US researchers have quietly crossed a threshold in nuclear materials science, using intense neutron beams to peer inside ...

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In a first for tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel research, a cross-cutting effort among scientists at the Department of ...

When the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) opened its doors 60 years ago, the world was undergoing a profound ...

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The curious minds at What If reveal the most dangerous nuclear experiments ever attempted, exploring energy release, ...

A simulation of a rapidly accreting white dwarf showing a proposed site for the intermediate (i) process and the Summing NaI (SuN) detector. The research studied the 139Ba+n reaction, constrained by ...