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An Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2021 (2022) / Chapter Skim
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7 Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations
Pages 49-54

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... Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) leadership should make sure that the scheduled downtime for the NCNR cold source upgrade does not coincide with the planned shutdown of the High-Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for its high enriched uranium to low enriched uranium conversion and reactor vessel upgrade.
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From page 50...
... . Conclusion: As a standards agency, there is an opportunity for NIST and NCNR to be leaders in community efforts to establish standards in data markup and data management utilizing FAIR principles at large data rates.
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From page 51...
... Key Finding: The long-term impact of 7 years of flat budgets has caused a reduction of NCNR instrument staff by 20 percent, to a level significantly below international standards. Key Conclusion: Excellent in-house staff attracts and enables effective partnerships with excellent external groups and is essential to world-class scientific output.
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From page 52...
... leadership should work with NIST leadership to ensure the support of NCNR at the level of staffing it needs to continue to develop upgrades and enhancements to instruments to ensure a world-class user facility. Finding: NCNR hosts a suite of 30 neutron beam instruments, of which 17 are neutron scattering instruments operated by NCNR and 13 are imaging, analytical chemistry, and neutron physics instruments operated by the NIST Physical Measurement and Materials Measurement Laboratories.
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From page 53...
... The neutron science facilities are unique in the brightness of the cold flux, the stability of the flux, and the measurement precision, enabling many fundamental science measurements beyond the standard model. Industrially relevant measurements and characterization in chemical physics and engineering physics include dynamics of polymers, gels, and complex fluids, minerals and rocks, materials for energy technologies such as metal organic frameworks, catalysts and in situ measurements, and residual stress in industrial materials.
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From page 54...
... More than 30 percent of the attendees are from underrepresented groups, and more than three-quarters of the attendees return as users. CHRNS pursues many avenues for engaging researchers from institutions that serve diverse groups, including travel support for an additional graduate student as part of the beamtime allocated to awarded proposals, outreach, and tours during the year from middle school up to high school and summer programs for teachers, high school students, and undergraduates.
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  • nuclear regulatory
  • regulatory commission
  • effective partnerships
  • neutron instruments
  • resolution neutron

  • ncnr reactor
  • reactor key
  • own research
  • excellent external
  • additional staffing

  • summer school
  • staff attracts
  • international standards
  • instruments operated
  • consider developing

  • increased usage
  • hard condensed
  • condensed matter
  • enables effective
  • neutron diffractometer


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