Carnival of Nuclear Energy 219

The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 219 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome Jim Conca at Forbes – Nuclear-Renewable Mix Is Just What The EPA Ordered The not-for-profit Energy Northwest in WA State is exactly what the EPA’s new carbon rules are supposed to encourage – a diverse mix of non-fossil fuel generating systems that operates over …

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Home Depot to sell 3D printers

Home Depot has signed an agreement with 3D printer company MakerBot to sell its line of Replicator machines. The consumer-grade, desktop MakerBot Replicator 3D printers will initially be part of a pilot program in 12 stores located in California, Illinois and New York. MakerBot said both its printers and 3D scanning technology will be showcased …

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Carnival of Space 364

The Carnival of Space 364 is up at Photos to space Universe Today – The winged Dream Chaser mini-shuttle under development by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has successfully completed a series of risk reduction milestone tests on key flight hardware systems thereby moving the private reusable spacecraft closer to its critical design review (CDR) and …

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Cameco still on track for over 8000 tons of uranium production in 2018

A temporary halt to jet boring at Cameco’s Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan has forced the company to revise its ore production target date (from late 2014 into early 2015). Cameco’s long-term annual production target of 18 million pounds (8,164 tonnes) U3O8 by 2018 will not be impacted. If you liked this article, …

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BRICS countries are building about 75% of the worlds new nuclear reactors and are forming a new BRICS energy association

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced plans to establish a BRICS “energy association” that will include a fuel reserve bank and an energy policy institute. BRICS is a grouping of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Fifty of the 66 nuclear reactors currently under construction are in BRICS states. …

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Wheat disease Powdery Mildew was stopped with gene editing

Researchers have created wheat that is resistant to a common disease, using advanced gene editing methods. Advanced genome-editing techniques have been used to create a strain of wheat resistant to a destructive fungal pathogen—called powdery mildew—that is a major bane to the world’s top food source, according to scientists at one of China’s leading centers …

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Lasers make fiber optic tubes out of thin air and can be used for communication, sensing and weapon applications

Milchberg and his lab report using an “air waveguide” to enhance light signals collected from distant sources. These air waveguides could have many applications, including long-range laser communications, detecting pollution in the atmosphere, making high-resolution topographic maps and laser weapons. Because light loses intensity with distance, the range over which such tasks can be done …

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Carbon Nanotubes May Protect Electrodes for commercial version of Focus Fusion and machining has delayed the Tungsten electrode to September, 2014

While LPPFusion’s research team expects to eliminate the major sources of electrode erosion, enough to get rid of significant impurities in the plasma, some erosion will still exist. It won’t be enough to bother us during the current experimental phase, but once they are engineering a generator that fires 200 times second, remaining erosion will …

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