High Bay Support Facility is the main RSEL staging and storage area for a variety of collected sources and shields, containing several shielded storage containers as well as a graphite pile. The facility is also equipped with spherical shells of different compositions that can be paired with several of these sources to produce other moderated reference fields. The facility also contains several gamma sources and over 2 metric tons of natural uranium.
The Southern Nuclear Radiation Physics Laboratory resides in the RSEL’s High Bay Support Facility, allowing ready access not only to a variety of detectors and moderators, but also to the full suite of neutron and gamma ray sources. This user facility is equipped with the standard range of radiation detection instrumentation to carry out a variety of radiation detection and nuclear engineering experiments.