The Bragg Institute Program Advisory Committee met for the first time to assess the proposals submitted for the WOMBAT and ECHIDNA powder diffractometers.
A total of 81 proposals had been submitted for 357 beam days, spread over the 2 instruments. Letters to applicants on decision of beam-time allocations were sent out to the principal investigator.
However, beam-time scheduling cannot take place until: (1) there is a published operating schedule for the OPAL reactor itself; and (2) we have operating licences for ECHIDNA and WOMBAT, from our regulator, ARPANSA.
We have chosen to allocate 60 days of beam time per instrument. This corresponds to a subscription rate of ~3x.
Published: 30/05/2007