NIPPONIA
NIPPONIA No.23 December 15, 2002
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Special Feature*
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Ceiling of lab dome (1 below). Workers wear clean suits to avoid carrying in microscopic amounts of radiated matter found in dust.
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Passageway (near 9 below) leading to the water and liquid scintillator purification system (10 and 11 below).
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Entrance to the lab dome (near 6 below).
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Data analysis room (7 below).
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KamLAND (Kamioka Liquid scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector)
1 Lab dome 2 Ultra-pure water cosmic ray detector 3 Scintillation light detector 4 Balloon for liquid scintillator 5 Photomultiplier 6 Electric circuit clean room 7 Room for data collection and analysis 8 Air purification system and nitrogen gas circulation system 9 Power supply room 10 Ultra-pure water production system 11 Liquid scintillator purification system
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