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“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt

Circle of Blue

Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first. In Maryland’s Somerset County, an area facing both high rates of sea level rise and land subsidence, 2 percent of farmland was lost to salt between 2009 and 2017 , totaling over 1400 acres. .

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Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat

Physics World

The impact of cosmic radiation is not always as trivial as determining who wins a Super Mario game, or as positive in its outcome. The culprit, again, was most likely cosmic radiation. It was set up in 2009 to specifically study the effects of irradiating microelectronics with atmospheric-like neutrons. Courtesy: STFC/CNR).

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DEP: Shale Gas Operator Found Responsible For Water Supply Contamination After Investigation Documents Chemical Contamination Spread Across 3 Townships In Greene County

PA Environment Daily

There were two shale gas wells on Mohr B drilled in March of 2009 and May of 2011. If radiological impacts were present within the pad, radiation levels would greatly exceed levels established using this conservative screening criterion.” Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

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Fusion community mourns death of ITER boss Bernard Bigot aged 72

Physics World

He took over as chair of France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in 2009 before succeeding the Japanese physicist Osamu Motojima as ITER boss in 2015. Following positions at École normale supérieure de Lyon, he became director of the institution in 2000 and then high commissioner for atomic energy in 2003. Sibylle Günter.

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The Overshoot Commission Addresses Geoengineering

Legal Planet

In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).

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MR-Linac pioneer awarded highest ESTRO honour

Physics World

He soon realised that the key to optimizing radiotherapy lies in knowing the exact location of the tumour and being able to paint the radiation dose accordingly. In 2009 the team built the first prototype system and performed the celebrated MR imaging of a pork chop with the accelerator beam on and off.

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Drawing up a ‘Google Earth’ of the human body

Physics World

Seeing more deeply Claire Walsh from University College London (left) and Paul Tafforeau from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, are among the scientists to have developed the new imaging technique of Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT). I thought that sounds ambitious,” he says.

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