irradiation

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In south India, there is exactly one irradiation center, in Bengaluru, creating a bottleneck every spring.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

He even visited a nuclear research facility in India to learn more about the irradiation process.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

The researchers also suggest that similar high-energy irradiation processes may explain how diamonds form naturally in meteorites or uranium-rich rocks.

From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025

"Looking years into the future, there's a possibility that ion irradiation can be used to deliberately introduce defects into materials and manipulate them," he said.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2024

This new phase of research required the irradiation of uranium on a heroic scale, with the goal of producing enough 94 to perform the necessary experiments.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik