[ RadSafe ] RefL US Government Charging for Radiation Safety Software

[RuthWeiner at aol.com]

Re RSCC:  Apparently some universities have site licenses for MCNP.  I don't 
know how ithatworks.

Re NRC:  As with DOE, it's usually a contractor who develops the code 
(RADTRAN  was developed by Sandia originally for NRC, for example.  It is still 
maintained and developed at Sandia. but is now funded by DOE).  If the funding 
stops, development and maintenance stop also -- I have tried to get exeucutables 
of Los Alamos codes, only to be told that they aren't funded any more and so 
are not available.

This is really a problem of Congressional and Administration funding.  If 
Congress were convinced that continuing to maintain and develop certain software 
packages was a good thing, they might see to it.

Ruth