Nuclear Science User Facilities 42 COMBINED CRITERIA C1 Viability for the capability to extend our understanding toward accurately simulating nuclear irradiation conditions (neutrons or fission fragments) C2 Ability of the facility to provide a variety of ion irradiations (ion types, energies, multiple beams, etc.) C3 Ability of the facility to provide a variety of well-controlled target environments and conditions C4 Ability of the facility to collect and analyze properties of materials and/or perform microstructural characterization data on-site C5 Ability of the facility to collect and analyze properties of materials and/or perform microstructural characterization data in-situ C6 Current or potential productivity of the facility (e.g., fewer experiments but high-impact experiments or high volume sample throughput) C7 Unique capabilities of the facility, including any new technology that the capability has to close technological gaps C8 Ability of the facility to handle radioactive materials (structural materials and/or fuels) in the beams and elsewhere on-site C9 Ability of the facility to produce quality-level data that can support licensing as well as verification and validation of modeling and simulation C10 Ability of the facility to produce results that meet the needs of the DOE-Office of Nuclear Energy (including cross-cutting programs) and the nuclear energy industry Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory, University of Michigan