Neutrino lab expansion opens.The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) was located 6800 feet (about 2 km) underground in CVRD Inco's Creighton Mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The detector was designed to detect solar neutrinos through their interactions with deuterium nuclei and atomic electrons. is opening its new $10 million SNOLAB research centre at Inco's Creighton Mine This article is about the mine. For the ghost town, see Creighton Mine, Ontario. site Nov. 25. The aboveground facility is the second phase of the project that will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. in 2007 with the grand opening of a new underground facility. The new three-storey facility has more than 33,000 square feet of space containing labs, meeting rooms, offices and support areas for SNOLAB staff. |
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