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Today, ANSTO and AINSE are hosting a major workshop with the domestic and overseas scientific communities to explore the scientific and technological opportunities presented by the chance to build a second guide hall on the south side of the OPAL Reactor.
The reactor was designed from outset with this expansion path in mind, and this would allow an eventual complement of thirty or more neutron beam instruments.
The workshop will also consider the case for installing a hot source, a second cold source, a positron source and other innovative technology along with the expansion. Approximately 100 attendees are expected.
The first day covers the science opportunities, with expert talks on: Magnetism, Superconductivity, Energy Materials, Earth Sciences, Fundamental Physics, Polymers, Biology and Deuteration, Soft Matter, Materials Engineering, Science with Positrons, in addition to some technological talks.
The second day is in workshop mode, looking at Scientific Opportunities in the morning and Technology opprtunities in the afternoon. The third day will entail writing the report and summarising at the end.
Published: 16/04/2012