offshore Venezuela. Submitted to The Geological Society of America Bulletin, 4/07.

Blisniuk, P.M., Stern, L.A., Chamberlain, C.P., Zeitler, P.Z., Ramos, V.A., Haschke, M., Sobel, E.R., Strecker, M.R. and Warkus, F., 2006, Links between mountain uplift, climate, and sur-face processes in the southern Patagonian Andes,, in Oncken, 0., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese,0 P., G~itze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., and Wigger, P., editors, The Andes - Active Subduc-tion Orogeny: Frontiers in Earth Sciences, v. 1, Springer Verlag, p. 429-440.

Blondes, M.S., Reiners, P.W., Ducea, M.N., Singer, B., ChesleyJ.. Temporal-compositonal trends over short and long time-scales in basalts of the Big Pine Volcanic Field, CA. Earth and Plan-etary Science Letters (in press).

Burbank, D.W., Brewer, I.D., Sobel, E.R., and Bullen, M.E., in press, Single-crystal dating and the detrital record of orogenesis: International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publi-0 cation.0 Carmichael, I.S.E., Lange, R.A., Hall, C.M., Renne, P.R.. Faulted and tilted Pliocene Olivine-Tholeiite Lavas near Alturas, NE California, and their bearing on the uplift of the Warner0 Range: Geological Society of America Bulletin 118 (9/10): 1196-1211; doi: 10.1130/0 B25918.1.0 Carrapa, B., Strecker, M.R., and Sobel, E.R., 2006, Cenozoic orogenic growth in the Central0 Andes: Evidence from sediment provenance and apatite fission track thermochronology along the southernmost Puna Plateau margin (NW Argentina): Earth and Planetary Science Let-ters, v. 247, p.82-100.0 OISU Radiation Center 104

0 Casperson, R., Krane, K. S,. and. Norman, E. B.. Neutron Capture Cross Sections of 148Gd

• and the Decay of 149Gd, Rios, M. G., Phys. Rev. C 74,044302 (2006).

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Coutand, I., Carrapa, B., Deeken, A., Schmitt, A.K., Sobel, E.R., and Strecker, M.R., 2006, Propagation of orographic barriers along an active range front: insights from sandstone 0petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the intramontane

• Angastaco basin, NW Argentina: Basin Research, v. 18, p. 1-26, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00283.x.

• Craddock,J.P., Anziano,J., Wirth, K., Vervoort,J.D., Singer, B., Zhang, X. (2007) Structure, geochemistry and geochronology of a Penokean lamprophyre dike swarm, Archean Wawa terrane, Little Presque Isle, Michigan, USA, Precambrian Research, v. 157, p. 50-70.

• Crouzet, C., Dunkl, I., Paudel, L., Arkai, P., Rainer, T. M., Balogh, K. and Appel, E. (2007):

Temperature and age constraints on the metamorphism of the Tethyan Himalaya in Central Nepal: A multidisciplinary approach.Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 30, 113-130.

D'Addezio, G., Karner, D.B., Burrato, P., Insinga, D., Maschio, L., Ferranti, L., and Renne, P.R.,

Tephrochronology in faulted Middle Pleistocene tephra layer in the Val'Agri area (Southern

• Italy): Annals of Geophysics 49: 1029-1040.

Danigik, M., Kohtit, M., Dunkl, I. and Frisch, W, (2008 - in press): Cooling evolution of the Ziar 0Mts. (Inner Western Carpathians, Slovakia) constrained by fission track data. Geol. Carp.

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• of Corsica (France) in the light of fission track data. Tectonics, 26, TC1001.

Deeken, A., Sobel, E.R., Coutand, I., Haschke, M., Riller, U. and Strecker, M.R., 2006, Con-0struction of the southern Eastern Cordillera, NW-Argentina: from early Cretaceous exten-sion to middle Miocene shortening, constrained by AFT-thermochronometry, Tectonics, v.

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• Deino, A. L., KingstonJ., GlenJ. M., Edgar, R. K., Hill, A.. Precessional forcing of lacustrine sedimentation in the late Cenozoic Chemeron Basin, Central Kenya Rift, and calibration of the Gauss/Matuyama boundary: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 247:41-60.

0 Deino, A.L. Ambrose, S.H., 2007, 4OAr/39Ar dating of the Lemudong'o late Miocene fossil as-semblages, southern Kenya Rift: Kirtlandia 56: in press.

