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Radiation Services at ANSTO

Highlighted at radiation protection congress

ANSTO’s international development activities captured in Australian Development Corporation Performance Report 2022-2023

Specialist expertise and capabilities at ANSTO enable an understanding and improvement of current and advanced nuclear fuel materials

With a well-established portfolio of nuclear research and the operation of Australia's only nuclear reactor OPAL, ANSTO scientists conduct both fundamental and applied research on fuel for current, advanced, and future nuclear technology systems.

ANSTO recognises the contribution of staff for outstanding work, innovation, and excellence

ANSTO announces the recipients of the 2022 organisational awards

Plans continue to repatriate medical and research radioactive waste

Australia’s nuclear agency ANSTO is continuing to lead planning efforts to repatriate what is called a TN-81 cask of intermediate-level radioactive from the United Kingdom in 2022.

Research to improve food and income security in Pacific countries

Biking for research

Evaluating the impact of nanomaterials on health and the environment

ANSTO has put together a robust multidisciplinary approach to understanding the impacts of nanomaterials, investigating a common food additive, E171 titanium dioxide, used primarily as a colouring agent in everyday foods.

Reconstructing Australia’s fire history from cave stalagmites

Research is being undertaken through an Australian Research Council Discovery Project "Reconstructing Australia’s fire history from cave stalagmites", led by Professor Andy Baker at UNSW Sydney and Dr. Pauline Treble at ANSTO. The project aims to calibrate the fire-speleothem relationship and develop coupled fire and climate records for the last millennium in southwest Australia.

Progress in PNG

PNG Fisheries expresses great satisfaction with the progress of aquaculture initiative.

Sharing Sydney’s experience with South Australia

Sustained contribution ANSTO Award to Prof Henk Heijnis

Environmental scientist with a passion for fieldwork and a lifelong commitment to scientific excellence

Funding supports seafood traceability

Grant supports development of handheld technology to verify origin of seafood.

To D or not to D

New screening method developed to confirm if deuteration improves metabolic stability.

Aquatic ecosystems

Research on the impacts of land-use, contamination, water management and climate variability on aquatic ecosystems..

Strong collaborations bring success for ceramic engineering scientist

Dr Inna Karatchevtseva, who collaborates with DMTC, was among those identified by The Australian in its Research magazine as a national leader in her field of ceramic engineering

Understanding how a common food additive causes changes in the microbiome

ANSTO has collaborated on a study assessing the impact of the commonly-used food additive titanium dioxide (TiO2) on gut microbiota and inflammation.

PIXE

Particle induced X-ray emission can be used for quantitative analysis in archaeology, geology, biology, materials science and environmental pollution.