Dance about materials wins prize
成果类型:
News Item
署名作者:
Brainard, Jeffrey
刊物名称:
SCIENCE
ISSN/ISSBN:
0036-12334
发表日期:
2023-03-17
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摘要:
NEUTRON RESEARCH | This week, regulators gave the go-ahead to restart a small U.S. research reactor, 2 years after an accident shut it down and cut almost by half the nation's capacity to use neutrons to study materials. The February 2021 incident at the 20-megawatt, neutrongenerating reactor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, occurred when one of its 30 rodlike, uranium-filled fuel pins popped out of place, overheated, and partially melted. the building but did not jeopardize the