Particle Accelerators

Accelerator Program Overview

The Radiation Safety Division supports the radiation safety operations at a range of particle accelerators across the medical and academic sides of the Duke University campus:  

• Multiple medical linear accelerators used for patient treatment and clinical research 
• One cyclotron for radiopharmaceutical and radiochemical research 
• Multiple particle accelerators, including a 1.2 GeV storage ring based free electron laser light source and a 10 MeV tandem Van de Graaff at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). Accelerators are used for (a) primarily nuclear physics research and (b) basic biological research 

Our responsibilities encompass: 

• Licensing and Compliance 
• Training and Education 
• Monitoring and Oversight  
• Technical Consultation 
• Emergency Response