Neutron science research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is on its way to promising developments in materials science. Neutron scattering techniques provide exceptional tools for studying the structure and dynamics of materials at the molecular level.

With the world's highest flux reactor-based neutron source (the High Flux Isotope Reactor) and the world's most intense pulsed accelerator-based neutron source (the Spallation Neutron Source), ORNL provides neutron scattering capabilities unavailable any where else in the world.

Call for Proposals: Proposals for beam time at HFIR and SNS will be accepted until June 20, 2008.  More...

March 27 — First publication of SNS science (Physical Review Letters). More…

March 26 — SNS Receives Advanced Superconducting Magnet for Neutron Scattering. More…

SNS is operating with beam to target. Power on target during January reached a world record of 305 kW.  Beam status...