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Showing posts with label radiochemistry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radiochemistry. Show all posts
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Nearby Radiological Emergency
This past week there was a radiological emergency at the Hanford Reservation. The event caused a site-wide alert to shelter-in-place. Very exciting.
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Nuclear Research Reactors - MK 1 - Neutron Activation Analysis
General Atomics owned and operated the very first TRIGA reactor between 1958 and 1997. It was called the MK 1, and was the brain-child of the awesome physicist Freeman Dyson (NOT the vacuum-cleaner sales guy). The reactor has since been decommissioned and I believe is now a technological historic site.
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