The laboratory is located on the West Campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

[2] Funding for TUNL comes primarily from the United States Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics.

[3] TUNL also conducts applied research, investigating the applications of nuclear physics to topics such as National security, Public health, and Plant physiology.

[6] An FN Tandem Van de Graaff Generator with a maximum terminal voltage of 10 Mega Volts.

[4] The proton and neutron beams produced at the Tandem Laboratory are available either polarized or unpolarized depending on the experiment requirements.

[2] Research at Tandem includes few-nucleon dynamics, 2-nucleon transfer reactions, and neutron multiplication.

[3] The two accelerators housed at LENA combine to cover the entire range of energy values up to 1 MeV and produce beams that are both stable and intense.

[10] The lab focuses on light ion beams with high current that are optimized for applications to nuclear astrophysics.

[2] Research topics at LENA include the nuclear reactions that drive astrophysical processes such as Stellar evolution, Novae, and X-ray bursts.

[11] Graduates George A. Keyworth II and John H. Gibbons served as presidential science advisers to presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton respectively.

[7] One component of undergraduate education provided by TUNL is the TUNL/Duke Research Experiences for Undergraduates, a ten-week program funded by the National Science Foundation offered during the summer with locations on TUNL's campus as well as a limited number of positions at CERN.