The carnival of nuclear energy 92 is up at the ANS Nuclear cafe Idaho Samizdat has coverage on the Areva high temperature reactor selected for the next generation reactor project According to the >a href=”http://nuclear.gov/HTGCR/overview.html” target=blank>U.S. Department of Energy, every 750 MWt of installed HTGR capacity will offset 1 million metric tons of CO2 emissions …
CNN has a peak at several DARPA projects Disc-Rotor Compound Helicopter The Disc-Rotor is a collaboration between DARPA and Boeing. Hoping to marry the best features of a helicopter and an airplane, the Disc-Rotor program aims to develop a new type of aircraft capable of a seamlessly transitioning from hovering like a helicopter to flying …
In highly sensitive discussions in February this year, the-then South Korean vice-foreign minister, Chun Yung-woo, told a US ambassador, Kathleen Stephens, that younger generation Chinese Communist party leaders no longer regarded North Korea as a useful or reliable ally and would not risk renewed armed conflict on the peninsula • South Korea’s vice-foreign minister said …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Neutron rich matter, neutron stars, and their crusts (10 age pdf) (H/t Adam Crowl Neutron rich matter is at the heart of many fundamental questions in Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics. What are the high density phases of QCD? Where did the chemical elements come …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Earlier MIT studies have shown that internally and externally cooled annular fuel makes it possible to significantly increase (by up to 50%) power density in the standard Westinghouse PWR while maintaining or increasing safety margin. The present project has evaluated feasibility of 20% higher power density …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Earlier MIT studies have shown that internally and externally cooled annular fuel makes it possible to significantly increase (by up to 50%) power density in the standard Westinghouse PWR while maintaining or increasing safety margin. The present project has evaluated feasibility of 20% higher power density …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nature Physics – Controlling the state of quantum spins with electric currents A current of spin-polarized electrons senses and controls the magnetic state of nanostructured materials1. Obtaining similar electrical access to quantum spin systems, such as single-molecule magnets, is still in its infancy. Recent progress has …
There are 522 pages of unclassified DARPA projects for 2010-2011. This is a second look at more of the projects. The first look at DARPA 2010-2011 projects is here Transformer (TX) Vehicle AKA flying car ($12 million) The Transformer (TX) Vehicle program will examine the feasibility and approaches for developing vertical take-off and landing, road-worthy …
Researchers using a diamond paste to polish a slice of meteorite stumbled onto something remarkable: crystals in the rock that are harder than diamonds. A closer look with an array of instruments revealed two totally new kinds of naturally occurring carbon, which are harder than the diamonds formed inside the Earth. Graphite layers were shocked …
Eureka Aerospace has a high energy microwave cannon for stopping cars Eureka Aerospace’s current High-Power Electromagnetic System (HPEMS) uses a compact, tunable power source and a high-gain antenna to beam microwave energy in the direction of targeted vehicles. Once emitted, these electromagnetic waves bring vehicles to a halt by inducing strong disabling currents in their …
The physics blogs are abuzz with rumors that a particle of dark matter has finally been found. The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment is one of several designed to look for the tell-tale signature of dark matter particles passing through CDMS is located deep underground in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, to protect it from …