NIF Reports Partial Achievement of Nuclear Fusion: The Real Thing Planned For 2013
The National Ignition Facility is a 3-stadiums-wide building, and a part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose main interest is to make nuclear fusion possible. On Sep. 29, the $3.5 billion laser machine inside the NIF has proved the theory was right by firing its 192 laser beams on a tiny frozen hydrogen pellet, producing the fusion of some tritium and deuterium atoms.
MIT Study Says Nuclear Fuel Is Enough For Decades, Still Companies Head to Natural...
New types of nuclear fission reactors could consume their uranium much more efficiently, says a study from the MIT, called "The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle". Charles Forsberg, one of the study's co-authors, says that their work tries to make it easier for the United States to enhance their nuclear power usage by three times, and produce more than 1 GW of electricity.
Uranium Nitride Could Be Used As Better Replacement for Current Nuclear Fuels, Los Alamos...
Uranium nitride can provide an alternative to the uranium and plutonium oxides now used. Researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico have recently discovered some of its reactive properties.
Ignitor: MIT-Designed Fusion Reactor, Built in Italy and Assembled in Russia, Better Than ITER
Originally designed for studying astrophysics, a fusion reactor of the MIT from the 1970s, called "Alcator", could be the base of another one to be installed in Russia and managed by Bruno Coppi. The new reactor is called Ignitor and, as far as the plans sound, it is ready to surpass ITER as both performance and time to go into production.
NSW Scientists Demonstrating Laser-Ignited Radiation Free Nuclear Fusion
An Australian team of scientists from the University of New South Wales seems to have discovered the recipe for making nuclear fusion possible without the high-temperature hassle and without the fear that it would produce harmful nuclear residues.
Scientists Discover Huge Energy Source by Breaking a Nature Law In Ion Collider
Things are to be discussed, but it looks like scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, using their Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), created a symmetry-breaking bubble of space where parity, one of nature's fundamental concepts, no longer existed for a tiny fraction of a second.
Levitating Magnet: MIT's New Approach to Nuclear Fusion
University of Columbia researchers, along with their colleagues from MIT, have some results in reproducing the Earth's magnetic fields for developing nuclear power plants based on nuclear fusion - the ultimate dream of scientists that uses the same principle that the Sun operates on.
Small Bead Polymer Reduces the Amount of Radioactive Waste Generated by Nuclear Power Plants
The disposal of the old core rods and also the reactor operation results in a large amount of low-level waste, especially contaminated cooling water. But nuclear power could solve our energy problem if only we could find a way to make it clean.
Widetronix and Ithaca Making Progress in Betavoltaic Battery Research
Nuclear power has been discarded for decades since the tragic accidents from the 80's that led to numerous environmental damages in Ukraine and other parts of the world. Still, nowadays there is a trend of reviving nuclear power, to make it 100% safe and to convince people it's worth investing in it, as an alternative to coal or petrol.
NASA Planning to Use Nuclear Powered Stirling Engine for Moon Base
NASA is said to be the forerunner of the newest invented technologies, even before the military puts an eye on them (or sometimes the second to use them). Still, some NASA officials have decided to use an old technology, such as the Stirling engine, to generate electricity on the future moon bases.
