1. GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy supports India’s plans to expand electricity supply India plans to expand its electricity production from nuclear energy more than tenfold, from 4.1 gigawatts (GW) today to 63 GW by 2032. Of that total, an estimated 30-40 GW would come from imported reactor technologies. India has set aside two sites for …
Virgin Galactic unveils Spaceshiptwo SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and its mothership, VMS Eve (WhiteKnightTwo) herald a new era in commercial space flight with daily space tourism flights set to commence from Spaceport America in New Mexico after test program and all required US government licensing. SpaceShipTwo uses all the same basic technology, carbon composite construction and design …
Diode pumping of a dual-clad fiber laser can be from the end or the side, but light must enter at an angle close to the axis of the fiber so the pump light (blue) can be guided within the outer core. The laser species is doped into the inner core (red), which confines laser emission …
In terms of the scale of the effort for colonizing North America, I think it is useful to compare the size of the naval fleets of the time and other historical benchmarks. We know how large the military is today and the share of the total economy that it has. It will be more useful …
Eddystone coal power station will be shutdown and replace with natural gas and nuclear plant uprates A small coal-fired generating plant in northwestern New Mexico will be used to test new hybrid technology that combines solar- and coal-generated steam to produce electricity. Solar thermal concentrating technology will provide heat for the turbine and reduce coal …
IEEE Spectrum picked the Intel Larrabee as a technology winner for 2009 Intel has canceled the Intel Larrabee, so the IEEE Spectrum pick is completely, unambiguously wrong I had commented about the prediction of the IEEE Spectrum when it was made, that it was vague. What would it mean that Larrabee would be a winner …
Previously this site had reported on the DARPA project to create chip scale high energy atomic beams as a path to commercial nuclear fusion. There is a DARPA budget document with a bit more description that what was previously referenced. The Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams program will develop chip-scale high-energy atomic beam technology by …
Betavoltaics can store about one million times more energy than other battery like devices but currently cannot release it very quickly. Nano-to-Macro Scale Engineering Applications of Nuclear Technology-An Overview by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University (7 page pdf) Nuclear science and technology offers the capability for radical industrial innovations from the …
Alan Boyle at MSNBC cosmic Log reviews the status of nuclear fusion projects He does not mention General Fusion or Japan’s Muon fusion project. For IEC Fusion: In September, EMC2 Fusion was awarded a Navy contract, backed by $7.9 million in stimulus funds, to develop a scaled-up version of a Polywell fusion reactor. Development and …
Figure caption:(a) Colored scanning electron microscope image of the measured device. Aluminum top gate is used to induce a two-dimensional electron layer at the silicon-silicon oxide interface below the metallization. The barrier gate is partially below the top gate and depletes the electron layer in the vicinity of the phosphorus donors (the red spheres added …
Fujitsu Ltd. (6702) on Wednesday successfully operated a prototype of its next-generation supercomputer, in spite of a government panel’s decision to freeze funding for the project. The Ministry of Science and others are calling for the project to be continued, and Fujitsu says it is ready to start production as soon as it gets the …