The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that particle accelerators can crack one of nuclear power’s oldest ...

BELOIT, Wis. & LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC (‘NorthStar’), a global innovator in the development, production and commercialization of ...

For 25 years, Mercury Plastics has employed electron beam technology to offer unique benefits to its customers’ products, including improvement of long-term physical characteristics, chemical ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

BELOIT—NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC will be purchasing a third Rhodotron® TT300 HE electron beam accelerator from IBA. The accelerator will be exclusively used for the production of no-carrier ...

One day, powerful particle accelerators might fit in your pocket. Two teams of physicists have built tiny structures that both accelerate electrons and keep them confined in a manageable beam, instead ...

For decades, particle accelerators have been getting bigger and bigger. For some years now, however, an alternative is explored: "tabletop particle accelerators" based on the laser excitation of ...

The compact design of Fermilab’s electron beam prototype accelerator for sterilizing medical equipment is made possible by combining four emerging particle accelerator technologies. During the ...

Illustration of an electron beam irradiating PFAS-contaminated water. Credit: Samantha Koch, Fermilab Using nonstick cookware to fry your bacon and eggs can make your life easier at that moment, but ...

Protective coatings are common for many things in daily life that see a lot of use: we coat wood floors with finish; apply Teflon to the paint on cars; even use diamond coatings on medical devices.