
The Neutron
In Our Time: Science
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The Future of Neutron Therapy
There are two areas that are going on in neutron sort of medical applications. One is neutron radiotherapy, where you just take a beam of neutrons and put them through tissue. And because neutrons deposit a large amount of energy as they go through the tissue, then they can act like a very powerful nuclear scalpel. So there's research and development going on all over the world. Unfortunately not in this country at the moment, but over the world, neutron therapy is being looked at.
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