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2000 December Report of the Auditor General of Canada

December 2000 Report—Chapter 34

Photograph 34.1—The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is located two kilometres below ground, in Inco's Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario. The detector contains 1,000 tonnes of heavy water in an acrylic vessel. It is designed to detect neutrinos produced by fusion reactions in the sun (see paragraphs 34.85 to 34.89).