Summer Sunday Tours at Brookhaven

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The discussion revolves around the Summer Sunday Tours at Brookhaven National Lab, focusing on the availability and details of these tours, as well as related experiences and information about other national labs.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant recommends attending the Summer Sunday Tours at Brookhaven National Lab, highlighting notable facilities like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the National Synchrotron Light Source.
  • Another participant questions the current status of the tours, noting that the original link provided is broken.
  • A participant suggests checking the BNL website for updated information on the tours, indicating that they were conducted in the previous year.
  • There is a discussion about the interest in visiting national labs, with one participant expressing surprise at discovering a lab closer to home.
  • Another participant humorously reflects on their past experience training at a lab, indicating a personal connection to the topic.

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Participants express uncertainty about the current status of the tours, with some suggesting they may still be conducted while others point out the outdated nature of the original thread.

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The discussion references a specific link that is no longer functional, which may limit access to current information regarding the tours.

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It's that time of the year again when Brookhaven National Lab opens its doors to the public in a series of Summer Sunday Tours. If you are or will be in the NYC/Long Island area, I highly recommend you make an effort to visit them during one of their scheduled tours.

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=05-64

You get to see the amazing facilities that have produced a series of landmark discoveries and a few Nobel Prizes along the way. Includes in the open tours are the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) - check the schedule. If you do go for the NSLS open house tour, wave at the facility located at Beamline U13. I spent 2 1/2 memorable years working at that facility.

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The thread is old and the link shows a server error, still asking: is the tour still conducted?
 
davenn said:
@ZapperZ ?? :smile:

You rang?

Wrichik Basu said:
The thread is old and the link shows a server error, still asking: is the tour still conducted?

Yes, it is old so one shouldn't expect the link to work. And yes, you should go to the BNL website (www.bnl.gov) and search for their summer sunday tours. They had one last year.

Why, were you thinking of flying half-way across the world and coming to one of those?

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ZapperZ said:
Why, were you thinking of flying half-way across the world and coming to one of those?
Nope, but someone else here on PF might be interested.
 
Wrichik Basu said:
Nope, but someone else here on PF might be interested.

That someone would have had an easier and quicker time going directly to the BNL website than digging through a 2005 posting.

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Sorry to laugh, but I thought it would be nice to visit a "National Lab" a bit closer to home, as I love to brag about places I've been, so I googled, and found a map.
There are between 17(if you quote them) and 20(if you count the pins on their map) labs.

Much to my surprise, there's one I've never heard of about 80 miles from my house.
And much to my chagrin, as it indicates I'm either senile or an idiot, I found that I spent 6 months training at one of the labs. :doh:

Ha! There's something that wasn't even on my bucket list that I can cross off.
 
OmCheeto said:
here are between 17(if you quote them) and 20(if you count the pins on their map) labs.

NETL has three sites and Sandia has two. Argonne used to have two, but INL spun off.
 

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