ANS presenting Historic Landmark Award to Argonne's IPNS facility
The ANS Historic Landmark Award identifies and memorializes sites or facilities where outstanding physical accomplishments instrumental in the development and implementation of, and the peaceful uses of, nuclear technology took place.
IPNS, a pulsed spallation neutron source sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, has served the scientific community with effective and efficient slow-neutron scattering capabilities since 1981. It functions as a national user facility, and accepts proposals from the world community of chemists, materials scientists, physicists, biologists and engineers.
Nearly 250 various scientists from around the world visit IPNS each year, completing approximately 400 experiments and producing 150 publications annually.
The IPNS has achieved a remarkable lifetime-average record of reliability of more than 95 percent.
IPNS was a trailblazer in the new generation of neutron research facilities, and it continues to serve science as the community grows into new installations.
The ANS Historic Landmark Award has been presented to 56 sites and facilities since 1985, and has recognized nuclear achievements across the globe such as the Experimental Breeder Reactor I in 1985, the High Flux Beam Reactor in 1987 and France?s first nuclear reactor, ZOE, in 1994.
The award will be presented at 2:30 p.m., May 13 in Building 600 at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill.
All persons attending the award presentation must obtain security clearances at Argonne. Please contact ANS at 708-579-8224 for directions on gaining access at Argonne, or to learn more about the ANS Historic Landmark Award and the IPNS.
For a complete list of all ANS Historic Landmark Award recipients, go to http://www.ans.org/honors/recipients/award.cgi?id=nuclandmark.
