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CHARM facility: successful operation restarting
At the end of the T8 line in the EAST Area, a one-of-a-kind test facility can be found. It is called CHARM, a radiation test facility dedicated to testing of electronics and systems in well characterized mixed radiation fields. The facility can replicate a wide number of radiation environments of an accelerator complex, for example…
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The HiRadMat MULTIMAT 2 test stand
In the end of September 2021 the HiRadMat experiment 57 took place. After meticulous planning and preparation, the MULTIMAT 2 experiment was installed in HiRadMat (High Irradiation to Materials), and now it is ready for an intense week of material testing. Thanks to the efforts of BE-CEM, SY-STI and EN-MME, both the test and data…
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Co60 source successfully upgraded
Last week the BE-CEM-EPR team successfully installed a new Co60 source in the CC60 facility at CERN. The installation was meticulously planned and executed with the orchestration of activities between two external companies, Radioprotection (DG-RP) and Transport (EN-HE) teams. The CC60 facility hosted already a source with an initial activity of 10TBq (in 2014, now…