Full Facility listing

ANSTO maintains a comprehensive range of Facilities for scientific research and the provision of commercial services to industry. Capabilities and the key ANSTO contact are listed for;

Materials
Radiopharmaceuticals
Minerals
Environmental
Safety and Radiation
Irradiation
Neutron beam instruments

Researcher access to ANSTO facilities is available via our User Access Programs

For all commercial/industry enquiries please contact Access ANSTO on +61 2 9717 7000

Materials

Materials Characterisation and Testing Facilities

Contact

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM)

Spectroscopic Ellipsometer

Ken Short

+61 2 9717 3459

+61 2 9717 3725

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

Arthur Day

+61 2 9717 3457

Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)

David Mitchell

+61 2 9717 3456

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS)

Kathryn Prince

+61 2 9717 9217

Ion Beam Analysis and Irradiations

Ion Micropobe Analysis Facility (10MeV and 2MeV Accelerators)

Dr Rainer Siegele

+61 2 9717 3967

X-ray Diffraction (XRD)

Gordon Thorogood

+61 2 9717 3183

X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)

Ion Implantation - Metal Vapour Vacuum Arc Ion Source (MEVVA)

Dr Peter Evans

+61 9717 3696

Metallography laboratory

Sam Humphries

+61 2 9717 3497

Non-contact Laser Dilatometer

Deep Level Transient Spectrometer

TGA Furnace - Weight change with temperature (max 1000g sample)

Instrumented Indentation Facilities

Molten glass/ceramic/metal viscometry

Infra-red Thermal Imaging Camera

Pyrometer with auto-laser emissivity measurement

Vibrational spectroscopy

Thermal analysis (DTA/TGA, DSC)

Tensile Testing - Materials Testing

Rheology

Phil Walls

+61 2 9717 9239

Ceramics Powder Characterisation and Fabrication Facilities

Ceramics Powder Mastersizer (two systems)
Ceramics Powder Autosizer
Ceramics Powder ASAP 2400
Ceramics Powder Autopore
Ceramics Powder Multipycnometer
Ceramics THETA 160 Dilatometer
Integrated colloid characterisation

Ken Short

+61 2 9717 3459

+61 2 9717 3725

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Materials Processing

Contact

Cold-crucible melting of up to 1kg of ceramic or glass

Michael La Robina

+61 2 9717 9191

Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation (PI3)

Ken Short

+61 2 9717 3459

Cold Isostatic Pressing of materials (CIP)

Hot Isostatic Pressing of Materials (HIP)

Sam Moricca

+61 2 9717 9095

Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)

Heat treatment in air, vacuum/inert atmosphere

Melt quenching facility

Tape Casting, Dip Coating, Spin Coating, Screen printing

Clean room with controlled atmosphere, glove boxes, work stations

Gerry Triani

+61 2 9717 9070

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Remaining Life Assessment Facilities

Contact

Servo-hydraulic & screw driven testing machines

Impact testing machines for fracture toughness

Small push-pull fatigue machine

Warwick Payten

+61 2 9717 9102

Constant load creep machines for elevated temperature

Bruno Latella

+61 2 9717 3330

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Radiopharmaceutical

Radiopharmaceutical Facilities

Contact

Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratories
Radiopharmacology Laboratories
Animal House and small animals surgical capability
Sterile Room (for clinical trial prep)
Hot cells
Animal SPECT-CT Camera
Whole animal (small) microtome (wafer thin shave)
Auto radiography (with digitiser) to determine radiopharmaceutical distribution

Darren Banks

+61 2 9717 9115

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ANSTO Minerals

ANSTO Minerals - Facilities

Contact

Pilot plant facility with workshop (12 x 36 x 5 m high)
High-bay engineering facility
Mineral separation table and hydrocyclone test rig
Flotation cells
Wet chemistry laboratories
Pilot plant solvent extraction equipment
Bench scale ion exchange equipment
Hollow fibre membrane extraction rig
Continuous mini-rig mixer-settler units
Solvent extraction battery
Custom fabrication of hollow fibre membrane modules
Nanofiltration stirred cell
Nanofiltration bench scale cross-flow cell
Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)
Delayed Neutron Activation Analysis (DNAA)
X-ray Fluroescence
Magnetic, electrostatic and WHIMS separators
Wet and dry particle classifiers
Furnaces and calciners
Pressure leach autoclave
Continuous leach tank circuits
Jaw crushers, disc grinders and ball mills
Pressure and vacuum filters
pH / E_h controllers & titrators
Mixer settlers and hollow fibre rigs
Agitation equipment and vessels

