Tracer laboratory

The tracer laboratory, where researches using tracer-level activities are widely carried out, is composed of a main building and its outbuilding for biological use.

The laboratory is connected to the Hot Laboratory via a pneumatic transport tube so that short-lived activities produced at the KUR can be conveyed from the Hot Laboratory to the laboratory within several seconds. The building has experimental rooms for physical, chemical, biological and materials researches, and a radioactive isotope storage room, etc. For experiments of material science, materials science and engineering, and nuclear physics, apparatuses such as an electron microscope, X-ray diffractometers, Mössbauer spectrometers, γ-rays perturbed-angular-correlation systems are available. Stainless-steel draft chambers are installed in the chemistry rooms, one of which chambers has the pneumatic transport station to accept irradiated capsules from the Hot Laboratory. In the biological rooms, equipments are installed to treat biological samples containing radioisotopes.
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Tracer laboratory