Imaging Center
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
NEUTRON IMAGING AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING
See what X-rays can't
A commercial neutron-based imaging facility providing nondestructive testing for aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
We inspect critical parts like turbine blades in high-performance jet engines, the explosive charges that fire an ejection seat, separation charges on spacecraft.
Getting this view of critical components has historically meant waiting on a research reactor. We’ve offered neutron imaging as a commercial service since 2019, without one.
Key Facility Stats
Primary Product
Neutron radiography, neutron CT
Status
Operational since 2019
Distinction
Certification
ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100 Rev D
Customers
Aerospace, defense, semiconductor and advanced
manufacturing
Fast, reliable neutron imaging
INSIDE THE IMAGING CENTER
Tour our commercial neutron imaging facility
Step onto the Heliopolis floor and see how SHINE’s Systems and Manufacturing Team designs, builds and tests complete fusion systems and the critical components that power them.
PHOTO GALLERY
Inside the Imaging Center
FACILITY CAPABILITIES
Built to see inside the parts that can't fail
Turbine blade castings
We image blades for high-performance jet engines, where neutron radiography is required. Foundries run around the clock, and we’re set up to keep pace.
Neutron imaging, 2D and 3D
Flat images and full 3D scans, on film or digital. We were among the first companies to offer neutron CT commercially.
Cleared for critical work
ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified, with NDT technicians qualified to NAS410 and authorization to store energetic material on site.
Energetics at national scale
We hold higher energetics possession limits than reactor facilities, meaning more parts on site at once, fewer shipments and faster turnaround.
Category I image quality
Our beamlines meet ASTM Category I, the highest image quality classification. Film is certified to ASTM E-545 and E-748.
Better than 99% uptime
No outage season and no scheduled shutdowns. We can power down for service and be running again the same day.
Purpose-built for inspection
Neutron imaging has long depended on a shrinking pool of research reactors — facilities that deliver excellent images but operate on academic and government schedules, with outages, security screening and shipping restrictions built into every job. This facility was designed for commercial inspection — no reactor queue, less logistics overhead, and parts back to the customer faster.
Research reactors have a queue. We have a schedule.
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Imaging Center in the news
FACILITIES
One platform, multiple facilities
Across our facilities, the same core capabilities support fusion-system development, neutron testing, medical-isotope production, radiochemistry and commercial operations.
Janesville, Wisconsin
Once complete, we expect Chrysalis to be among the largest medical isotope production facilities of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) in the world. Producing it in the U.S. with fusion-driven technology, our facility will close a supply gap left by end-of-life reactors overseas and ease real shortages for hospitals.
Janesville, Wisconsin
Cassiopeia produces Ilumira, our non-carrier-added lutetium-177 for cancer treatment. Ilumira’s consistently high quality supports precise, reliable dosing for treatment programs worldwide.
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Heliopolis is our 47,500 square-foot manufacturing site in Fitchburg, Wis. This is where we design, build and test entire first-of-a-kind fusion systems. Electromagnets, ion sources, tritium handling equipment — if it doesn’t exist yet, we build it here.
Janesville, Wisconsin
Building One runs our radiation effects testing system at approximately 46 trillion fusion reactions per second. Aerospace and defense customers test how their electronics hold up under radiation here, while our radiochemists develop the separation science behind our isotopes and fuel recycling.
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Our imaging center uses neutron radiography and CT to see inside components and catch flaws invisible to X-rays. We’re one of a limited number of commercial facilities worldwide that can do this without relying on a nuclear reactor.
North Billerica, Massachusetts
Our Isotope Delivery Campus produces and distributes SPECT imaging agents that support millions of diagnostic procedures annually for cardiac, pulmonary, thyroid and other applications for hospitals and imaging centers across North America.