ANSTO Minerals

+61 2 9717 3858

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Environment

Facility description	ANSTO Contact
Near Surface and Depth Profiling Analysis Facility (SIBA2) Multiple Surface Analysis Facility (SIBA1) Aerosol Measurement Facility (SIBA1) 10MV Tandem Accelerator - General Heavy Ion Time-of-Flight Spectrometer and Surface Analysis Facility Ion Beam Analysis Facility Ion Beam Irradiations High Energy Heavy Ion Microprobe Analysis Facility	Dr David Cohen +61 2 9717 3042
Ion Implantation Facility - Metal Vapour Vacuum Arc Ion Source (MEVVA)	Dr Peter Evans +61 2 9717 3696
C-14 AMS analysis - graphite, carbon dioxide, pre-treated, standard treatment, complex treatment C-14 high precision analysis (<0.3% precision)	Dr Geraldine Jacobsen +61 2 9717 9060
Stable isotope, delta C13 and delta N15 analysis	Alan Williams +61 2 9717 3395
Be-10 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - ice, snow, filters	Dr Andrew Smith +61 2 9717 9054
Be-10 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - BeO, quartz (in situ) Al-26 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - Al₂0_3,quartz (in situ), water	Dr David Fink +61 2 9717 3048
I-129 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - Agl, soil, sediment, biota, water U-236 target preparation, ancillary & AMS analysis - U₂O_5,soil, sediment, biota, water	Dr Mike Hotchkis +61 2 9717 3148
Environmental Radiochemistry - Geochronology Uranium/Thorium dating ²¹⁰Pb-dating dating (alpha spectrometry) ²¹⁰Pb dating (gamma spectrometry) Grain Size Analysis	Jennifer Harrison +61 2 9717 3480
Tritium - Environmental Chemistry Chemical analysis	Henri Wong +61 2 9717 3539
Radon calibration chamber Radon/radium measurement Radon/thoron emanometer Radon/radium liquid scintillation counter	Dr Wlodek Zahorowski +61 2 9717 3804
SIMS - Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry - Cameca 5f	Dr Kathryn Prince +61 2 9717 9217
Coastal research vessel	Ron Szymczak +61 2 9717 9221
Environmental radioisotope tracing facility	Dr Cath Hughes +61 2 9717 3272
Marine Radioecology Laboratory	John Twining +61 2 9717 3060

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Safety and Radiation Services

Safety and Radiation Services - Facilities	Contact
Training Services	Radiation Safety +61 2 9717 9434
Training rooms to accommodate up to 20 people
Designated Radiation Laboratory
Radioactive sources - sealed and unsealed

Radiation Services
Co-60 teletherapy unit (SSDL)	Justin Davies +61 2 9717 9002
Sr-90 check sources	Justin Davies +61 2 9717 9002
Well type chamber (brachytherapy)	Justin Davies +61 2 9717 9002
Cs-137 sources (protection level calibrations)	Stewart Gill +61 2 9717 3208
Am/Be sources (protection level neutron calibrations)	Stewart Gill +61 2 9717 3208

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Irradiation

Irradiation Services - Facilities	Contact
OPAL- Experimental Radiation Rigs & Facilities, including High Level Activity Handling	Kith Mendis +61 2 9717 7089
Gamma Technology Research Irradiator Irradiation (GATRI)	Radiation Tech +61 2 9717 3441
GammaCell irradiator	Radiation Tech +61 2 9717 3441

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Neutron Guide Hall

Neutron Guide Hall Facilities

Contact

QUOKKA: small angle neutron scattering (polymers, colloids, superconductors, defects, biology)

PLATYPUS: reflectometer (surface science, interfaces, complex fluids, magnetic films and multi-layers)

ECHIDNA: high-resolution powder diffractometer (materials science, chemistry, geosciences)

WOMBAT: high-intensity powder diffractometer (in-situ measurements, chemistry)

KOALA: quasi-Laue diffractometer (chemical crystallography, protein crystallography)

KOWARI: residual-stress diffractometer (engineering)

TAIPAN: thermal 3-axis spectrometer (condensed mater physics)

PELICAN: Time-of-flight / polarisation-analysis spectrometer (magnetism, condensed-matter physics)

SIKA: Cold 3-axis spectrometer - funded by National Science Council, Taiwan (magnetism,

condensed-matter physics)

X-ray reflectrometry

Small angle X-ray scattering

Herma Buttner

+61 2 9717 7232

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