A symposium on Applied Neutron Scattering was held as part of the Annual UK Solid State Physics Conference at the University of Warwick on December 20, 1989. The idea was bring together scientists from industry, government laboratories and universities who were using neutrons as a non-destructive testing technique. It is appropriate that the invited talks and some of the contributed posters will be published in the ‘Journal of Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation.’