Experts announce that one of the most likely reasons for which the Moon contains such large amounts of water and ice is that comets slammed into its surface billions of years ago. This allowed the chemical to accumulate, and get stored at the most suitable locations on the lunar surface. According to the new data, ... |
10 January 2011
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Ithaca, NY-based Widetronix is currently developing a new generation of nuclear batteries, called betavoltaics. The devices are able to produce a steady flow of low current levels, and can last for up to 25 years, experts say. The batteries will soon undergo their testing phase, and the entire process will be supervi... |
17 November 2009
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Remember hydrogen's radioactive isotope resulted in nuclear reactors that we dump all over the place then accuse the nuclear power plants for radioactive poisoning? Well if you do, then you should also know that they finally found some good use for it lately. Tritium is one of hydrogen's three isotopes and... |
14 December 2007
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Tritium represents one of hydrogen's isotopes. It is radioactive, having a nucleus formed of one proton and two neutrons, while the most abundant isotope of hydrogen, protium, has no neutrons. The half life of the tritium atom is somewhere around 12 years, and the decay reaction results in a helium atom plus in ... |
30 November 2007
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