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Minister Coell visits TRIUMF
July 23, 2007
Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (second from left) tours a section of the TRIUMF facility with research, technology and innovation assistant deputy minister Brent Sauder (far left), MDS Nordion Inc. Vancouver operations general manager Jerry Porter (second from right), and Nigel Lockyer, director of TRIUMF. TRIUMF, a consortium of Canadian universities, including UBC, SFU and the University of Victoria, is one of three subatomic research facilities in the world specializing in the production of intense beams of particles, and houses the world’s biggest cyclotron, accelerating 1,000 trillion particles per second.
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