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Upton, NY., U.S.A. 



HIGH FLUX BEAM REACTOR (HFBR) 

 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) 

 U.S. Dept. of Energy 



"Big Science" Descriptor : Materials science and engineering 



Description of Facility/Instrument : This facility Is a high flux 



(about 10^^ neutron/cm'^/second) beam reactor used for neutron 



scattering, positron source, nuclear physics, Irradiation, and 

 Isotope production. 



Date of Construction ; 1965 



Construction Cost ; Original : $12.5 million 



1984 $$ ; $52.1 million 



Present International Cooperation 



Natlonallty(s) of Ownership : U.S. 

 Natlonality(s) of Operational Funding ; U.S. 

 Natlonallty(s) of Management Staff : U.S. 

 Nationality(s) of Researchers: 80 percent U.S. 



Upton, NY., U.S.A. 



NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE (NSLS) 

 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) 

 U.S. Dept. of Energy 



"Big Science" Descriptor : Materials science 



Description of Facility/Instrument : This is a vacuum ultraviolet 

 source and an x-ray ring with insertion devices. About 100 

 separate experiments for biological, medical, chemical, atomic 

 physics, and materials sciences are conducted. The ring energies 

 are 0.75 GeV and 2.5 GeV and were commissioned in April 1984 and 

 July 1985, respectively. 



Date of Construction ; 1981 



Construction Cost : Original ; $24 million 



1984 $$ ; $29.5 million 



Present International Cooperation 



Natlonallty(s) of Ownership ; U.S. 

 Nationallty(s) of Operational Funding : U.S. 

 Nationality(s) of Management Staff : U.S. 



Nationallty(s) of Researchers : Primarily U.S. with occasional 

 foreign collaborators. 



There are numerous International collaborative research 

 programs conducted at this facility. 



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