Nuclear power plants: A scintillating aerogel for monitoring radioactive gas emissions

A scintillating aerogel enabling real-time measurements with excellent sensitivity to certain radioactive gases, essential to monitoring the proper functioning of nuclear power plants, has just been developed by a group of physicists, chemists, and meteorologists from the CNRS, the University Claude Bernard Lyon, the CEA, and the ENS de Lyon.

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