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Originally Posted by kang
Protons, of course, kind of hard to accelerate neutrons in a magnetic ring. D'oh! But then, how do you slow them down? Some sort of medium?
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Liquid hydrogen mostly, but we also used plain old water.
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I'm sure stripping neutrons off mercury atoms wreaks havoc indeed. That's the understatement of the day. How many can you strip off one atom before the atom becomes way unstable?
Cool stuff! Keep on guessing! 
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The "spallation products" are varied to say the least. We were having an issue with some weird isotope of Iodine today. Our higher beam powers are having an effect on our operations. The fun thing is that no one else in the history of man is doing what we are doing, so we are seeing things that no one has seen before. Very cool stuff.