AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OPENS NEW CLEANROOM FOR NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION TESTS
December 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA's Kansas State University has opened a new USD3 million cleanroom designed to help research and develop innovative radiation detectors. It will also help design mass production processes able to make such detectors at affordable prices. Located in the university's Semiconductor Materials and Radiological Technologies Laboratory (SMART), the cleanroom was built with the help of USD2.5 million in grants from the US defence department's defence threat reduction agency. The laboratory will help the department organise large-scale production ...
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