News tagged with neutron bombardment

New INL project tackles nuclear fuel recycling science

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will use an innovative approach to learn how to get more use from nuclear fuel.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Measuring transient x-rays with lobster eyes

(Phys.org) -- A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

You're beautiful, Vesta

When UCLA's Christopher T. Russell looks at the images of the protoplanet Vesta produced by NASA's Dawn mission, he talks about beauty as much as he talks about science.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New technique uses electrons to map nanoparticle atomic structures

With dimensions measuring billionths of a meter, nanoparticles are way too small to see with the naked eye. Yet it is becoming possible for today's scientists not only to see them, but also to look inside at how the atoms ...

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created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Understanding of radiation damage LEAPs forward

A faint nightclub beat greets visitors to a small room housing the Localized Electron Atom Probe (LEAP). But that’s no stereo cranking out house music; it’s a rhythmic pump cooling a tiny sample ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Curiosity, the stunt double

With a pair of bug-eyes swiveling on a stalk nearly 8 feet off the ground, the 6-wheeled, 1800-lb Mars rover Curiosity doesn’t look much like a human being.  Yet, right now, the mini-Cooper-sized ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Canadian Isotope Project enters final stretch

A research project exploring the potential for making medical isotopes with X-rays from a particle accelerator instead of a nuclear reactor is about to move to the large scale. The Canadian Isotope Project, led by the Canadian ...

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created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Vesta likely cold and dark enough for ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 97 | with audio podcast

First result from a new generation of reactor neutrino experiments

Physicists of the Double Chooz experiment detected a short-range disappearance of electron antineutrinos. They presented this result on Wednesday 9 November 2011 at the LowNu conference in Seoul, Korea. It helps determine ...

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created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers use neutrons to spy on the elusive hydronium ion

A Los Alamos National Laboratory research team has harnessed neutrons to view for the first time the critical role that an elusive molecule plays in certain biological reactions. The effort could aid in treatment of peptic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Dawn spacecraft approaches protoplanet Vesta

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn mission to the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which launched in September 2007, is now approaching Vesta, a protoplanet that is currently some 143 ...

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created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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