Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) located in Oxfordshire near Didcot is a world-class UK research institution part of the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CLRC). RAL has a staff of around 1200 who support the work of over 10 000 scientists and engineers, mainly from the university research community. Its main facilities enable research into new materials and structures, for example from battery electrolytes to turbine blades, X-ray laser research, space-based astronomy, the coordination of particle physics and many other topics.