Tag: Neutron
France must focus on fast neutron reactors, by Dominique Grenêche – L’Express
Energy is the lifeblood of human societies, whatever they may be. However, the energy consumption of the 8 billion human beings who live on our planet comes mainly from carbon-based…
Nuclear: could fast neutron reactors take over from EPRs?
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Discovery of a neutron star that breaks all records!
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This neutron star is the most massive observed to date
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Moving ‘sunspots’ seen on neutron star’s crust
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The titanic eruption of a neutron star
Some neutron stars produce extremely energetic flares. Very brief events that are difficult to observe. But astronomers have just recorded crucial information about one of these eruptions. They should help…
Tetraneutrons, mini neutron stars, would have been produced on Earth!
They have been hunted for almost 50 years and for 20 years they seem to be pointing more and more. Tetraneutrons, nuclei composed only of neutrons, much as if they…
Mars: large quantities of water discovered under the largest canyon in the solar system
There should be no water on the surface of Mars at the equator, and very little there just below that surface. And yet the instruments of the Exomars mission say…