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2nd June 2021 9:40 am In this episode The Engineer talks to Ric Allott, Director of Business Development at the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), about industrial applications of two of the UK’s premier scientific research facilities: STFC’s Central Laser Facility and the ISIS Neutron and Muon source. More Information
Whoser to make sure they're always safe and reliable. safely. >> reporter: can we actually look in? >> sure, sure. >> it vibrates the atoms at the rate of a million billion per second. that is so fast that heat cannot be conducted, shock warvts can't be conducted. >> reporter: there's a big debate right now where people say is this testing really sufficient to be absolutely sure that that nuclear device will go off? how do you answer thatty. >> well, we probably look at these weapons today more extensively than we did even when we were doing nuclear testing. there are hundreds of ways that a n...
Be conducted, shock waves can't be conducted. >> reporter: there's a big debate right now where people say is this testing really sufficient to be absolutely sure that that nuclear device will go off? how do you answer that? >> well, we -- we probably look at these weapons today more extensively than we did even when we were doing nuclear testing. there are hundreds of ways that a nuclear weapon could fail. we've found failure modes in the stockpile that we could never have found with nuclear testing. because we're able to do these massive simulations, the largest calculations that man has eve...