Irradiation Facilities at Sandia National Laboratories

Facility name: Sandia National Laboratories
Name of the institute: University of New Mexico
Machine type: Cobalt/Cesium source, Annular Core Research Reactor
Type, flux and energy of available particles:

Energy range Neutron fluence (n/cm²/MJ)

All Energies 1.9E13

< 1 eV 2.3E12

> 10 keV 1.2E13

> 3 MeV 1.0E12

1 MeV Si equiv. 8.9E12

Gammas
10 kCurie Co-60 source array, uniform 100 rad/sec in an area of 6" x 6"
100 kCurie Co-60 array, 550 rad/sec in an area of diameter 7.75"
20 kCurie Co-60 array, approx. uniform 70 rad/sec over an area of 4" x 4"
8.8 Curie Cs-138 point source, max 17 rad/hour

More details can be obtained in the following post-script document.
Other services:
Alinene-based and standard thermoluminescent dosimetry are available for gamma irradiation, and nickel-foil activation dosimetry is used for high fluence neutron irradiation.
Availability:
Use of the cesium source is $100/day. Use of the cobalt arrays is $175/hour. If a user purchases 8 sequential hours ($1400) of manned time on the cobalt arrays, the subsequent 16 unmanned overnight hours are free of charge. The official fee rate for use of the reactor is $1750/hour. The official length of a day of use is 8 hours, although 10 hour runs may be negotiated. Use of the reactor for any part of a day requires approximately 1 hour of setup time, the cost of which is also $1750/hour. Discussions with the Facilities Manager and the Facilities Supervisor indicate that it may be possible to negotiate a substantially lower cost per hour if the user anticipates a long- term irradiation program.
WEB site: http://www.sandia.gov/
Contact person: Sally Seidel

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Energy range		Neutron fluence (n/cm²/MJ)
All Energies		1.9E13
< 1 eV		2.3E12
> 10 keV		1.2E13
> 3 MeV		1.0E12
1 MeV Si equiv.		8.9E12