Neutron sources - Worldwide

FACILITY ORGANISATION LOCATION TYPE START OPERATION SOURCE INSTRUMENTS
Americas
CNEA Centro Atómico Bariloche San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

NPMR

Canada's Neutron Beam Laboratory
Chalk River, Canada 125 MW heavy water reactor 1957 6 instruments
HFIR

Center for Neutron Scattering
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, USA 85-MW isotope production and test reactor August 1965 beryllium-reflected, light-water-cooled and -moderated, flux-trap type reactor that uses highly enriched uranium-235 as the fuel
15 state-of-the art neutron scattering instruments

IPEN

Instituto Peruano de Energia Nuclear San Borja, Peru Instruments
LANSCE Los Alamos Neutron Science Center Los Alamos, USA 800-MeV proton linear accelerator 1970's instruments
LENS Indiana University Bloomington, USA under construction
IPNS no longer exists Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, USA 1981 Intense pulsed neutron source 13 instruments
McMaster Nuclear Reactor McMaster University Hamilton, Canada pool-type reactor April 1959
MIT Nuclear Reactor Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, USA tank-type reactor MITR-II 21 July 1958 Instruments
MURR University of Missouri Research Reactor Center Columbia, USA Fall 1966 Instruments
NIST

Center for Neutron Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, USA Advanced cold neutron source Instruments
SNS
The Spallation Neutron Source
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA Accelerator-based neutron source September 1, 2007 The most intense pulsed neutron source 19 instruments

Asia
HANARO Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute Taejon, Korea

30 MW open-tank-in-pool reactor 1966 7 instruments
JAERI

Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Tokai, Japan 125 MW heavy water reactor November 1990 8 instruments
KENS Neutron Science Laboratory Tsukuba, Japan Spallation neutron source 1980 proton beam accelerated to 500 MeV by the booster synchrotron
14 instruments

KURRI Kyoto Universty Research Reactor Institute Osaka, Japan 5 MW light water-moderated, tank-type nuclear research reactor June 1964 mean thermal neutron flux of 3.213n/cm2/s 4 instruments
MINT

Malaysian Institute for Nuclear Technology Research Kajang, Malaysia TRIGA MARK II research reactor June 1982 Instruments

Oceania
Bragg Institute Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Lucas Heights, Australia 10 MW CP5 reactor (HIFAR) 26 Jan 1958 Peak thermal neutron flux of 1.4 x 1014n/cm2/s
9 instruments
20 MW pool reactor ( Replacement Research Reactor ) Feb. 2005 8 instruments

Africa
Necsa Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa Pelindaba, South Africa
20 MW swimming pool-type reactor (SAFARI-1) 1965 light-water-cooled and -moderated reactor Instruments



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