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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...

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...

Self-Sustaining Fusion Reactions

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - 10:33:47 - Anuradha Menon

It's late April and workers are assembling the last parts of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a sprawling building covering the area of three...

Japan Pushes Forward on Plutonium Imports

Friday, May 22nd, 2009 - 13:51:58 - Anuradha Menon

Japan’s power-generation companies are moving full-speed ahead—again—to start plutonium-thermal power generation this fall, in the face of fierce...

Fusion Factory Starts Up

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 - 14:09:30 - Anuradha Menon

Later this month in California, construction will be completed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, or NIF, the...

The Orbital Menace - Space Garbage
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 - Ran Levi
We have all heard about the challenges and dangers involved in space travel. Even though the space shuttle is equipped with...

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Can the LHC Swallow Earth? (Another Look)

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 10:31:54 - Anuradha Menon

Nestled 570 feet beneath the Alps on the Swiss-French border is the world’s largest physics experiment — the Large Hadron Collider. Constructed for...

Fly to Mars With Spaceship Force Field

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - 12:54:29 - Anuradha Menon

According to the international space agencies, 'Space Weather' is the single greatest obstacle to deep space travel. Radiation from the sun and...

NASA to go Nuclear on the Moon
Monday, October 13th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA has announced the development of an energy generator for the moon based on nuclear power. The new power system should...