Restarting a nuclear reactor series: It’s all in the preparation and slow and careful actions
ANSTO recently re-started the OPAL Reactor after a six-month shutdown for essential maintenance and the installation of an upgraded facility.
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Action plan to fight CKDu
Australia and Sri Lanka develop action plan to fight Chronic Kidney Disease killer
Some of Sydney’s best science teachers meet its best science infrastructure
ANSTO welcomes the Australian Government's announcement to establish The National Critical Minerals Research and Development Centre
With more than thirty years of expertise and experience in critical minerals and rare earths extraction and processing, ANSTO welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement of a 2022 Critical Minerals Strategy
ANSTO recognises scientific achievement, leadership, external collaboration and outreach at Awards event
ANSTO recognised the contribution of individuals and teams to nuclear science and technology at the 2023 ANSTO Awards Ceremony held on 25 July.
Scientists untangle the challenging complexities of radiocarbon in ice cores
Research elucidates how in situ cosmogenic radiocarbon is produced, retained and lost in the top layer of compacting snow (the ‘firn layer’) and the shallow ice below at an ice accumulation site in Greenland.
Research brings a better understanding of the stability of very old groundwater
Groundwater experts from ANSTO and UNSW have led a collaboration of Australian and American researchers to analyse the composition of deep, very old groundwater and develop a new conceptual framework that describes the degradation of carbon over time in the subsurface.
Transport revolution on the horizon following discovery of ‘stainless magnesium’
High-energy Heavy Ion Microbeam
The high-energy heavy-ion microprobe is used for the characterisation or modification of material properties at depths from approximately 1 micrometre to maximum depths of up to 500 micrometres from the material surface.
Nuclear technique improves properties of innovative bone implant material
A long-standing collaboration led biomedical researchers from the University of Sydney has recently achieved success with the recent announcement of an innovative bone implant that significantly reduces rejection and inflammation.
ANSTO hosts National Nuclear Security Administration (USA) visit to Lucas Heights
First malaria-human contact mapped with Nobel Prize-winning technology
Research represents significant step towards developing vaccine
Nuclear techniques confirm unique biology of human eye lens
International collaboration on advanced manufacturing
Highly accurate non-invasive nuclear technique helps validate theoretical model for optimised laser material deposition in additive manufacturing.
Fish lift
A lift for fish at Tallowa Dam: Study on dietary impacts.
Highlights - Cultural Heritage
Over the last decades, neutron, photon, and ion beams have been established as an innovative and attractive investigative approach to characterise cultural-heritage materials.
Fission vs fusion: an explainer
The release of the Oppenheimer film, the story of the director of the Manhattan Project, has prompted many people to go online and search for an explanation of the difference between fission and fusion, two fundamental scientific concepts.
Blueprint for future drugs
Structure of protein involved in immune response pair revealed.
Pioneering collaboration advances nuclear medicine
This joint initiative at ANSTO has developed a new capability: solid surface radiolabelling to evaluate Auger emitting sources for next-generation targeted therapy.
University appointment
Dr Anna Paradowska has been appointed as a Conjoint Professor of Practice in Advanced Structural Materials at the University of Sydney.