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Nuclear reactor reconstructed in 3D using muon imaging

27 Feb 2023 Isabelle Dumé
Muon radiography – or muography – analyses how muons in cosmic rays penetrate objects and exploits this information to produce two-dimensional images
Seeing inside The G2 reactor at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission’s site in Marcoule has been imaged using muography techniques. (Courtesy: Procureur et al., Sci. Adv 9, eabq8431 (2023))
Scientists from France have used muon-imaging techniques to carry out a 3D reconstruction of a nucle

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