Australia's only multi-purpose research reactor, #OPAL, is getting an #upgrade in 2024.⚛️ Follow the journey as our team prepares for the complex process of replacing the cold neutron source and increasing research performance. Subscribe for updates: ansto.gov.au/form/opal-shut…

Merry Christmas! Like millions of Canadians, my family is excited to gather around the Christmas tree and spend some quality time together. And as we look ahead to the new year, we’re also wishing you joy, health, love, and peace. bit.ly/3PVkmt0

Back home on Christmas Day 🇨🇦 This year has been a rollercoaster of surprises. Joy and sadness, laughter and tears and love. Happy holidays! #Christmas #Toronto #Skyline #WinterStorm

Tulip Sadiq asks the prime minister about the welfare of 200 unaccompanied migrant children who’ve gone missing. Tory MP Jonathan Gullis heckles ‘well they shouldn’t have come here illegally’. Just when you think you’ve heard it all, the Tory Party find a new low #PMQs

Hello Canada! 🇨🇦 A few things you might not know about the pandemic... 🧵 1/

Exciting news! Heading to Japan to conduct the first animal trials for ANSTO's #innovative NCEPT. It's been 5 yrs in the making and I'm both thrilled and nervous. Can't wait to see the results! ✈️⚕️🧬🐭 #NCEPT #animaltrials #Japan #science #excited #nervous #Cancer #Pediatric

"Konnichiwa from Japan! 🇯🇵 Exciting times as we've landed at #HIMAC and caught up with our amazing Japanese collaborators. Busy prepping for experiments, but never too busy for some delicious food and good company. 🍱🤝 #collaboration #science #Japan #NCEPT #food #STEM #Travel

Breaking News! We've completed a major milestone in cancer treatment by successfully delivering in vivo NCEPT with helium ions. Neutron capture + particle therapy in animal model for the 1st time ever! Exciting world-first trials underway. #CancerTreatment #NCEPT #ParticleTherapy

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 3 days after experiments: our mice are healthy with no weight change. We're monitoring tumour size & have to wait another week to see if there's a difference between groups. Stay tuned for more updates! #CancerResearch #radiotherapy #ncept

Good heavens, this is beyond awful.

🎉 Celebrating 70yrs of nuclear science and technology capabilities in Australia at the IAEA Board of Governors! Grateful for our long-standing partnership with IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ in promoting the benefits of ANSTO's key activities in theranostics and marine plastics research. #IAEA #ANSTO

On this #InternationalWomensDay I’d like to share the stories of four women determined to make the world a better place #IWD2023

Lest we need reminding, here’s a cutting from The Daily Mail in 1938.

Yesterday, Ranga Dias made new superconductivity claims. I spent the last month investigating allegations of data manipulation in the retracted 2020 CSH paper which claimed to observe the first room-temperature superconductor. physics.aps.org/articles/v16/40

Visiting the Australian Synchrotron in Clayton, one of the country’s most significant pieces of scientific infrastructure. Helping scientists & researchers see the invisible, it is the only synchrotron in Australia and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere ANSTO Australian Synchrotron

This is dynamite from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports News. Absolutely nails it. He has the Tories and BBC on toast. Well done!! 👏 Take 2 mins and watch👇#garylineker #ImWithGary #MOTD #ToryFascists

Meeting wrap up on to the announcement

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Today we celebrate 65 years since the official opening of Australia’s first nuclear research reactor HIFAR in 1958 ansto.gov.au/news/today-we-…

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