Today, the Steering Committee for the NBI-2 Project has approved the scope, budget and estimated schedule for the fifth and final major component of the five key elements in the $37M Neutron Beam Expansion Project announced in the Australian Government's May 12th 2009 Budget Statement: the CG2 split cold-neutron guide.
One of the two guides (CG2-A, 40 x 100 mm2) will feed the new BILBY time-of-flight small-angle neutron scattering instrument, while the second (CG2-B, 40 x 250 mm2) could feed a second neutron reflectometer, along with a variety of other possible cold-neutron instruments.
The project is led by Phil Bentley.