Idaho National Lab Strategic plan for improving light water nuclear reactors This plan has not been adopted and funded yet, but recently released with INL’s Utility Advisory Board and EPRI’s Nuclear Power Council as the authors. I think the plan can and should be adopted, while parallel work is ongoing with uranium hydride reactors, molten …
Russia released a plan to build 42 nuclear power plants by 2020. Previously the target was about 35 nuclear reactors. Seven reactors are under construction and 31 are operating. FURTHER READINGThe basic requirements [target goals] for fuel have been set as: fuel operational lifetime extended to 6 years, improved burn-up of 70 GWd/tU, and improved …
The Peak Oil sites had plenty of articles when oil popped above $100 intraday and then articles about oil above $100 and then articles about double digit oil being history Will they be as active if oil goes back below $100 a barrel for an extended period ? FURTHER READINGNymex light crude charts Nymex Brent …
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by Arizona State University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport security checkpoints and revolutionize health screenings for diseases like anthrax, cancer and antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Frasch works with the enzyme F1-adenosine triphosphatase, better known as F1- ATPase. This enzyme, only 10 to 12 …
The US government has funded Sun Microcomputer research for optical on chip and between chip communication. Recent coverage has NEC working on that as the key technology for 10 petaflop computers in 2010 and IBM as well for faster computers. Sun believes it is high risk research with a 50% chance of success but that …
What is required to enable effective limb regeneration in humans in detail ? by Ken Muneoka [Professor Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Tulane University], Manjong Han [Professor Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Tulane University] and David M. Gardiner Researcher, Developmental & Cell BiologySchool of Biological Sciences at U of California at …
As I had been predicting for nearly a year, Ma of the KMT won the Presidential election. He won by 58 to 41 over Frank Hsieh of the DPP Ma’s vote total topped the 7 million mark, a point at which it would be mathematically impossible for him to lose, the commission said. The commission …
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) researchers lead a nationwide effort to make a bionic arm that wires directly into the brain to let amputees regain motor control—and feeling. By 2009, DARPA hopes to have a mechanical arm whose functionality is on par with a flesh-and-blood limb. DARPA Gives APL-Led Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Team …
Up until now inkjet has been the favoured manufacturing technique of the burgeoning organic light-emitting diode (OLED) industry, but a growing number of companies and organisations are looking to roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing for making OLED displays. GE Global Research has reached a milestone in next-generation lighting, demonstrating the world’s first roll-to-roll manufactured organic light emitting …
The concept of a memory device based on self-organized quantum dots (QDs) is presented, enabling extremely fast write times, limited only by the charge carrier relaxation time being in the picosecond range. (from Applied Physical letters) [potentially one thousand times faster than current computer memory] For a first device structure with embedded InAs/GaAs QDs, a …
Angus Maddison provides an update view of China’s Economic Future in the “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” tome written for the OECD. Angus Maddison now predicts: China should overtake the United States as the world’s biggest economy before 2015 [PPP] and by 2030 account for about a quarter of world GDP. [This is …