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Nuclear Science User Facilities 20 Every year during the summer nine distinguished nuclear scientists and engineers each of them an expert in a particular field of nuclear science or education gather at the CAES in Idaho Falls Idaho. Together they comprise the Scientific Review Board SRB of what until recently was known as the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility ATR NSUF. Dr. John Sackett is a former associate laboratory director from Argonne National Laboratory. Now retired he acts as the SRBs chairman. The NSUF mission he says is to support the advancement of nuclear science and technology in the United States by providing nuclear energy researchers access to world-class testing facilities. The SRB is an advisory group that helps the NSUF fulfill that mission in the best way possible. The board brings together experts in customer service materials irradiation post-irradiation examina- tion and fuels who want to make the NSUF as useful to its users as possible explains Dr. Sean OKelly who until recently served as deputy director of the National Institute of Standards andTechnology NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR in Gaithersburg Maryland. SCIENTIFIC REVIEW BOARD A Guiding Hand for a Maturing Program OKelly is a good example of one of the experts he refers to.The NCNR has a users program that is considered one of the best in the world due to the reliability of its facility and the high-quality support it provides users. The users the ATR NSUF wants to attract he points out are similar to the users the NIST reactor provides its own services to so I can offer insights on whats been successful for us. As part of his duties in the NIST users program OKelly served as chief of reactor operations and engineering so he also brought a deep understanding of reactors and how they operate to the board. Basically I kept the NIST reactor operating efficiently for the users program which used the reactor as a source of neutrons for experiments.We maintained and operated the reactor at NIST 24 hours a day and the NCNR has a very good reputation for the reliability of operations and the predictability of schedule which users appreciate when they travel long distances to perform experiments. This past February OKelly accepted a position with INL as associate labora- tory director for the Advanced Test Reactor meaning he is no longer an outside expert so he has relinquished his seat on the board. Seans input