Vancouver's TRIUMF Lab Bottles Atomic Shrapnel

While visitors and locals flock to Vancouver's parks for a taste of the region's famous untamed beauty, at TRIUMF labs another kind of natural exploration is taking place. Nestled among three green spaces, the enormous particle accelerator center might seem a little out of place with its twelve and a half acres of research buildings and radiation warnings. Yet the researchers at TRIUMF work tirelessly to coax some of nature's deepest secrets out of normally untalkative particles: neutrons. This ...