Around the instruments

Radiation survey on the reflectometer Platypus (neutron-guide hall).

The restart of our neutron instrumentation was dedicated to radiation surveys at different reactor power settings, especially exciting for some of the instruments seeing neutrons the first time. Below are photos of the radiation survey on the three-axis spectrometer Taipan in the reactor-beam hall (left) and the powder diffractometer Echidna in the neutron-guide hall (right).

We have now had neutrons into all 7 initial instruments, and representative data sets have been taken from standard samples using the main detector(s) on 5 of the instruments.