We have just held a 2-day joint workshop with CSIRO, Australia's leading research organisation, to explore ways in which CSIRO researchers can collaborate with the Bragg Institute and use the beam facilities coming on line at the new OPAL reactor.
Around 50 attendees came, half from each organisation. 6 of CSIRO's divisions were represented: Molecular & Health Technology, Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology, Energy Technology, Industrial Physics, Petroleum Resources, and Textile & Fibre Technology.
The meeting was introduced by Drs. Rod Hill (Group Executive, CSIRO Information, Manufacturing and Minerals) and Ian Smith (Executive Director of ANSTO), and included a tour of the neutron guide hall at OPAL (see image above).
The 1m2 detector for the QUOKKA small-angle neutron scattering instrument also arrived at the Bragg Institute, from ORDELA in the USA. The first of our granite dancefloors (for PELICAN the time-of-flight/polarisation-analysis spectrometer) has also been put in position.