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• 1 recorded 2.51 Ma in the Koolau Volcano at Halawa, Oahu, Hawaii, USA: Paleomagnetic and 40Ar/39Ar evidence, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, v. 254, p. 256-271.

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0 Medaris, L.G.Jr., Van Schmus W.R., Loofboroc,J., Zhang, X., Holm, D.K., Singer, B.S., and Dott, R.H.Jr. (2007) Two Paleoproterozoic (Statherian) Siliciclastic Metasedimentary Sequences in Central Wisconsin: The End of the Penokean Orogeny and Cratonic Stabilization of the Southern Lake Superior Region. Precambrian Research, v. 157, p. 188-202.

Mertz, D.F., Renne, P.R., Wuttke, M., Modden, C., 2007, A numerically calibrated reference level (MP28) for the terrestrial mammal-based biozonation of the European Upper Oligocene:

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Mortimer, E., Carrapa, B., Coutand, I., Schoenbohm, L., Sobel, E.R., Sosa GomezJ., and Strecker, M.R., 2007, Fragmentation of a foreland basin in response to out-of-sequence basement uplifts and structural reactivation: El Caj6n-Campo del Arenal basin, NW Argentina: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119, p. 637-65.

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• Mulcahy, S.R., Roeske, S.M., McClelland, W.C., Nomade, S., and Renne, P.R., 2007, Cambrian initiation of the Las Pirquitas thrust of the western Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Implica-tions for the tectonic evolution of the proto-Andean margin of South America: Geology 35:

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0Nomade,S., Knight, K.B., Beutel, E., Renne, P.R., Virati, C., Firaud, G., Marzoli, A., Youbi, N.,

• and Bertrand, H., 2007, Chronology of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: Implications for the Central Atlantic rifting processes and the Triassic-Jurassic biotic crisis: Palaeogeogra-phy, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 244: 326-344.

• Palfyj., Mundil, R., Renne, P.R., Bernor, R.L., Kordos, L., and Gasparik, M., 2007, U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Miocene fossil track site at Ipolytarn6c (Hungary) and its implica-tions: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 258: 160-174. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.029 0

Parra, M., Mora, A.,Jaramillo, C., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E.R., Quiroz, L.I., Rueda, M., and Tor-res, V., in review, Orogenic lateral growth in the northern Andes: evidence from the Oligo-SMiocene sedimentary record of the Medina Basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia: Geological

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• chronology: Emerging Opportunities (T.D. Olszewski, Ed.), Paleontology Society Papers 12:

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• Ritts, B.D., Yue, Y.J., Graham, S.A., Sobel., E.R.. Abbinjk, 0., and Stockli, D., in review, From

• sea level to high elevation in 15 Million Years: Uplift history of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin in the Altun Shan, submitted to American Journal of Science.

Rosset, A., De Min, A., Marques, L.S., Macambira, M.J.B., Ernesto, M., Renne, P.R., and Picciril-1o, F.M., 2007, Genesis and geodynamic significance of Mesoproterozoic and Early Cretaceous 0 tholeiitic dike swarms from the Sio Francisco craton (Brazil):Journal of South American 0Earth Sciences, in press.

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0 Simon, J.l, Renne, P.R., Mundil, R., Implications of pre-eruptive magmatic histories of zircons for U-Pb geochronology of silicic extrusions: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in review.

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• Eifel Volcanic Field: Mantle Control on the Non-Axial Dipole Field. Physics of the Earth and

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Sobel, E.R., ChenJ., and Heermance, R.V., 2006, Late Oligocene - Early Miocene initiation of shortening in the Southwestern Chinese Tian Shan: Implications for Neogene shortening rate variations: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 247, p. 70-81.

Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R.N., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B., Hilley, G.E., Sobel, E.R., and Trauth, M.H., 2007, Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes: Annu. Rev. Earth Planet.

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0 Thiede, R.C., Arrowsmith,J.R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M., Sobel, E.R., Strecker, M.R., 2006, Dome formation and extension in the Tethyan Himalaya, Leo Pargil, Northwest India: GSA Bulletin, v. 118, no. 5/6, p. 6 3 5 - 6 5 0, doi: 10.1130/B25872.1.

0 Thouret,J.-C., W6rner, G., Gunnell, Y., Singer, B., Zhang, X., Souriot, T. (2007) Geochronologic and stratigraphic constraints on canyon incision and Miocene uplift of the Central Andes in Peru, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, in press.

