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• n  an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles

• A new electron-hurling machine, weightiest contribution to atomic physics since the cyclotron was invented in 1931, was unveiled before science and the world last week.
• When the new cyclotron bombarded an oxygen atom (atomic weight: 16) with neutrons, the light atom split into five pieces (see cut; the arrows point to the five-way split of the .
• The world's biggest cyclotron will be built on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.

News & Articles

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• Best Theratronics Ltd. will be Shipping a 70 MeV Cyclotron to their European Customer in the First Quarter of 2014
  VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- via PRWEB - Best Theratronics Ltd (BTL) and Best Cyclotron Systems, Inc. (BCSI) have made significant progress in manufacturing the first ever 70 MeV Cyclotron in North America ...
  June 20, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Anthony Albanese in ABC Online
  Has the Minister been briefed on a further incident at the nuclear reactor at 11:00am yesterday,Mr Albanese said. "Can the Minister confirm that a canister carrying radioactive material was received from the ANSTO cyclotron in Camperdown...
• John Dingell in MSU Today
  The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory is not only an important asset to MSU, but it is also a critical piece of the University Research Corridor,Dingell said.