Researchers also use the reactor's neutron production for neutron scattering analysis, a technique
pioneered at its predecessor ORNL reactors, the Graphite Reactor and the Oak Ridge Research Reactor.
These
pioneering performances are the overlooked
predecessors of relational aesthetics that developed in the 1990s — when Rirkrit Tiravanija served food in a gallery, for instance, or Santiago Sierra paid a small group of homeless women the price of a night in a hostel to stand facing a wall in the Turbine Hall
at Tate Modern for a single day in 2008.