By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Alan Katz - March 12, 2008 "From a windswept corner of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, Japan Steel Works Ltd. controls the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance. There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak."
If developed sensibly, nuclear power could be truly sustainable and essentially inexhaustible and could operate without contributing to climate change. In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of cu
An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer - a device based on the fundamenta
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.
"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."
by William Tobey, senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2006-2009, he was a deputy administrator of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration. Article provides examples of how the "nuclear security" has failed in Moldavia, South Africa and the USA.
nämner bl a vågkraftsprojektet utanför Smögen. Enl Göran Hult, FoU-chef vid Fortum i Sverige, är kärnkraften en parentes. "Vi måste komma fram till ett hållbart energisystem och i det perspektivet passar kärnkraften inte in."
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
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
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13.2.14 US researchers ... generated more energy from fusion reactions than they put into the nuclear fuel, in a small but crucial step along the road to harnessing fusion power. The ultimate goal – to produce more energy than the whole experiment consumes – remains a long way off, but the feat has nonetheless raised hopes that after decades of setbacks, firm progress is finally being made
David Talbot 7.6.: "Among other fallout, it’s reasonable now to expect E.U. regulators and customers to go nuclear–and U.S. companies to face tough sledding ahead." "I had a chance today to speak with Radu Sion, a computer scientist at Stony Brook University and a leading figure in cloud computing security. “Expect some interesting court battles in the E.U. based on this,” he said. “Any of these companies, if ever they were to admit this, that they allowed the government to have a tap inside their service, which according to the E.U. is not allowed, they probably could get shut down in Europe–specifically Facebook, which has a lot of users in Europe.”
3/23/2011 Conventional nuclear reactors may not be safe enough to operate near cities—if you take Energy Secretary Steven Chu at his word—but small module reactors are “much, much safer,” he said