Community Activities

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.

NSSA sponsored symposium BBB (Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials – Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies) at the 2015 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston, Nov. 29th – Dec. 4th 2015. The following flyer was distributed at this meeting: NSSA_MRS Flyer Summary of the symposium 

NSSA was a sponsor for the Neutron Scattering Gordon Research Conference held in Hong Kong, June 21-26, 2015.  The topic of the conference was “Effect of Disorder and Disordered Materials” and the conference web site can he found here. NSSA sponsorship primarily supported early career participation by US researchers attending the meeting.

The following letter was sent by NSSA to Dr. Kurt Schoenberg, LANSCE User Facility Director, on behalf of the neutron scattering community supporting the Lujan Center: Letter to Dr. Kurt Schoenberg

The Neutron Scattering Society of America regrets the proposal of the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, to cease funding of the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center user program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. For the past two decades, the Lujan Center, operated through a partnership between the NNSA and BES, has