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May 26, 2023Scientists test nuclear theory models in mid-sized nuclei using high resolution Indium-115 decay data.Nuclear Physics
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BulletinMay 25, 2023A newly proposed approach aids chemical studies of rare, toxic, radioactive, and precious isotopes by requiring 1,000 times less material.Isotope R&D and Production (DOE IP)
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May 23, 2023Students from Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina, recently toured EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) to learn about the array of occupations and operations across the 310-square-mile environmental reservation.Office of Environmental Management
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May 23, 2023EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project continue to dismantle a cell of the Main Plant Process Building, one of the site's last remaining major facilities whose successful demolition will further reduce environmental risks.Office of Environmental Management
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May 23, 2023A team at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site recently tested the plant’s autosampling system, capping off an effort to address technical challenges affecting system reliability.Office of Environmental Management
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May 22, 2023The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit has progressed to treating sodium-bearing waste entirely, the next step in efficiently removing remaining liquid radioactive waste from nearby Cold War-era underground tanks and closing them to protect the environment.Office of Environmental Management
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May 22, 2023Modeling nuclear matter in two dimensions greatly simplifies understanding interactions among “cold,” dense quarks—including in neutron stars.Nuclear Physics
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May 22, 2023Remarks by NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby at the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management and the European Safeguards Research and Development Association (INMM/ESARDA) Joint Annual MeetingNational Nuclear Security Administration
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Success StoryMay 21, 2023Electric-powered prototype of one of the nation’s first microreactors has successfully been installed for testing in Pennsylvania.Office of Nuclear Energy
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May 19, 2023Theorists find new electromagnetic effects that shift the spin-dependent coupling of the nucleon to the weak force and point out the implications for new physics in beta decay.Nuclear Physics