°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Vacuum Group visits Oak Ridge
6 Oct 2008
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Sabina Griffith
Ice is their profession, but the collaboration between the vacuum teams of US °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ and the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization is all but cold: last week the IO team witnessed the firing of the world largest "killer pellet" at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: A disruption mitigation pellet made of deuterium ice the size of a wine cork was fired at 600 m/s into a foil target. Such pellets are an option for disruption mitigation on °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ.