Opportunties for scientific research at Australia's replacement research reactor
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2005-03-03
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Australian Institute of Physics
Abstract
The 20-MW Australian Replacement Research Reactor represents possibly the greatest single research infrastructure investment in Australia's history. The project includes a large state-of-the-art liquid deuterium cold-neutron source and supermirror guides feeding a large modern guide hall, in which most of the instruments are placed. Alongside the guide hall, there is good provision of laboratory, office and space for support activities. While the facility has 'space' for up to 18 instruments, the project has funding for an initial set of 8 instruments, which will be ready when the reactor is fully operational in July 2006. Instrument performance will be competitive with the best research-reactor facilities anywhere, and our goal is to be in the top 3 such facilities worldwide.
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Australia, Irradiation reactors, Isotope production reactors, Radiation sources, Water cooled reactors, OPAL Reactor, ANSTO, Deuterium
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Robinson, R. A. (2005). Opportunities for scientific research at Australia's replacement research reactor. Presentation to the 29th Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, "Australian Institute of Physics Sixteenth Biennial Congress", Canberra, 2005, 31 January - 4 February 2005, (pp. 160).