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Tours
Wednesday Excursion:
Wednesday morning at 8:30, we will board tour buses rather than hitting our lecture hall. The buses will climb up through forest-covered, steep, winding mountain roads and unload us at the Clingman's Dome parking lot. A short walk up to the viewing terrace will reveal the commanding, panoramic view from the second-highest point east of the Mississippi. A calm, sunny day has been requested from the local weather service for those who will forget the wind-breakers and rain gear.
 
For more information visit www.clingmansdome.com/ or www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/clingmansdome.htm or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clingmans_Dome
During our bus rides up and down the Clingman's Dome Road, local guides will tell us about the uniqueness of this area. We will return back to Gatlinburg shortly before noon, where we will drop off the local guides, as well as participants that have not preregistered for the ORNL tour. Advanced registration for the ORNL tour is required to comply with the DOE security regulations for the ORNL research campus.
The tour buses will immediately continue on to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After passing security, we will enter the ORNL Visitor Center, where we will enjoy a box lunch in the Tennessee rooms. While we eat, we'll learn how the SNS accelerator was ramped up to ~1MW, with a significant contribution coming from the ion source, which had to be ramped up to yield LINAC beam currents of 38 mA after yielding only ~13 mA in 2007.
In the afternoon we will visit 3 stations*: Some of us will first visit the Central Office and Lab Building, where we can view a 1 MW spare target, the Central Control Room, and a slew of neutron instruments. Another group will start their tour on the SNS Front End where the H- ions are produced and the ion sources are refurbished and tested. The third group will start their tour at the Historic Landmark Graphite Reactor on the main ORNL campus, the first continuously-operating reactor in the US.
  
For more information visit http://neutrons.ornl.gov/facilities/facilities_sns.shtml and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-10_Graphite_Reactor.
After visiting all three stations, the buses will return us to Park Vista Hotel in Gatlinburg, TN for a free evening.
* Safety concerns and time constraints did not allow us to include in the tour some of other famous source facilities at ORNL. If you are interested in another facility, you should phone or email your contact person at this facility as soon as possible. They may be able to arrange a private visit before, during, or after the ICIS '09.
For the ORNL Multicharged Ion Research Facility (MIRF), contact Fred Meyer meyerfw@ornl.gov http://www.phy.ornl.gov/atomic/MIRF/Mainmenu.htm.
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