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ANSTO uses nuclear research techniques to address many of the important issues of our time relating to the environment, human health and industry.

Discussions were held on possible areas on cooperation including research reactor operation and utilisation, environmental monitoring of mining tails, and food provenance.

Currently ANSTO partners with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to operate the Australian GNIP stations with samples analysed at ANSTO’s Environmental Isotope Laboratories in Sydney.

La Trobe University researchers have used the Australian Synchrotron in a new study that reveals how crocodiles resist fatal fungal infections with a unique pH sensing mechanism despite living in filthy water.

In association with the IAEA, ANSTO supports nuclear security in Australia, the Asia-Pacific Region, and around the world, by providing international leadership in nuclear forensic science.

Garry McIntyre joins editorial board of Journal of Applied Crystallography.

Deuteration and nuclear techniques can contribute to the science of beauty.

The new gamma imaging technology developed at ANSTO has been used to detect the presence and location of nuclear material for the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification.

ANSTO scientist, Dr Klaus Wilcken of the Centre for Accelerator Science, used cosmogenic nuclide dating to determine the ages of layered sand and gravel samples, in which seven footprints of the flightless bird, the moa, were found on the South Island in New Zealand in 2019.

The process by which plastic degrades in the ocean facilitates its entry into the natural carbon cycle efficiently as carbon dioxide.

Commitment to undertake health research.

China’s vertical sandstone pillars studied using nuclear techniques