The Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) now classifies the reportable event "Annual licensed value for the discharge of the nuclide C-14 exceeded" of May 14, 2020 into level 1 of the INES scale. [read more]

Reason to celebrate at MLZ: With their work on a new material for power plant turbines, scientists won the award for the best publication in the "International Journal of Materials Research" of 2019. [read more]

The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum has given itself a new slogan: "Neutrons for Research and Innovation" is what the cooperation between the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Forschungszentrum Jülich and Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) makes available to visiting scientists from all over the… [read more]

At the end of 2019, the neutron source used for materials research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) was shut down as planned. Now the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) in Munich is taking over two scientific instruments from the HZB. The Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMBF) is… [read more]

Under normal conditions, the 405 registered participants of the MLZ User Meeting and the DN2020 would have met at a conference hotel in Munich downtown and enjoyed discussions, networking, and just chatting with old friends during a poster session with beer and pretzels between Dec. 8th-10th.… [read more]

Dr. Sabrina Disch is the winner of the Wolfram-Prandl-Prize 2020 for young scientists. The German Committee Research with Neutrons (KFN) awarded the prize on the occasion of the German Conference Neutron Scattering Conference (DN2020) today, organized by the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum together… [read more]

If the fuel element is the heart of the reactor, then the control room is its brain. It is where the reactor operators sit monitoring and controlling all processes. In September, reactor operators and shift supervisors of the Isar nuclear power plant (KKI) visited the research neutron source Heinz… [read more]

Scientists of the Technical University Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich investigated frustrated quantum magnets with neutron scattering at the MLZ. They published their results in the prominent journal “Annalen der Physik” – a showcase for luminaries such as… [read more]

Portuguese scientists have analyzed lichens from areas with traditional charcoal production for the first time with the help of the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Lichens located near areas of charcoal production contained more than… [read more]