In which year was the Kamiokande detector completed?
1971
1983
1995
2007
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Completed in 1983, the Kamiokande detector was a large water Cherenkov detector primarily designed to detect neutrinos produced by the interactions of cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere. Located in the Kamioka Mining and Smelting Company zinc mine in Japan, the detector consisted of a cylindrical stainless-steel tank with a diameter of 16 meters and a height of 16 meters.
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