Nuclear Energy News

Posted January 11, 2013:

• Fusion Helped by Collision Science

Posted January 10, 2013:

• NASA Researchers Studying Advanced Nuclear Rocket Technologies

Posted January 8, 2013:

• Graphene Oxide Soaks Up Radioactive Waste: U.S., Russian Researchers Collaborate on Solution to Toxic Groundwater Woes
• Shareholder Responsibility Could Spur Shift to Sustainable Energy

Posted January 7, 2013:

• A French Nuclear Exit?
• Major Cuts to Surging Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Needed Now, Not Down the Road, Study Finds
• New Antimatter Trapping Method to Provide 'a Major Experimental Advantage'

Posted December 26, 2012:

• Measurements Hint Why the Universe Is Dominated by Matter, Not Anti-Matter

Posted December 20, 2012:

• Chromosome 'Anchors' Organize DNA During Cell Division: New Role for Telomeres in Cellular Growth May Shed Light on Aging and Age-Related Diseases

Posted December 17, 2012:

• Investigating Ocean Currents Using Uranium-236 from the 1960s

Posted December 10, 2012:

• Structure of Carbon's 'Hoyle State' Revealed

Posted December 5, 2012:

• When the First Stars Blinked On: Very First Stars May Have Turned on When the Universe Was 750 Million Years Old
• Proliferation Warnings on Nuclear 'Wonder-Fuel', Thorium

Posted November 28, 2012:

• Graphite Experiment Shines New Light on Giant Planets, White Dwarfs and Laser-Driven Fusion

Posted November 27, 2012:

• Breast Cancer Risk Estimates Increased With Repeated Prior CT and Nuclear Imaging

Posted November 26, 2012:

• Novel Power System for Space Travel Tested

Posted November 16, 2012:

• Nano Insights Could Lead to Improved Nuclear Reactors

Posted November 15, 2012:

• Born-Again Star Foreshadows Fate of Solar System

Posted November 12, 2012:

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Supercomputer Named World’s Most Powerful

Posted November 1, 2012:

• Super-Rare, Super-Luminous Supernovae Are Likely Explosion of Universe's Earliest Stars

Posted October 30, 2012:

• Reducing Radiation: Heart Institute Model Shows Hope for New Standards in Canada

Posted October 29, 2012:

• Titan Supercomputer Debuts: Computer Churns Through More Than 20,000 Trillion Calculations Each Second
• How to Make Stem Cells: Nuclear Reprogramming Moves a Step Forward

Posted October 26, 2012:

• Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change Must Target Energy Efficiency, Experts Say

Posted October 23, 2012:

• Self-Powered Sensors to Monitor Nuclear Fuel Rod Status
• Neutron Experiments Give Unprecedented Look at Quantum Oscillations

Posted October 19, 2012:

• Key Player in Parkinson's Disease Neuron Loss Pinpointed
• Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Lightning!

Posted October 17, 2012:

• Cosmic Rays Could Assist in Healing Fukushima's Nuclear Scar

Posted October 16, 2012:

• Stat5 Predicts Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Patients After Radical Prostatectomy

Posted October 12, 2012:

• New Weapons Detail Reveals True Depth of Cuban Missile Crisis

Posted October 11, 2012:

• Fusion Energy: Mug Handles Could Help Hot Plasma Give Lower-Cost, Controllable Fusion Energy

Posted October 9, 2012:

• 2010 Korea Bomb 'Tests' Probably False Alarms, Says Study

Posted October 8, 2012:

• How Pulsars Slow Down With Age
• Paving the Way for Commercial Fusion Power Plants

Posted October 5, 2012:

• Hubble Sees Cosmic Riches

Posted October 4, 2012:

• The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death Than Life

Posted October 1, 2012:

• Restricting Nuclear Power Has Little Effect on the Cost of Climate Policies

Posted September 27, 2012:

• Sandia Experts Help When Sinkhole Opens Up in Louisiana

Posted September 26, 2012:

• Search for Element 113 Concluded at Last

Posted September 24, 2012:

• Life in the Extreme: Hot Acids and Heavy Metals Make Similar Organisms Deal With Stress in Different Ways

Posted September 21, 2012:

• Twenty-Three Nuclear Power Plants Found to Be in Tsunami Risk Areas

Posted September 17, 2012:

• Temperature in Turbulent Convection: Discovery Could Aid Design of New Cooling Systems
• Dry-Run Experiments Verify Key Aspect of Nuclear Fusion Concept: Scientific 'Break-Even' or Better Is Near-Term Goal

Posted September 6, 2012:

• In Quest of the Cosmic Origins of Silver: Silver and Gold Materialized in Different Stellar Explosions

Posted September 5, 2012:

• Epigenetic Causes of Prostate Cancer: Researchers Observe Modified Methylation Patterns in a Group of Prostate Cancers

Posted August 26, 2012:

• New Wave of Technologies Possible After Ground-Breaking Analysis Tool for Nanometer Devices Developed

Posted August 22, 2012:

• Glass Offers Improved Means of Storing Nuclear Waste, Researchers Say

Posted August 21, 2012:

• Moving Closer to Extracting Uranium from Seawater
• Fueling Nuclear Power With Seawater: Tests Adsorbent to Extract Uranium from the Ocean

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