The US Nuclear Regulatory commission was established in 1974 Adding in pre-application time with licensing certification period for the NRC review of a new reactor certification is 7-20+ years and of the more than one dozen different reactors that have been up to pre-application only 4 reactors are certified and three of those are variations …
Cameco (Canada’s largest and domiant uranium mining company) produced 22.8 million pounds of uranium oxide in 2010 (an increase from 20.8 million pounds in 2009) Cameco expects to produce about 125 million pounds of U3O8 over the next five years from the properties listed below. Our strategy is to double our annual production to 40 …
Register UK – China has committed itself to establishing an entirely new nuclear energy program using thorium as a fuel, within 20 years. The LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) is a 4G reactor that uses liquid salt as both fuel and coolant. China uses the more general term TMSR (Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor). A private company …
Optical microscopy image of dry-compacted nanozirconia (fractured cross-section) comparing 3 nm hard-agglomerated conventionally produced nanozirconia (left) to Glidewell-produced 3 nm nanozirconia material (right). Conventionally produced 3 nm nanozirconia material is white opaque, whereas Glidewell’s gas-phase-condensated nanozirconia is transparent after compaction. Glidewell Laboratories, industry-leading provider of dental lab products and services and manufacturer of BruxZir Solid …
Demonstrators took to the streets in Iran, Yemen and Bahrain on Monday, inspired by the anti-government revolts that toppled the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt over the last month. Iran Mousavi says the freedom movement is alive, but his campaign is fading as many Iranians feel the former prime minister lacks the courage to confront …
Optimized O’Neill/Glaser Model for Human Population of Space and its Impact on Survival Probabilities Starting the program of colonizing the solar system with smaller habitats (64 – 2000 persons) results in peak costs that are reduced by about 75 percent and one third reduction in time for financial break even (year 25 for the optimized …
In order to build the Lexus LFA with the precision our engineers demanded, first we had to innovate a more precise way to weave carbon fiber. The result—a 3D carbon fiber loom, capable of weaving carbon fiber to our exacting specifications. 3D weaving technology reduces the volume of materials used by 50 per cent and …
The first day of the 14 Annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference featured increasingly confident corporations describing their burgeoning space capabilities. Now that NASA is formally relinquishing the role of directly placing humans into orbit, the agency is focusing on general manned and unmanned space research and funding a variety of US established and startup …
The e-Sheet, a virtually indestructible e-device, will be as thin and as rollable as a rubber mat. University of Cincinnati and Industry Researchers Predict Future of Electronic Devices, See Top Ten List of Expected Breakthroughs Society for Information Display – A Critical Review of the Present and Future Prospects for Electronic Paper. * full-color, high-speed, …
UK Guardian – Oxford University human clinical trials that began in 2008 have reported successful results for a universal flu vaccine. A universal vaccine would save the time and money now needed to create vaccines to fight whatever particular virus has emerged in any year. The UK government spends almost $2 billion/year in preparing for …
What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. * $4 trillion was spent to develop rockets for launching nuclear bombs * communication satellites were built to be the same size as the nuclear bombs launched on missiles Dr. Jordin Kare, a physicist and space launch expert, visualizes a triangular feedback loop joining …