Which of the following technological advances was not useful in the 1930s to advance the study of nuclear reactions?


a. Van de Graaff accelerator.

b. Two-mile long SLAC accelerator.
c. Cockcroft-Walton high-voltage multiplier circuit.
d. Cyclotron.



b.
the two-mile long SLAC accelerator was not established until 1962.

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