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Ghost in The Machine: Physicists Measure The Eerie 'Glow' From Shut-Down Nuclear Reactors For The First Time : ScienceAlert

Unicorns, Bigfoot, and banshees have been scientifically debunked, but ghosts are real – kind of. The exceptionally elusive neutrinos and their counterpart antineutrinos are known as ghost particles because they almost never interact with matter, due to their lack of electric charge and near-nonexistent mass. Yet these phantasmal fundamental particles can help improve nuclear safeguards by providing a non-intrusive way to examine the goings-on inside nuclear reactors – including the spectral flu