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Science 23 February 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5815, p. 1049
DOI: 10.1126/science.315.5815.1049c
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X-ray and photon sources for spectroscopic and diffraction methods have increased in brightness by several orders of magnitude during the past 20 years, but the brightness of neutron sources for structural studies have increased by only an order of magnitude during the past 40 years. With conventional neutron source technologies (spallation and fission reactors) reaching a plateau in their output, Taylor et al. (p. 1092) propose that inertial fusion energy facilities and high-power lasers could run in tandem to provide neutron sources that would be three orders of magnitude brighter than those available at present.




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