Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor
The Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL) is a 20 megawatt (MW) swimming pool nuclear research reactor. Officially opened in April 2007, it replaced the High Flux Australian Reactor as Australia's only nuclear reactor, and is located at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Research Establishment in Lucas Heights, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Both OPAL and its predecessor have been commonly known simply as the Lucas Heights reactor.
The OPAL reactor pools. Made of stainless steel and 4.5-metre (15 ft) wide, it contains demineralised water used for shielding and cooling.
Engineering drawing of the ECHIDNA High-Resolution Powder Diffractometer (August 2003)
The Ge-115 monochromator has been acquired from the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Research reactors are nuclear fission-based nuclear reactors that serve primarily as a neutron source. They are also called non-power reactors, in contrast to power reactors that are used for electricity production, heat generation, or maritime propulsion.
The CROCUS research reactor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland.