irradiation

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He even visited a nuclear research facility in India to learn more about the irradiation process.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

In south India, there is exactly one irradiation center, in Bengaluru, creating a bottleneck every spring.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

The researchers also suggest that similar high-energy irradiation processes may explain how diamonds form naturally in meteorites or uranium-rich rocks.

From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025

"Simple, visible light irradiation holds the potential to transform the chemical recycling of plastics, using the additives already found in many commercial products," say the paper's authors, Sewon Oh, Hanning Jiang and Erin Stache.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

Given a moist planet with methane, formaldehyde, ammonia, and some usable minerals, all of which abound, exposed to lightning or ultraviolet irradiation at the right temperature, life might start off almost anywhere.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas