Boeing Radiation Effects Laboratory

Simulation Facilities

On-site Simulation Facilities

Radiation/Environment	Simulator	Irradiation Rate
Electrons	Linear Accelerator Flash x-ray Dynamitron Van de Graaff	1.0(10)¹¹ rad(Si)/s > 1.0(10)¹² rad(Si)/s > 1.0(10)⁶ rad(Si)/s [see specs]
x-rays	Linear Accelerator Flash x-ray	5.0(10)⁶ rad(Si)/s 5.0(10)¹¹ rad(Si)/s
Protons	Dynamitron	> 1.0(10)⁶ rad(Si)/s
Neutrons	Neutron Generator	1.0(10)¹⁰ n/cm²-s
Cobalt-60	Gammacell 220 Shepherd Gamma Irradiator Gamma Vault	< ~175 rad(Si)/s < ~100 rad(Si)/s [see specs]
Other Miscellaneous...	Cf-252 SEE Test Chamber CRETC Nd:YAG Picosecond Laser	10² particles/cm²-s (typ) [see specs] [see specs]

Off-site SEE Facilities

Heavy Ions

88-inch Cyclotron at University of California Lawrence-Berkeley Lab.
Tandem Van de Graaff at University of Washington Nuclear Physics Lab.

Protons

Harvard Cyclotron
University of California at Davis Cyclotron

Atmospheric Neutrons

Weapons Neutron Research Facility at Los Alamos National Lab.

1 MeV Equivalent Neutrons

Sandia SPR-III Reactor, Albuquerque, NM

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