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Previous | Home | Next"Outside a hot cell, technicians watch irradiated samples with periscopes and handle the capsules by remote control. Other instruments monitor chemical processes.
In small laboratories, research with radioactive chemicals created in the Graphite Reactor must be conducted behind shields of stacked lead bricks, and radiation is monitored carefully."
In such a small laboratory, promethium was discovered and isolated. We will visit the site of this laboratory next.
