Research Hub
ANSTO's research capabilities, led by the OPAL nuclear research reactor and associated instruments provide access to users investigating areas as diverse as materials, life sciences, climate change and mining/engineering.
Centre for Accelerator Science
In addition to our two existing accelerators, STAR and ANTARES - both valuable pieces of infrastructure for identifying elements at the atomic level - ANSTO is building two new accelerators that will provide world-leading accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and ion beam analysis (IBA) facilities.
Learn more about our existing accelerators:
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| STAR accelerator | ANTARES accelerator |
STAR and ANTARES have been used to solve historical mysteries such as the recently discovered earliest dental filing dated to 6500 years ago, dating Aboriginal rock art, as well as providing important measurements of dust and pollutants in the air.
The new instruments set to attract scientists from Australia and overseas from nearly every scientific field, are a low energy multi-isotope accelerator mass spectrometer and a new medium-energy tandem accelerator.