To reduce high-level radioactive waste and make nuclear reactors more economical, researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working on ways to use real-time spectroscopic monitoring ...
Raising the energy state of an atom’s nucleus using a laser, or exciting it, would enable development of the most accurate atomic clocks ever to exist. This has been hard to do because electrons, ...
An in-depth understanding of how nuclear materials behave and radiochemical processes function is required for the advancement of nuclear energy, security, and medical technologies. Advanced ...
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Mysterious Nuclear “Bump” Discovered, Challenging Existing Physics Models
In a stunning new discovery, researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have uncovered a mysterious “bump” in the ...
An artist's rendition of the scandium nuclear clock. Scientists used the X-ray pulses at the European XFEL to excite in the atomic nucleus of scandium — the sort of processes that can generate a clock ...
Physicists have started the countdown on developing a new generation of timepieces capable of shattering records by providing accuracy of up to one second in 300 billion years, or about 22 times the ...
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