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There are many facilities offering device irradiation services that are useful for soft-error testing. The list below includes a number of sites that have expressed a willingness to host soft-error testing. The capabilities of the facility and a contact person are included in the list. Although efforts are made to maintain this list, please contact the facility directly to confirm information. Report any discrepancies that you find to facilities@seutest.com.

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Contents 1 High Energy Neutron 2 Proton Beam 3 Thermal Neutron 4 Quasi-monoenergetic Neutron Sources 5 Low Energy Neutron Sources 6 Deep Underground Test Sites 7 High altitude Test Sites 8 Heavy Ion Beam Facilities 9 Old taxonomy 9.1 North American Beam Facilities 9.2 European and Japanese Beam Facilities 9.3 Original Facilities Lists 9.4 Additions

High Energy Neutron

• Los Alamos Neutron Science Center Los Alamos, NM, USA - Wide spectrum (thermal to 800 MeV) neutron source from tungsten spallation.

• TRIUMF Proton and Neutron Irradiation Facility Vancouver, BC, Canada - Neutrons from spallation reactions with 400 MeV protons.

• ISIS - Rutherford Appleton Laboratories Oxford, UK - Wide spectrum (thermal to 800MeV) neutron source

• US Naval Academy Annapolis, MD, USA - 14.3 MeV (d, t) and 2.5 MeV (d, d) neutron generators.

Proton Beam

• Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center Boston, MA, USA - Formerly the Northeast Proton Therapy Center. 230 MeV monoenergetic protons from cyclotron source.

• TRIUMF Proton and Neutron Irradiation Facility Vancouver, BC, Canada - 400 MeV protons.

Thermal Neutron

• NIST Center for Neutron Research Gaithersburg, MD, USA - Neutrons from 0.025 eV thermals to 6 MeV, reactor source.

• US Naval Academy Annapolis, MD, USA - reactor source

Quasi-monoenergetic Neutron Sources

Berkeley Accelerator Space Effect Facility Berkeley, CA, USA - White / Quasi-monoenergetic neutrons from deuteron breakup source.

Crocker Nuclear Laboratory Sacramento, CA, USA - Quasi-monoenergetic neutrons from Li(p,n) and Be(p,n) reactions.

CYCLONE Louvain la Neuve, Belgium - Quasi monoenergetic neutrons from ⁷Li(p,n) reaction.

Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Bloomington, IN, USA - Quasi-monoenergetic neutrons from ⁹Be(p,n) reaction.

The Svedberg Laboratory Uppsala, Sweden - Quasi-monoenergetic neutrons from 22 to 173 MeV.

Low Energy Neutron Sources

Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston, UK - 14 MeV neutrons from D-T reaction.

Boeing Radiation Effect Laboratory Seattle, WA, USA - 14 MeV Monoenergetic neutrons from D-T reaction.

Fast Neutron Laboratory Sendai, Japan - Mono-energetic neutrons from 8 KeV to 15 MeV.

National Physical Laboratory Teddington, UK - Monoenergetic 18 MeV neutrons from Van de Graaff source.

Deep Underground Test Sites

Testing at a deep underground site is useful for studying the effect of alpha particles emitted from packaging materials without interference from the cosmic ray background.

Tower-Soudan Mine, Soudan, MN, USA - Deep underground physics laboratory

Laboratoire Bas Bruit de Rustrel Pays d'Apt, -500m, Ultra Low Noise Laboratory part of the University of Nice, ex-french nuclear force headquarter "le plateau d'Albion", Rustrel in Luberon-Provence, at 60km from Avignon, France. The Laboratory is part of the Cote d'Azur Observatory, the CNRS and the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis. Initially designed by the Air Force, the site is fully hardened.

Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, -1700m, -5600ft, ultra low radioactivity, laboratory managed by both French institutions Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), in the Fréjus road tunnel between France and Italy, 87 miles away from Grenoble, France

High altitude Test Sites

Pic du Midi, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, 2800-2900m - near Tarbes, part of the University Paul Sabatier, at 150km from Toulouse, France.

Altitude SEE Test European Platform (ASTEP), Plateau de Bure, +2552m, +8300ft, laboratory managed by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Saint-Etienne en Devoluy, 54 miles from Grenoble, France.

Heavy Ion Beam Facilities

Heavy ion beams are used for aerospace applications and device model calibration.

Brookhaven, NY, USA - Tandem Van de Graff accelerator

Old taxonomy

North American Beam Facilities

TAMU Texas A&M University Cyclotron

European and Japanese Beam Facilities

Proton Irradiation Facility PSI, Switzerland - protons, presumably.

Reactor Institute Delft Delft, The Netherlands - Neutrons from reactor source.

Original Facilities Lists

The original facility lists are available through these links:

• North American Facilities (PDF)
• North American Facilities (Excel)
• European and Japanese Facilities (PDF)
• European and Japanese Facilities (Excel)

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