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2014 ANNUAL REPORT 7 FROMTHE NSUF DIRECTOR J. Rory Kennedy Director 208 526-5522 rory.kennedyinl.gov This marks my first annual report letter to you as director of the AdvancedTest Reactor National Scientific User Facility. It is also the last letter I will write to you as director of the AdvancedTest Reactor National Scientific User Facility ATR NSUF. Later this year the official name of the ATR NSUF will change to Nuclear Science User Facilities.This new designation more accurately reflects just how much the entire public-sector nuclear research effort in the United States has grown and matured.While our former name has served us well since the user facility was established in 2007 it referred to only the test reactor and its associated facilities at Idaho National Laboratory INL. Our new designation reflects what we are today a network of facilities throughout the United States that are available to researchers for the study and advancement of nuclear science and engineering. Today our 11 partner facilities including the Westinghouse Materials Center of Excellence our first member from the private sectorprovide their cutting-edge equipment and scientific expertise to researchers seeking to develop nuclear energy as a safe and reliable resource. the partner program to increase utilization efficiencies.We envision the sample library and capabilities database will become invaluable references for both NE and researchers in the future. These are all exciting endeavors intended to better support our users and advance nuclear research not only for the United States but the entire world.And while I will help lead the effort to fulfill them going forward the foundation for their implementa- tion has been laid by my predeces- sors Dr. Mitch Meyer Professor Todd Allen Professor JeffTerry and Frances Marshall who served as interim director during my transition.Their innovative thinking hard work and dedication to the job and to the ATR NSUF have enhanced the organization the partnership program and indeed the entire nuclear industry further than we could have anticipated. I am grateful to them and hope I can continue the impressive legacy they have established. Sincerely Dr. J. Rory Kennedy Director As exciting as our name change is and what it represents there are a number of other tasks the ATR NSUF has undertaken or will undertake either under our own initiative or at the behest of the U.S. Department of Energy DOE.They include project- forward funding in which an entire research project is funded at the time it is first approved consolidating our calls for proposals into the Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research CINR Funding Opportunity Announcement FOA which includes those of the Nuclear Energy University Programs NEUP and Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies NEET to give users the opportunity to apply for RD and NSUF no-cost access in one application opening project principal investiga- tors to others besides just university researchers including those from industry national laboratories and small businesses increasing our partner facilities interaction and promotion by simulcasting the Users Meeting to and from all the partner facilities as well as updating our conference and meeting exhibits continuing to enhance the sample library of irradiated materials and establishing a searchable database of all Nuclear Energy NE-accessible capabilities available to users through