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Seeing inside an advanced material

Synchrotron technique clarifies the location of calcium in a promising material with a relatively high superconducting transition temperature.

Transport of samples

Transport of samples

This information is provided as a general advice to shipping or bringing samples to ACNS. You should check that details are current when arranging sample transport.

Mo-99 hot cell

Meet an Expert

Let your students lead a 30-minute Q&A session with our ANSTO experts about one of the following three topics:

- Nuclear medicines
- Nuclear techniques to study the environment
- Fission and its applications in reactors

Please ensure your students do some pre-reading about the research topic and come prepared with questions to ask during the session. We also ask that teachers send us a copy of the student questions the day before, so we can adequately prepare for your session. Teachers must be present during the session with their students. 

Cost: Free 

Home School Tour

Home school group tours (Lucas Heights, Sydney)

Tours can be booked for groups from Monday to Friday, subject to availability. Groups must be at least 12 people. We can cater to a maximum of 32 people, as this is the number we can accommodate in our on-site buses.

When you request a tour, please give us as much information about the age range and learning levels of your participants so we can best accommodate your group. This tour is not intended for children younger than 8 years old.

Duration: 2.5 hours

Cost: $15 each for all tour attendees (parents and children)

Synchrotron scientist in team that makes historic meteorite find

ANSTO’s own meteorite hunter, who is also a planetary scientist and instrument scientist Dr Helen Brand took part in an expedition led by Professor Andy Tomkins of Monash University that has found the largest meteorite strewn field in Australia since the famous Murchison meteorite event in 1969.

Updates on installation of Project BRIGHT beamlines

January 2021 saw the arrival of four shipping containers of radiation safety hutch panels for the first new Bright beamline, Micro-Computed Tomography (MCT). Installation commenced shortly thereafter with the manufacturer, Caratelli SAS, working in conjunction with Victorian-based company, Lycopodium Limited.