OPAL News

The OPAL Reactor and its cold neutron source returned to service on 8^th May, and both have run to schedule with excellent reliability since then. In the last quarter (April-June), our four licensed thermal neutron beam instruments used 78% of the beam time from OPAL for user-program experiments. Including QUOKKA and PLATYPUS, our two licensed cold-neutron instruments, the overall utilisation rate for user-program experiments was 69%. Over the coming months, we expect this to increase to match the thermal instruments.