Los Alamos researchers Steve Wender, left, and Suzanne Nowicki stand in the cabin of a NASA DC-8 aircraft for testing the Tinman instrument.

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Los Alamos researchers collaborated with Honeywell, Inc., to develop the Tinman technology to detect deleterious levels of thermal neutrons. Certain environments, including high-performance computing (HPC) environments and aircraft may be particularly susceptible to thermal neutrons. Tinman detects and measures thermal neutrons via He-3 tubes. The technology is autonomous and has already been successfully tested on three different NASA aircraft flights.

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STE Highlights for December

Read these articles in the December 2020 issue of STE Highlights

	Awards and Recognition LANL scientist and collaborator honored by mineral name
	Bioscience Microbial interactions, not individual microorganisms, essential to carbon cycling in soil
	Capability Enhancement LANL-developed system offers better, faster, safer decontamination of surfaces Novel thermal neutron detector safeguards aircraft and HPC semiconductor electronics
	Computer, Computational and Statistical Sciences Novel “fast-forwarding” quantum algorithm makes quantum computing more useful right now
	SIGMA Experimental technique offers decades worth of corrosion data in one minute
	X-Computational Physics New ICF platform and high-res imaging provide groundwork for direct drive multi-shell targets