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...processes. Because the elusive neutrino is essentially without mass or charge, it was difficult to pin down. Lederman calculates that a single neutrino has only a fifty-fifty chance of being deflected when streaming through 100 million miles of solid steel. The young physicists used the powerful accelerator in Brookhaven, L.I., to produce and aim a flood of protons at a beryllium metal target. The stupendous collisions of protons slamming into the barrier shattered atomic nuclei, releasing new particles, including neutrinos. The particles then hit a wall of steel that absorbed all but a single beam, which carried billions...
...Kamiokande II detector in Japan disclosed that a burst of eleven neutrinos, with the predicted range of energies, arrived in a span of 13 seconds on Feb. 23, about three hours before light from the supernova was first observed. And data provided by the IMB (Irvine-Michigan- Brookhaven) detector under Lake Erie showed a burst of eight neutrinos in six seconds at the same time as the Japanese reading. Says Physicist Frederick Reines, of the University of California, Irvine: "One observation by one team is not sufficient; it has to be confirmed by an independent group. But together, the results...
...think that the U.S. told the public about potential dangers either. An earlier government report from Brookhaven National Laboratories, which was kept secret until a Freedom of Information Act request was filed, concluded that a major accident at a nuclear reactor slightly larger than TMI could "create a disaster area the size of Pennsylvania and could kill 45,000 people...
...countries considered to be the greatest proliferation risks today are those that refuse to sign the treaty. That is proof, says Proliferation Expert Van Doren, that "most countries have some respect for their commitments." Says Herbert Kouts, chairman of the department of nuclear energy at New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory: "I am convinced that without the treaty and the agency, a multitude of nations would have gone nuclear by now. The nonproliferation safeguards have been as effective as we hoped they would...
Examinations of islanders are usually carried out by Brookhaven doctors, under the guidance of the Department of Energy. Micronesians do not have access to their own medical records, and independent efforts to launch medical studies have usually been disallowed...