Mark your diaries this September to visit Australia’s only nuclear facility when ANSTO holds its first community Open Day in five years.
There will be something for the whole family – from tours of the OPAL research reactor building and neutron guide hall (bookings essential), a kids science show, face painting, children’s rides, giveaways and information stalls from ANSTO and other community organisations.
Learn about how radiation works and why it is an essential part of our everyday lives; how using nuclear techniques are used to produce radiopharmaceuticals for use in nuclear medicine, understand the environment, forensics, medical advances, counter terrorism, archaeology, food science, material science and much, much more.
ANSTO is Australia’s’ centre of nuclear excellence and innovation, managing a 70 hectare campus at Lucas Heights and employing around 900 staff. As the primary supplier of radiopharmaceuticals for use in nuclear medicine, ANSTO makes over half a million doses every year