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by TheSpiceIsLife 461 days ago
Fission reactors spew neutrinos, no need for anti-
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Antineutrinos are produced in nuclear reactors when the radioactive products of nuclear fission undergo beta decay.

Source: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/66

Ah, right.

This publication[1] says neutrinos, but the article it references says antineutrinos[2].

That explains my misunderstanding.

1 https://www.energy.gov/science/np/articles/detecting-neutrin...

2. https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1959810-evidence-antineutr...