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On Friday, the American space agency released a full report, in which it gave details about the asteroid that exploded high in the planet's atmosphere on October 8, in the skies over Indonesia. According to NASA, the asteroid blew up with the strength of 50,000 tons of TNT, an explosion about three times more po... |
27 October 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Recently, reports in the press stated that experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had drafted a secret paper, saying that Iran had the necessary expertise required to build a functional atomic bomb. Within a few hours after the report surfaced, officials from the United Nations nuclear watchdog pu... |
23 September 2009
03:51 GMT |
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For the first time ever, it may be that establishing an international ban on the testing of nuclear weapons is within reach, experts say. Plans for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) state that all explosions involving nuclear weapons, be they for civilian or military purposes, are to be banned. The negotiation... |
22 September 2009
03:45 GMT |
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When the Cold War began, the United States and the Russian Federation started stocking up nuclear armament in immense quantities. After it became clear that the two superpowers would not go to war, efforts were made to limit the production of these terrible weapons, and to reduce existing stocks. But the remaining nu... |
1 September 2009
18:21 GMT |
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After an extremely narrow vote, 62-year-old Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano has been appointed as the new Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), succeeding Mohamed ElBaradei as the leader of one of the most important agencies in the world. More than two thirds of the Council voted for Amano... |
6 July 2009
01:44 GMT |
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The city of Hanford, in Washington State, houses the oldest nuclear processing sites, and is now known as the place where weapons-grade plutonium was found lying around the dump site, enclosed only in a very shaky safe box. The find, besides eliminating a threat, also completes a piece of history, as the sample now c... |
21 January 2009
09:10 GMT |
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With many countries in the world, and especially the Middle East, announcing their intentions to build nuclear power plants in the next decade, the risk of more fuel production and reprocessing facilities, capable of creating weapons-grade uranium and plutonium increases sharply. In an attempt to stop this proliferat... |
8 January 2009
05:40 GMT |
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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
06:15 GMT |
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During nuclear fission reactions nuclear power plants produce a by-product element known as plutonium, which accumulates on the uranium fuel rods. Plutonium cannot occur naturally on Earth and is extremely important for the fabrication of nuclear bombs because it is used in the detonation mechanism initiating the nuc... |
9 May 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Nuclear weapons generate high explosive energies by either fusing or splitting certain chemical elements. A new type of nuclear explosive developed by the US Department of Defense, on the other hand, uses nuclear reactions in order to determine gamma-ray emissions carrying energies about one thousand times larger tha... |
14 April 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Global or not, a nuclear war would kill us all. And if nuclear weapons didn't do the job, then the Sun would. According to recent studies, a regional global war would cause the ozone layer of the Earth to be destroyed in as little as a decade, all living beings being at the mercy of the Sun's ultraviolet ra... |
8 April 2008
03:34 GMT |
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After 9/11, people finally realized what terrorism is capable of and that terrorists would do anything to accomplish their plans. Correlate that with large amounts of missing nuclear fuel from the ex-soviet countries and you get nuclear terrorism. Most of the radioactive detection systems being currently used are pre... |
24 January 2008
05:43 GMT |
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Scheduled to start the preliminary experiments in 2008, the technicians at the National Ignition Facility, or NIF for short, double the pace to finalize the installation of the rest of the 192 lasers as the construction completion date is only a year and a half away.Out of the 144 beamlines that are used by NIF to in... |
30 November 2007
08:18 GMT |
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