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Apr 26, 2022
Russia’s Attack on Ukraine is Making Everything on this Planet Worse
Posted by Len Rosen in categories: cybercrime/malcode, existential risks, nuclear energy, quantum physics
James McCall SpringerHmmm… So quantum computing systems aren’t close to being perfected BUT they’re being used for ransomware attacks?
Is “bleepingcomouter” a bs sensationalist media producer like Futurism?
Len Rosen shared a link.
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Apr 23, 2022
Nuclear expert cautions against unfamiliar new nuclear age
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: military, nuclear energy
High-tech advances in weapons technologies and a return of ‘great power nuclear politics’, risk the world ‘sleepwalking’ into a nuclear age vastly different from the established order of the Cold War, according to new research undertaken at the University of Leicester.
Andrew Futter, Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, makes the warning in a research paper for the Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), published today (Friday).
While stockpiles are much reduced from the peak of up to 70,000 nuclear weapons seen in the 1980s, progress in a number of new or ‘disruptive’ technologies threatens to fundamentally change the central pillars on which nuclear order, stability and risk reduction are based.
Apr 17, 2022
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries That Could Last For Thousands Of Years
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: nuclear energy, transportation
Crossrail, or the Elizabeth Line, is set to revolutionize London transport, with high-speed trains running from east to west underneath the UK capital.
Apr 16, 2022
Thermophotovoltaic “Heat Engine” Design Could Change the Future of Power Grids
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: nuclear energy, sustainability, transportation
There are so many paths we humans are running down in our chase for a greener future it’s extremely hard to keep track of everything. The auto industry is trying to go electric, either by means of batteries or hydrogen, the aviation industry is going for biofuels, while energy production and storage, well, this one is all over the place, betting on anything from the sun to the wind and nuclear.
Apr 15, 2022
We Went Inside the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: nuclear energy
This could be the most important construction project of our lifetimes. See how digital tools are enabling the ITER project — https://bit.ly/3KGfiF8
Full story here — https://theb1m.com/video/inside-iter-worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-reactor.
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Apr 11, 2022
Squeezing Heavy Elements Between Diamonds Might Help Recycle Nuclear Waste
Posted by Liliana Alfair in categories: nuclear energy, sustainability
2020 One of the heaviest known elements can be modified more than scientists thought — possibly opening the door to new ways of recycling nuclear fuel and enhanced long-term storage of radioactive elements — according to a recent study published in the journal Nature.
Squeezing heavy elements between diamonds might open doors for recycling nuclear waste.
Apr 8, 2022
CDF collaboration at Fermilab announces most precise ever measurement of W boson mass to be in tension with the Standard Model
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics
The discovery changes our understanding of everything. The world of physics may have been turned on its head.
“While this is an intriguing result, the measurement needs to be confirmed by another experiment before it can be interpreted fully,” said Fermilab Deputy Director Joe Lykken.
The W boson is a messenger particle of the weak nuclear force. It is responsible for the nuclear processes that make the sun shine and particles decay. Using high-energy particle collisions produced by the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, the CDF collaboration collected huge amounts of data containing W bosons from 1985 to 2011.
Apr 6, 2022
Quantum Technology Will Revolutionize Our Energy System
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: nuclear energy, quantum physics
Superconductivity and the end of resistance.
Superconductors will be a technology that we will greatly benefit from in the future. Innovative projects to solve our energy problems, such as fusion reactors, rely on their unique properties.
Apr 6, 2022
Oxford spinoff demonstrates world-first hypersonic “projectile fusion”
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics
Oxford spinoff First Light Fusion says its novel “projectile” approach offers “the fastest, simplest and cheapest route to commercial fusion power.” The company is now celebrating a significant breakthrough with its first confirmed fusion reaction.
The nuclear fusion space is heating up, if you’ll pardon the pun, as the world orients itself toward a clean energy future. Where current nuclear power plants release energy by splitting atoms in fission reactions, fusion reactors will release energy in the same way the Sun does – by smashing atoms together so hard and so fast that they fuse into higher elements.
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