News, media & research

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. 

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.

Today, the Bragg Institute's most experienced mechanical designer, Alain Brule has "hung up his steel-capped boots" and retired from ANSTO.

Today, we successfully performed the first dynamic vapour sorption experiment using our new system on the WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer.

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. 

Today we performed the first dilution-refrigerator experiment in a neutron beam at OPAL: using our WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer. 

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. 

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. 

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.

Please join us in congratulating Dehong Yu, who has been awarded a three-year guest professorship at Shandong University, in Jinan, China.

Today our nuclear regulator, ARPANSA, gave approval to commence neutron beam testing of DINGO, our new neutron radiography/tomography/imaging station. 

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.

Today, the first Laue diffraction image was taken on our JOEY Laue crystal-alignment station, from a single crystal of CeVO₃. 

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. 

Australia is well represented at this week's International Conference on Neutron Scattering in Edinburgh, Scotland.  

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.  

Today, OPAL's cold neutron source was warmed up, as a preventive measure, in order to investigate some issues with its cryogenic system. 

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. 

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.

Research performed using our WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer, on the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect in Pr_0.5Y_0.5Mn₂Ge₂ has been published in the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters.