The Cryogenic Grinding system is built around a chest freezer which maintains an average operating temperature of -60 degrees. It has the capacity for 96 scintillation input tubes and 576 X 1.4ml Micronic output tubes. Stainless steel ball bearings along with the sample are placed into the input tubes before they are frozen and manually placed into the freezer.

Generally, the system pick’s a scintillation tube and places it to the grinding module. The grinding module violently shakes the tube causing the ball bearings to pulverise the contained sample. After grinding the system pierces the base of the input tube and places it into the feeding station. Directly below the ground and pierced scintillation tube an output tube is placed.