iThemba LABS ( iThemba is Xhosa for Hope; LABS is an acronym for Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences ) is a scientific research center with plants at Faure near Cape Town and on the Wits Campus in Johannesburg. The organization has in the past been known as the National Accelerator Center, and specializes in the use of particle accelerators. The main research fields involve the production of medical radioisotopes for the treatment of cancer, material sciences, nuclear fission experiments, development of new accelerator technology and the real-time treatment of cancer patients through proton and neutron therapy. The mass spectrometry unit was opened by South Africa's Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor in 2014. In 2018 a conference was held to mark ten years of a collaboration programme with CERN. More information...
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