Fuel was loaded into the OPAL reactor for the first time

Fuel was loaded into the OPAL reactor for the first time today. The new Program Advisory Committee, providing advice to ANSTO on the neutron-beam user program at the OPAL reactor has also been instituted. 

 

The committee will meet for the first time in March 2007, and consists of Prof Jill Trewhella (Sydney U.; chair), Dr Craig Buckley (Curtin U.; incoming president of ANBUG), Prof Stewart Campbell (UNSW@ADFA), Prof Calum Drummond (CSIRO), Prof Martin Greven (Stanford U., USA), Prof Valerie Clinton (U. of Adelaide), Prof Hugh O'Neill (ANU) and an eighth member to be nominated by the National Science Council of Taiwan, who are providing our ninth instrument, the SIKA cold-neutron 3-axis spectrometer.


 

Published: 11/08/2006

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