These reactors are also beneficial for the production of neutron beams, artificial radio-isotopes ... It forms the basis of nuclear weapons and fission bombs, which threaten the future of man ...

They ran a neutron production system for 1,250 hours using a 1.7-megawatt proton beam. This feat was accomplished using Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), a powerful research facility that uses ...

like the beam of light from a turning lighthouse. This "pulsing" appearance gives some neutron stars the name pulsars. After spinning for several million years pulsars are drained of their energy ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions ... reaction cross-section using a radioactive ion beam, in this case studying the 94Sr(α,n)97Zr reaction.

As well as promising novel cancer treatments, the neutron beams can be used to detect explosives and drugs, or for quality-testing materials, as Taskaev explains: “We recently irradiated samples ...