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Verdel, C., Wernicke, B.P., Ramezani, J., Hassanzadeh,J., Renne, P.R., and Spell, T.L., 2007, Geology and thermochronology of Tertiary Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complexes in the Saghand region of central Iran: Geological Society of America Bulletin 119:961-977. doi:

10.1130/B26102.1 Vogel, N., Nomade, S., Negash, A., and Renne, P.R., 2006, Forensic 40Ar/39Ar dating: A prove-nance study of Middle Stone Age obsidian tools from Ethiopia:Journal of Archeological Science 33: 1749-1765.

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• Vogel, N., Renne, P.R., 40Ar-39Ar dating of plagioclase grain size separates from silicate inclu-sions in JAB iron meteorites and implications for the thermochronological evolution of the IAB parent body: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, in review.

• WakabayashiJ. and Dumitru, T.A.. 40Ar/39Ar ages from coherent, high-pressure metamorphic rocks of the Franciscan Complex, California: Revisiting the timing of metamorphism of the world's type subduction complex, International Geological Review, accepted, in press.

West, D. P.,Jr., Roden-Tice, M.K., PotterJ.K., and Barnard N. Accessing the Role of Orogen-Par-allel Faulting in Post-Orogenic Exhumation: Low-Temperature Thermochronology across the 0 Norumbega Fault System, Maine. Submitted to the CanadianJournal of Earth Sciences, 7/07.

• Altamira, A., Burke, K.,. Copeland, P., Foster, D.A. 2006, New 40Ar/39Ar ages support the dominant right-lateral transform motion within the CARIP-SOAM PBZ since Middle Eocene: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 11-15 December, San Francisco T43D-1673.

• Baldwin S.L. and P.G. Fitzgerald, "Using thermochronology to determine the timing and rates of tec-tonic processes'; 16th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, (2006).

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• Baldwin S.L., L.E. Webb, T.A. Little, P.G. Fitzgerald and B. Monteleone, "Bridging the scales to in-vestigate mechanisms of HP/UHP exhumation in the active Woodlark rift, Papua New Guinea"

• Conference on Subduction zone dynamics -- bridging the scales. Germany. (2007).

0 Baldwin S.L., Webb, L.E., Monteleone, B., Little, T.A., Fitzgerald, P.G., Peters, K. andJ.L. Chappell, "Continental Crust Subduction and Exhumation: insights from eastern Papua New Guinea", Geo-

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Baldwin, S.L., Monteleone, B.D., Little, T.A., Webb, L.E., and Fitzgerald, P.G.,"Subduction to rifting 0evolution of the Australian-Woodlark plate boundary zone of eastern Papua New Guinea: insights

• into the 4-D nature of continental subduction and exhumation processes', Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, p. 274, vol. 38( 7), (2006).

• Beardsley, A.G., Ave Lallemant, H.G., and Roden-Tice, M.K. (2006). Shallow Level Exhumation His-tory of the Leeward Antilles, Offshore Venezuela: Evidence from Fluid Inclusion Analysis. Geolog-0ical Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p. 209. National Meeting of the Geological

• Society of America, October 22-25, 2006, Philadelphia, PA.

Brownlee, S.J., Renne, P.R., and Hollister, L.S., 2006, Comparison of Paleomagnetic and 40Ar/39Ar results from two plutons near Prince Rupert, British Columbia: Eos Transactions American Geo-

• physical Union, 87(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V21A-0563.

• Chang, S., Mundil, R., and Renne, P.R., 2006, U/Pb and Ar/Ar Dating of Latest Permian Magnetic Polarity Reversals in the Ochoan of western Texas: Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union,

• 87(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V21A-0565.

• Deeken, A., Sobel, E.R., Coutand, I., Haschke, M., Riller, U., and Strecker, M.R., 2006, Construction of the southern Eastern Cordillera, NW-Argentina: from early Cretaceous extension to middle Mio-cene shortening, constrained by apatite fission track thermochronometry, in Ventura, B., and Lisker, 0F., eds., European Conference on thermochronology, Volume 49: Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Geowissenschaften: Bremen, p. 31.

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Dumitru, T. A., Wright, J. E., Wakabayashi, J., and Wooden, J. L., 2006, Geochronology of the Franciscan Eastern Belt in the Yolla Bolly area, northern California, and the nature of the South Fork Mountain Schist [abs.]: EOS (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 87, no. 52 (fall meeting supple-ment), abstract no. T 11D-0469.

