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Our Facilities and Labs

Zeanah Engineering Complex

Newly commissioned on-campus radiochemistry laboratory space in the Zeanah Engineering Complex includes two research labs containing a total of five radiological fume hoods and a teaching lab containing 3 radiological fume hoods dedicated to teaching radiochemistry coursework. There are also plans for a clean room space that will be capable of radiochemistry work as well.

 

Science and Engineering Research Facility

SERF is the principal building in which most of our on-campus experimental research is done. This is a modern research laboratory building that serves multiple academic units across the campus. It houses new radiochemistry laboratories constructed for Director Howard Hall in 2011-12, and these labs provide “wet” radiochemistry space with scrubbed and nuclear-grade HEPA-filtered exhaust capabilities, as well as a 750 ft2 radiochemistry instrument laboratory.

SERF 531/531A is a high-level wet lab suite of approximately 600 square feet.  This room features two radiological fumehoods, each of which is fitted with an integral chemical scrubber for the exhaust. Each hood is also HEPA filtered using individual Flanders bag-in/bag-out HEPA filter units. The effluent from the HEPA filters are monitored with a continuous air monitoring system that detects alpha, beta, and gamma radiation in the outgoing airstream.

SERF 519 is a low-level instrumentation lab of approximately 750 square feet, with a modular and reconfigurable design. SERF 519 has a ten-foot walk-in hood, and five local capture hoods on utility pods suspended from the ceiling. The instrument lab has toxic gas handling capability as well.

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s largest science laboratory has extensive capabilities in nuclear science.  ORNL operates a major research reactor, conducts research on the complete nuclear fuel cycle, and is heavily engaged in supporting US nonproliferation activities.

Y-12 National Security Complex

A major National Nuclear Security Administration production facility for the US Nuclear Weapons Program, Y-12 also supports many cooperative threat reduction programs across multiple agencies in the USG, such as physical security upgrades and training, the HEU transparency program, nuclear materials retrieval missions, etc.