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Nuclear reactor mystery solved, with no need for new particles
- stefantalpalaru 4y ago[dead]
- exmadscientist 4y agoHell yeah! It's great to see something on HN even a decade after I left the area. While the evidence in ~2011 for a sterile neutrino was pretty hot, but I think everyone knew that turning out this way was pretty likely... certainly the very first question was whether the flux predictions were any good. (Turns out that predicting the spectrum from a reactor is actually kind of hard, and so, in fact, they weren't correct at the time.) And a great shout-out to Bryce! I promise I took care of your old desk. Really, I did! Great to see you in Science either way.