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Designer Isotopes Push The Frontier Of Science
Designer labels have a lot
of cachet -- a principle
that's equally true in
fashion and physics. The
future of nuclear physics is
in designer isotopes -- the
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Water Needed To Produce Various Types Of Energy
It is easy to overlook that
most of the energy we
consume daily, such as
electricity or natural gas,
is produced with the help of
a dwindling resource --
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Questioning Nuclear Power's Ability To Forestall Global Warming
Rising energy and
environmental costs may
prevent nuclear power from
being a sustainable
alternative energy source in
... > full story
Self-healing Ceramic Modeled: Potentially Useful Material For Nuclear Waste Storage
A new computer simulation
reveals a self-healing
behavior that repairs
radiation-induced damage in
yttria-stabilized zirconia,
... > full story
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Tapping Into Australia's Unique Hot Energy Resources
May 12, 2008 — Australia is uniquely endowed with heat-producing elements under its surface that could provide potentially unlimited amounts of geothermal power for this country, say geoscientists. West of the line ... > full story -
How Nanocluster Contaminants Increase Risk Of Spreading Through Groundwater
April 21, 2008 — For almost half a century, scientists have struggled with plutonium nanoclusters spreading further in groundwater than expected, increasing the risk of sickness in humans and animals. Scientists were ... > full story -
Historic Soviet Nuclear Test Site Offers Insights For Today's Nuclear Monitoring
April 18, 2008 — Newly published data from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing ground during the Cold War, can help today's atomic detectives fine-tune their ... > full story -
Nuclear Power: Most Successful Fuel Performance Ever For US Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel
April 15, 2008 — Advanced gas reactors offer more efficient operation, less waste disposal and other benefits over water-cooled reactor designs used in U.S. nuclear power plants. But creating fuel that burns ... > full story -
Most Powerful Laser In The World Fires Up
April 9, 2008 — The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world. When the laser is turned on, it has the power ... > full story -
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Energy Research: Researchers Consider Future Challenges, Opportunities
April 8, 2008 — Escalating oil and gas prices along with the global challenge of climate change has in the past few years spurred a generation of scientists to pursue alternative energy sources while redirecting the ... > full story -
Compressed Stars: Physicists Compress Unstable Nucleus Of Nickel 56 For First Time
April 1, 2008 — Physicists have, for the first time ever, successfully compressed an unstable nucleus, Nickel 56. This nucleus is not found on Earth but is present when a star explodes at the end of its life ... > full story -
Project To Help Power Developing Nations Underway
March 31, 2008 — With a proposed fiscal year 2009 budget of $20 million, the effort by the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partners to develop grid-appropriate reactors is gaining ... > full story -
Why Matter Matters In The Universe
March 30, 2008 — A new physics discovery explores why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. The paper reveals that investigation into the process of B-meson decays has given insight into why there is ... > full story -
Europe To Build State Of The Art Laboratory
March 28, 2008 — One of the great ongoing challenges of astrophysics, to find out how stars evolve and die, is to be tackled in an ambitious European research program. This will involve studying in the laboratory ... > full story
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