This is an updated radiation chart courtesy of reader Goatguy Note: the cancer risk probably starts after 100 milliSieverts. Understanding how civil nuclear technology is the safe green solution by Oxford Physics If a over 40 years of less than 1 or 2 in 1000 is tolerable (2-4 weeks average life expectancy, a hundred times …
Heiko Timmers, a physicist with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said it would be difficult to control the nuclear reactors damaged by Japan’s worst earthquake on record. The situation may become more difficult if the containment chambers of the reactors are breached, he said in a telephone interview …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 37 is up at Idaho Samizdat ANS nuclear cafe goes over the economics of wind power and hydro power Wind-generated electricity is not free. The cost of fuel for any power plant is just part of the cost that a consumer needs to pay. Because the fuel cost is zero …
CO2 stays around in the air for a century or more, so to measure the warming that a country can be blamed for, you need to measure not current but cumulative emissions – over centuries. Industrialisation is new to China. As a result, when historical accumulations of CO2 emissions over the past century are taken …
Most of the world is dependent on China to supply rare earths as key raw materials used in many of the latest technologies from military hardware to electric cars, but China’s Ministry of Commerce is warning that its massive supply of rare earths could be exhausted in just 15 – 20 years. Although China accounts …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dipole magnets are designed to operate at magnetic fields of about eight tesla, or 8 T These LHC magnets use cables made of superconducting niobium titanium (NbTi), and for five years during its construction the LHC contracted for more than …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat reports Turkey may have another major nuclear reactor deal in the works. According to English language press reports from Ankara, South Korea is positioned to sign contracts by November to build a $10 billion project. An energy official said the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Michigan Technology University has found ways to use magnetic resonance to capture rays of visible light and route them around objects, rendering those objects invisible to the human eye. They describe developing a nonmetallic cloak that uses identical glass resonators made of chalcogenide glass, a type …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new technique might soon enable cosmologists to map the universe even when they can’t pick out individual galaxies. If it works, researchers would be able to probe the structure of 500 times as much of the universe as they have studied so far. * scientists …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Pressure inside the well rose slowly yesterday to 6,720 pounds per square inch from 6,700 pounds per square inch at the start of the day, an encouraging sign that the well may have escaped damage following an April 20 explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. UAVs could be used to save lives by flying search-and-rescue (SAR) missions in the nation’s large national parks. Brigham Young University took a commercially available propeller-driven plane with a 1.2-metre wingspan, optimised for low-speed flight, and adapted it to both fly and search autonomously. Their …