Bragg Peaks April 2008

OPAL news

The situation remains that OPAL will resume operations once there is regulatory approval from ARPANSA. read more... 

Around the instruments

• Echidna and Wombat: remotely controlled pick- and-place robot to take samples to and from the beam. read more...
• Kowari: double-focusing Si monochromator arrived. read more...
• Koala: image-plate drum with an aluminium sample pin in room-temperature mode.read more...
• Quokka: 1m by 1m area detector ready for vibration testing whilst driving carriage. read more...
• Platypus: "Fizzy" GUI (graphical user interface) control program. read more...

Announcements

• Commissioning of instruments: all instruments ready to take beam. read more...
• ANSTO-AINSE Neutron School on Materials 20-25 July 2008 read more...
• Users'  samples at the Bragg Institute: barcoded labels and Material Safety Data Sheets read more...
• Joint appointments read more...

Faces

Newcomers: Ulf Garbe, Andre Heinemann read more...

For more information please contact the Bragg User Office: E bragg-user-office@ansto.gov.au,  T +61 2 9717 7232