How Uranium Enrichment Works
	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 uranium reserve on Earth, engineers must use an enrichment process to extract the fissionable material. How it works ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Antineutrinos to Pose as Alarm Against Plutonium Theft
	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 nuclear fission reaction. Plutonium accumulation of the fuel rods is also extremely hard to track. International Atomic Energ ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Isomer Explosives, not Different from Nuclear Ones
	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 than that obtained with the help of chemical explosives. The problem is that some researchers believe that this exotic new weapo ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Regional Nuclear War Would Destroy the World
	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 rays. Ultraviolet light has the ability to alter the human DNA, but other organisms may be at risk as well. 100 Hiroshima-s ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Future Cellphone Will Be Able to Detect Nuclear Weapons
	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 present in ports and borders all around the world, but they could, in theory, miss the slight radioactive residues pro ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 05:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NIF Hurries to Finalize LASER Installation
	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 initiate the laser pulses, only 96 of them have been used together for the first time to verify the control system and lase ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 08:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia