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Today, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency gave approval to commence neutron beam testing of KOOKABURRA, our new ultra-small-angle neutron scattering instrument.
Learn More...Following the return to service of OPAL's cold neutron source on 18th July, we are glad to announce that both PLATYPUS and QUOKKA are now running "friendly-user" experiments with cold neutrons again.
Learn More...Today, the Bragg Institute's most experienced mechanical designer, Alain Brule has "hung up his steel-capped boots" and retired from ANSTO.
Learn More...Today, we successfully performed the first dynamic vapour sorption experiment using our new system on the WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer.
Learn More...This week, the University of Warwick, in England, is celebrating the lives and contributions of William and Lawrence Bragg, via the "Two Bragg Exhibition - Illuminating a Century of Crystallography" and a general knowledge quiz.
Learn More...Today we performed the first dilution-refrigerator experiment in a neutron beam at OPAL: using our WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer.
Learn More...This week, we have started to glue the large array of perfect-silicon crystal wafers, which form the energy analysers for our new EMU backscattering spectrometer, to their spherical backing plates.
Learn More...This week, ANSTO is playing host to Dr. Yuntao Liu of the China Institute for Atomic Energy, which hosts the new 60-MW CARR Research Reactor.
Learn More...Today, we recorded the first neutron radiography image using the brand-new DINGO radiography/tomography/imaging station at the OPAL Research Reactor, of a traditional alarm clock.
Learn More...Please join us in congratulating Dehong Yu, who has been awarded a three-year guest professorship at Shandong University, in Jinan, China.
Learn More...Today our nuclear regulator, ARPANSA, gave approval to commence neutron beam testing of DINGO, our new neutron radiography/tomography/imaging station.
Learn More...A number of significant staff changes have recently occurred in the Institute: most significantly, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely joins us from the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne.
Learn More...Today, the first Laue diffraction image was taken on our JOEY Laue crystal-alignment station, from a single crystal of CeVO3.
Learn More...OPAL’s cold neutron source successfully returned to operation yesterday. With respect to the user program using cold neutrons, we will now operate in "friendly-user" mode for quite some time on our QUOKKA and PLATYPUS instruments.
Learn More...Australia is well represented at this week's International Conference on Neutron Scattering in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Learn More...ANSTO has secured the rights to host the 2014 International Workshop on Polarised Neutrons in Condensed Matter Investigations, in Sydney, between 15th and 18th September 2014.
Learn More...Today, OPAL's cold neutron source was warmed up, as a preventive measure, in order to investigate some issues with its cryogenic system.
Learn More...OPAL’s cold neutron source returned to operation on Thursday 27th June, and the reactor itself resumed full-power operations after a short routine shutdown yesterday.
Learn More...Today our nuclear regulator, ARPANSA, gave approval to commence neutron beam testing of JOEY, our new Laue alignment camera. When fully operational JOEY will not be available through the normal proposal system.
Learn More...Research performed using our WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer, on the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect in Pr0.5Y0.5Mn2Ge2 has been published in the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters.
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