News tagged with nuclear core

For the First Time, Scientists Measure the Size of a One-Neutron Halo with Lasers

Atomic nuclei are normally compact structures defined by a sharp border. About twenty-five years ago, it was discovered at the University of California in Berkeley that there are exceptions to this picture: ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 3

Physicists pin down the proton-halo state in Flourine-17

A halo nucleus has one or more nucleons that are only weakly bound to the nuclear core. Consequently, they drift far away from it, forming, in effect, a halo. These nuclei are difficult to study because their lives are both ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Lab team develops capability for atomistic simulations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional scientific wisdom says that the interatomic forces between ions that control high-temperature processes such as melting are insensitive to the heating of the electron "glue" that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

iPhone goes nuclear

A fission reaction in a nuclear reactor? There's an "app" for that! An iPhone "application" or software developed by the University of Utah's Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute to look at medical ...

Technology / Software

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

INL engineers tackle graphite challenge with innovative new device

Employees at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory recently reached an important milestone in developing the nation's next generation of nuclear reactors by the completion of the first of six planned Advanced ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1