Rosatom said Feb 7 that design documents for the fast-neutron SVBR-100 had been drafted ahead of the planned construction of an industrial unit at JSC NIIAR, Russia’s Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad. The SVBR-100 is a 100-megawatt small modular reactor with lead-bismuth coolant. When using mixed oxide plutonium-uranium (MOX) fuel, it operates on …
The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory announced on Tuesday that it has inked a deal with IBM to build ten petaflop Mira BlueGene /Q supercomputer in 2012 The Mira machine will essentially be half of the Sequoia BlueGene / Q super that is going into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – another DOE lab …
Arxiv – Reversible Logic Based Concurrent Error Detection Methodology For Emerging Nanocircuits In a reversible logic gate, every output can be transformed back in to its input. If this is done perfectly then there would zero waste. Actually building such a logic gate is a difficult and has not been done. Reversible computing seems to …
ACS Nano – Fabrication of Stable and RNase-Resistant RNA Nanoparticles Active in Gearing the Nanomotors for Viral DNA Packaging The chemical instability of RNA and its tendency to breakdown in the presence of enzymes have slowed progress in the field. Researchers have developed a highly stable RNA nanoparticle. They tested its ability to power the …
The New Energy Times has been covering low energy nuclear reactions (LENR – what was called cold fusion) from the beginning. There is an article which discuses the Rossi 10 KW demonstration. * The original nickel-hydrogen LENR research was developed by Francesco Piantelli, of Siena, Italy. Piantelli was not involved in the recent Rossi demonstration …
Billionaire investor George Soros’ hedge funds are targeting the Taiwan dollar for speculative trading, a Taiwan local newspaper reported. Executives from HSBC Taiwan noted that recently they noticed the hot money from Hong Kong has been flowed in Taiwan, which is unusual, because the hot money was normally flow from Europe and the U.S. Last …
Hi, this is Joseph Friedlander with a guest post for Next Big Future. This article will discuss setting up an industrial village on the Moon. And on import substitution and Jane Jacobs economics (transactions of decline and transactions of ascent). Note- This is a lengthy discussion of a plan for bootstrapping civilization into space. In …
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a report “Asia-Pacific Macro Year Ahead 2011: Certain growth in an uncertain world” Nine pct gdp growth expected to be new normal for Chinese economy. China GDP Growth Forecasts 2011 9.1 percent 2012 9 2013 8.5 2014 8.5 2015 8 2016 7 2017 7 2018 7 2019 7 2020 …
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 …
1. Tunable Bandgap in Graphene by the Controlled Adsorption of Water Molecules Lack of a bandgap limits the utilization of graphene in nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices. It is shown that a tunable bandgap of up to ≈0.2 eV can be engineered by controlled adsorption of water molecules to a graphene surface. The effect is reversible, …
1. Lockheed Martin recently began laboratory testing of an improved next-generation design of its HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton. The ruggedized HULC (Human Universal Load Carrier) system incorporates multiple design changes to increase reliability and performance in operational environments. New environmental sealing and packaging give the system’s electronics increased protection from natural elements and battlefield hazards. …