killer electrons

USScientists claim to have discovered the force behind ‘killer electrons’ that cause a major hazard to spacecraft, astronauts and satellites at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory. The report has been published in the July issue of the journal ‘Nature’ Physics.Scientists claimed that this theory might be beneficial for saving the life of astronauts, who may be shot dead through thrust of electron entering on the shell of the earth. According to study published in the journal, ‘Killer electrons are found in the outermost of Earth's doughnut-shaped radiation belts, which circle the Earth and are bound by the planet's magnetic fields. They travel at near light speed and charged with a thousand times more energy than the average dental X-ray.’