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Nuclear power

Nuclear power

Muons: probing the depths of nuclear waste

12 Dec 2019
Taken from the December 2019 issue of Physics World.

Having used them to look through rock, physicists are now exploiting muons to peer inside canisters of radioactive waste. The ability could prove very handy for nuclear inspectors, as Edwin Cartlidge reports

(Courtesy: Dean Calma/IAEA) When researchers announced in 2017 that they had discovered a previously

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Edwin Cartlidge is a science writer based in Rome, Italy, e-mail edwin.cartlidge@yahoo.com
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