SNS Partnerships
The construction of SNS was a partnership of six U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories: Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Jefferson. This collaboration was one of the largest of its kind in U.S. scientific history and was used to bring together the best minds and experience from many different fields.
At full power, the SNS accelerator systems will deliver two megawatts (2 MW) of beam power to its liquid mercury target and has been designed with the flexibility to provide additional scientific output in the future. This approach was intended to provide a facility that will meet the neutron intensity needs of the science community for many decades to come.
The 80-acre SNS site is located on Chestnut Ridge and is part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The curved building in front is the Central Laboratory and Office Building (CLO); to the right is the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. The rectangular building behind the CLO is the Experiment Hall. Most of the accelerator systems are underground.
Read more about each lab's role in the construction of SNS:
