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Another situation that occurs in nuclear weapons and in reactors is the scattering of energetic photons off materials. This process is inherently relativistic when the photons have energies comparable to or greater than the rest energy of an electron. (Differential) cross section computations are necessarily relativistic.

At Los Alamos, various techniques using energetic photons and electrons were used to diagnose implosion systems in development of the plutonium bomb.