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Jim Bonner was happy to talk Thursday night about the geology of the Eocene Epoch and how Colorado looked during that time, 35 million years ago. He answered geology and hydrology questions for almost three hours and was unruffled by unfriendly ones, of which there were a few. Bonner, a geologist wit...

A Putnam County couple got a startling surprise when they found a piece of depleted uranium at the bottom of a box of tools. Susan and Lance Greninger called NASA because they had bought the box at an auction near the Kennedy Space Center. A Hazmat team from the fire department examined the metal an...

Detailed interpretation of the airborne magnetic and radiometric survey recently completed over the Mutanga and Dibwe Prospects and surrounding areas of OmegaCorp Ltds 100% owned Kariba Uranium Project in Zambia has revealed nine new uranium radiometric anomalies. According to the company,...

A nuclear waste vault in New Mexico will long outlive our society. Experts are working on elaborate ways to warn future civilizations. Roger Nelson has a simple and unequivocal message for the people of the year 12006: As chief scientist of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Nelson oversees...

Nuclear power could become significantly cheaper thanks to world-leading laser technology being developed in Sydney. A team of about 25 scientists, engineers and technicians at Lucas Heights, home of Australia's only atomic reactor, has succeeded where other nations, with budgets stret...

Scientists on Friday celebrated 50 years of India's first nuclear research reactor Apsara, which has played a key role in research in areas as diverse as forensic science and the study of lunar and meteorite fragments. There has been no looking back for the country's atomic programme since Aps...

Listen online to 10 top physicists (two Nobel Prize winners among them) describe Einstein's equation. Download audio clips. Nima Arkani-Hamed. [url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/no...

Two super heavy elements discovered For the first time a Swiss research group has participated in the discovery of new chemical elements. The elements have the numbers 113 and 115 and were discovered by a combination of physical and chemical techniques in the Russian nuclear research...

A gang has been arrested in Eastern Europe trying to sell enriched uranium, triggering fears that it was going to be used in a radiological dirty bomb by terrorists. Two Hungarians and a Ukrainian man were arrested as they tried to sell the uranium, during raids in eastern Slovakia and Hungary last ni...

BetaBatt is a Houston-based company in the business of developing long-lasting reliable power sources. The Company has researched and patented a novel 3D energy conversion architecture named the DECTM Cell, based on nano-scale porous silicon. The DECTM Cell is able to convert d...

Defence analysts say the long-lasting, plutonium-powered batteries the Department of Energy wants to produce at a new $300 million facility in Idaho could eventually wind up in everything from space-based satellite killers to battlefield laptop computers. That's contrary to how the agen...

In May 1972 a worker at a nuclear fuelprocessing plant in France noticed something suspicious. He had been conducting a routine analysis of uranium derived from a seemingly ordinary source of ore. As is the case with all natural uranium, the material under study contained three isotopes - that is to...

Nuclear-powered rockets could save NASA billions of dollars in launch costs for its planned return to the Moon, a top nuclear scientist says. He argues that the higher efficiency of nuclear propulsion would reduce the number of launches needed to build a lunar base. NASA wants to start sending astr...

President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will spend $600 million on a nuclear-powered spacecraft to take men to Mars, and beyond. A nuclear-powered spaceship that can carry passengers to Mars and beyond may sound like science fiction. But Russian engineers say they have a breakthrough design for su...

"Doomsday Clock" moves one minute away from midnight Citing a more "hopeful state of world affairs" in relation to the twin threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock...

Seen as an alternative energy source, how safe are the country's atomic power stations from nature's threats? Concerned over the safety hazards at a nuclear plant in Rajasthan, an amateur astronomer Manoj Pai moved the Central Information Commission inquiring on precautionary measures taken b...

In a significant breakthrough, scientists have isolated an exotic radioactive gas which they claim would make it easier to detect underground nuclear tests from air samples. A global network of monitoring stations constantly samples the air for signs of underground nuclear tests. One thing the...

Americium-241 is the most prevalent isotope of americium in nuclear waste. It is the americium isotope used in smoke detectors based on ionisation chambers. It is a potential fuel for long-lifetime radioisotope thermoelectric generators. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium-2...

The Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant (formerly Gongliao Nuclear Power Plant and Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, often abbreviated as: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Hésì; Taiwanese: Hut-sù or Hek-sù; "Nuke 4"), located in Gongliao Township, is Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant, consisti...

The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, often referred to as Fukushima Dai-ichi, is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Okuma in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture. With six separate units located on site with a combined power of 4.7 GW, Fukushima I is one of the 25 largest nuclear power...

