1. Summary of Uranium Resources Available in Major Deposits and Prospective Mines Ranger, Olympic Dam and Beverley are the top three mines currently in production in Australia and are described here Bannerman Resources Ltd released further evidence of major uranium plays at the Oshiveli and Onkelo prospects. Bannerman’s chief executive Len Jubber said these results …
Here are 18 pages of slides, 8 pages on the Hyperion Power Generation Uranium HydrideNitride Reactor (H/T Idaho Samizdat) Fuel will be enriched to between 15-19.6% because this small reactor needs more highly enriched fuel to get power levels to point of economic value. Fuel is a uranium nitride alloy. No fuel has been fabricated …
At the highly anticipated Annual Winter Conference of the American Nuclear Society on November 18, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. will present the “launch” design for the Hyperion Power Module (HPM) to be deployed into the global market. Details will be revealed by Mark Campagna, Hyperion Power’s Chief Nuclear Officer, at the technical session on small …
Six of the 37 first round ARPA E projects were for energy Storage * Electroville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood * Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications * Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors * Sustainable, High-Energy Density, Low-Cost Electrochemical Energy Storage – Metal-* Air Ionic …
GE (General Electric) Hitachi is proposing the Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) which would be the fourth generation PRISM sodium-cooled fast reactors and an electrometallurgical separation process that would make a new form of fuel from spent fuel rods without separating plutonium. The first of kind system they are proposing would cost about $3.2 billion and …
An interview with Paul March on using the Mach Effect for propulsion The mach effect propulsion is research which still needs to prove that is has an actual effect which definitely exists as theorized and can be scaled and utilized for propulsion. IEC Bussard fusion has gotten $10 million in funding and it seems that …
The physical setup of the quantum computer consists of a superconducting transmission line cavity coupled to an ensemble of electron spins and a transmon Cooper pair box. The cavity dimensions allow 100 billion electron spins to be coupled to the cavity mode, which could be used to make hundreds of physical qubits. Image copyright: J.H. …
The last few months and the next few months are seeing a flurry of energy bills and energy impacting legislation. Stimulus Bill’s Energy ImpactThe stimulus bill (America Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009) ARRA allocated a total of $9.45 billion to weatherize and/or increase the energy efficiency of low-income housing and assist local governments in implementing …
This weeks news makes it a tough week to deny technology acceleration or an eventual technological Singularity. It is looking far more certain that a very powerful three dimensional DNA/RNA/Protein Nanotechnological capability is emerging and that nanotechnology will be integrated with carbon nanotubes and nanoparticle metal and can be used to bootstrap precise control and …
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics has “Enhanced Adhesion by Gecko-Inspired Hierarchical Fibrillar Adhesives” for makgin wall crawling robots The CMU work will be presented at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 12 – 17, 2009, Kobe, Japan. Tankbot is a simple, energy efficient, lightweight (60 g), and robust climbing robot. It uses …
Universe Today has the carnival of space week 98. This site provide the interview of Tom Shelley, VP of Space Adventures. The interview was done by Sander Olson Centauri Dreams had the interview they had with Friedwardt Winterberg on Starship Design. 21st Century waves looks at the recent World Future Society predictions for 2010-2030 with …