World Nuclear News – The US Department of Energy (DoE) is in preliminary discussions with Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) about establishing a laser enrichment facility at the site of the Paducah gaseous diffusion plant in Kentucky. GE signed an exclusive commercialization and license agreement with Australia’s Silex Systems for the SILEX (Separation of Isotopes by …
Arxiv – The memristor is the fourth fundamental circuit element which was predicted to exist from symmetry arguments in 1971. It is a two terminal passive device. It is stateful and the internal state is related to past history of the device. Because of the memristor’s ability to learn it has been proposed that the …
Uranium production volume of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 9 months made up 15,080 tU (which is 8 % higher in comparison with the same period of the previous year). Kazatomprom accounts for 8,601 tU of the total uranium production volume in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and this is approximately 8% more in comparison with …
Average market pricing for crystalline modules is expected to decline by another 9% in the fourth quarter, falling to $0.64/W at the end of 2012, down from $0.70 at the end of September. All told, the decline in PV module prices afflicting the market will slow down in 2013 and then eventually stop by the …
Virgin Oceanic looks to build on what Walsh, Piccard, and Cameron have done by leagues, true leagues. The Virgin Oceanic Deep Challenger is capable of 12-15 miles of transit on the bottom. The previous trips have been lunar landers, fantastic for getting there at all, and expanding man’s knowledge of a foreign world logarithmically. Our …
German 212 diesel submarine The American Enterprise Institute makes the case for Diesel Submarines. The US Navy should procure a fleet of diesel-powered subs. Not only are diesels cheaper than nuclear-powered subs, but they have the advantage of being better platforms for many of the tasks the Navy faces today. The list of actual and …