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Excerpts from the proposal (March 1962) by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited for the purchase of a 10 MV Tandem Van de Graaff Accelerator

JAN 01, 1964
A part of today’s quickened effort to upgrade the quality and quantity of nuclear structure physics research, many program proposals are being made by colleges, universities, and research laboratories both here and abroad. Mindful of the high degree of interest in these proposals, High Voltage Engineering Corporation is publishing excerpts from some of them in the hope you will find them both stimulating and informative.
Physics Today

“(Atomic Energy of Canada Limited recommends) that the Chalk River 5 million volt (MV) tandem accelerator be replaced by…a tandem accelerator of advanced design, capable of operating with 10 MV on the terminal. “This will provide precisely‐controlled heavy‐ion beams of much greater energy and intensity than the present accelerator, e.g., bromine ions of 160 MeV, more energetic than the fastest fission fragments. The High Voltage Engineering Corporation (HVEC) has carried out the basic design and is prepared to build such a machine, the MP II Tandem, and to guarantee reliable operation at 10 MV…”

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