OSU Radiation Center Meets Campus-Wide Nuclear Science Needs

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OSU Radiation Center Meets Campus-Wide Nuclear Science Needs OREGON

STATE UNIVERSITY Radiation

^ Center is an example of an institutional facility for campus-wide research capability in nuclear science and engineering. This type of laboratory center has become necessary because of the sophisticated instruments and devices, high-level radiation sources, and nuclear reactor, all of which are too costly to justify for individual programs. The OSU Radiation Center, Corvallis, Ore., completed in early 1967, encompasses 28,000 square feet net usable space and was built with funds derived from the NSF, NIH, AEC, and State appropriation. Unique design features of the building include a ventilation system of the high-volume, onepass type with absolute filter accommodating individual fume hoods ; segregated sewer system to permit retention of high-level radioactive waste; utility shaft in between each set of two rows of laboratories, thereby permitting easy maintenance and variation of utility services; and movable laboratory benches to permit flexible use of space. Housed in the Center are such facilities

as a TRIGJA II research reactor (OSTR) licensed for 250 Kw steady state or 1200 Mw pulsing operation; AGN-201 training reactor licensed to operate at 0.1-watt level; a sub-critical assembly; a 3300-curie cobalt-60 source; a number of X-ray generators ranging from a 150 kVp pulsing Fexitron to a 300 kVp Maxitron; and a great variety of nuclear instruments for both instruction and research programs. A 14-MeV neutron generator will also be installed in the near future. Specialized laboratories include the neutron activation analysis laboratory, which is equipped with a 4096-channel analyzer (to be coupled directly to the CDC-3000 computer on the OSU campus), a 400-channel analyzer, and associated scintillation and semiconductor detectors including a 30-ml Ge(Li) detector ; the neutron radiography laboratory, which uses a ten-inch diameter thermal neutron beam with maximum angular divergence of ±0.1° and is equipped with gadolinia and track etching imaging devices and a film developing facility; and the neutron

Exterior view of Oregon State University Radiation Center 120 A

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