Here is the updated list of new Nuclear reactor that are expected to start operation from 2013 through 2017 2013 India, NPCIL Kudankulam 2 PWR 950 2013 Korea, KHNP Shin Wolsong 2 PWR 1000 2013 Korea, KHNP Shin-Kori 3 PWR 1350 2013 Russia Leningrad II-1 PWR 1070 2013 Argentina, CNEA Atucha 2 PHWR 692 2013 …
NY Times – The Pentagon’s advanced research agency said on Wednesday that it will offer a prize of $2 million to the winners of a contest testing the performance of robots that could be used in emergencies like the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan. In one competition the contestants will build their own robots, while …
High Altitude Launch for a Practical SSTO (6 pages, 2003 by Geoffrey A. Landis and Vincent Denis) Existing engineering materials allow the construction of towers to heights of many kilometers. Orbital launch from a high altitude has significant advantages over sea-level launch due to the reduced atmospheric pressure, resulting in lower atmospheric drag on the …
Nautilus Minerals (ocean floor mining company) has an agreement with Tongling Nonferrous Metal Group for 1.1 million tonnes per annum (subject to +/- 20% variation) of Solwara 1 material for a period of three years on a take or pay basis, commencing upon the first delivery of product from Solwara 1, targeted in Q4 2013. …
BBC News – The forecasts for the shape of the “global talent pool” in 2020 show China as rapidly expanding its graduate numbers – set to account for 29% of the world’s graduates aged between 25 and 34. The biggest faller is going to be the United States – down to 11% – and for …
Fortune – In mid-April, Apple had its first ultra-secretive “Top 100” meeting since Jobs died. The hush-hush conclave is a rare opportunity for top managers — not necessarily chosen by rank, but rather by the CEO’s assessment of who are the most valuable contributors at any given time — to learn what products and services …
Venturebeat – Nvidia’s mobile business will grow thanks to growing acceptance of Tegra 3, a mobile processor that combines Nvidia’s high-end graphics with five computing brains. A leader in PC graphics, Nvidia has reinvented itself in the last five years to become a major player in mobile graphics chips. It competes with huge rivals such …
Aging Cell – Rapamycin Slows Aging in Mice. Rapamycin increases lifespan in mice, but whether this represents merely inhibition of lethal neoplastic diseases, or an overall slowing in multiple aspects of aging is currently unclear. We report here that many forms of age-dependent change, including alterations in heart, liver, adrenal glands, endometrium, and tendon, as …
Texas field production of crude oil is at 1.72 million barrels of crude oil per day in February, 2012 and was 1.67 million barrels of oil per day in January, 2012. Texas oil production is up 470,000 barrels of oil per day compared to Feb, 2011. There are projections for Texas oil production to get …
A new technology, the Fission Fragment Rocket Engine (FFRE), requires small amounts of readily available, energy dense, long lasting fuel, significant thrust at specific impulse of a million seconds, and increases safety by charging the reactor after arrival in LEO. If this study shows the FFRE potential, the return could be immense through savings in …
A gadget invented at Bell Labs—a programmable, pint-sized transmitter that requires no new traditional cell towers—could rapidly add capacity and thus help avoid data bottlenecks. The gadgets are known as light radio cubes. Measuring just six centimeters on each side, they are miniature transmitters and receivers that can be programmed to work flexibly in different …