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Experiment shrinks weight limit of mysterious ‘ghost particle’
11 Apr 2025 22:38 GMT
… to record the decay of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen which … energy produced by the decaying tritium. The trick is to measure …
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IAEA experts to take samples of treated water from Fukushima before its discharge
11 Apr 2025 17:42 GMT
… said earlier this week that tritium concentration in the 12th … and a massive release of radioactive material, which contaminated the … nuclear fuel fragments and radioactive water is leaked out … is treated but still contains tritium that cannot be removed. …
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Elusive neutrinos' mass just got halved — and it could mean physicists are close to solving a major cosmic mystery
11 Apr 2025 17:38 GMT
… enormous stellar explosions, by radioactive decay and in particle … findings from the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (or KATRIN) experiment … to radioactive decays of the unstable hydrogen isotope tritium, which … the mass using similar tritium decays, by studying …
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We Now Know Better Than Ever What a Ghost Particle Doesn't Weigh
11 Apr 2025 04:39 GMT
… to record the decay of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen which … energy produced by the decaying tritium. So the trick is to …
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Neutrinos found to have a mass more than one-million times smaller than an electron
11 Apr 2025 02:03 GMT
… analysing the decay of tritium, a rare and radioactive version of hydrogen …
Researchers from the KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment report the most … analyzing the beta decay of tritium. During this decay, a neutron …
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Pinning Down a Ghost Particle: Neutrino Mass Measured with Unprecedented Precision
10 Apr 2025 22:41 GMT
… measurement
Researchers at the Karlsruhe tritium neutrino (KATRIN) experiment … qpeoms.oms6 is similar to tritium. It has one proton … [the beta decay of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen].
In … a proton] inside the tritium atom [electron and electron …
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Neutrinos’ maximum possible mass shrinks further
10 Apr 2025 19:46 GMT
… electrically neutral particles, produced in radioactive decays and in reactions in … . The result, from the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino, or KATRIN, experiment slashes … antineutrino. The researchers observed radioactive decays of tritium, a heavy variety of …
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Fusion R&D hub aims to break ground in Eastern Washington this summer
10 Apr 2025 17:02 GMT
… for commercial-scale testing of radioactive fusion technologies in Eastern … -sector operations for handling tritium, a radioactive hydrogen isotope.
Robin Langtry … handling radioactive materials, and systems for extracting, purifying and recycling tritium.
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TEPCO Begins Treated Water Discharge for FY 2025
10 Apr 2025 09:09 GMT
… tons of treated water containing radioactive tritium in seven rounds this fiscal … to increase the amount of tritium contained in the treated water … government check the concentration of tritium in seawater and fishery products …
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Scientists say Fukushima water discharge risk is ‘underestimated’
10 Apr 2025 04:26 GMT
… Power Company (TEPCO) started discharging radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima … -km-long tunnel. Tritium is the primary radioactive element in the ALPS … contaminated water contains 63 non-tritium radionuclides. Once incorporated into organisms …