Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) was a scientific user facility at
Argonne National Laboratory for neutron scattering research. The IPNS was the world's first pulsed neutron source open to external users and started operations in 1981. The facility ceased operation in January, 2008 after the
omnibus spending bill
An omnibus spending bill is a type of bill in the United States that packages many of the smaller ordinary appropriations bills into one larger single bill that can be passed with only one vote in each house. There are twelve different ordinary a ...
forced
Basic Energy Sciences (BES) to cease IPNS operations.
References
Argonne National Laboratory
Neutron facilities
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