Sentences with phrase «isotope production at»

Not exact matches

Over the past several decades, scientists have determined that measuring the soil concentrations of certain isotopes that form at a known rate permits direct quantification of soil production rates.

Using a rare isotope beam created at NSCL, the team determined the last unknown nuclear - reaction rate affecting the production of aluminum - 26 in classical novae.

«First we have contributed by labeling studies using stable isotopes to investigate the metabolic pathways for latex production,» says Professor Wolfgang Eisenreich, biochemist at TU München.

Achieving that longer lead time requires blocking Iran's four routes to nuclear weapons: through its Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities, where thousands of centrifuges separate uranium isotopes; through plutonium production at the Arak heavy water reactor, which Iran says is needed to produce medical radioisotopes; and by way of a covert path involving undisclosed facilities.

Tennessine is in recognition of the contribution of the Tennessee region, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, to superheavy element research, including the production and chemical separation of unique actinide target materials for superheavy element synthesis at ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and Radiochemical Engineering Development Center (REDC).

This HEU is the result of nuclear fuel use at Chalk River Laboratories for CNL's research reactors, the NRX and NRU, and for the production of medical isotopes through the irradiation of HEU targets in the NRU.

He spent part of the summer at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, and is now at work on a process to cut the production cost of radioactive isotopes.

The present production of terrestrial 14C and 10Be appears to be near historically - low levels, due to persistently high solar activity that inhibits the rate at which these isotopes are produced.