Qualitative assessment of the value of the Ohio State University TRIGA reactor
Conference
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· Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA)
OSTI ID:6835915
The Oregon State University (OSU) TRIGA Reactor (OSTR) is a major regional research, training, and service facility. The OSTR supports a wide variety of organizations at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels. Examples of usage of the OSTR are given in this paper to serve as a basis for assessing the value of the OSTR to its user organizations. It is difficult to assess the value of a facility such as the OSTR quantitatively, primarily because a dollar value cannot be assigned to many of the services that the OSTR performs, e.g., forensic analysis to assist police agencies in criminal cases. Significant qualitative statements can be made, however, to demonstrate the fact that the value of a research reactor facility such as the OSTR substantially outweighs the capital and operating costs of such a facility. Analysis of the data presented above clearly indicates that the value of the OSTR facility is overwhelmingly positive, i.e., the benefits associated with the services provided by the OSTR facility outweigh the cost of providing such services by perhaps as much as an order of magnitude.
- OSTI ID:
- 6835915
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-891103--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA) Journal Volume: 60
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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