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Class cancelled/Operations suspended

UPDATE: Classes and campus operations will resume on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Due to inclement weather affecting the Bryan-College Station area, Texas A&M University has cancelled all classes for Tuesday, Jan. 21. Additionally, all campus operations have been suspended. A decision about Wednesday, Jan. 22 will be made by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Please visit emergency.tamu.edu for additional information about campus transportaion, campus dining, and other resources. Stay safe, Ags!

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The radiation detection measurement laboratory maintains a wide variety of instrumentation that is employed to study radiation and radioactive decay. This laboratory is used to educate students on the fundamentals of radiation detection and allows them to explore current advances in the field. To demonstrate detector components, Nuclear Instrument Modules (NIM) are maintained and used to operate Geiger-Mueller tubes, gas-flow proportional counters, alpha-spectrometers, gamma detectors and neutron detectors. For more advanced laboratories, students use digital electronic based systems to study gamma spectroscopy, coincident radiation, neutron detection and neutron multiplicity. To accomplish this work, the Nuclear Engineering Department maintains high-purity germanium (HPGe) workstations, hand-held radiation identification systems as well as He-3 and BF-3 tubes for neutron detection. The laboratory is used both in the educational and research programs for the department.