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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 04/13/2020 at 12:50 • Filed to: neat, oak ridge

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I was looking at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that talks about the Oak Ridge reactor and they mentioned casually that they can use a neutron beam from the core and aim it at things. S pecifically they can aim it at a running engine.  B ecause the hydrogen in all hydrocarbon fuels are good absorbers of neutrons they can image the actual fuel as its running. They can see the flow, the turbulence, the completeness of combustion. It’s like an X-ray but the negative is formed by neutron blocking not X-ray blocking.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > HammerheadFistpunch 04/13/2020 at 12:57

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I was hoping to see the actual resulting imagery. Y u do this to us

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > HammerheadFistpunch 04/13/2020 at 13:01

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Oh. That is cool.

There’s a group up at the Idaho Reactor Engineering Labs that’s been using reactor-generated particle beams to do in situ inspection of critical parts for hidden cracks and defects. But that’s always been in static form. They do mainly military and high-end commercial work.

Being able to analyze a functioning internal combustion engine? That’s just amazing.

HammerheadFistpunch > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 04/13/2020 at 13:03

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me too.  I would guess it takes some computing and what not, plus its proprietary.  

A Boy and His Longtail > HammerheadFistpunch 04/13/2020 at 13:23

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This is really cool! I imagine as work goes on this will hopefully get cheap enough to eventually be commonplace.