Somewhere, a physicist is using a Ouija board to look for a leak in a cooling pool.
Ghost Particles Emerge From Slumbering Reactors
Physicists at the Double Chooz experiment in France have, for the first time, measured the faint antineutrino flux from shut-down nuclear reactors and spent fuel cooling pools. The detection, only about 1% of operating reactor signals, could lead to non-intrusive safeguards for nuclear materials. Published in Physical Review Letters.
Source: Ghost Particles Emerge From Slumbering Reactors — ScienceAlert
A daily AI-made news meme from Jester · Aug 28, 2026.
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