Escobar Wolf, R.P., Singer, B.S., Diehl,J.F., Rose, WI., Zhang, X. (2006) Long-term evolution of Volcin de Santa Maria, Guatemala from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, paleomagentic stratigraphy, and geo-chemistry, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall meet. Suppl., abstract V11A-0554.

Feraud, G.,Jourdan, F., Bertrand, H., Watkeys, M., and Renne, P.R., 2006, Distinct brief major events in the Karoo large igneous province clarified by new 40Ar/39Ar ages on the Lesotho basalts: Eos Trans-actions American Geophysical Union, 87(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V21A-0561.

Foster, D., Gray, D., and Bierlein, F, 2007, Paleozoic continental growth, recycling, crustal structure, and metallogeny in the Lachlan Orogen, Eastern Australia: Ores and Orogenesis Symposium, Arizona Geological Society, September 24-30, Program with Abstracts, p. 100.

Foster, D.A., and Gray D.R., 2006, Strain rate in a turbidite fold-thrust belt in the southwestern Lachlan Orogen, Australia: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 22-25 October.

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Harper, S.L., B.L.S. Maddux,J.E. Hutchison and R.L. Tanguay. 2007. Biodistribution and toxicity of nanomaterials in vivo: effects of composition, size, surface functionalization and route of exposure.

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Harper, S.L., R.L. Tanguay and J.E. Hutchison. 2007. In vivo toxicity evaluations of gold nanoparticles:

proactively designing safer nanomaterials. Society of Toxicology.

Jarboe, N.A., Coe, R.S., Renne, P.R., and Glen,J.M., 2006, 4OAr/39Ar Ages of the Early Columbia River Basalt Group: Determining the Steens Mountain Geomagnetic Polarity Reversal (RO-NO) as the top of the C5Cr Chron and the Imnaha Normal (NO) as the C5Cn.3n Chron: Eos Transactions Ameri-can Geophysical Union, 87(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V51D-1702.

Jicha, B.R., Singer, B.S., Beard, B.L.,Johnson, C.M. (2006) Rapid magma ascent and the generation of 230Th excesses in the lower crust at Puyehue-Cord6n Caulle, Southern volcanic zone, Chile, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall meet. Suppl., abstract V51D-1514.

0 Jicha, B.R., Singer, B.S., Beard, B.L.,Johnson, C.M., Moreno Roa, H., Naranjo,J.A. (2007) U-Th iso-topes, rapid magma ascent, and MASH processes at Puyehue-Cord6n Caulle, Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile, State of the Arc (SOTA) 2007 meeting, Jan. 28-Feb. 2, Termas Puyehue, Chile.

Jicha, B.R., Singer, B.S.,Johnson, C.M., Beard, B.L., Hora,J.M. (2007) Shallow crystallization and deep magma storage: insights from U-Th and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, 17th annual Goldschmidt meet-ing, Cologne, Germany.

Jourdan, F and Renne, P.R., 2006, Age Calibration of the Fish Canyon Sanidine 40Ar/39Ar Dating Standard Using Primary K- Ar Standards: Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union, 87(52),

Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V21A-0560.

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• crystals: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70 (18): A299-A299 Suppl. S.

• Krane, K. S. Physics Colloquium, North Carolina State University, Nov. 2006. "Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Stable and Radioactive Nuclei;'

• Levine,J., Renne, P.R., and Muller, R.A., 2006, Solar Argon Recorded in Dated Lunar Impact Spher-

• ules: Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union, 87(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract

• SM43A-1471.

• Little, T.A., Monteleone, B. D., Baldwin, S.L., Fitzgerald, P.G., "Rapid Slip-Rate and Low Shear

• Strength of a High Finite-Slip Low-Angle Normal Fault: Normanby Island, Woodlark Rift, Papua New Guinea;, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, p. T53A-1572, vol. 87(52),

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0 Matzel,J., Mundil, R., Renne, P.R., and Paterson, S., 2006, Using 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology to 0 Track the Thermal Evolution of the Tuolumne Batholith, Sierra Nevada, CA: Eos Transactions

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0 Monteleone, B., S.L. Baldwin, L.E. Webb, P.G. Fitzgerald and T.A, Little, "Metamorphic core complex S formation in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, SE Papua New Guinea, Circum-Pacific Tectonics, Geo-

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