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March 9, 2023TRIGA International successfully makes first TRIGA fuel element in more than 10 years.Office of Nuclear Energy
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March 1, 2023Powerful statistical tools, simulations, and supercomputers explore a billion different nuclear forces and predict properties of the very-heavy lead-208 nucleus.Nuclear Physics
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February 24, 2023In conflict with a long-held explanation of cadmium isotope motion, a new experiment found that cadmium-106 may rotate instead of vibrate.Nuclear Physics
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BulletinFebruary 15, 2023New results could significantly improve resonance ionization mass spectrometry ultra-trace analysis of plutonium isotopes.Nuclear Physics
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February 7, 2023The results of parity-violating electron scattering experiments PREX and CREX suggest a disagreement with global nuclear models.Nuclear Physics
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December 20, 2022DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) maintained its momentum in 2022, accomplishing ambitious EM priorities, altering skylines and advancing key projects essential to up-and-coming cleanup.Office of Environmental Management
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December 15, 2022Deblurring, practiced in optics, can reveal three-dimensional features of nuclear collisions.Nuclear Physics
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November 28, 2022Once approved by regulators, the new facility will significantly increase domestic production capability for isotope used to fight heart disease and cancerNational Nuclear Security Administration
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November 28, 2022A first-of-its-kind measurement of the rare calcium-48 nucleus found a neutron-rich “thin skin” around a core of more evenly distributed protons and neutrons.Nuclear Physics
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MultimediaNovember 21, 2022Our November episode has stories you don’t want to miss. Our team covers how contractor Isotek is processing nuclear material that’s helping advance cancer treatment research...Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management