The ALDI supermarket chain has recalled Fission external hard drives sold to Australian customers after it was discovered that they were infected with a variant of the Conficker worm.The $99 device which combines an external hard drive, a DVD unit, an USB hub and a card reader, apparently came infected directly from ... |
29 July 2011
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Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) are currently investigating technologies that could allow for the construction of a fission reactor on the Moon in the future, to help power potential outposts that may be established. The new system is reportedl... |
17 August 2009
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The Vulcan laser, currently the most powerful in the world, was used recently to test future nuclear fusion reactor concepts. During the experiments Vulcan was able to heat matter to a temperature of 10 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the surface of the Sun which is averaging about 5,500 degrees Celsius. The rel... |
19 May 2008
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Uranium enrichment basically refers to the separation process between the uranium-238 and the uranium-235 isotopes. Because only uranium-235 can be used for fission reactions - such as those experienced in nuclear weapons and nuclear powered reactors - and uranium-235 makes up for less than 1 percent of the whole ura... |
13 May 2008
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Great power comes with great responsibility, a wise man once said. Indeed it does, and nuclear waste is only one of the problems that come along with this great power. Nuclear energy has great potential for electrical energy generation, as it uses relatively small amounts of fuel and converts it into a massive amount... |
4 March 2008
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Bringing the Sun to Earth, that's what nuclear physicists dream of today. The imminent depletion of fossil fuels, the inefficiency of renewable power sources and dangers posed by the use of nuclear fissionable fuels point to only one future energy-production solution, nuclear fusion. More than two thirds of the ... |
3 March 2008
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Uranium dioxide is the world's most common radioactive substance, alongside the natural uranium molecule. Most of this nuclear waste results in the nuclear reactors of the nuclear power plants, during the process of nuclear fission, or nuclear fuel 'burning', which involves splitting the uranium atom t... |
17 January 2008
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On August 6, 1945, a uranium-based weapon, "Little Boy", was released over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a plutonium-based weapon, "Fat Man", was dropped onto the city of Nagasaki. They were the first (and only) nuclear attacks in history.Officially, the first nuclear test - code-named "Trinity" -... |
11 June 2007
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