The carnival of nuclear energy 32 is up at Canadian Energy Issues Idaho Samizdat gives out Laurels for developments that exceeded expectations for nuclear energy and Hardlys for disappointments. Two articles from this site: Average nuclear capacity factor by country from 2007 to 2009 and an update on new nuclear construction Japan is reducing the …
Register UK- The US Navy, continuing its quest for a hypervelocity cannon which might restore the big-gun dreadnought to its lost dominion over the seas, has carried out a new and record-breaking railgun test. This latest trial firing pushed muzzle energy to a blistering 33 megajoules (MJ). The muzzle velocity, as in the previous 10 …
The bottom third shows the costs in China and Korea and Asia where most of the construction of new power generation of any kind is happening. An OECD report compares nuclear, gas, coal and wind costs. The whole OECD energy cost report is here The executive summary has the LCOE (levelised cost of electricity) of …
In highly sensitive discussions in February this year, the-then South Korean vice-foreign minister, Chun Yung-woo, told a US ambassador, Kathleen Stephens, that younger generation Chinese Communist party leaders no longer regarded North Korea as a useful or reliable ally and would not risk renewed armed conflict on the peninsula • South Korea’s vice-foreign minister said …
Ad Astra Rocket Company’s VASIMR® VX-200 rocket prototype demonstrated its highest power efficiency and performance so far in tests, which ended Friday November 19 at the company’s Houston laboratory. Last week’s results met the efficiency milestone set by the company as it specifies the requirements for the VF-200 flight engine for the International Space Station. …
Today, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will take the first step by announcing a plan to free up 115 megahertz (MHz) of spectrum. In June, President Obama set a goal of freeing up 500 MHz of federal and commercial spectrum over the next 10 years. Much of this newly available …
By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs. Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the salamanders’ stumps became slightly less mature versions of the cells they’d been before. The findings …
NIST’s miniature magnetic sensor is about the size of a sugar cube. The lid has been removed to show the inner square cell, which contains a gas of rubidium atoms. The diagonal bar is an electrical connection to the cell’s heaters, which are powered by the red, black and white electrical wires. The clear optical …
Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves, in live animals. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/neural-regeneration-1012.html Engineers at MIT have now used a new microchip technology to rapidly test potential drugs on tiny worms called C. elegans, which are often used in studies of the nervous system. Using the new technology, associate professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik and his colleagues …
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