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ANSTO's Chief Nuclear Officer shares insights on the safe management of Australia's nuclear waste.

ANSTO leverages great science to deliver big outcomes. We partner with scientists and engineers and apply new technologies to provide real-world benefits. Our work improves human health, saves lives, builds our industries and protects the environment.

Nuclear power is used as a reliable and clean energy solution in most OECD countries and many other parts of the world. Although it is banned in Australia, a number of government reviews are looking at current prohibitions on nuclear power.

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.

ANSTO shares expertise on food authenticity research using nuclear techniques with Southeast Asia stakeholders.

ANSTO is working with government partners to ensure that radioactivity in drinking water supplied to Aboriginal communities is at levels considered safe for consumption.

Applications, Recent results, publications.

How well do you know the chemical makeup of your product – batch to batch, dose to dose – or even within one pill or capsule?

Our world is rapidly transitioning to renewable energy and electric transport systems that require the safe and efficient mining of various metals.

Work with our scientists to deliver the best possible decommissioning outcome for your organisation.

International study has revealed a clustering of charged particles in the microgravity environment of space,with implications for the development of materials and better drugs that depend on the mixing of two or more charged particles.

The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) has elected Professor Andrew Peele, Director of ANSTO’s Australian Synchrotron, to become a Fellow of the prestigious organisation.

Combining X-ray techniques brings insights