• The Neutron Science Laboratory (NSL) is situated within the North Campus of the University of Michigan and houses various neutron and gamma-ray sources...
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    universities, national laboratories, and industry, who conduct basic and applied research and technology development using neutrons. SNS is part of Oak Ridge...
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    programs focus on materials, nuclear science, neutron science, energy, high-performance computing, environmental science, systems biology and national security...
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    The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), formerly known as the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF), is one of the world's most powerful linear...
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    The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a pulsed neutron and muon source, established 1984 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Science and Technology...
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    A neutron research facility is most commonly a big laboratory operating a large-scale neutron source that provides thermal neutrons to a suite of research...
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    Sciences". Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Retrieved February 19, 2023. "The Molecular Foundry". Berkeley Lab. Retrieved February 19, 2023. "Neutron Scattering...
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    nuclear engineering and the nuclear sciences. Regarding the experimental technique, understanding and manipulating neutron scattering is fundamental to the...
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    a Los Alamos laboratory conducting another experiment to verify the closeness of the core to criticality by the positioning of neutron reflectors. Slotin...
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  • co-located with Spallation Neutron Source. The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a United States Department...
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    The discovery of the neutron and its properties was central to the extraordinary developments in atomic physics in the first half of the 20th century...
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  • into physical science laboratory programs that include nanoscale science and technology, engineering, information technology, neutron research, material...
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    The neutron is a subatomic particle, symbol n or n0 , that has no electric charge, and a mass slightly greater than that of a proton. The neutron was...
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    A neutron source is any device that emits neutrons, irrespective of the mechanism used to produce the neutrons. Neutron sources are used in physics, engineering...
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    Neutron generators are neutron source devices which contain compact linear particle accelerators and that produce neutrons by fusing isotopes of hydrogen...
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    Shvetsov. (2017). Neutron Sources at the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Quantum Beam Science. 1. 6. 10.3390/qubs1010006...
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    "Jimmy" Neutron, commonly known as Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, is the protagonist and title character from the 2001 animated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius...
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  • A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron...
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    Neutron diffraction or elastic neutron scattering is the application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure...
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  • locations: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Didcot in Oxfordshire, incorporating the ISIS neutron source Daresbury Laboratory. at Daresbury in Cheshire...
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    A neutron star is the gravitationally collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined...
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    The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities...
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    James Chadwick (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the...
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    Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (category Neutron facilities)
    industrial applications Research in the fields of materials science and structural biology using neutron beams and its sophisticated suite of experimental equipment...
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    sustained by fast neutrons (carrying energies above 1 MeV, on average), as opposed to slow thermal neutrons used in thermal-neutron reactors. Such a fast...
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    When embedded in an atomic nucleus, neutrons are (usually) stable particles. Outside the nucleus, free neutrons are unstable and have a mean lifetime...
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    Neutron detection is the effective detection of neutrons entering a well-positioned detector. There are two key aspects to effective neutron detection:...
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    Neutron activation is the process in which neutron radiation induces radioactivity in materials, and occurs when atomic nuclei capture free neutrons, becoming...
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  • self-sustaining) that is achieved with prompt neutrons alone (without the efforts of delayed neutrons). As a result, prompt supercriticality causes a...
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  • Geoffrey L. Greene (category Oak Ridge National Laboratory people)
    low-energy (cold) neutrons, which were then first available in intense beams. As a post-doctoral fellow he was at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Institut...
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