Nuclear technology to help manufacture safer cars

Posted on 18 Jul 2017 by Jonny Williamson

Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick has announced it is using a stream of neutrons from the Institut Laue-Langevin’s nuclear reactor in France to examine the safety critical welds in cars made with boron steel.

A stream of neutrons from Institut Laue-Langevin’s nuclear reactor has been used in a new project to examine the safety critical welds in cars made with boron steel – image courtesy of WMG. The WMG research team formed a partnership between the Institut Laue-Langevin’s (ILL), Tata Steel, and the UK’s EPSRC,…

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