A neutron research facility is most commonly a big laboratory operating a large-scale neutron source that provides thermal neutrons to a suite of research instruments. The neutron source usually is a research reactor or a spallation source. In some cases, a smaller facility will provide high energy neutrons (e.g. 2.5 MeV or 14 MeV fusion neutrons) using existing neutron generator technologies.
List of neutron facilities
The following list is intended to be exhaustive and to cover active facilities as well as those that are shut down.
Australia ANSTO-HIFAR Reactor, Sydney Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL)
Bangladesh Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC)
Canada NRC Canadian Neutron Beam Centre at Chalk River Laboratories RE-Labs Inc. – Single Event Effects Testing Services
China China Spallation Neutron Source – Dongguan, Guangdong. CNPG – Light ion (D,T), China Institute of Atomic Energy HI-13 – Light ion (D,T), China Institute of Atomic Energy
Czech Republic Neutron Physics Laboratory (within CANAM infrastructure)
Denmark Risø (reactors 1958–2000)
Egypt ETRR-1 – Nuclear Research Center, Inshas (1961–) ETRR-2 – Nuclear Research Center, Inshas (1997–)
France ILL – Institut Laue–Langevin (1972–) LLB – Laboratoire Léon Brillouin at CEA Saclay NFS – GANIL
Germany FRM I – Technical University, Garching (1957–2000) FRM II – Technical University, Garching (2004–) FRMZ –Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz (1967–) FRJ-2 at Forschungszentrum Jülich (1962–2006) Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (2005–), a virtual facility that operates instruments at other facilities (FRM II, ILL, SNS) FRG-1 – GKSS, Geesthacht near Hamburg (1958–2010) Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, formerly HMI – Hahn-Meitner-Institut
Hungary KFKI Research Institutes, Budapest
India Dhruva, CIRUS and Apsara: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai KAMINI
Indonesia Neutron Scattering Laboratory – (BATAN)
Japan JAERI – Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute KENS – High Energy Accelerator Organisation, KEK KURRI – Research Reactor Institute (Kyoto) JSNS – (part of the Japan proton accelerator research complex (J-PARC)
Netherlands RID – Reactor Institute Delft, Delft University of Technology
Norway IFE – Jeep 2 reactor at Kjeller Institute for Energy Technology
Poland Maria reactor – POLATOM Institute of Nuclear Energy, Świerk-Otwock Ewa reactor – POLATOM Institute of Nuclear Energy, Świerk-Otwock (1958–1995) Pakistan
PARR-l – Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology, Nilore-Islamabad PARR-ll – Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology, Nilore-Islamabad Russia IBR Fast Pulsed Reactors (Dubna) JINR – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna WWR-M, Gatchina PIK, Gatchina
South Africa NECSA SAFARI-1
South Korea High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor (HANARO) – Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)
Sweden NFL – Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory, Studsvik ESS – European Spallation Source (project)
Switzerland SINQ@PSI – Paul Scherrer Institute UCN@PSI – Paul Scherrer Institute – Ultra Cold Neutron Source n_TOF – CERN
Ukraine
United Kingdom DIDO ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire
United States HFBR – High Flux Beam Reactor, Brookhaven (1965–1996) IPNS – Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory (1981–2008) LANSCE – Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (Los Alamos) LENS – Low Energy Neutron Source, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. NIST – Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg near Washington D.C. NSL – Neutron Science Laboratory, University of Michigan College of Engineering. HFIR – High Flux Isotope Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory SNS – Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory MURR – University of Missouri Research Reactor, Columbia, MO. MNRC – MacClellan Nuclear Research Center, Sacramento, CA. RPI LINAC - Rensselaer Gaerttner LINAC Center, Troy, NY.
References
External links List of major active neutron facilities NMI3 – a European consortium of 18 partner organisations from 12 countries, including all major facilities in the fields of neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy