LAMA Testing Laboratory
Description
This French-supplied facility was designed for destructive and non-destructive testing of irradiated experimental fuel pins or materials, but it was never used as intended. It was used for other general purposes. The building was heavily damaged during the wars. It consists of three concrete hot cells and a number of lead cells which have subsequently been dismantled.
A processing line was installed to extract enriched U but only did one test using one unirradiated natural U batch. There are some references to previous Li alloy processing, so H3 contamination may also be possible.
Any residual contamination of LAMA is believed to be minor.
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