On August 29, 2018, the NSSA sent a letter in support of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Second Target Station proposal to various United States Government officials: Lamar Alexander, United States Senate J. Stephen Binkley, Deputy Director for Science Programs, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy Paul M. Dabbar, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy Chuck Fleischmann, United States

This letter was submitted to Paul Langan, Associate Laboratory Director for Neutron Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), on May 10th, 2017.  The letter endorses ORNL’s proposal to the Department of Energy, to increase the neutron flux at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), and argues that the competitiveness in materials research depends on the

This letter was submitted to Dr. Cherry A. Murray Director or Office of Science, US DOE. The letter expresses concern over the decline in the number of neutron facilities and urges DOE to prioritize plans for the Second Target Station at SNS and to fully utilize the existing beam ports at both SNS and HFIR.