The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is homing in on this year's completion, with focus being directed to the neutron analysis facility's scientific instruments. The SNS's instrument team has successfully installed the liquids reflectometer incident arm, goniostat and detector arm in one of its beam lines. A goniostat is a mechanism capable of more than two dozen precision motions, which will be required to position the instrument's detector arm and sample arm for performing neutron analysis. These advanced devices are indicative of the SNS's inclusion of state-of-the-art instrumentation and robotics to accomplish its neutron science mission. The SNS remains on budget and on target for completion this year.
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