Spallation Neutron Source sets new record
Washington Post: In late January, the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source's linear accelerator produced a proton beam that reached 310 kilowatts, nearly doubling the 183-kilowatt record reached by the facility in August last year. The previous best record–163-kilowatt– was held by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, England. The beam strikes a mercury target and creates a stream of subatomic neutrons that are used to study the structure and dynamics of materials.
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