Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to the Spallation Neutron Source and the High Flux Isotope Reactor. These Office of Science user facilities are two of the most advanced neutron science research facilities in the world.
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Johns Hopkins Professor Collin Broholm accepts joint faculty appointment with ORNL Neutron Sciences. Interview with Collin.
- NXS students describe their experience at ORNL: see video
- SNS exhibit hosts more than 2,000 visitors at the Oak Ridge Secret City Festival
- "SNS simulator" at Local Career Days for Middle School Students
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Featured Publications
- Neutron Sciences staff contribute chapter on "Large-Scale User Facility Imaging and Scattering Techniques to Facilitate Basic Medical Research" in Medical Imaging, published in December 2011 by InTech.
- Morphology research at SNS MAGICS instrument makes cover of Journal of Physics
- ORNL Neutron Sciences Neutron Review
Operating Status
SNS beam is off for planned maintenance. Operations are scheduled to resume on Feb. 12.
HFIR is currently shutdown for the end of cycle 440A refueling outage.
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