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VIRGO joined Observational Run 2

VIRGO lab - bird's eye view (Credits: N. Baldocchi/The Virgo Collaboration)
The project to upgrade VIRGO, European detector of gravitational waves, has come to end after a few years of accomplishment. On August 1, 2017 VIRGO officially joined Observational Run 2 to acquire data jointly with the two US-based LIGO detectors. Scientists running the VIRGO experiments include some researchers from NCBJ. ----

Another Hi-Tech company came to Świerk PNT

NCBJ Świerk Science & Technology Park (PNT) reached an agreement with the Cryptomind S.A. company. It will be the 33rd business entity located in PNT. The company is going to run CryptoLab, a cyber security lab. ----

No worries, there will be enough uranium

A new technology of extracting uranium from seawater at a cost merely twice as high as the currently accepted upper limit of economically justified costs of mining uranium from shallow deposits in Earth crust has been developed in the USA and in Japan. ----

Technetium and other radioactive isotopes in healthcare

IIzabela Cieszykowska and Tomasz Janiak (photo Marek  Pawłowski, NCBJ)
NCBJ scientists have presented some promising results of research on targets suitable for production of technetium-99m, one of the nuclear medicine more important isotopes, in accelerators. Their paper appeared in the June edition of the Applied Radiation and Isotopes journal. ----

ESS Council delegation in Świerk

ESS Council delegation in Świerk
European Spallation Source (ESS) is a large research facility currently under development in Lund, Sweden. Delegation of  ESS Council with John Womersley, ESS Director General, visited Świerk on June 1, 2017. NCBJ is significantly involved in neutron research in Poland and has contributed to ESS development. ----

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