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Jack the Super Prawn

Jack the Super Prawn lives in the Great Barrier Reef and uses his superpowers to protect the environment. With JackVac around his arms and JackPac on his back, he cleans up plastic pollution and impurities in the water. With JackCopter, he soars through the water and high into the air. Jack’s main job is to educate young readers on the impact of plastic and other types of pollution and to empower them to find a solution.

Created by Antoine Jaja, Jack’s first two adventure books entitled, “Drastic Plastic” and “Pollution Solution,” are now available in paperback in bookstores throughout Australia, as well as the ANSTO Shop. ANSTO has endorsed and was pleased to provide scientific input into the development of stories that are helping to raise awareness of the impact of pollution on our waterways and the marine environment.

ANSTO has a range of experts in environmental science, including Dr Tom Cresswell, who is undertaking research in this area and was able to provide scientific context and background to support the development of these adventure stories.

Antoine has developed a free “Jack the Super Prawn” video game on App Store and Google play, and a Teacher’s Guide Activities for children.

Kowari - Strain Scanner

Kowari, a residual stress diffractometer, can be used for ‘strain scanning’ of large engineering components as large as 1000 kilograms.

Our understanding of the atom powers ANSTO's nuclear and accelerator research techniques

Scientists at ANSTO characterise structures with atomic detail using probes such as x-rays, electrons, neutrons and ions.

Insights on service life of industrial components

Electron and X-ray diffraction techniques provide insights into material damage under stress-strain conditions.

Scientific ingenuity + design powers challenge-based innovation

A 'Challenge-Based Innovation' platform at the nandin Innovation Centre is progressing as part of a funding package from the NSW Government and a Memorandum of Understanding with Swinburne University of Technology and Design Factory Melbourne (DFM).

Waste Production and Consumables

ANSTO provides a summary of waste production and consumables for FY2022 - FY2023

Managing Radioactive Waste

ANSTO has safely managed its radioactive waste for over 60 years. Waste is managed in accordance with national and international standards.

Dingo - Neutron Imaging

Neutron imaging or tomography creates a whole series of three-dimensional images of an object that can be reconstructed.

Big Ideas Forum

Creative ideas are the spark for great innovations: this week students from across Australia got to share their ideas through ANSTO’s Big Ideas Forum.

Advanced refrigeration technology on the horizon

Atomic mechanism produces colossal cooling effect in new class of materials .

Taipan - Thermal Triple Axis Spectrometer

Taipan is used to study the collective motion of atoms, phonons and magnons in materials, and phase transitions and processes involving thermal energy.

Nanoindentation + modelling = innovation for industry

Modelling and experimentation - a powerful combination in probing mechanical properties of ion irradiated materials through nanoindentation.

Multiple techniques elucidate hardness with radiation damage

3D models of multilayered structures on engineering scale from nanoscale damage profiles.

Corporate Publications

Explore ANSTO's range of publications and reports available for the public.

First neutron topography on Dingo

In the push and pull of crowds, disordered proteins dance precariously

A collaboration of scientists from RMIT, ANSTO and the CSIRO has published pioneering research that brings new insights into intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions (IDPs)/ (IDRs) and how they behave under various physiological processes.