
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Science, Technology & Engineering Highlights
STE Highlights features current, cutting-edge scientific research at Los Alamos National Laboratory and recent awards and recognitions of Los Alamos scientists.
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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