# Neutron research facility

A neutron research facility is most commonly a big laboratory operating a large-scale neutron source that provides thermal neutrons to a suite of research instruments. The neutron source usually is a research reactor or a spallation source. In some cases, a smaller facility will provide high energy neutrons (e.g. 2.5 MeV or 14 MeV fusion neutrons) using existing neutron generator technologies.

## List of neutron facilities

The following list is intended to be exhaustive and to cover active facilities as well as those that are shut down.

### Australia

* ANSTO-HIFAR Reactor, Sydney
* Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL)

### Bangladesh

* Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC)

### Canada

* NRC Canadian Neutron Beam Centre at Chalk River Laboratories
* RE-Labs Inc. – Single Event Effects Testing Services

### China

* China Spallation Neutron Source – Dongguan, Guangdong.
* CNPG – Light ion (D,T), China Institute of Atomic Energy
* HI-13 – Light ion (D,T), China Institute of Atomic Energy

### Czech Republic

* Neutron Physics Laboratory (within CANAM infrastructure)

### Denmark

* Risø (reactors 1958–2000)

### Egypt

* ETRR-1 – Nuclear Research Center, Inshas (1961–)
* ETRR-2 – Nuclear Research Center, Inshas (1997–)

### France

* ILL – Institut Laue–Langevin (1972–)
* LLB – Laboratoire Léon Brillouin at CEA Saclay
* NFS – GANIL

### Germany

* FRM I – Technical University, Garching (1957–2000)
* FRM II – Technical University, Garching (2004–)
* FRMZ –Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz (1967–)
* FRJ-2 at Forschungszentrum Jülich (1962–2006)
* Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (2005–), a virtual facility that operates instruments at other facilities (FRM II, ILL, SNS)
* FRG-1 – GKSS, Geesthacht near Hamburg (1958–2010)
* Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, formerly HMI – Hahn-Meitner-Institut

### Hungary

* KFKI Research Institutes, Budapest

### India

* Dhruva, CIRUS and Apsara: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
* KAMINI

### Indonesia

* Neutron Scattering Laboratory – National Nuclear Energy Agency [id] (BATAN)

### Japan

* JAERI – Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
* KENS – High Energy Accelerator Organisation, KEK
* KURRI – Research Reactor Institute (Kyoto)
* JSNS – (part of the Japan proton accelerator research complex (J-PARC)

### Netherlands

* RID – Reactor Institute Delft, Delft University of Technology

### Norway

* IFE – Jeep 2 reactor at Kjeller Institute for Energy Technology

### Poland

* Maria reactor – POLATOM Institute of Nuclear Energy, Świerk-Otwock
* Ewa reactor – POLATOM Institute of Nuclear Energy, Świerk-Otwock (1958–1995)

### Russia

* IBR Fast Pulsed Reactors (Dubna)
* JINR – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
* Gatchina

### South Africa

* NECSA SAFARI-1

### South Korea

* High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor (HANARO) – Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)

### Sweden

* NFL – Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory, Studsvik
* ESS – European Spallation Source (project)

### Switzerland

* SINQ@PSI – Paul Scherrer Institute
* UCN@PSI – Paul Scherrer Institute – Ultra Cold Neutron Source
* n_TOF – CERN

### Ukraine

* Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology neutron source facility [uk]

### United Kingdom

* DIDO
* ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire

### United States

* HFBR – High Flux Beam Reactor, Brookhaven (1965–1996)
* IPNS – Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory (1981–2008)
* LANSCE – Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (Los Alamos)
* LENS – Low Energy Neutron Source, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
* NIST – Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg near Washington D.C.
* NSL – Neutron Science Laboratory, University of Michigan College of Engineering.
* HFIR – High Flux Isotope Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* SNS – Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* MURR – University of Missouri Research Reactor, Columbia, MO.
* MNRC – MacClellan Nuclear Research Center, Sacramento, CA.
* RPI LINAC - Rensselaer Gaerttner LINAC Center, Troy, NY.