Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Approximation Theory

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I spent three hours of this afternoon in a church hall in Guildford. I haven't found religion - far from it. I was there on purely se...

Thursday, 13 October 2011

Bananas!

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There's a nice article on the BBC News website talking about the Banana Equivalent Dose as a measure of radiation. It's a kind of ...

Monday, 3 October 2011

Spot the difference

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With due deference to Private Eye, and Peter Coles 's Astronomy Look-a-likes , I must say that I have been struck (as pointed out by K...

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Saturday, 1 October 2011

On the train through K-25

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I'm in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It's an important place in the history of nuclear physics, being built in the second world war for the...

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Thursday, 16 June 2011

IoP lecture on Fukushima

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If I lived nearer Warrington, I'd definitely attend this talk by HM Chief Inspector Nuclear Installations, Dr Mike Weightman.

What's special about Thorium-229?

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As a UK academic, a combination of government and university policies push me towards publishing in particular journals, at least for a frac...

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Chernobyl on Radio 4

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Last night, there was a rather good program on Radio 4 about the legacy of the Chernobyl accident. As usual, the BBC makes an effort to pro...

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