Published on the 19th October 2018 by ANSTO Staff
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency has given approval to commence neutron beam testing of the Spatz neutron reflectometer.
The neutron reflectometer was transferred to ANSTO from the BER-II Reactor in Germany under a donation agreement with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany. The BER-II reactor is scheduled to permanently shut down in 2019.
Spatz will be widely utilised due to the high demand for neutron reflectometry on Platypus and the instrument’s capacity for simultaneous infrared spectroscopy for a wide range of soft matter research applications in biomedicine, energy and materials science.
SPATZ is expected to commence hot commissioning in November 2018 and transition to normal operations in early 2019 and will be the 14th neutron beam instrument at OPAL.
"Congratulations to project manager Dr Anton Le Brun and the team of engineers and technicians who installed all of the components of Spatz," said Dr Jamie Schulz, Leader, Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering.
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