| On Sunday evening, June 1st, ACA 2008 attendees may attend an Oak Ridge
National Laboratory sponsored tour of the Spallation Neutron Source.
Pre-registration is required and a reception including hors d'oeuvres and
refreshments will be held at the site.
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| The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is a 1.4 MW accelerator-based neutron
source located near Knoxville, Tennessee. The SNS is the first of a new
generation of spallation neutron user facilities, exemplifying a significant
increase in both neutron production power and instrument technology. Currently
ramping up to full power, the SNS is already producing the world's most
intense pulsed neutron beams for materials, physics, chemistry and biological
research. The SNS is currently building and commissioning a diverse suite of
eighteen instruments for diffraction, small-angle scattering, spectroscopy
and reflectometry. These complement the scattering instruments at the
recently upgraded High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) neutron source. For more
information on both the SNS and HFIR neutron user facilities, please visit
http://neutrons.ornl.gov.
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| Registration for the tour is open to ACA 2008 attendees and exhibitors
only; there is no charge for this event. Charter buses will bring ACA 2008
participants from the Knoxville Convention Center (KCC) to the Spallation
Neutron Source and will return them to the KCC after the event. An ACA 2008
conference badge will be needed to board the buses. All participants in this
special tour will need to bring photo identification in order to have access
to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Unfortunately due to entry restrictions
and the amount of time required for approval of visitors from certain
countries, we are not be able to accept registration from any foreign
national who is born in, a citizen of, or employed/sponsored by a company
in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria.
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