How to Gain Access to Premium Codes

RASCAL

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.

IMBA

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.

SNAP/RADTRAD

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.

For Current RAMP Members

If you are already a RAMP member and would like to access a premium code, but you don't see the option to download the code from its webpage, please take the following actions.

As a RAMP Member you are eligible to download any of our codes. However, we require all code names to be listed on NDAs approved by NRC staff before access is granted. Please download the NDA (NDA download link), fill it out, and submit it to NRC at RAMP [at] NRC.gov or you may update your previous NDA to include your code of interest and send it to RAMP [at] NRC.gov. Once your NDA has been received and reviewed, we will verify your intent to purchase this code. Then we will move forward with payment processing and code access.

Note, if you are a member of an Implementing Agreement via your organization, please request the code at RAMP [at] NRC.gov and cc your organization’s Point of Contact.

For Non-RAMP Members

If you are not yet a RAMP member, please follow application instructions below.

Only RAMP members with preapproved code access can download RAMP codes.

To apply for RAMP membership, you will need to register on our website and download the following non-disclosure agreement (NDA download link), review it entirely, fill it out according to the step-by-step instructions below, and email it to RAMP [at] NRC.gov If you do not complete your NDA in entirety, it will be returned.

Once your NDA has been received and reviewed, we will verify your intent to purchase this code. Then we will move forward with payment processing and registration.

Note, if you are a member of an Implementing Agreement via your organization, please request the code at RAMP [at] NRC.gov and cc your organization’s Point of Contact.

Non-Disclosure Agreement Instructions

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.