A neutron research facility is most commonly a big laboratory operating a large-scale neutron source that provides thermal neutrons to a suite of research instruments. The neutron source usually is a research reactor or a spallation source. In some cases, a smaller facility will provide high energy neutrons (e.g. 2.5 MeV or 14 MeV fusion neutrons) using existing neutron generator technologies.
List of neutron facilities
The following list is intended to be exhaustive and to cover active facilities as well as those that are shut down.
Australia
ANSTO-HIFAR Reactor, Sydney
Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL)
Bangladesh
Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission(BAEC)
Canada
NRC Canadian Neutron Beam Centre at Chalk River Laboratories
RE-Labs Inc. – Single Event Effects Testing Services
China Spallation Neutron Source – Dongguan, Guangdong.
CNPG – Light ion (D,T), China Institute of Atomic Energy
HI-13 – Light ion (D,T), China Institute of Atomic Energy
Czech Republic
Neutron Physics Laboratory (within CANAM infrastructure)[1]
Denmark
Risø (reactors 1958–2000)
Egypt
ETRR-1 – Nuclear Research Center, Inshas (1961–)
ETRR-2 – Nuclear Research Center, Inshas (1997–)
France
ILL – Institut Laue–Langevin (1972–)
LLB – Laboratoire Léon Brillouin at CEA Saclay
NFS – GANIL
Germany
FRM I – Technical University, Garching (1957–2000)
FRM II – Technical University, Garching (2004–)
FRMZ –Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz (1967–)
FRJ-2 at Forschungszentrum Jülich (1962–2006)
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (2005–), a virtual facility that operates instruments at other facilities (FRM II, ILL, SNS)
FRG-1 – GKSS, Geesthacht near Hamburg (1958–2010)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, formerly HMI – Hahn-Meitner-Institut
Hungary
KFKI Research Institutes, Budapest
India
Dhruva, CIRUS and Apsara: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
KAMINI
Japan
JAERI – Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
KENS – High Energy Accelerator Organisation, KEK
KURRI – Research Reactor Institute (Kyoto)
JSNS – (part of the Japan proton accelerator research complex (J-PARC)
Netherlands
IRI – Interfaculty Reactor Institute, Delft University of Technology
Norway
IFE – Jeep 2 reactor at Kjeller Institute for Energy Technology
Poland
Maria reactor – POLATOM Institute of Nuclear Energy, Świerk-Otwock
Ewa reactor – POLATOM Institute of Nuclear Energy, Świerk-Otwock (1958–1995)
Russia
IBR Fast Pulsed Reactors (Dubna)
JINR – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
Gatchina
South Africa
NECSA SAFARI-1
South Korea
High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor (HANARO) – Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)
Sweden
NFL – Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory, Studsvik
ESS – European Spallation Source (project)
SINQ@PSI – Paul Scherrer Institute[2]
UCN@PSI – Paul Scherrer Institute – Ultra Cold Neutron Source[3]
n_TOF – CERN
United Kingdom
DIDO
ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire
United States
HFBR – High Flux Beam Reactor, Brookhaven (1965–1996)
IPNS – Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory (1981–2008)
LANSCE – Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (Los Alamos)
LENS – Low Energy Neutron Source, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
NIST – Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg near Washington D.C.
NSL – Neutron Science Laboratory, University of Michigan College of Engineering.
HFIR – High Flux Isotope Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
SNS – Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
MURR – University of Missouri Research Reactor, Columbia, MO.
MNRC – MacClellan Nuclear Research Center, Sacramento, CA.
References
http://canam.ujf.cas.cz/npl
https://www.psi.ch/sinq
https://www.psi.ch/num
External links
List of major active neutron facilities
NMI3 – a European consortium of 18 partner organisations from 12 countries, including all major facilities in the fields of neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
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