• KATRIN is an experiment to determine the mass of the neutrino by measuring the energies of electrons given off from the beta decay of tritium?

Facts on topics related to Beta decay

Nuclear fusion

• instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction?
• the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?

Nuclear fission

• physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?

Nuclear physics

• Ruparel College in Mumbai, India boasts nuclear physicist Anil Kakodkar and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai among its alumni?
• the Swedish term yrast, meaning "dizziest", is used in nuclear physics to refer to nuclear states of high angular momentum?
• though trained as a nuclear physicist, Peer Portner created the ventricular assist device, a pump that assists a patient's heart until a heart transplant can be performed?