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By Tudor Raiciu
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been conducting research related to the fields of nuclear physics for many years. A couple of years ago, in 2008, experts at the Lab's Nuclear Science Division (NSD) launched the Applied Nuclear Physics program, through which they sought to develop and implement even more widely-useful technologies for applications ranging from medicine to astronomy and surveillance. Together with colleagues from the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), the team has just been awarded two grants to research gamma-ray detectors.

“Pure science and practical applications push each other. Adapting laboratory devices to real-world uses gives us many opportunities to demonstrate new techniques, which often turn out to benefit science as well,” says NSD expert Kai Vetter, who is also a UCB DNE professor in residence. He took command of the Applied Nuclear Physics program after having spent more than six years at the DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The scientist says that one of the main goals of the program is the development of practical applications from highly-theoretical principles.

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