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DOE provides the majority (approximately 90%) of federal support for high-energy and nuclear physics research, which uses advanced accelerator facilities as well as detectors placed underground and in space to understand the fundamental nature of matter, energy, space, time and the properties and interactions of atomic nuclei and nuclear matter.

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An electron zap turns flimsy plastic into sturdy shrink wrap

An electron zap turns flimsy plastic into sturdy shrink wrap

If you buy a Butterball turkey this Thanksgiving, you have particle accelerators to thank for its freshness. For decades now the food industry has used particle accelerators to produce the sturdy, heat-shrinkable film that Butterballs come wrapped in.

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Both directions at once

The challenge of controlling climate change is a goal that, to many, appears to be at odds with the equally important goal of energy security. However, the idea that the two goals are somehow mutually exclusive is not one accepted by ORNL energy researcher David Greene. "We don't want to sacrifice one for the other," he says. "We want -- and we believe it possible -- to achieve environmental goals and energy security goals at the same time.

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Lab News Releases
20-Nov-2009 - Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants
Lehigh University

19-Nov-2009 - Amaizing: Corn genome decoded
Washington University School of Medicine

18-Nov-2009 - Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure
DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

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