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Re:Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia by cameldrv on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:44AM (#43420160)
Another one along these lines is antineutrinos. They're created by fission reactions, so a nuclear reactor puts out a lot of them. From what's available in the open literature, this seems like it might be getting close to being practical.
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Re:Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:45AM (#43420942)
Fission reactors spew neutrinos, no need for anti-
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Re:Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia by Timwi on Thursday March 20, 2025 @07:36AM (#43421816)
Antineutrinos are produced in nuclear reactors when the radioactive products of nuclear fission undergo beta decay.

Source: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/66

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Re:Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday March 21, 2025 @12:14AM (#43431762)
Ah, right.

This publication[1] says neutrinos, but the article it references says antineutrinos[2].

That explains my misunderstanding.

1 https://www.energy.gov/science/np/articles/detecting-neutrin...

2. https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1959810-evidence-antineutr...

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