S&TR | September 2013

The Laboratory in the News

Innovative Experiments Meet Mission Needs

Commentary by William H. Goldstein

A Bright Idea for Microscopy

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore have enhanced a classic technology to record short-exposure images of rapidly evolving phenomena.

NIF Experiments Track Weapons Effects to Improve Nuclear Forensics

A series of experiments at the National Ignition Facility measured the shock and blast effects of a simulated nuclear explosion.

Trapped Ions Reveal the Undetected: A New Approach for Nuclear Decay Science

A tabletop instrument infers the direction and energy of emitted radioactive decay particles that would otherwise be extremely difficult to detect.

Gravity Detector Applies Outside-the-Box Thinking to Show What’s Inside the Box

A sensor under development uses gravity to passively detect nuclear threats in a moving vehicle.

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