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Nuclear Uranium Extraction (Preview)	Off Topic	0	496	Jul 20 15:23 2007 by Blobrana
Jim Bonner was happy to talk Thursday night about the geology of the Eocene Epoch and how Colorado looked during that time, 35 million years ago. He answered geology and hydrology questions for almost three hours and was unruffled by unfriendly ones, of which there were a few. Bonner, a geologist wit...
Nuclear Depleted uranium Found (Preview)	Trash	3	484	Mar 4 23:37 2010 by Blobrana
A Putnam County couple got a startling surprise when they found a piece of depleted uranium at the bottom of a box of tools. Susan and Lance Greninger called NASA because they had bought the box at an auction near the Kennedy Space Center. A Hazmat team from the fire department examined the metal an...
Nuclear Uranium deposits (Preview)	Off Topic	4	553	Feb 11 11:36 2012 by Blobrana
Detailed interpretation of the airborne magnetic and radiometric survey recently completed over the Mutanga and Dibwe Prospects and surrounding areas of OmegaCorp Ltds 100% owned Kariba Uranium Project in Zambia has revealed nine new uranium radiometric anomalies. According to the company,...
Nuclear Nuclear Waste Vault ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Trash	15	1789	May 25 11:31 2011 by Blobrana
A nuclear waste vault in New Mexico will long outlive our society. Experts are working on elaborate ways to warn future civilizations. Roger Nelson has a simple and unequivocal message for the people of the year 12006: As chief scientist of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Nelson oversees...
Nuclear Laser Enrichment (Preview)	Physics News	0	448	May 29 20:27 2006 by Blobrana
Nuclear power could become significantly cheaper thanks to world-leading laser technology being developed in Sydney. A team of about 25 scientists, engineers and technicians at Lucas Heights, home of Australia's only atomic reactor, has succeeded where other nations, with budgets stret...
Nuclear Apsara Reactor (Preview)	General news	1	1079	Aug 4 17:33 2006 by Blobrana
Scientists on Friday celebrated 50 years of India's first nuclear research reactor Apsara, which has played a key role in research in areas as diverse as forensic science and the study of lunar and meteorite fragments. There has been no looking back for the country's atomic programme since Aps...
Nuclear E=mc2 ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Physics News	13	790	Nov 20 23:49 2012 by Blobrana
Listen online to 10 top physicists (two Nobel Prize winners among them) describe Einstein's equation. Download audio clips. Nima Arkani-Hamed. [url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/no...
Nuclear Element Element 115 (Preview)	Physics News	0	466	Feb 1 04:17 2006 by Blobrana
Two super heavy elements discovered For the first time a Swiss research group has participated in the discovery of new chemical elements. The elements have the numbers 113 and 115 and were discovered by a combination of physical and chemical techniques in the Russian nuclear research...
Nuclear Enriched uranium (Preview)	Trash	0	389	Nov 29 15:53 2007 by Blobrana
A gang has been arrested in Eastern Europe trying to sell enriched uranium, triggering fears that it was going to be used in a radiological dirty bomb by terrorists. Two Hungarians and a Ukrainian man were arrested as they tried to sell the uranium, during raids in eastern Slovakia and Hungary last ni...
Nuclear Battery BetaBatt (Preview)	General news	2	1173	Oct 8 17:42 2009 by Blobrana
BetaBatt is a Houston-based company in the business of developing long-lasting reliable power sources. The Company has researched and patented a novel 3D energy conversion architecture named the DECTM Cell, based on nano-scale porous silicon. The DECTM Cell is able to convert d...
Nuclear Plutonium batteries (Preview)	Physics News	5	1022	Aug 1 14:29 2012 by Blobrana
Defence analysts say the long-lasting, plutonium-powered batteries the Department of Energy wants to produce at a new $300 million facility in Idaho could eventually wind up in everything from space-based satellite killers to battlefield laptop computers. That's contrary to how the agen...
Nuclear Light Oklo Natural Nuclear Reactor (Preview)	Physics News	5	832	Dec 1 15:58 2011 by Blobrana
In May 1972 a worker at a nuclear fuelprocessing plant in France noticed something suspicious. He had been conducting a routine analysis of uranium derived from a seemingly ordinary source of ore. As is the case with all natural uranium, the material under study contained three isotopes - that is to...
Nuclear Nuclear-powered rockets (Preview)	Mission News	0	389	Jun 28 10:19 2007 by Blobrana
Nuclear-powered rockets could save NASA billions of dollars in launch costs for its planned return to the Moon, a top nuclear scientist says. He argues that the higher efficiency of nuclear propulsion would reduce the number of launches needed to build a lunar base. NASA wants to start sending astr...
Nuclear Nuclear-powered spacecraft (Preview)	Mission News	0	368	Oct 30 02:29 2009 by Blobrana
President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will spend $600 million on a nuclear-powered spacecraft to take men to Mars, and beyond. A nuclear-powered spaceship that can carry passengers to Mars and beyond may sound like science fiction. But Russian engineers say they have a breakthrough design for su...
Nuclear Doomsday Clock (Preview)	Physics News	1	405	Jan 14 22:20 2010 by Blobrana
"Doomsday Clock" moves one minute away from midnight Citing a more "hopeful state of world affairs" in relation to the twin threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock...
Nuclear Atomic power stations (Preview)	General news	3	458	Apr 26 12:52 2011 by Blobrana
Seen as an alternative energy source, how safe are the country's atomic power stations from nature's threats? Concerned over the safety hazards at a nuclear plant in Rajasthan, an amateur astronomer Manoj Pai moved the Central Information Commission inquiring on precautionary measures taken b...
Nuclear Nuclear explosions (Preview)	Physics News	8	659	May 10 23:01 2011 by Blobrana
In a significant breakthrough, scientists have isolated an exotic radioactive gas which they claim would make it easier to detect underground nuclear tests from air samples. A global network of monitoring stations constantly samples the air for signs of underground nuclear tests. One thing the...
Nuclear Element Americium-241 (Preview)	Physics News	3	993	Nov 15 23:13 2012 by Blobrana
Americium-241 is the most prevalent isotope of americium in nuclear waste. It is the americium isotope used in smoke detectors based on ionisation chambers. It is a potential fuel for long-lifetime radioisotope thermoelectric generators. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium-2...
Nuclear Longmen Nuclear Power Plant (Preview)	Trash	1	366	Mar 14 16:46 2011 by Blobrana
The Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant (formerly Gongliao Nuclear Power Plant and Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, often abbreviated as: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Hésì; Taiwanese: Hut-sù or Hek-sù; "Nuke 4"), located in Gongliao Township, is Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant, consisti...
Nuclear Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	42	2613	Oct 25 19:10 2012 by Blobrana
The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, often referred to as Fukushima Dai-ichi, is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Okuma in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture. With six separate units located on site with a combined power of 4.7 GW, Fukushima I is one of the 25 largest nuclear power...