The Neutron Express - Princeton Plasma

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1879   13 years ago
Research staff at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) mounted a neutron source on a toy train inside a fusion machine, placed it on hobby train tracks that had been installed and sent it on a three-day continuous zip around the rails. The purpose: to calibrate the neutron rate during fusion experiments.
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