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2 General Assessment of the NIST Center for Neutron Research
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... at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the approaching 10.5-month shutdown of the NCNR facility for upgrades and the installation of a new guide hall and new instruments.
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... The maintaining of direct control of the Expansion Project and restart by the Director of the NCNR should enable rapid response to and mitigation of potential challenges for a timely restart. COMPARISON OF THE CENTER WITH OTHER USER FACILITIES The comparison between reactor sources and continuous and pulsed spallation sources is technically complicated by different power and neutron flux issues, since continuous and pulsed flux optimize different experiments.
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... The NCNR oversubscription rates by beam line are in a healthy range, averaging 2.2 over the facility, indicative of a robust and vibrant user community. To provide a means to evaluate the NCNR relative to other comparable user facilities and to allow for a straightforward and direct comparison, the average number of beam days that a user team requires in order to develop a publication was considered here.
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... Accessed June 30, 2011.  HFIR and SNS: Allen Ekkebus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL Neutron Sciences, Neutron Review, ORNL/TM-2011/88, April 2011.
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... 5 Colin Carlisle, Director of the ESS Scandinavia Secretariat Lund, personal communication to the panel, March 23, 2011.
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