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![]() Neutron Sciences NewsThe ORNL Neutron Sciences Directorate operates the world's highest flux reactor-based neutron source (the High Flux Isotope Reactor) and the world's most intense pulsed accelerator-based neutron source (the Spallation Neutron Source).Last Build Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:00 EDT
ORNL Director Mason talks about the future of the High Flux Isotope Reactor Last week, I talked to Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason and asked him about the status of the High Flux Isotope Reactor, which was shut down last month -- unplanned -- because of an electrical problem.
Searching for a solid that flows like a liquid "The goal of our experiments is to find this new quantum state of supersolidity. This is a challenge for theory as well as experiment," says principal investigator Hans Lauter of ORNL. "The superfluid transition we have observed in solid helium may lead to supersolid helium as a new quantum state."
Texas congressman Ralph Hall visits ORNL U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and the oldest member in Congress, was in town Tuesday for his first tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
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