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Researchers may help solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance with a nuclear reactor

By General Aviation News Staff · February 25, 2021 ·

Researchers at Penn State College of Engineering’s Breazeale Nuclear Reactor are using neutron radiography and neutron activation analysis to examine the makeup of a metal patch that may have belonged to Amelia Earhart’s lost airplane. The metal patch was found in 1991 by Ric Gillespie about 300 miles from Earhart’s intended destination, Howland Island.

You can read more about the researchers’ efforts in this article from Popular Mechanics.

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