The Integrated Proposal Tracking System (IPTS) is the portal for users, instrument staff, and user office personnel of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, the High Flux Isotope Reactor, and the Spallation Neutron Source, to submit and track proposals. (IPTS Registration Process Help File)

Safety:

Safe operations and practices are integral to the ORNL mission, as practiced in the Integrated Safety Management System.  A user must agree to adhere to all relevant safety requirements and to complete all user training deemed necessary by a given facility.

User Agreements:

Certain agreements must be established between UT-Battelle (UTB), the manager of ORNL for USDOE, and the institutions of users of these facilities:

• Master Agreement between UTB and the user's institution
• Appendix A to the Master Agreement, between these facilities and the user's institution

(The NScD User Office and UTB Office of Technology Transfer will initiate preparation of these agreements for approved proposals,
if the agreements do not already exist.)

Intent to Publish:

As a condition for performing nonproprietary research at these facilities, the U. S. Department of Energy requires users to publish results from their research. Authorship of publications based on research from these facilities should reflect the normal considerations of recognizing collaborations. It is also important to take into account the considerable efforts of the instrument scientists in their role of designing, constructing, and/or operating the instrument and related facilities. Results are typically published in peer-reviewed journals, proceedings, or presentations at technical conferences. Proprietary users are not required to publish.

Each facility [either HFIR or SNS or both] used should be acknowledged with this required statement:
[A portion of] This Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor [and/or Spallation Neutron Source, as appropriate] was sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U. S. Department of Energy.