Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
July 25, 2013

NEWS: 7/26 Public Celebration to Welcome the Muon g-2 Electromagnet to Fermilab

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[UPDATE: The Muon g-2 Ring has arrived at Fermilab as of 4:07am Friday morning! Photo at left courtesy of Reider Hahn, as shown on Fermilab...
June 18, 2013

Giant Electromagnet Starts Long Trip from Brookhaven to Fermilab

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[UPDATE: Storms in the U.S. Northeast region will delay the start of the "Big Move"; details at the Chicago Tribune . The Delaware...
April 23, 2013

Radioactive Listeria Bacteria: Promising New Weapon Against Pancreatic Cancer

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Most of us recognize Listeria as one of the bacteria found in soil, raw and undercooked foods, and unpasteurized dairy products, which can ...
March 26, 2013

Chernobyl Database: A New, Useful Research Tool

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While having much of the Internet at one's disposal through search engines is a wonderful thing - especially when you know what you...
October 24, 2012

Self-Powered Sensors Enable Monitoring Reactor Fuel Rod Status During Total Power Failures

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Researchers at Penn State and Idaho National Laboratory have announced an important breakthrough in sensor technology that promises to imp...
September 18, 2012

Argonne Energy Showcase: The Short Video

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Some of the remarkable scientific sights and sounds RadioActive! The Nuclear Blog captured at this weekend's Argonne National Laboratory...

Video Highlights from Argonne National Lab's Energy Showcase 2012

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Didn't get a chance to visit Argonne National Laboratory's 2012 Energy Showcase in the Chicago suburbs this past September 15th? D...
June 11, 2012

"Lessons Learned from 'Lessons Learned': The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety After Accidents and Near-Accidents" (AAAS monograph, 2012)

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Continuing our theme of our evolving understanding of nuclear power safety , I'd like to highlight an excellent - and timely - paper jus...
June 06, 2012

'Meltdowns' Making Safer Reactors: CEA's PLINIUS Platform and Finland's VTT

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[See also "Alexander Borovoi: Chernobyl Explorer" ] The mention of the word meltdown conjures our deepest fears about nuclear po...
May 24, 2012

Nevada's Historic BREN Atomic Test Tower Demolished

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[Image and YouTube video from the NNSA. Thanks to James Stover (tweeting at @JamesStoverAPR ) for the story!] Yesterday, in the Nevada des...
April 06, 2006

Cerenkov Radiation

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A RadioActive! reader sent us this fascinating image of blue Cerenkov radiation from Ohio State University's research reactor: ".....
March 10, 2006

Upcoming World Conference in Belarus on "Chernobyl After 20 Years"

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From the Bahrain News Agency : Minsk, March. 10, (BNA) A world conference will be held on April 19, in the capital city of Belarus, under th...
May 12, 2004

Will A.L.I.C.E. "Swallow Up The Earth"?

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[UPDATE: Needless to say, A.L.I.C.E did not, in fact, swallow up the Earth. - LR] Both the fact and fiction about CERN's soon-to-be-comp...