The interior blue doors that originally led to the “drys” where people changed from mine gear into cleanroom clothing, and those connecting to the “car wash” where material was taken in and cleaned before entering the SNO experiment.
Connections to a vacuum system for the PICO experiment.
The original main entrance “blue doors” that allowed people (smaller door, left) and equipment (larger double doors) into the SNO experiment. The pairs of doors here and down the hall form a kind of “airlock” system to keep dust from penetrating into the clean spaces that housed SNO. Now, in the expanded SNOLAB, these doors are nestled inside the much larger 5000-square-metre clean lab.
I was thrilled to be working in the 2km-deep underground laboratory yesterday. This is the flagship laboratory location for #SNOLAB
I focused on working with teams on the #cryogenic distillation column (“#Xenon Still”) and the #PICO #darkmatter […]
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