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International award recognises achievement

ANSTO's reactor utilisation team has received an international award.

Association award to neutron scientist

Professor Vanessa Peterson, Senior Principal Research and Neutron Scattering Instrument Scientist and Leader of the Energy Materials Research project, has been awarded the Bob Cheary Award or Excellence in Diffraction Analysis by the Australian X-ray Analytical Association. She is the first female to be chosen for the award.

Synchrotron leader shines bright, becoming a Fellow of ATSE

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.

Chronic kidney disease of unknown origin

In 2017, ANSTO's CEO signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sri Lanka to work together to investigate the epidemiology of Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown origin (CKDu).

Sharing nuclear forensic expertise to support nuclear security in IAEA program

ANSTO has hosted for the third time the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Practical Introduction to Nuclear Forensics Regional Training Course.

Work on Spin Nematics published in Phys. Rev. Letters

Q2XAFS 2023 | Statements

New capability supports advanced laser additive manufacturing

Synchrotron saved with half billion dollar funding stream

ANSTO analyses the performance of materials in extreme environments

ANSTO has unique facilities, capabilities and expertise to investigate materials in extreme environments for applications in energy systems, the defence industry and emerging space sector.

Generation IV Nuclear Reactors

Australia is as a member of the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), a cooperative international endeavour, involving the participation of 12 other nations and the European Union to work together on long term research on advanced nuclear technologies.

Making food safer and fighting food fraud with nuclear tools

Global research team discovers magnetic order in quasicrystals

ANSTO has contributed to international research on quasicrystals that opens the door to tailored magnetic materials.

QANT

An analysis program for viewing and analysing near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS) spectra.

Sharing environmental expertise

Australia assists in the collection of marine sediments to support contaminant quality control measures by IAEA.

Advanced repair technology shows promise for rails in remote locations

Imaging at ANSTO supported Curtin University-led research that discovered the oldest 3D heart in a 380-million-year-old fossilised fish

Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart – the oldest ever found – alongside a separate fossilised stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies.