SNS Partnerships
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The 80-acre SNS site is located on Chestnut Ridge and is part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The curved building in front is the Central Laboratory and Office Building (CLO); to the right is the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. The rectangular building behind the CLO is the Target Building. Most of the accelerator systems are underground.
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The
construction of SNS was a partnership of six U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories:
Argonne, Brookhaven, Jefferson, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, and
Oak Ridge. This collaboration was one of the largest of its kind in U.S. scientific history and was used to bring together the best minds and experience from many different fields.
At full power, the SNS accelerator
systems will deliver two megawatts
(2 MW) of beam power to its liquid
mercury target and has been designed
with the flexibility to provide additional
scientific output in the future. This
approach was intended to provide a
facility that will meet the neutron
intensity needs of the science community
for many decades to come.
More about
each lab's role in the construction
of SNS:
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