New facilities in operation


... in the United States 1.4 MW source SNS in Tennessee. The world's most intense pulsed accelerator-based neutron source.

... in Europe
- The new research reactor FRM II - Munich, Germany - reached on March 2004, nominal power (20 MW) and is currently in operation.
- The JCNS - Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Germany: The research reactor FRJ-2 was shut down permanently second of Mai 2006. Jülich strengthens its activities at external neutron sources. For this purpose the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS has been founded which encompasses the in-house research with neutrons, the instrument and method development and the instrument operation and user programs at the FRM II reactor in Munich (eight FRJ-2 instruments were transferred to the new research station at FRM-II at Munich), the SNS Spallation Source in Oak Ridge (the next generation spin echo spectrometer) and the ILL high-flux reactor in Grenoble. (Collaborative Research Group instruments, IN12, IN22 and D23).

... in Australia
The OPAL is Australia's new world-class, multi-purpose research reactor. The HIFAR Reactor operated for the last time on the 30th of January 2007. The OPAL reactor had successfully operated during its commissioning process. It was shut down last July following the partial displacement of some fuel plates discovered during a routine fuel change. On the first of May has been announced the approval of ANSTO's submission for a modified design of reactor fuel. The OPAL reactor was taken critical on 9th May. According to ANSTO's "return to service program" it is expected that full power operation will be achieved before the end of May.


Facilities under construction


... in Japan 2008 a new spallation source is currently being built. JPARC (1 MW Spallation source) will open the usage of the Neutron and Muon facilities to users on December 2008.

.. In China 2012: A new high flux research reactor, the China Advanced Research Reactor (CARR), now is being built at China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE).

... in Europe 2008
The Second Target Station Project is constructing a second neutron source at the world-leading ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source located at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. At 14:57 on Friday 14 December, the ISIS Second Target Station Project successfully delivered protons to the new target station. The experimental programme will begin in October 2008.

ILL, Grenoble, France is is now modernising its infrastructure and instrument suite through the ILL's Millennium programme. The programme is being implemented over three phases. The first (2000-2007) has already provided significant advances: it has boosted the efficiency of the ILL’s instrument suite by a factor of 14. Not only can many experiments be performed more quickly, but we have also opened up new areas of science to European research with neutrons, such as the up-and-coming field of nanotechnology.
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Projects

... in EuropeThe European Spallation Neutron Source ESS.
... in Canada The Canadian Neutron Centre
... in China CSNS, Chinese Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) to be built in Dongguan. Chinese Academy of Science