How to Gain Access to Premium Codes

If you are an employee of a private institution, government contractor, licensee, for-profit organization, or an official of a non-U.S. government organization: RASCAL costs $5,000 USD/year unless you purchase a full VIP membership plan at $30,000 USD/year. Please follow the instructions below to gain access.
If you are a student, university researcher, or U.S. (federal, state, or local) government employee: RASCAL is free. Please follow instructions below and skip the steps for payment.
If you are an employee of a private institution, government contractor, licensee, for-profit organization, or an official of a non-U.S. government organization: IMBA costs $5,000 USD. This purchase, handled by our IMBA contractor, allows your organization five user license keys, unless you purchase a full VIP membership plan at $30,000 USD/year. Please follow the instructions below to gain access.
If you are a student, university researcher, or U.S. (federal, state, or local) government employee: IMBA is free. Please follow instructions below and skip the payment steps.
RAMP only distributes IMBA Pro. RAMP does not distribute IMBA Plus or IMBA Lite.
If you are an employee of a private institution, government contractor, licensee, for-profit organization, or an official of a non-U.S. government organization: SNAP/RADTRAD costs $5,000 USD/year unless you purchase a full VIP membership plan at $30,000 USD/year. Please follow the instructions below to gain access.
If you are a student, university researcher, or U.S. (federal, state, or local) government employee: SNAP/RADTRAD is free. Please follow instructions below and skip the payment steps.
 

Download the NDA (NDA download link).

Enter the name (and acronym) of your institution on the first blank line.

On the second blank line, list all codes that you are interested in applying for. You may use the drop-down feature. You may list “All free codes” or “VIP – All RAMP codes” if you intend to use most or all codes. 

NDA Part 1: Code Selection and Organization Name

Make sure that your acronym populates all numbered conditions of the NDA.

For Condition 11, ensure that you click the appropriate radio button to accurately label your organization as either a foreign entity (Select yes) or a United States entity (Select no).

NDA part 2: Foreign Entity

 

You are required to digitally sign your name, or complete your NDA, print it, and sign it.

Make sure to complete all details regarding your name, title, and your citizenship.

NDA part 3: Signature

On the following page, you are required to report your email address and organizational information.

For the section, “Describe your planned use of the NRC Code…”

Please provide, in as much detail as you can, which code(s) you are primarily interested in, what type of research and analysis you would like to use these codes for, and any other codes or physical experiments/measurements that you intend to compare your results to. Thoroughness in this section will expedite application review for U.S. commercial institutions and all non-U.S. applicants to RAMP.

NDA part 4: Organization Details

If you are an NRC contractor, provide your contractor information on Page 3.

If your organization has multiple applicants, they may all fill out and sign individual code user sections on Pages 4 and 5. If you are applying for the first time, you do not need to fill out Page 6.

 

NDA part 5: Multiple Applicants

 

Once all of the above steps have been completed, rename your NDA by personalizing its current file name, “NDA_CODENAME_Request_DateMMDDYYYY_FirstName_LastName” and email it to RAMP [at] nrc.gov.