An Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2018 (2018) / Chapter Skim
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2 Adequacy of Facilities, Equipment, and Human Resources
2 Adequacy of Facilities, Equipment, and Human Resources
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In 2017, the reactor provided neutrons for 228 days of operation at full power with 98 percent reliability to 29 instruments for a total of 2,769 research participants. Among high-performance neutron sources, the NCNR has consistently led the United States in user instrument days in the past decade.2 The process for obtaining instrument time includes twice-yearly calls for proposals.
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The NCNR maintains a robust safety management program that addresses radiological, occupational, and industrial hazards. Key elements of the program include management commitment and employee involvement, worksite inspections, management observations, hazard prevention and control (including planning for work involving radiological hazards)
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Furthermore, with the effective closure of the Lujan Center at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) to the broader scientific community, the neutron beams provided to the scientific community at the NCNR are more important today than they ever were in the past, and thus, it is essential that the NIST reactor be kept in operation for as long as possible.
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Europe is well ahead of the United States in the production and delivery of neutron scattering capabilities, and China, as well as other parts of Asia, are expanding theirs, while the United States has closed the neutron facilities it once operated at Brookhaven National Laboratory and at Argonne National Laboratory.9 There are currently three operational neutron sources in accessible user 8 NIST Center for Neutron Research, 2017, Future Options for the Neutron Source at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, June 15. 9 Argonne National Laboratory, undated, "Neutron Scattering Facilities," available at http://www.neutron.anl.gov/facilities.html, accessed August 28, 2018.
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Scientific and industrial users based in the United States who apply for time at overseas facilities are bound to be treated less generously that those based in the countries that are paying for them. Thus, were the NIST facility to shut down, the economic benefits that derive from neutron research would increasingly accrue to other nations.
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; HANARO, High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute; HEU, highly enriched uranium; HFIR, High Flux Isotope Reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory; ILL, Institut Laue-Langevin; ISIS, Spallation Neutron Source in the United Kingdom; J-PARC, Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex; LANSCE, Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center; LEU, low enriched uranium; MLZ, Meier-Leibnitz Zentrum based at the FRM-II reactor, Germany; n, number of instruments; NCNR, NIST Center for Neutron Research; PSI, Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland; SNS, Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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