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flyingcuttlefish ago

More key words -

The Berkeley Low Background Facility (BLBF) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

highly-segmented HPGe detector at the Oroville LowBackground counting facility

http://absimage.aps.org/image/APR06/MWS_APR06-2006-000900.pdf

ALT LINK -

https://www.scribd.com/document/348932426/Berkeley-Low-Background-Facility

MAP SHOWING THE OROVILLE LAB LOCATION

https://flyingcuttlefish.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/lbnl_orovillemap.jpg

flyingcuttlefish ago

nice pictures of the facility -

https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/lowrad/_media/meeting5/keenanthomas_lbnl-lbf.pdf

PAGE 4 compares the **2 **facilities. The one that's not in the Oroville dam powerhouse is just on the Berekley campus it looks like.

So the mine experiment was a one shot deal?

flyingcuttlefish ago

This low background lab was shut down a few years ago -

"Recently, the counting system at the Oroville site was moved to the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). Counting operations at the Oroville location were shut down in early 2014 and operation at SURF began in July 2014."

page 2 -

http://fsnutown.phy.ornl.gov/fsnufiles/positionpapers/FSNu_Position_BLBF.pdf

how some of this lab works - (p. 23 mentions Oroville)

https://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1338497