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Originally Posted by casper
That cyclotron has a fairly large diameter beam in comparison to something like a synchrotron. I could see the University of Saskatchewan Light Source being concerned. But even there there are a number of these types of machine in close proximity to subway lines or even high speed rail lines.
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It's not just the cyclotron. It's potentially every engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology lab that could be exposed to a change in EMF or vibration.
Setting up a new lab involves controlling for normal background signals and establishing a baseline. When the background changes, this needs to be redone. Flickering fluorescent lights in an animal facility, even if imperceptible to our eyes, have the potential to impact animal behavior and response and need to be controlled for. Even minor environmental changes can and do impact the quality of experimental data.
Some research facilities may have been built near rail transit, but it has always been part of their environment. It's the potential for poorly characterized change in background signal that becomes very difficult to mitigate. The whole impact can't be known until after the train is running, and enough data has been collected afterwards to show what differences can be confidently correlated.
None of this means transit can't or shouldn't be built near research labs, it just warrants proceeding with open eyes.
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