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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to a number of highly sophisticated experimental user facilities. These research laboratories are designed to serve laboratory researchers, engineers, and technical staff, as well as external researchers from universities, industries, foreign institutions and other government laboratories. The state-of-the-art facilities are shared with the scientific and technical community, providing the use of unique and specialized technology, equipment and instrumentation.

To discover the capabilities of the ORNL user facilities, use the search tools to locate a user facility by name, discipline or equipment/process. The search results will provide a brief description of the facility and a link to the website where additional information may be obtained.

Access to the ORNL user facilities is through the review and approval of user proposals which depends on the scientific merit, suitability of the user facilities and the appropriateness of the work to DOE objectives; and a signed user agreement and Appendix A for the facility. For additional information on becoming a facility user, please select Become a User.

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