News tagged with alpha particles
Cancer therapy gets a boost from new isotope
(Phys.org) -- A new medical isotope project at Los Alamos National Laboratory shows promise for rapidly producing major quantities of a new cancer-treatment agent, actinium 225 (Ac-225).
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Opportunity rover finds mineral vein deposited by water
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of ...
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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New hybrid detector monitors alpha, beta, and gamma radiation simultaneously
By combining three layers of detection into one new device, a team of researchers from Japan has proposed a new way to monitor radiation levels at power plant accident sites. The device would be more economical that using ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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NASA engineer proposes new type of fusion thruster for space travel
(PhysOrg.com) -- John J. Chapman, a physicist working for NASA has presented an idea for a new type of fusion thruster for possible use by space traveling vehicles at the IEEE Symposium going on in Chicago ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Shuttle brings big-bucks magnet to space station
(AP) -- A mammoth cosmic ray detector arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, a $2 billion experiment that will search the invisible universe and help explain how everything came to be.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2011 |
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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to focus on invisible universe
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will revolutionize what we know about invisible cosmic rays the same way NASA's Hubble Space Telescope rewrote what we know about the visible universe says the intellectual ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2011 |
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AMS particle detector heads for the International Space Station
(PhysOrg.com) -- The AMS particle detector will take off on 29 April 2011 at 21.47 CEST onboard the very last mission of the space Shuttle Endeavour. AMS, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, will then be installed ...
Apr 28, 2011 |
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NASA instrument gets close-up on Mars rocks
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, will carry a next generation, onboard "chemical element reader" to measure the chemical ingredients in Martian rocks and soil. The instrument ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Wave power could contain fusion plasma
Researchers at the University of Warwick’s Centre for Fusion Space and Astrophysics and the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy may have found a way to channel the flux and fury of a nuclear ...
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Imaging of Alfven waves and fast ions in a fusion plasma
Fusion plasmas in the laboratory typically reach 100 million degrees. These high temperatures are required to ignite the hydrogen plasma and maintain the fusion burn by the production of high-energy alpha particles. One challenge ...
Nov 08, 2010 |
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NPL builds long range alpha detector
The UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a new portable radiation detector that can assess the safety of potentially contaminated areas far quicker than current methods. The prototype was ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Six new isotopes of the superheavy elements discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114. Starting ...
Oct 26, 2010 |
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NPL recreates original fission experiment
National Physical Laboratory helped a BBC/Open University production crew recreate Otto Frisch's famous fission experiment from the 1930s.
Oct 12, 2010 |
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High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality
In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 03, 2009 |
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