Main module of the ELBE radiation source (IMAGE)

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Main module of the ELBE radiation source

Caption

With this main module of ELBE, electrons can be accelerated to nearly the speed of light. In the SMART experiment, the particles generate "bremsstrahlung", which knocks out one neutron each from molybdenum atomic nuclei, leaving the radioisotope Mo-99.

Credit

HZDR/Jürgen Jeibmann

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