[Neutron] OPAL reactor returns to full power [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[BUTTNER, Herma]

Hello,

 

We are pleased to announce that the OPAL reactor came back to full power
(20MW) today, and that the shutters on all seven instruments were opened
for radiation survey. The cold-neutron source continues to run well.

 

With the return to OPAL operations, commissioning of the seven initial
instruments has resumed:  ECHIDNA (high-resolution powder
diffractometer), WOMBAT (high-intensity powder diffractometer), KOWARI
(strain scanner), KOALA (quasi-Laue diffractometer), PLATYPUS
(reflectometer), QUOKKA (small-angle neutron scattering instrument),
TAIPAN (thermal three-axis spectrometer).

 

For each instrument, we still need (a) operating licences from our
nuclear regulator, ARPANSA, and (b) a published schedule from Reactor
Operations at ANSTO, before we can invite users for experiments.
Requests for operating licences on the powder diffractometers (ECHIDNA
and WOMBAT) will be submitted within the next month, with the other
submissions to follow, depending on our progress with commissioning. 

 

During the last ten months of the OPAL shutdown, we have successfully
tested most of the new sample-environment apparatus on the
diffractometers.

 

Regards, 

               Herma

 

 

Dr. Herma Buttner

Scientific Coordinator Bragg Institute

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

PMB 1, Menai, NSW 2234, Australia

T  +61 (0)2 9717 7232

F +61  (0)2 9717 3606

M +61 (0)448 445 606

E  herma.buttner at ansto.gov.au 

www.ansto.gov.au <http://www.ansto.gov.au/>  

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