Search results

National Science Week is a time to celebrate science and the important role national science agencies like ANSTO play in delivering outcomes that benefit all Australians.

Aimed at the delegated Radiation Safety Officer responsible for radioactive substances and/or radiation apparatus in an industrial setting.

Nuclear engineer, Robert Mardus-Hall, with his research partner Andrew Pastrello, are developing nuclear power based solutions for space missions to the Moon and Mars.

Updated results show radiation therapy using lutetium-177 improved survival in advanced prostate cancer.

ANSTO is proud to announce that a license has been issued by the Therapeutic Goods Administration to produce Lutetium-177 (Lu-177) for use in clinical trials.

Scandium 47, a therapeutic radioisotope and potential theranostic, has been produced for the first time at ANSTO. Theranostics are used to both diagnose and treat disease.

Read about an ANSTO scientist and their work to prepare for a school project or interview.

Developed by ANSTO’s predecessor the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (known as the AAEC) in the late 1960s, the Technetium-99m Generator revolutionised nuclear medicine imaging in Australia by enabling imaging procedures to be performed not only in major capital cities but throughout regional and rural Australia.

With over 70 years of nuclear expertise, ANSTO offers expert education and training programs

ANSTO participates in nuclear medicine congress

ANSTO has signed a strategic agreement with the Australian National University and sets the relationship between the two organisations, who collaborate on important projects, such as the fusion energy project ITER and space research, well into the future.

Agreement extends Taiwan’s National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center’s operation of neutron scattering instrument at ANSTO

This instrument can measure reflectivity at air-solid or air-liquid interfaces.

Ultra small angle neutron scattering on Kookaburra is used to study the size and shape of objects of size 10 micrometres and below.