neutron science
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- Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) has been limited by the inability to direct neutrons toward the therapeutic target and away from sensitive normal tissues.
- The flow characteristics of reactor fuel assembly always intrigue the designers and the experimentalists among the myriad phenomena that occur simultaneously in a nuclear core.
- Large scale neutron and synchrotron X-ray facilities have been providing important information for physicists and chemists for many decades.
- The scarcity and rising cost of 3He gas has introduced a push in alternative neutron detector technologies.
- The accurate measurement of uranium isotope ratios from trace samples lies at the foundation of achieving nuclear nonproliferation.
- In a severe accident of a light water reactor, the corium spreading behavior on a containment floor is important as it may threaten the containment vessel integrity.
- It is over twenty years now that the nuclear method of conducting investigations into defects in the volume and on the surface of solids, based on positron annihilation phenomenon, has been developing on a quite intensive scale.
- Targets used in high energy density physics experiments, such as those fielded at the National Ignition Facility, are typically made of multi-component systems that include metals, metal coatings, and very low density materials.
- Development of high-current cw accelerators such as ZEBRA and FMIT, use of high current dc ion beams in industry for sputtering and material treatment, and scientific applications such as heavy-ion fusion and plasma physics diagnostics have provided the impetus for ion source development programs at many laboratories.
- The Lujan Neutron Scattering Center within the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) develops instrumentation in support of research employing neutrons to investigate issues of interest to its user community.