The purpose of this organization is to serve as an accelerator in building meaningful relationships.

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Professor Egil Lillestol of Bergen University has been pushing thorium for some years now, and thinks that Norway should set the trend in building a prototype accelerator-driven reactor in which a massive particle accelerator converts thorium-232 to uranium-233 by irradiating it with slow (spallation) neutrons generated by the impact of a 1.6 GeV proton beam on a lead target.

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The Ireland-based company recently opened a San Francisco office and is building up a hardware accelerator program to help startups launch in under a year.

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The consensus among physicists is that particles began massless and got their mass subsequently from something known as the Higgs field the search for which was one reason for building the Large Hadron Collider, a huge and powerful particle accelerator located near Geneva.

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In addition, says Libes, the usual accelerator is tech-focused and a significant portion is devoted to coding and building a product to demonstrate during the final pitch day.

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