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Kazatomprom Plans to Increase Uranium Production to 25,000 tons/year and BHP Olympic Dam Expansion Unlikely Because of Australian Tax

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Kazakhstan’s uranium deposit map. 1. Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan’s national uranium company, plans to raise future production to 25-26,000 tons of uranium a year, the company’s vice president Nurlan Ryspanov said on Friday. Kazatomprom produced 14,000 of uranium in 2009, making Kazakhstan the largest uranium producer in the …

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ExaFLOP Supercomputer Could be As Early as 2015 and Non-CMOS ZettaFLOP Supercomputer

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Oak Ridge National Labs has funded a 20 petaflop supercomputer from IBM (2011-2012) and has talked about 100-250 petaflops by 2015 and an exaflop by 2018. If the SGI petaFLOP supercomputer in one cabinet does not turn out to be vaporware then having a 100 cabinet supercomputer system is relatively standard. 100 petaFLOPS system could …

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Russia Uprates Reactors for $200/kWe, Brazil Proceeding with Reactor and Japan Restarts a Reactor

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. Russia will complete an uprate for all but one of Russia’s VVER-1000s by the end of 2010. The uprates will increase the maximum capacity of eight third generation VVER-1000 reactors by 4%, resulting in 311 MWe extra generating capacity. This is part of a larger …

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Spacex Has Successfully Launched the Falcon 9, Falcon 9 is in orbit

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software The Falcon 9 was successfully launched.. There is an alternative feed of the live video here (still holding for 1 hour and 11 55 minutes.) The 50+ minute hold is due to range conditions. The Falcon-9 is a two-stage rocket that is about 180 feet tall. …

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SGI Announces Hybrid Computing Platform to Deliver a Petaflop in a Single Cabinet

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software SGI a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC, SC10) that it has developed a breakthrough hybrid computing platform that will deliver a petaflop of performance within a single cabinet. (A petaflop is defined as a thousand …

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Potential Breast Cancer Vaccine Could be Just a Few Years Away

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Vincent K. Tuohy, PhD, an immunologist and researcher in the department of immunology at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, and his team, supported by the National Cancer Institute, have been studying “the possibility of a vaccine that would protect women from breast cancer.” On May …

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Craig Venter and his Team have Made Artificial Life

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Craig Venters team copied an existing bacterial genome. They sequenced its genetic code and then used synthesis machines to chemically construct a copy. The synthetic DNA was transferred to a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species “dictated” by the synthetic …

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Cameco Targets 40 Million pounds of Uranium Per Year by 2018

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Cameco said it plans to nearly double uranium production to 40 million pounds annually over the next eight years to satisfy rising demand for nuclear fuel as nuclear power generation capacity expands. Cameco’s expansion plans rely heavily on production from its 50 percent owned Cigar Lake …

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Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Look in Good Shape to Get to Proton Boron Burning by End of 2010

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is running dense plasma focus fusion experiments and are getting good levels of current and voltage. The April 2010 technical report gives the March experimental results. Analysis of shots we did in March gives more convincing evidence of high ion energies, certainly more …

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Macroscale Carbon Nanotube Fibers

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software In a Rice University lab, a black fiber the diameter of a human hair spools into a beaker of ether. Made up of pure nano­tubes, the strand is the culmination of nearly a decade of experimentation. Chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali and his colleagues have spun nanotubes …

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