A team of researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) has discovered that cobalt-70 isotopes form different nuclear shapes when their energy levels ...

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Using the Summing Nal Detector, a team of experimental and theoretical scientists at FRIB took another step in understanding how an atomic nucleus can have two different shapes corresponding to only ...

A green energy subsea cable project backed by Ed Miliband risks disturbing radioactive waste and spreading it onto the ...

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Inside every nuclear reactor is an invisible orchestra of particles at work. Neutrons collide with heavy atoms, splitting ...