Workers have begun loading nuclear fuel into a reactor at the Ikata power plant in western Japan. The operator plans to restart the reactor in late July. Shikoku Electric Power Co. started loading nuclear fuel Friday into a reactor at its Ikata power plant, paving the way for a scheduled restart next month. The utility …
A team of researchers at Cornell University has built and run a simulation that showed prebiotic reactions could possibly occur on the surface of one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, suggesting the possibility of life evolving in a place where it is too cold for water to be a factor. The team describes the simulation they …
A modified ink jet printer spits out electronic circuits and a type of energy storage device called a supercapacitor. Lee, a battery chemist at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea, empties the ink cartridges and refills them with specially formulated battery materials and conductive inks. When loaded with treated …
The NHS in England is introducing a “superior” test for cervical cancer, following a successful pilot programme. Experts say it is a switch that could pick up an extra 600 cancers a year. Women invited for a routine smear test will now automatically be checked for an infection called HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), which has …
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VP Joe Biden says that there are overwhelming prospect that in the next year, two, three, four, five, you’re going to see significant breakthroughs for certain types of cancers. $1 billion has been funded for the white house moonshot cancer initiative. We already have a cervical cancer vaccine for boys and girls. Liquid biopsies will …
Three new nuclear power reactors in China have recently reached significant milestones toward their operation. First criticality has been achieved at Fuqing 3 and Fangchenggang 2 – both CPR-1000s – while cold hydrostatic tests have been completed at the Haiyang 1 AP1000. Unit 3 of the Fuqing plant in China’s Fujian province achieved a sustained …
Fog, blizzards, gusts of wind – poor weather can often make the operation of rescue helicopters a highly risky business, and sometimes even impossible. A new helmet-mounted display, developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), may in the future be able to help pilots detect hazards at an early stage, even when …
The U.S. Air Force awarded contracts of nearly $1 billion each to GE Aviation and Pratt and Whitney to further develop a next-generation military jet engine under the Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP). The service envisions the new engine powering a sixth-generation fighter and potentially an upgraded F-35 Lightning II. In dual contract announcements on …
Beijing claims a pair of Japanese fighters locked weapons radar on their planes over the East China Sea, while Tokyo denies the accusation. During the June 17 incident, Chinese defense officials said two Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) Mitsubishi F-15J Eagles intercepted two Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 fighters over the East China Sea in the …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 316 is up at Fukushima Commentary Neutron Bytes – What about nuclear energy in UK after Brexit? There are a lot of opinions about the impacts on energy policy and investments in the UK following the non-binding vote to leave the European Union. The UK Parliament has to take the …