“The real differentiator here is the acquisition strategy, with a lot of competition -- a lot of ‘fly before you buy’ -- built in,” CSIS' Tom Karako says. “The relatively longer NGI development timeline for homeland ballistic missile defense can be mitigated by near-term improvements” in ground missile defense.
Am 3. Februar 2016 wurde in der Fusionsanlage Wendelstein 7-X im Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) in Greifswald das erste Wasserstoff-Plasma erzeugt. Damit hat – nach dem Start der Anlage mit einem Helium-Plasma Anfang Dezember 2015 – der wissenschaftliche Experimentierbetrieb begonnen. Wendelstein 7-X, die weltweit größte Fusionsanlage vom Typ Stellarator, soll die Kraftwerkseignung dieses Bautyps untersuchen.
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Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
Terrapower. 13 February 2010. "Today we are always refueling the reactor so lot of controls and lots of things that can go wrong," Gates said. "That is not good. With this, you have a piece of fuel, think of it like a log, that burns for 60 years and it
Prinzipiell befürwortet Greenpeace Energy auch hocheffiziente Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungs-Anlagen (KWK), die Erdgas nutzen. Die Energiewende weg von Kohle und Atom funktioniert nur, wenn Gas-KWK die Lücke schließt, bis die Erneuerbaren die Versorgung vollständi
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
The largest wind farm operator in Japan, Eurus Energy with about 22% of all wind turbines in Japan, is a subsidiary of Tokyo Electric Company (TEPCO) which operates the Fukushima nuclear facility. Right now, it is likely the company is very happy about it
Summarizes, albeit indirectly, the ideology of the nuclear renaissance. Updated in March 2011. Provides overview and links: "There are already examples of the globalization of the nuclear industry. At the commercial level, by the end of 2006 three major
"Compare and contrast Newt's statements to a segment that aired that same morning on Chris Hayes' show on MSNBC, where former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman talked about the fact that the recent report coming from the U.N. which stated that Iran is moving forward with its nuclear program smells of the same sort of false statements and highly questionable intelligence that we were being fed in the run up to the invasion of Iraq."