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2014 ANNUAL REPORT 23 The board includes a member from the United Kingdom. International participation on the board has always been very impor- tant Sackett said. In fact when the board was originally formed it included a member from Japan. Today Simon Pimblott professor of radiation chemistry at the University of Manchester in England serves on the SRB. Pimblotts presence is significant for two reasons. First it promotes a cooperative effort between the NSUF and the United Kingdoms newly founded National Nuclear User Facility NNUF. Secondly building a new nuclear test facility is a very expensive proposition. The United States government could pursue a truly robust nuclear power development program on its own but it is more cost-effective to leverage resources from national laboratories universities and international partners. At present Sackett said efforts to develop relationships with partners overseas are constrained by limited budgets on both sides but we all hope that funding increases from our respective governments are in the works because there is so much value in sharing our test facility capabilities. By the same token having represen- tatives from the private sector on the SRB not only provides valuable resources from a research point of view it also lends a pragmatic real-world perspective to the NSUFs work. For example one of the major concerns private industry has is that the research and work at the NSUF not only be relevant to commercial needs but that its done on budget and on schedule. In the nuclear science field the interests of private industry and academia are closely intertwined Klein said. For example one of the things our industry partner has stressed is balancing the costs and effectiveness of the technical support provided during experiments. One of the ways weve sought that balance is by optimizing our research processes on projects that begin at one facility and then must be moved to another when substantial demands on time exist at both facilities. The SRB has helped establish lines of communication through which industry or universities can say to the NSUFWe have a need. Can someone do a project on this OKelly said. So now you have university profes- sors working on problems private industry has identified that before no one at the national labs or universities knew were out there. Now we do. The SRB hopes that the NSUF can attract more members from the private sector as well as from the international community.This seeming expansion of the NSUFs mission has led to a subtle yet dramatic shift in how it presents itself. Whats in a name Everything. If you didnt notice it on the cover of this annual report the name of AdvancedTest Reactor National Scientific User Facility has been changed to the Nuclear Science User Facilities.As we said its not a major shift. Its hardly noticeable in fact. Perhaps more apparent is the logo. The graphic of the United States with circles emanating from the ATR NSUF in southern Idaho has been replaced by a world globe. Both the new name and new logo signify the logical transition from our original focus on the AdvancedTest Reactor to what we have grown into says Sackett pointing out that the reference to ATR has been removed. We are an extended family of facili- ties providing research and technical expertise to a broad spectrum of scientific needs that go beyond just the materials and fuels sciences but embrace other fields as well. The name change better represents the broadand growingset of capabilities available to researchers Klein said. Its a reflection of the value not only of the NSUF but the SRB itself OKelly said. Board members want the NSUF to achieve its highest poten- tial.They want it to grow to become significantly larger than it is today and to provide broad researcher access to the national nuclear research infra- structure but theyre not biased about how it gets there they want to do it right.And the new name shows that were heading in the right direction.