Invitation to ASSA Johannesburg Centre
The Johannesburg Centre will be visiting the SAFARI-1 Nuclear research reactor at Pelindaba on Saturday 13th October 2001. The visit will take a full day and will include a visit to the industrial isotope unit. An effort is being made to include the medical isotope unit as well, although we have yet to succeed in contacting the relevant manager. You will have to bring your own refreshments along with you, as their restaurant will be closed. You are permitted to take photographs as long as they are for private use ONLY. No publication is permitted in any media without prior written permission. A highlight of the visit will be to see the reactor overpool area, from which the Cerenkov radiation will be visible. That should excite any astronomer!
Note that there are a number of conditions to be fulfilled first:
[1] There is a limit of 10 people to the overpool area at a time. Each group will take 45minutes to an hour to
complete that portion of the visit.
[2] NECSA would arrange for persons to escort the group(s) at SAFARI-1;
[3] the overpool area (to view the Cerenkov) is accessible, with permission, should the radiological limits permit
- this is normally not a problem but cannot be guaranteed;
[4] no persons under the age of 18 are permitted onto the overpool area;
[5] women within the first 5-6 months of pregnancy are not permitted onto the overpool area;
[6] all persons wishing to access the overpool must provide us with their ID or Passport number and in the case
of a classified irradiation worker with their current radiological records, prior to arrival
Therefore: anyone wishing to come must please provide the writer * with the information noted in [6] above by Monday 8 October 2001 12:00 SAST.
Anyone who has not provided this information in time will be excluded from this field trip. The writer will also need some contact details such as an e-mail address or telephone number. * Trevor Gould 083-212-8945 Mobile 011-886-5602 Home / VoiceMail trevorgo@transtel.co.za