India and China signed a high speed train deal. The India and China deal includes: * Training in heavy haul transportation: A training programme has been finalised for 100 persons * Increasing speed on existing lines: Chennai-Bangalore-Mysore section has been identified for increasing speed to 160 kmph with cooperation from China * Redevelopment of railway …
The Japanese construction giant Obayashi says they will build a space elevator that will reach 96,000 kilometres into space. Robotic cars powered by magnetic linear motors will carry people and cargo to a newly-built space station, at a fraction of the cost of rockets. It will take seven days to get there. Using a space …
This week’s MMWR, Estimating the Future Number of Cases in the Ebola Epidemic—Liberia and Sierra Leone, 2014–2015, estimates the future number of cases if current trends continue. The MMWR also adjusts the number of cases based on estimated underreported cases. By September 30, 2014, CDC estimates that there will be approximately 8,000 cases, or as …
Carbon dioxide emissions, the main contributor to global warming, are set to rise 2.5% in 2014 – reaching a record high of 40 billion tonnes. Key facts and figures: * CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuel are projected to rise by 2.5 per cent in 2014 – 65 per cent above 1990 levels, the reference …
The U.S. and five Arab countries launched airstrikes Monday night on Islamic State group targets in Syria, expanding a military campaign into a country whose three-year civil war has given the brutal militant group a safe haven. Using a mix of manned aircraft — fighter jets and bombers — plus Tomahawk cruise missiles, the strikes …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 227 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome Forbes James Conca – First American Nuke Plant In 21st Century To Open Soon Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar 2 Nuclear Generating Station is in the final phase of construction in preparation for its start-up next year. Watts Bar 2 will be the first …
Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered an on-and-off “switch” in cells that may hold the key to healthy aging. This switch points to a way to encourage healthy cells to keep dividing and generating, for example, new lung or liver tissue, even in old age. In our bodies, newly divided cells constantly replenish lungs, …
Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC), based in Tomsk, said yesterday it has completed testing of the first full-scale TVS-4 fuel assembly containing nitride fuel. The assembly is intended for the BN-600 fast neutron reactor, which is the third unit of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant. These are two new milestones in Russia’s ‘Proryv’, or Breakthrough, project …
The installation of equipment has been completed at a pilot production line in Baotou in Inner Mongolia for fuel elements for China’s Shidaowan HTR-PM, a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) demonstration project. The new pilot production line will have an annual capacity of 300,000 fuel elements. The National Nuclear Security Administration issued a permit for its …
A team of Stanford researchers has developed a protein therapy that disrupts the process that causes cancer cells to break away from original tumor sites, travel through the bloodstream and start aggressive new growths elsewhere in the body. This process, known as metastasis, can cause cancer to spread with deadly effect. “The majority of patients …
For the first time, scientists have discovered how to produce ultra-thin “diamond nanothreads” that promise extraordinary properties, including strength and stiffness greater than that of today’s strongest nanotubes and polymers. “From a fundamental-science point of view, our discovery is intriguing because the threads we formed have a structure that has never been seen before,” Badding …