NACA Physicist Studying Alpha Rays #6709


#6709 NACA Physicist Studying Alpha Rays by JVPD
Stock photo of a NACA Physicits studying Alpha Rays in a continuous cloud chamber, September 12th 1957. A cloud chamber is used by Lewis scientists to obtain information aimed at minimizing undesirable effects of radiation on nuclear-powered aircraft components. Here, alpha particles from a polonium source emit in a flower-like pattern at the cloud chamber’s center. The particles are made visible by means of alcohol vapor diffusing from an area at room temperature to an area at minus -78 deg. Centigrade. Nuclear-powered aircraft were never developed and aircraft nuclear propulsion systems were canceled in the early 1960s.

Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Bowles [0003-0702-2515-2474] by 0003

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