Cameco forecast – does not include Cigar Lake for 2013 and 2014 Cameco is Canada’s largest uranium company and they released their 2009 annual report Here are the highlights: * 20.8 million pounds U308 produced in 2009, 20% increase from 2008 * 16.8 million pounds in Canada. Less 4 million pounds in Cameco report from …
1. The operator of the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, asked the prefectural government Tuesday to start talks on restarting possibly by the end of March the prototype reactor. The Monju prototype fast reactor (FBR) in Japan has completed a government-mandated procedure to ensure the reactor is safe to restart following a sodium …
Ralph Merkle Interview Here is Sander Olson’s Ralph Merkle interview. Dr. Merkle is one of the foremost molecular manufacturing experts on the planet, but his research is currently severely resource constrained. Hopefully this interview will serve to inform people about his research. Question 1: You’ve just returned from the 2010 Foresight conference. How did that …
UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic “gene” that could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans. The research appears in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Science. “We created three-dimensional, synthetic DNA-like crystals,” said UCLA chemistry and biochemistry professor Omar M. Yaghi, …
MIT Technology Review reports that REvolt of Switzerland claims to have solved issues with rechargeable Zinc Air Batteries. Nonrechargeable zinc-air batteries have long been on the market. But making them rechargeable has been a challenge. ReVolt Technology claims breakthrough achievements in developing a metal-air battery that overcomes all of the above barriers to deliver: ㆍ …
Michael Anissimov answers ten questions from Popular Science about the technological Singularity and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It is a lengthy piece but is well worth reading for anyone interested in the Singularity and AGI. Al Fin believes that the time scales for AGI are too optimistic. There is a 6 page draft of an …
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist: The long-term ratio between the real price of oil and the real price of natural gas has constantly varied between 1 and 2 with the long-term average hovering at 1.6. Since January, however, that ratio has jumped to more than 4 to 1, which is unprecedented and has …
Nesscap Inc., a South Korean-based ultracapacitor manufacturing and power storage solutions company, announced today that it has closed a bridge financing round in the amount of $9 million. Nesscap ultracapacitor information * High energy density (2.7V 5000F Prismatic : 5.8Wh/kg, 7.1Wh/l) Which is not that special. Experimental electric double-layer capacitors from the MIT LEES project …
A lot of water has been found on the moon but is in concentractions of 1 part in 1000 to 1 part in 10,000 how do you extract water that is likely locked up as small concentrations of ice in the lunar soil? Microwaves could provide the key, according to work by Edwin Ethridge of …
Shown in the image are depictions of (top) a conventionally calcined c-oriented silicalite-1 zeolite membrane and (bottom) an identically oriented membrane that has undergone rapid thermal processing (RTP). Red and green regions in the 3D schematics are indicative of zeolite crystal grains and defects/grain boundaries, respectively. A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of the membrane …