Posted by on Tuesday, February 21, 2012,
There has been an
interesting announcement from one of the teams at the TRIUMF national
laboratory on the subject of medical isotope production. They are
claiming that they have been able to produce a radioactive isotope
known as Technetium-99m in a particle accelerator / cyclotron instead
of a nuclear reactor. If there results hold up to scrutiny (which
they should) and if it is economical, this could have a major impact
on medical physics and on government policies on nuclear reactors.
Many...
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Posted by Chris Bird on Friday, February 3, 2012,
I just got word that the Loquino project is completed now and was even mentioned on both the Make blog and the
Arduino Forum. For those who aren't aware, this was a project that Mark Wilson developed combining two of my favorite things - my Grandiloquent Dictionary project and an Arduino microcontroller board to make an interesting little program.Check it out, and if you have an Arduino board test it out. Continue reading ...
I am a physicist recently graduated from the University of Victoria, with a doctorate in theoretical physics. I also have training in mathematics, engineering and computer programming.