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News: Presentation on Sequoia Detector Vessel at APENS Annual General Meeting
September 6, 2010
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Grantec's Richard M. Grant, M.Eng., P.Eng. will speak on the design and analysis of the Sequoia Detector Vessel at Engineers Nova Scotia (APENS) Annual General Meeting to be held at the Old Orchard Inn in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Presentation Date/Time: September 16, 2010, 10:45 am to 11:45 am Richard Grant is the recipient of Engineers Nova Scotia 2010 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Excellence in Engineering. The Sequoia Detector Vessel and the associated Sample Vessel, form the primary neutron containment envelope for the Sequoia Fine-Resolution Fermi Chopper Spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Sequoia Detector Vessel is considered to be one of the largest vacuum chambers in North America and is the largest vacuum chamber at any neutron scattering facility in the world. Grantec's work for the Sequoia vessels is featured in the March 2009 edition of the Business Excellence (Boston, MA) magazine and the Spring 2009 edition of The Engineer (published by Engineers Nova Scotia). |
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Download The Engineer article: Spallation Neutron Source: Sequoia Detector Vessel