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.

Monday, 31 December 2012

My nuclear year

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Well, it's New Year's Eve and I've yet to post a suitably festive seasonal post to Blog of the Isotopes. This is not because I...

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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Thorium and proliferation

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I was just reading this interesting comment article in Nature about the dangers of using Thorium to make fuel for nuclear weapons, when I ...

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Hideous Kinky

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So, there's this interesting effect going on with the size of lead nuclei as you add more neutrons, whereby the radius suddenly goes up...

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Friday, 14 December 2012

End of Week 11, and end of particle physics

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Hello. I've been a little quiet the last week or so, as the teaching part of semester has reached its climax. Today is Friday of week...

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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

A new, and very specialist blog

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I've just written the first post in a somewhat specialist blog set up for the physicists in the department here at the University of ...

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Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Good news day

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A couple of pieces of good news came my way today, so I thought I'd crow about them share them here. Firstly, as you will all no dou...

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Obscure references

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One of my PhD students (Hi, Chris!) is absolutely brilliant at finding obscure papers relevant to his research. In our recent paper , ther...

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