en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00 EDT http://neutrons.ornl.gov/media/news/current-news.shtml The ORNL Neutron Sciences Directorate operates the world's highest flux reactor-based neutron source (the High Flux Isotope Reactor) and the world's most intense pulsed accelerator-based neutron source (the Spallation Neutron Source). webmaster@ornl.gov http://www.ornl.gov http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/rss/neutronnews.gif http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/02/ornl-director-mason-talks-hfir.html Last week, I talked to Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason and asked him about the status of the High Flux Isotope Reactor, which was shut down last month -- unplanned -- because of an electrical problem. http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-solid-liquid.html "The goal of our experiments is to find this new quantum state of supersolidity. This is a challenge for theory as well as experiment," says principal investigator Hans Lauter of ORNL. "The superfluid transition we have observed in solid helium may lead to supersolid helium as a new quantum state." http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/jan/11/texas-congressman-visits-ornl/ U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and the oldest member in Congress, was in town Tuesday for his first tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.