Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor (IMAGE)

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor

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One of the four missions at DOE’s High Flux Isotope Reactor is neutron scattering, a research technique used to study matter at the atomic scale. These neutrons are produced at HFIR through fission, or the splitting of atoms.

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Sumner Brown Gibbs/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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