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Tamara Dietrich

  • Science, Environment and Feature Writer, Freelance
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Science, environment and feature writer, novelist, poet, mother.
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Tamara is a senior writer covering science and the environment in Hampton Roads. Previously, she was a metro columnist with the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz. In a career spanning 20 years, she has won numerous journalism awards for news, feature and column writing. She has been a city reporter, features editor and writer, and Sunday editor. She was born in Germany and raised in western Maryland, and holds a bachelor of arts in English/creative writing from the University of New Mexico.

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Scientists are developing machine learning tools for improving particle accelerator operations

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By Tamara Dietrich
| Phys.org Verified
One of the things that makes the main particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility unique is that it was the first linear accelerator to deliver a continuous stream of electrons. Today, the accelerator's efficiency and stability are critical to groundbreaking experiments by nuclear physicists from around the world for probing the tiniest building blocks of matter.
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Harnessing protons to treat cancer

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By Tamara Dietrich
| Innovation Report
Cameron Clarke is leading a study to evaluate whether proton therapy cancer treatments may serve as a safer alternative to treatments using radioactive isotopes. Credit: Jefferson Lab photo/Lindsay Cunningham DOE tasks a Jefferson Lab team to evaluate whether proton therapy cancer treatments may serve as a safer alternative to treatments using radioactive isotopes. Radiation therapy techniques have been used for more than a century to treat cancers.
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Harnessing protons to treat cancer

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By Tamara Dietrich
| EurekAlert!
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Radiation therapy techniques have been used for more than a century to treat cancers. Physicists in the Radiation Detector and Imaging group and associated with the Biomedical Research & Innovation Center (BRIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have been for several years pursuing radiation therapy technology improvements in collaboration with the Hampton University Proton Cancer Institute (HUPCI).
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