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91: 29: 262:. The main cyclotron, is a K = 200 open sector cyclotron (OSS) and is fed by two pre-accelerators. The OSS is designed to produce protons at 200MeV. The preamplifiers are solid pole cyclotrons (SPS) and produce 8MeV proton beams. 427: 254:
The main plant near Cape Town houses a number of accelerators that are used for various research purposes. Materials and biological studies are mainly served by a
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experiments, development of new accelerator technology and the real-time treatment of cancer patients through proton and neutron therapy.
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in 2014. In 2018 a conference was held to mark ten years of a collaboration programme with
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unit was opened by South Africa's Science and Technology Minister
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South African laboratory for accelerator-based sciences
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Cape Town
South Africa
34°01′30″S 18°42′58″E / 34.025°S 18.716°E / -34.025; 18.716
National Research Foundation
tlabs.ac.za
Xhosa
lit.
Faure
Cape Town
Wits Campus in Johannesburg
particle accelerators
medical radioisotopes
nuclear fission
mass spectrometry
Naledi Pandor
CERN
Van der Graaff accelerator
cyclotrons
"Africa's first accelerator mass spectrometry lab unveiled"
"SA physicists benefiting from European nuclear research collaboration"
"Cape Town lab commissions cyclotron to manufacture FDG"
"10 years of South African collaboration with CERN"
"SOUTH AFRICA: Universities prepare for nuclear future"
"SA crunches into the collider data grid"
"South Africa emerges as leading global nuclear medicine supplier"
"Nuclear programme aims to create thinkers, problem solvers"
http://tlabs.ac.za/
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Nuclear technology in South Africa

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