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Taner Yildirim wins Tubitak Award Taner Yildirim wins Tubitak Award

Dr. Taner Yildirim, a physicist at the NCNR, has won the prestigious Special Award for 2009 from Tubitak, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. The Special Award is reserved …

Shutdown Planned for 2011 Shutdown Planned for 2011

The NCNR expansion project is proceeding on a schedule that will require a 10½ month shutdown of the reactor beginning around March 2011. &

Large-Scale Cousin of Elusive ’Magnetic Monopoles’ Found at NIST Large-Scale Cousin of Elusive ’Magnetic Monopoles’ Found at NIST

Magnetic monopoles are created (top) when the spin of an ion in one corner of a spin ice crystal is knocked askew, creating a monopole (red sphere) and adjacent antimonopole …