Nuclear Energy News

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Seismic Waves From Mine Collapses Can Now Be Distinguished From Other Seismic Activities

Posted June 30, 2008:

• Researchers Peer Into Water In Carbon Nanotubes

Posted June 16, 2008:

• First Semiconductor-based PET Scanner Demonstrates Potential To Aid In Early Diagnosis Of Disease

Posted June 10, 2008:

• More Sensitive Radiology Monitoring

Posted May 22, 2008:

• Scientists Develop Way To Predict Properties Of Light Nuclei

Posted May 12, 2008:

• Tapping Into Australia's Unique Hot Energy Resources

Posted May 9, 2008:

• Designer Isotopes Push The Frontier Of Science

Posted April 22, 2008:

• Water Needed To Produce Various Types Of Energy
• Questioning Nuclear Power's Ability To Forestall Global Warming
• Self-healing Ceramic Modeled: Potentially Useful Material For Nuclear Waste Storage

Posted April 21, 2008:

• How Nanocluster Contaminants Increase Risk Of Spreading Through Groundwater

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Historic Soviet Nuclear Test Site Offers Insights For Today's Nuclear Monitoring

Posted April 15, 2008:

• Nuclear Power: Most Successful Fuel Performance Ever For US Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Most Powerful Laser In The World Fires Up

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Energy Research: Researchers Consider Future Challenges, Opportunities

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Compressed Stars: Physicists Compress Unstable Nucleus Of Nickel 56 For First Time

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Project To Help Power Developing Nations Underway

Posted March 30, 2008:

• Why Matter Matters In The Universe

Posted March 28, 2008:

• Europe To Build State Of The Art Laboratory

Posted March 24, 2008:

• Mass Measurement Technique Uncovers New Iron Isomer

Posted March 17, 2008:

• New Tool To Monitor Nuclear Reactors Developed

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Nuclear Fuel Performance Milestone Achieved

Posted March 10, 2008:

• Funding Cuts Jeopardize Cleanup Of Nuclear Waste Sites

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Nuclear Power Not Efficient Enough To Replace Fossil Fuels, Study Finds
• New Material Shows Great Promise For Nuclear Waste Clean-Up

Posted March 3, 2008:

• Field Strength And Density Of Fusion Implosions Aid Quest For Fusion Energy

Posted February 20, 2008:

• US Not Set Up To Trace Nuclear Terrorist Device In Aftermath, Report Says

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Greatest Technological Research Challenges Of The 21st Century Identified By Expert Panel

Posted February 14, 2008:

• Nuclear 'Eye' Reveals That Napoleon Was Not Poisoned, Although Arsenic Levels High At That Time

Posted February 6, 2008:

• Helium-8 Study Gives Insight Into Nuclear Theory, Neutron Stars

Posted January 31, 2008:

• Active Mechanism Locks In The Size Of A Cell's Nucleus

Posted January 30, 2008:

• First Detailed Map Of Nuclear Pore Complex Made
• New Model Of A Nuclear Pore Complex Is Based On Crystal Structure Of Its Key Component

Posted January 24, 2008:

• Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation To Thwart Nuclear Terrorism

Posted January 18, 2008:

• Method Developed To Identify Sparticles In Big Bang Conditions

Posted January 5, 2008:

• Helium Supplies Endangered, Threatening Science And Technology

Posted December 17, 2007:

• PET/CT Imaging Proves Golden For Detecting Cancer In Children

Posted December 10, 2007:

• Dam The Red Sea And Release Gigawatts

Posted November 28, 2007:

• Nuclear Energy Research Moves Toward Greater Reliance On Computer Simulation
• Is Nuclear Waste Seeping From Hanaford Waste Site To The Columbia River?

Posted November 26, 2007:

• Neutron Scatter Camera Detects Shielded Radiation To Find Smuggled Nuclear Material

Posted November 20, 2007:

• Could Nuclear Power Be The Answer To Fresh Water?

Posted November 19, 2007:

• Chemists Create Novel Uranium Molecule

Posted November 15, 2007:

• Physicists Peer Closely At Radioactive Decay Of A Rare Isotope At The Edge Of Nuclear Existence

Posted November 11, 2007:

• Using Supercomputers To Make Safer Nuclear Reactors

Posted October 31, 2007:

• Options For Dealing With Spent Nuclear Fuel, National Research Council Report

Posted October 27, 2007:

• Three First-ever Atomic Nuclei Created; New Super-heavy Aluminum Isotopes May Exist

Posted October 25, 2007:

• Uranium Isotope Ratios Are Not Invariant, Researchers Show

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