Facilities

LLNL has state-of-the-art capabilities available for solving research needs in transactinium science.

NanoSIMS

NanoSIMS High resolution ultra-high sensitivity isotopic and chemical characterization at the nanoscale (50nm).

Scanning Electron Microscope

Scanning Electron Microscope Ultra-high resolution, cold field emission (FE) SEM (JEOL 7401) achieves a 1 nm resolution.

Accelerator Mass Spectrometer

Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Ion counting, backgrounds of 105 atoms for Pu ~10-5 pCi, ~10-18M.

Supercomputing

Supercomputing Advanced, atomic scale simulations computed by 81920 procssors on BlueGene/L and AMD clusters up to 13,824 processors.

Multi-collector, Plasma-source Mass Spectrometer

Multi-collector, Plasma-source Mass Spectrometer Isotopic measurement and concentration information ~10-4pCi, cheaper than AMS.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility Molecular scale information on both solutions and solids.