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Lloyd’s Register, Enterprises Shipping and Trading, Hyperion Power Generation and BMT examine nuclear powered commercial shipping

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Lloyd’s Register, Enterprises Shipping and Trading, Hyperion Power Generation and BMT have joined forces to explore the potential for nuclear power (Hyperions small 25 MWe reactors) to propel future generations of commercial tankers Changing to nuclear powered container ships would reduce air pollution by the equivalent of about 20,000 cars converted to electric for each …

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Heated tip of Atomic Force Microscope transforms Graphene Oxide to ten thousand times more conductive Reduced GO isomer

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 12 nanometer graphene oxide circuits can be produced using heated atomic force microscope tips. Journal Science – Nanoscale Tunable Reduction of Graphene Oxide for Graphene Electronics The reduced form of graphene oxide (GO) is an attractive alternative to graphene for producing large-scale flexible conductors and for …

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Nimbus Data Systems Enterprise Flash Memory Drives for $10,000 per Terabyte

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software HPCWIRE feature on Nimbus and Nimbus press release – Nimbus will make and sell enterprise flash memory drives for $10,000 per Terabyte. Nimbus Data Systems has unveiled its new high-density enterprise flash memory system, delivering 10 terabytes of solid state capacity per 2U shelf. The S1000 …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 2 – china build, thorium and more

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The second blog carnival of nuclear energy is up at nuclear green. This site supplied these three articles 1. Just one of China’s nuclear companies is looking to add twelve more AP1000 nuclear reactors beyond the current official plan and Russia, China, France and Japan are in talks for a 4th generation nuclear project 2. …

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Carnival of Space 140 – Looking for Kardashev III Artifacts

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The 140th edition of Carnival of Space is at Lights in the Dark This site provided an in depth look at the Vasimr plasma propulsion for a lunar tug and the funding of a nuclear fusion propulsion research center Centauri Dreams looks at Interstellar Archaeology to cosmic-scale artifacts like Dyson spheres or Kardashev civilizations. Suppose …

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Nuclear Plant Operating Extensions and Update on Nuclear Heavy Manufacturing Supply Chain

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NY Times – The USA is contemplating indefinite operating extensions. Increasingly dependable and emitting few greenhouse gases, the U.S. fleet of nuclear power plants will likely run for another 50 or even 70 years before it is retired — long past the 40-year life span planned decades ago — according to industry executives, regulators and …

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Kazatomprom Uranium Mining

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Total uranium production in Kazakhstan for the 9 months of 2009 amounted to 9,535 tU. Thus, the target was exceeded by 3%. The increase, as compared to the corresponding period of 2008, made up 61%, while a gain of U3O8 output in comparison with the corresponding period of 2008 was 50%. Full 2009 production should …

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Technology Roundup: Booming EReaders in 2010, Ionic Batteries, Batteryless Neural Sensing Chip

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1. MIT Technology Review reports on the work of Arizona based Fluidic Energy who are working toward development of a metal-air battery that relies on ionic liquids, instead of an aqueous solution, as its electrolyte. The company aims to build a Metal-Air Ionic Liquid battery that has up to 11 times the energy density of …

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Curious Case of Brooke Greenberg :Ageless 16 year old Toddler

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Scientists wonder if Brooke Greenberg, now 16, will help point the way to new discoveries about the genetics of aging. Pictured from left to right on Brooke’s 12th birthday are sister Caitlin, 15; Brooke; sister Emily, 18; mom Melanie Greenberg; and sister Carly, 9. Brooke Greenberg does not age normally and is immune to growth …

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Nanocomp Technologies Delivers 10 kilometers of CNT yarn to Fortune 100 aerospace customer; achieves 4-foot by 8-foot mat production breakthrough

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Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), today announced it has produced and delivered 10 kilometers of its CTex™ CNT yarn to one of its Fortune 100 aerospace customers. Delivering long lengths of CNT yarn further solidifies Nanocomp’s position as the only U.S. commercial company …

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Aubrey de Grey Interview at betterhumans

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Aubrey de Grey interview on longevity, life extension and Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) at betterhumans.com Estimate of the timing of results: I [Aubrey] think there’s a 50% chance of getting the first-generation SENS therapies working within 25-30 years. But that’s only an estimate, and it’s a highly speculative one: I think there’s at …

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