• Question: Have you ever done any work at the Rutherford lab?

    Asked by John Seymour to Stevie, Andrew, Dona, Liena, Sandra on 9 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Steven Wray

      Steven Wray answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Sorry, I haven’t! But I have visited the site it’s on, Harwell campus. Namely I’ve been to the Diamond Light Source at Harwell which is a particle accelerator (a synchrotron to be specific) used to make x-rays. The x-rays are then used to look at things on a really small scale.

      They have some cool power supplies like we do at CCFE where I work; but they have to keep their machine running 24/7 whereas we run on 60 second pulses every 20 minutes or so.

    • Photo: Andrew Allan

      Andrew Allan answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      No, sadly not!

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