Credit: Ultra Safe Nuclear Intuitive Machines plans to use a Cobalt-60 heat source from Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation for its Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Joint Emergent Technology ...

RADIATIONS from radioactive nuclei oriented at random are isotropic; but if the nuclei are even partially aligned, an anisotropic distribution should in general be found provided I is greater than ...

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Radioisotopes of elements have a wide variety of uses. Cobalt-60 Used in medicine to treat cancer. Gamma rays can be focused on tumors. Iodine-131 Used to treat thyroid gland (in the neck).