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Image File: 97502271
Title: Bevalac medical facility in operation
Description: 'Submarine' device exposes cultered human kidney cells to the heavy ion beam to measure the effects. Growing cell colonies are lined up on glass disks and immersed in a nutrient solution inside the submarine, which then absorbs radiation much like a biological tissue would. The Bevalac began operation on August 1, 1974, and for a long time was the most powerful heavy ion accelerator in the world. In the Bevalac, the Bevatron was linked to the SuperHILAC linear accelerator. Nuclei began their journey in the SuperHILAC and then were passed through a transfer line to the Bevatron, where they were accelerated almost to the speed of light. With the later addition of an improved vacuum system and other modifications, the Bevalac became the only machine the world capable of accelerating all of the elements of the periodic table to relativistic energies. The Bevalac finally ceased operations on February 21, 1993. - JG
Citation Caption: Magnet, Vol.19, No.4, April 1975, p. 3
Date: 9/72
TEID Doc ID: XBD9705-02271.TIF