<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c6cd2bc0-5821-4f4a-a5f9-c7ba48aea4ea/E255DD2B-5F9F-4DAB-A32B-A6F294636C35/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1754232" href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1754232" style="font-size: 11px;">science.slashdot.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1754232"><DIV class="details"><B>Posted by kdawson on Sunday August 26, @07:43PM</B> <STRONG>from the <B>deploy-the-tinfoil-helmets</B> dept.</STRONG> </DIV> <DIV class="body"> <DIV class="topic"> <A href="http://science.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=232"> <IMG width="59" height="66" title="Power" alt="Power" src="http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicpower.gif" /> </A> <A class="topic2" href="http://science.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=14"> <IMG width="62" height="75" title="Science" alt="Science" src="http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicscience.gif" /> </A> </DIV> <DIV class="intro"> <A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.arxivblog.com/">KentuckyFC</A> sends us a report of gamma rays detected at a Japanese nuclear plant, whose origin was thunderclouds high overhead (<A href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2947">abstract</A>, <A href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/0708.2947">article PDF</A>). The theory is that showers of electrons caused by cosmic rays, when they encounter the high electric fields present in thunderstorm clouds, can be accelerated to energies above 10 MeV and result in bremsstrahlung photons detectable on the ground.</DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E255DD2B-5F9F-4DAB-A32B-A6F294636C35/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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