Sentences with phrase «because nuclear reactions»

Such experiments are extremely difficult because the nuclear reactions occur at a tiny rate and their signal is overwhelmed by the environmental background radiation.

Not exact matches

Nuclear reactors often use deuterium oxide to control reactions, because the liquid slows down neutrons without capturing many.

Steve Mirsky: And you talk about how it's possible that because neutrinos are an inevitable byproduct of nuclear reactions, they could be used to figure out if somebody is running nuclear facilities on the sly.

Because of the harsh environment fuel rods are exposed to — heat, steam, and neutrons that emanate from nuclear reactions — extensive further testing will be needed on any new cladding for use in commercial reactors, Kazimi says.

Nagel prefers to call the LENR phenomenon «lattice - enabled nuclear reactions» because whatever is happening takes place within the crystal lattice of an electrode.

But direct measurements of these nuclear reactions are extremely difficult because they occur at a tiny rate in the laboratory.

According to Isao Tanihata, head of the Linearc Laboratory at Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, the answer is that more boron was created than theorists expected because of a nuclear reaction between lithium and helium in the big bang fireball.

As the star dies, the nuclear fusion reactions stop because the fuel for these reactions gets used up.

«Subsequently, because of his conviction that if a nuclear chain reaction could be made to work it might be used as an instrument of war to set up violent explosions, Szilard separated that part of the application which related to the nuclear chain reaction and incorporated it in modified form into a later filed application, No. 19157, which he assigned to the British Admiralty in order to prevent its publication.

Too large to be considered planets, but too small to spark the internal nuclear reactions necessary to become full - blown stars, brown dwarfs — aka «failed stars» — are of particular interest to astronomers because of what they can teach us about planetary and star formation.

As a physicist, I winced when I read «This is because energy can not just be created or destroyed (unless it involves nuclear reactions or takes place on quantum physics scales).»

Taylor Wilson, is known as the boy who played with fusion, because at the age of 14 became the 32nd individual on the planet to achieve a nuclear - fusion reaction.

Fusion remains the holy grail of clean energy research, because the fusion reaction generates new elements that are not radioactive, unlike nuclear fission which leaves us with hazardous fuel wastes that require generations of management.