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Published online 22 January 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030120-4

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Antineutrinos caught in vanishing act

Disappearance of nuclear reactors' subatomic particles confirms theory.

Exotic particles emitted by nuclear reactors are vanishing before they've travelled a few hundred kilometres, according to an international experiment in Japan1.

This is just what the team of scientists called the KamLAND collaboration had hoped.

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