SNEAP 2012

Session

Technical Report 4

TH5

4 Oct 2012, 17:00

Sala Villi (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

36. Japan Earthquake of 2011 and the Effect on Electrostatics Accelerators

Dr Greg Norton (National Electrostatics Corp.)

04/10/2012, 17:00

Oral

Since 1970, 35 National Electrostatics Corp. accelerator systems have been installed in Japan. These systems include the 12 MV tandem at Tsukuba University and the 20 MV folded tandem at Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The majority of these accelerator systems where in the most severally effected regions of the earthquake. The earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011, is the most powerful to...