Muons to map nuclear power plants

2023-05-20 09:30:00

It is an infinite rain that floods the entire Earth. Produced in the upper atmosphere, muons are elementary particles.very penetrating which cross us and can travel several hundred meters in the rock“, explains Sébastien Prosecutor, researcher at the CEA. Invisible but detectable, this flow can be harnessed to map large and inaccessible structures, such as a volcano or a pyramid.

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