Items tagged with nuclear

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Worker Dies at Japan's Nuclear Plant Saturday, May 14th, 2011 - 09:40:08 - Iddo Genuth The tragedy and the danger following the major earthquake in Japan are far from over. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, A worker at... read more

Micro Air Vehicle Headed for Fukushima Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 - 19:04:26 - Iddo Genuth The Defense Department canned the so-called “Flying Beer Keg.” But the hovering drone and some of its robot pals now have a new mission: helping... read more

Worm Can Deal Double Blow to Nuclear Program Saturday, November 20th, 2010 - 18:32:55 - Anuradha Menon The German software engineer who in September was the first to report that a computer worm was apparently designed to sabotage targets in Iran said... read more

Non-Proliferation: A Nuclear Exchange Thursday, October 14th, 2010 - 12:58:22 - Anuradha Menon Here at the Polish Institute of Atomic Energy in Otwock-Świerk, 30 kilometres southeast of Warsaw, fuel-removal operations have been under... read more

Stuxnet Worm Hits Iran Nuclear Plant Monday, September 27th, 2010 - 11:27:19 - Ehud Rattner A complex computer worm has infected the personal computers of staff at Iran's first nuclear power station, the official IRNA news agency reported... read more

Radiation Death Sparks Indian Safety Enquiry Sunday, May 9th, 2010 - 16:34:55 - Anuradha Menon The Indian government is scrambling to tighten rules on scientists' use of radioactive materials, following the death of a metal dealer who handled a... read more

Big Bang Collider Sets Particle Beam Record Monday, November 30th, 2009 - 18:15:12 - Anuradha Menon The "Big Bang" experiment at CERN near Geneva scored a world record on Monday by accelerating beams to the highest energy ever achieved in a particle... read more

A 25-Year Battery Saturday, November 21st, 2009 - 14:10:57 - Anuradha Menon Batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be... read more

Building the World's Most Powerful Laser Thursday, October 15th, 2009 - 09:33:47 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the National Ignition Facility demonstrated a 1.1 megajoule laser designed to ignite nuclear fusion reactions by 2010. But the... read more

A New Approach to Fusion Friday, July 31st, 2009 - 10:16:37 - Anuradha Menon General Fusion, a startup in Vancouver, Canada, says it can build a prototype fusion power plant within the next decade and do it for less than a... read more

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