The national institute of standards and technology center for neutron research (NCNR)

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) through its Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) operates the 20 MW research reactor at its Gaithersburg, Maryland site as a national facility, which is also available to non-U.S. users. The reactor, which has been in routine operation since 1969, supports a broad range of research activities. These include diffraction, inelastic scattering, activation analysis, depth-profiling, interferometry, and fundamental physics measurements. The NIST facilities were described in earlier issues of Narrron News [1,2], so that the present report is intended to be an update. More complete descriptions can also be found at http://www.ncnr.nist.gov.