AvatarCam Mflipped into The Universe of thingsNuclear Waste Are Radioactive Diamond Batteries a Cure for Nuclear Waste? WIRED - Daniel Oberhaus Researchers are developing a new battery powered by lab-grown gems made from reformed nuclear waste. If it works, it will last thousands of years. In …
Rich Bernato Ed. D.flipped into Futuring And changeNuclear Energy NASA Found Another Way Into Nuclear Fusion verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertMagic happens in the Goldilocks Zone. NASA has unlocked nuclear fusion on a tiny scale, with a phenomenon called lattice confinement fusion that takes place in the narrow channels between atoms. In the...
Think Moreflipped into Environment Nuclear Energy This Tiny Nuclear Reactor Will Change Energy—and Now It's Officially Safe verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertA massive step for a mini reactor. Nuclear startup NuScale has received a landmark final safety evaluation report (FSER) for its modular reactor design, making it the first American modular design to this...
AvatarR Sflipped into Techno ChangeUniversity of Bristol Arkenlight "surprised" by NDB's grand nuclear diamond battery claims verified_publishernewatlas.com - By Loz Blain Totally safe, self-charging batteries that generate power for thousands of years ... It's an exciting thought, and when we wrote about California's …
AvatarMatt Snyderflipped into Parasite BrainsNuclear Energy Russia declassifies footage of 'Tsar Bomba' — the most powerful nuclear bomb in history Live Science - Brandon Specktor The blast was more powerful than 50 million tons of TNT, and was felt hundreds of miles away. In October 1961, the Soviet Union dropped the most …
Brimstone68flipped into Hardware Of WarNuclear Energy America's Largest Nuke: Here's What the B83 Nuclear Bomb Can Do nationalinterest.org - Caleb Larson Key Point: This nuke could cause a lot of damage. And it is only a regular gravity bomb. The B83 is one of two so-called “dumb” or unguided nuclear …
AvatarR Sflipped into Techno ChangeNuclear Energy Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past WIRED - Daniel Oberhaus Triso particles are an alien-looking fuel with built-in safety features that will power a new generation of high-temperature reactors. The basic idea …
AvatarLeBuiflipped into Books&TechNuclear Fusion Nuclear fusion reactor could be here as soon as 2025 Live Science - Charles Q. Choi A viable nuclear fusion reactor — one that spits out more energy than it consumes — could be here as soon as 2025. That's the takeaway of seven new …
Vivian Narvaezflipped into RANDOM PAGES from HISTORYNuclear Energy Tsar Bomba: The Most Powerful Nuclear Weapon Ever Built howstuffworks.com - by Patrick J. Kiger On October 30, 1961, a specially equipped Soviet Tu-95 bomber flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a remote chain of islands in the Arctic Ocean that the …
Jeff Buhmannflipped into ScienceNuclear Fusion A 12-Year-Old Kid Built a Working Nuclear Fusion Reactor (and Broke an Epic Record) verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertHe's the youngest person to ever achieve fusion. A teen genius at a U.S. middle school has built a working, tiny nuclear fusion reactor—and made it into Guinness World Records “just hours” before his birthday,...
Avatarhajaveebflipped into UusNuclear Energy This Molten Salt Reactor Is the Next Big Thing in Nuclear verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertIt's fast, cheap, safe, and eats up waste. What's not to like? A new molten salt reactor design can scale from just 50 Megawatts electric (MWe) to 1,200 MWe, its creators say, while burning up nuclear...
Avatardwberkflipped into TrumpHydrogen Tiny Nuclear Reactors Yield a Huge Amount of Clean Hydrogen verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertThey're another welcome weapon in the fight against fossil fuels. After getting bodied in the news cycle for a few months, small modular nuclear startup NuScale Power has an additional potential path the...
And In This Cornerflipped into Tech-KnowNuclear Fusion Nuclear fusion reactor could be here as soon as 2025 space.com - Charles Q. Choi A viable nuclear fusion reactor — one that spits out more energy than it consumes — could be here as soon as 2025. That's the takeaway of seven new …
Travis Sky Ingersollflipped into To Boldly Go...Telescopes The Thermal Nuclear Engine That Could Get Us to Mars in Just 3 Months verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertIt's twice as efficient as a chemical rocket. Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has designed a new thermal nuclear engine it says could carry astronauts to Mars in just three months—and back to Earth...
Ray Nietoflipped into Geeky Cool Sci-techNuclear Fusion This Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Damn Close to Burning Plasma verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertIt will be a monumental milestone on the road to ignition. A major nuclear fusion reactor powered by lasers has set up a new series of milestones. The National Ignition Facility (NIF), at Lawrence Livermore...
Taz flipped into Tech StuffNuclear Fusion Nuclear Fusion Will Not Save Us Gizmodo - Yessenia Funes Last week, construction kicked off on the world’s largest experimental nuclear fusion reactor. It marked the start of a new era in the energy sector: …
Popular MechanicsNuclear Energy The U.S. Government Made a Powerful New Kind of Nuclear Fuel verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertIt's part uranium, part thorium, and it may just save America's nuclear program. Could a new blended thorium fuel improve U.S. nuclear power’s outlook? Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National...
Anton Prodanovic, Ph.D.flipped into Nuclear EnergyEnergy The 'Sun machine' that could provide the world with clean energy by harnessing nuclear fusion inews.co.uk - Leo Cendrowicz In a valley in Provence, 30 miles north of Marseille, a team of engineers, physicists and builders are slowly piecing together the world’s biggest …
WIREDflipped into ScienceNuclear Testing Nuclear Tests Have Changed, but They Never Really Stopped WIRED - Daniel Oberhaus 75 years after the first explosive nuclear tests, now outlawed, sophisticated virtual testing allows American physicists to understand these weapons …
SlashGearflipped into SlashGear Science and HealthScience Nuclear Thermal Propulsion engine could mean a three month trip to Mars slashgear.com - Shane McGlaun A company from Seattle called Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies (USNC-Tech) has developed a concept for a new type of propulsion unit and delivered …
Stan Relihanflipped into DEFENCE | MILITARY | WEAPONS | Nuclear Energy B83: The U.S. Military's Most Dangerous Nuclear Weapon? nationalinterest.org - Caleb Larson At nearly one and a half tons, the B83 is the largest nuclear bomb that the United States currently keeps.Here's What You Need To Remember: Today, …
AvatarLazarus Longflipped into SpaceflightNASA The Nuclear Battery Aboard Perseverance, the Next-Gen Mars Rover powermag.com - Sonal Patel NASA’s next-generation Mars rover Perseverance, which successfully launched on July 30 atop an Atlas 5 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force …
AvatarBillyTeoflipped into Quantum Physics & The UniverseProtons Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang WIRED - Thomas Lewton The newly measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process that forged the first atomic nuclei matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years …
New Atlasflipped into ScienceEnergy Assembly begins on ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion reactor verified_publishernewatlas.com - By Nick Lavars Lured by the prospect of nearly inexhaustible source of clean energy, scientists have been investigating nuclear fusion reactors for decades, but a …