PostsCommentsPayoutsveluc (19)in #news • 6 years agoEn route to the optical nuclear clockThe nucleus of thorium-229 possesses a property that is unique among all known nuclides: It should be possible to excite it with ultraviolet light. To date, little has been known…veluc (19)in #news • 6 years agoPipe crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facilityA pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former…