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Supercool delivery: final section of souped-up neutron source trucks out of Jefferson Lab - EurekAlert


As a longtime partner of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jefferson Lab has been supplying sections of particle accelerator called cryomodules – the supercooled behemoths that propel particles to near the speed of light for scientific research – for the Proton Power Upgrade (PPU) of the Spallation Neutron Source. In April, the eighth and final one made the 529-mile trek from coastal Virginia to Tennessee.

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