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Accelerators Are Key to Groundbreaking Solutions for Medical, Clean Energy, and National Security Challenges
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $18 million in new funding to advance particle accelerator technology, a critical tool for discovery sciences and optimizing the way we treat medical patients, manufacture electronics and clean energy technologies, and defend the nation against security threats. The new funding also includes $5 million for university-based traineeships that will build a diverse, skilled pipeline of American accelerator scientists and engineers.
“Accelerator-based technologies are all around us, from new medical therapies to ways to make solar panels and we’ve only scratched the surface of their potential to tackle a host of 21
Research fellow turns to accelerator power for wastewater cleanup
As the inaugural Hermann Grunder Fellow, John Vennekate is developing a compact superconducting radiofrequency accelerator that could remove contaminants from wastewater
DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Hermann Grunder is the founding director of the U.S. Department of Energy s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. In addition to helping shape the lab into its current form, Grunder transformed the vision of the lab s premier particle accelerator in the late 1980s, changing it to one that featured a new superconducting technology and recirculating design. The result was the design-specification-surpassing Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) that we know today.
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A radiotherapy technique that precisely targets tumours and avoids healthy tissue has been developed by a team led by Strathclyde University.
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In their research, the team used a magnetic lens to focus a Very High Electron Energy (VHEE) beam to a zone of a few millimetres, enabling it to be rapidly scanned across a tumour while controlling its intensity.
It is being proposed as an alternative to other forms of radiotherapy, which can risk non-tumorous tissue becoming overexposed to radiation.
The study was undertaken at the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR) facility, and involved researchers at CERN, Oxford University, the National Physical Laboratory, the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, the University of Napoli Federico II, the University of Oslo and Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France. The team’s findings are published in
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