The boss of the world’s largest shipping conglomerate has advocated the use of nuclear power onboard merchant ships. Outlining the container alliance CKYH’s decision to push ahead with super slow steaming, COSCO ceo and president Capt Wei Jiafu said that the move was in part a green one. He then went on to say that …
1. Japan’s first ever nuclear power reactor to use mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies is now operating at full capacity, fuel supplier Areva has announced. Kyushu’s Genkai 3 was loaded with the fuel fabricated from uranium and the plutonium recovered from previously used nuclear fuel in October. Recycling of plutonium in MOX is to play …
MIT researchers propose a system that uses solid-oxide fuel cells, which can produce power from fuel without burning it. The system would not require any new technology, but would rather combine existing components, or ones that are already well under development, in a novel configuration (for which they have applied for a patent). The system …
1. Summary of Uranium Resources Available in Major Deposits and Prospective Mines Ranger, Olympic Dam and Beverley are the top three mines currently in production in Australia and are described here Bannerman Resources Ltd released further evidence of major uranium plays at the Oshiveli and Onkelo prospects. Bannerman’s chief executive Len Jubber said these results …
The next generation of bomb resistant vehicles will be in Afghanistan along with the 30,000 extra troops They are equipped with everything from composite armor to “electronic keels”. The M-ATV is made by Oshkosh defense. The M-ATV has a curb weight of just under 25,000 lb, and it’s powered by a 370-hp Caterpillar C7. It …
1. In 1996, NASA researchers reported that a meteorite contained evidence that life once existed on Mars. But others argued that the evidence was most likely caused by inorganic processes that could be recreated artificially. A second group of NASA researchers (containing some scientists from the first study) has reexamined the 1996 findings using a …
Time Magazine reports that nuclear bombs are stored on air-force bases in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands — and planes from each of those countries are capable of delivering them. The Federation of American Scientists believes that there are some 200 B61 thermonuclear gravity bombs scattered across these four countries. Under a NATO agreement …
Bonn scientists discover a promising new approach to combat obesity Fighting fat with fat The researchers suspect that a disorder of the brown fatty tissue can lead to obesity in adults. If it were possible to turn on the ‘natural heating system’ on again, the problem of unwanted fat would be quickly solved: according to …
The latest US energy source mix From January 2009 to August 2009, US primary energy consumption fell by 5.7 percent compared to the same time period in 2008. For the first eight months of 2009: * petroleum provided 31.7% of US energy consumption* natural gas provided 24.6% of US energy consumption, * coal provided 21.0%* …
Intel’s 48-core Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) processor (Credit: Intel) Intel on Wednesday demonstrated a fully programmable 48-core processor it thinks will pave the way for massive data computers powerful enough to do more of what humans can. (H/T Sander Olson) The 1.3-billion transistor processor, called Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is successor generation to the 80-core …
1. Telegraph UK, researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users. (H/T Instapundit) But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it. “We started our research seeking …