Rosatom said Feb 7 that design documents for the fast-neutron SVBR-100 had been drafted ahead of the planned construction of an industrial unit at JSC NIIAR, Russia’s Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad. The SVBR-100 is a 100-megawatt small modular reactor with lead-bismuth coolant. When using mixed oxide plutonium-uranium (MOX) fuel, it operates on …
By 2015, oil executives and analysts say, the new fields in North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and California could yield as much as 2 million barrels of oil a day — more than the entire Gulf of Mexico produces now. New horizontal multifrac drilling is expected to raise U.S. production by at least 20 percent over …
The degenerative aging of the immune system is responsible for an enormous burden of disease and disability, from the pain of recurrent Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia, to elevated rates of chronic urinary tract infections, to complications in wounds, pressure sores, ulcers, and surgical incisions. Most prominently, it underlies the meteoric rise in mortality from …
Mice studies show that as long as the transplanted stem cells are matched to the mother, it does not seem to matter if they are matched to the fetus. If the same is true in humans, the stem cell therapy could work on sickle cell anaemia and diseases of the immune system. “Now that we …
Optics.org- Spectrolab, the Boeing subsidiary that specializes in high-efficiency solar cells, says that it has begun mass production of its newest “C3MJ+” devices (updated triple-junction devices) – which have an average conversion efficiency of 39.2% at a 500-sun concentration. That is an improvement of 0.7% on its existing “C3MJ” cells (the product nomenclature reflects the …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software SGI announced in June its Altix UV system that supports up to 256 Intel Nehalem-EX processors and up to 16 terabytes of main memory all housed in four cabinets. It uses 32 four-port node controller ASICs designed by SGI. By December 2010, SGI will ship versions …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nanoletters – Sub-100 nm Channel Length Graphene Transistors Here we report high-performance sub-100 nm channel length graphene transistors fabricated using a self-aligned approach. The graphene transistors are fabricated using a highly doped GaN nanowire as the local gate with the source and drain electrodes defined through …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Northwestern University has developed beam pen lithography technology which offers a means to rapidly and inexpensively make and prototype circuits, optoelectronics and medical diagnostics and promises many other applications in the electronics, photonics and life sciences industries. Using beam-pen lithography, the researchers patterned 15,000 replicas …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software India’s economy is booming, with the number of millionaires and billionaires rising by the day. According to a research by Bain and Co, there are over 115,000 high-net worth individuals in India Today, more than 400 million people live below the poverty line in India (using …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software User clumma on the EnergyfromThorium discussion forum provides highlights of the Second Thorium Energy Alliance Conference Andrew Hutton – Jefferson Lab (Nat’l Accel. Facility) ADNA (Accelerator-Driven Neutron Applications) Corporation – GEM*STAR These two were in the ADS (Accelerator-driven Systems) breakout session. I think it’s safe to …