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Innovator in energy and sustainability uses power of synchrotron light to make advances

Andrew Peele

Group Executive Nuclear Science and Technology

Andrew Peele was appointed Group Executive for ANSTO Nuclear Science and Technology in July 2021 and was Director of the Australian Synchrotron from 2013 -2021. He is an adjunct Professor of Physics at La Trobe University.

First Nations Knowledge and Western Science webinar

A panel discussion with expert scientists and First Nations knowledge holders, as they explore the synergy between traditional Indigenous knowledge and ANSTO's unique expertise in areas such as #health and environmental science. Policy matters and Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property will also be discussed.

Online event

Research confirms that ancient Tasmania was not a ‘wilderness’ but an Indigenous cultural landscape

Recent studies led by the University of Melbourne have revealed that the Palawa people’s ancient land stewardship techniques have profoundly shaped the landscape of western Lutruwita, within the traditional territories located in Tasmania.

Dr Nigel Kirby

Principal Scientist - SAXS/WAXS

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End of an era for Australia’s first nuclear reactor

Ms Linda Barry

Stable Isotope Chemist

Role at ANSTO

STEAM Club for Girls

Sydney

Feather Map of Australia

Gentech Generator

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.