The conclusions of a new study published today indicate that nuclear reactions restarted at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant about 12 days after the March 11 tremor and tsunami hit. Using limited data collected from the power plant, University of Tokyo researcher Tetsuo Matsui shows that conditions were righ... |
9 May 2011
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According to experts, Japan could switch from using fossil fuels and nuclear fission to renewable sources for its energy demands by 2050. The issue as to whether the will to do so exists is another matter entirely. But studies show that it's feasible to contemplate this idea. The Asian nation would become t... |
11 April 2011
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A group of scientists has recently proposed a new method of testing whether rogue nations suspected of being involved in constructing and operating nuclear reactors are actually building such structures. In the approach, which is non-invasive, so to speak, antineutrino detectors would be installed off the coast of su... |
23 November 2010
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More than three decades ago, experts showed in a series of calculations that it's theoretically possible for particle accelerators to produce a lot more energy from their experiments than they consume running them. The idea was again brought to life recently, as experts investigated an old idea. The concept prop... |
9 August 2010
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Fission reactors are capable of producing large amounts of energy using radioactive materials, but they also pose an incredibly danger to their surroundings and workers. Their byproducts are also very toxic, and incredibly difficult to handle, and so physicists have been working on developing technologies to replace ... |
28 July 2010
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In 2006, when the first cost estimates for the planned ITER experimental fusion reactor were presented to the international partners, countries decided that the investment was worth pursuing. Over the past four years, however, things changed considerably, and the tokamak now comes with an estimated €15-billion (... |
29 May 2010
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announce the development of a new computer algorithm that allows for them to visualize the reactions that go on inside a nuclear reactor in finer detail than ever before. The neutron transport code UNIC, which is still under deve... |
25 January 2010
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Given the fact that the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly obvious and devastating, the government of the United Kingdom is among a select few in the world today that is actually doing something about it. A huge part of its future plans is to construct an entirely new generation of nuclear power plan... |
26 November 2009
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According to a group of researchers, it may be that the earliest forms of life on the planet might have been made possible by the influence of thousands of small, nuclear fission reactors blasting everything around them with radiation. The model would account for the reason why a radioactive substance has all but dis... |
30 October 2009
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Even before three independent spacecraft confirmed the existence of water-ice on the Moon, the American space agency, NASA, had plans of someday going to the lunar surface and establishing a permanent research base there. In order to make this a reality, a sustainable, durable, compact and light-weight power source w... |
6 October 2009
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The concept of nuclear fusion is something that scientists dream about ever since the mid 1940s, after the fission reaction was first obtained, and the first atom bomb was created. Since then, nuclear energy became a part of our daily lives, with plants being built all across the globe, from Korea to India, the US, C... |
14 November 2008
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There is only one word on everyone's lips today: energy. And how to produce it more efficiently, without polluting the planet. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER for short, has recently received a contribution of 1.4 billion dollars from the Republic of China, which covers about 10 pe... |
8 January 2008
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Though nuclear power was at first viewed as a great source of alternative energy, in the last three decades many countries turned their back on it. Now under the threat of global warming, the nuclear industry seems to be in vogue again. Nuclear power produces great quantities of electric energy, without emitting sign... |
20 November 2007
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