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Fermi had already realized in the early 1930s that neutrons were an ideal probe to induce nuclear reactions because of the lack of the Coulomb barrier. The use of high-flux reactors and neutron generators—primarily in the 1950s and 60s—to produce new isotopes is described in the chapter.
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See also the article on the discovery of spontaneous fission in Chap. 13.
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Thoennessen, M. (2016). Neutron-Induced Reactions. In: The Discovery of Isotopes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31763-2_7
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