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Kazatomprom Plans to Increase Uranium Production to 25,000 tons/year and BHP Olympic Dam Expansion Unlikely Because of Australian Tax

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Kazakhstan’s uranium deposit map. 1. Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan’s national uranium company, plans to raise future production to 25-26,000 tons of uranium a year, the company’s vice president Nurlan Ryspanov said on Friday. Kazatomprom produced 14,000 of uranium in 2009, making Kazakhstan the largest uranium producer in the …

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Japan delays a restart of a reactor and Namibia is working to Quadruple Uranium Production by 2015

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Monday it has delayed the planned restart of the 1,100-megawatt No.1 nuclear unit at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant for an unplanned inspection and repairs. The quake-hit reactor was slated to be restarted on May 22, but in tests before the …

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Current Nuclear Reactor Fuel Research

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Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software 2010 LWR [Light water Reactor] Fuel Performance meeting will be held Sept 26-29, 2010. The link is to the list over one hundred abstracts. What I found noteworthy: Thermal-Hydraulic and Thermo-Mechanical Assessment of Dual-Cooled Annular Fuel for PWR Application This paper discusses the work in South …

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Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Fusion Experiments Getting Ten Times More Neutrons

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Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) has obtained the first preliminary evidence that the injection of angular momentum into the DPF considerably increases the efficiency of energy transfer into the plasmoid, the size of the plasmoid and thus the fusion energy yield. On Feb. 19 and 22, the team fired Focus-Fusion-1 at 24 kV with a pressure …

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Silicon-coated Nanonets Could Build a Better Lithium-ion Battery

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Frame (a) shows a schematic of the Nanonet, a lattice structure of Titanium disilicide (TiSi2), coated with silicon (Si) particles to form the active component for Lithium-ion storage. (b) A microscopic view of the silicon coating on the Nanonets. (c) Shows the crystallinity of the Nanonet core and the Si coating. (d) The crystallinity of …

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Cost and benefits of 2G Superconducting Wire for Transmission

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Cost and benefits of current 2G superconducting wire for transmission * Enhances Efficiency: Superconductor Electricity Pipelines are able to cut power losses by two to three times when compared with conventional transmission options. This results in improved return-on-investment and reduced carbon emissions.* Resolves Difficult Siting Problems: Conventional overhead transmission lines require new corridors hundreds of …

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It Appears SENS Antiaging project Has Won the 3Banana SharetoWin Contest

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It is not officially announced but it appears that SENS (antiaging project) has won the 3banana contest Thanks to all of those who provided comments that were counted. Final count appears to be 2530 comments for SENS and 2349 for Las Angeles Habitation House and less for about 50 other non-profits. The SENS 3banana page. …

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Carbon Nanotubes and Teflon Repel Hot Water

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To fabricate hot water repellent fabrics, a nanocomposite of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and Teflon was prepared and applied to commercial fabrics to produce scalding protection clothes. Current water repellent material only works well up to 25 °C. The new material was fairly effective for static water up to 80 °C and reduced effectiveness for dynamic …

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Nonstick and Laser-safe Gold Ten Times Better for Trapping of Biomolecules

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The gold posts in this colorized micrograph, averaging 450 nanometers in diameter, are used to anchor individual biomolecules such as DNA for studies of their mechanical properties. The background surface is glass coated with a protein to prevent unwanted sticking. Credit: D.H. Paik/JILA Successful use of gold in optical-trapping experiments, reported in Nano Letters, could …

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Impending Triumph of Super Technology

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Previously this site has discussed nanotechnology progress: Significant recent developments with nanotechnology. Self Assembly and directed assembly could take over from lithography for the next stage of computer miniturization to reach 1-2 nanometer features. The self assembly of 10-100 terabit per square inch magnetic memory. They have self assembled several square centimeters and the process …

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Subatomic Technology : Stanford Writes 35 Bits per Electron

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The initials for Stanford University are written in electron waves on a piece of copper and projected into a tiny hologram. Stanford researchers describe how they have created letters more than four times smaller than the IBM xenon atom arranged initials. “But in this experiment we’ve stored some 35 bits per electron to encode each …

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