- Number 302 |
- December 21, 2009
The Neutron Express
PPPL technician Sly Vinson
installs the tracks at NSTX.
A ride around toy train tracks inside an experimental fusion machine can reveal much about a hot gas called plasma. Research staff at DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory recently mounted a neutron source on a toy train inside the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), placed it on hobby train tracks that had been installed and sent it on a three-day continuous zip around the rails. The purpose: to calibrate the neutron rate during fusion experiments. Full story: http://www.pppl.gov/PPPLnews101.cfm
[Patti Wieser, 609.243.2757,
pwieser@pppl.gov]
