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Here is an interesting tidbit.

April 25, 2014 - After nearly 30 years, the Nuclear Science Division has moved its Low Background Counting Facility from Lake Oroville to the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. The facility, which was housed 300 feet below ground in the Oroville dam power house, consisted of an array of eight Germanium detectors shielded by copper and lead bricks. It was designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, a rare decay mode whose observation would provide evidence that the neutrino is its own antiparticle. It was also used to search for dark matter. At SURF, the facility will be located more than a mile underground. A delegation from the Lab went to Oroville on April 21 for an appreciation ceremony.

http://today.lbl.gov/2014/04/25/low-background-counting-facility-moves-to-sanford-underground-research-facility/


3,699 posted on 05/21/2017 4:54:30 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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Interesting indeed.....

300 feet below the power house. Probably a safer location than the city of Oroville. :)


3,700 posted on 05/21/2017 6:46:20 PM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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