How Neutrons Are Made: Inside ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source (VIDEO)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Take a trip through the linear accelerator at Oak Ridge Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source where ion beams travel at nearly the speed of light to make neutrons for science. Brighter beams means more neutrons. More neutrons means more science.

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Phoenix Pleasant/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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