© INFN
The hairs were placed in capsules and inserted in the core of the nuclear reactor in Pavia. The technique used is known as "neutron activation", which has two enormous advantages: it does not destroy the sample and it provides extremely precise results even on samples with an extremely small mass, such as human hair samples.
The hairs were placed in capsules and inserted in the core of the nuclear reactor in Pavia. The technique used is known as "neutron activation", which has two enormous advantages: it does not destroy the sample and it provides extremely precise results even on samples with an extremely small mass, such as human hair samples.
The physicists performing the study used a small nuclear reactor used exclusively for research purposes at the University of Pavia, applying techniques that were created for the project known as "Cuore" ("Heart"), which is being developed at the INFN's national laboratories in Gran Sasso.
The research, the results of which will be published in the journal Il Nuovo Saggiatore, was performed on hair samples that had been taken during different periods of Napoleon Bonaparte's life, from when he was a boy in Corsica, during his exile on the Island of Elba, on the day of his death (May 5, 1821) on the Island of Saint Helena, and on the day after his death.
Samples taken from the King of Rome (Napoleon's son) in the years 1812, 1816, 1821, and 1826, and samples from the Empress Josephine, collected upon her death in 1814, were also analysed. The hair samples were provided by the Glauco-Lombardi Museum in Parma (Italy), the Malmaison Museum in Paris, and the Napoleonic Museum in Rome. In addition to these "historical" hair samples, 10 hairs from living persons were examined for comparison purposes.
Comment: What a Brave New World we live in, where US government is raining toxicity down upon our heads.
Also, considering the recent information that such events may be used to conceal possible meteorite collision, it wouldn't be far-fetched to speculate that this indeed may be the fact.
From "The Hazard to Civilization from Fireballs and Comets": From "Wars, Pestilence and Witches": We wonder how many more "out of control satellites" are going to fall on our heads before US government will run out of excuses.