| Key debates | Public safety • Regulation and control issues • Ethical implications |
| Subject area | Nuclear physics, material science, and engineering |
| Current research | Secure neutron sources • Innovative detection techniques • Health and environmental impacts • Advanced materials engineering • Nuclear power systems |
| Application fields | Nuclear power • Medicine, e.g., neutron therapy and diagnostics • Non-destructive testing, materials research • Homeland security and nuclear detection • Archeology, e.g., neutron radiography |
| Environmental concerns | Radiation exposure • Nuclear waste management |
| Associated technologies | Neutron generator • Spallation neutron source • Neutron capture therapy and tomography • Boron neuron capture therapy • Neutron spectroscopy • Neutron activation analysis • Neutron imaging |
