As the average age of American reactors approaches 40 years old, experts say there are no technical limits to these units churning out clean and reliable energy for an additional…
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What material is used in a nuclear reactor?Read MoreNuclear physicists also use low-energy, precision nuclear experiments, many enabled by new quantum sensors, to search for a deeper understanding of fundamental symmetries and nuclear interactions. What do nuclear physicists…
Is there such thing as a nuclear physicist?Read More