Tag Archives: Nuclear technology

U.S. Discards North Korea’s Miniaturized Nuclear Missile Claims

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Recently North Korean officials claimed they have successfully made nuclear warheads that are small enough to be inserted in missiles. The official Pyongyang claimed the technology to build nuclear...

Scientist Create New Most Accurate Atomic Clock

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Forget the Apple Watch. There is a new atomic clock that will not show the wrong time for about 15 billion years. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed a...

Iran Agrees to Not build Nuclear Facilities For Uranium Enrichments

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The Iran talks have finally an agreement to show for. Reuters reports that Iran agrees not to build any new facilities that can be used to enrich uranium for 15 years. The details are not yet...

Conservation Group Finds No Fukushima Radiation Off U.S. West Coast

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Tests of water samples off the U.S. West Coast have found no indications of radiation from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, even though low levels of radiation are expected to reach the...

Why On Earth Is China Nervous About Plutonium in Japan?

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I read a funny thing the other day – China is nervous about Japan making atomic weapons and has complained to the International Atomic Energy Agency that Japan has over 1,400 lbs of plutonium that it...

Where Would YOU Put Our Nuclear Waste?

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On Valentine’s Day, a small puff of radioactivity exited the only deep geologic repository for nuclear waste operating in the world, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project near Carlsbad, New Mexico....

Radioactive Fukushima Waters Arrive At West Coast Of America

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Presenters at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Honolulu in late February said ocean water containing dissolved radionuclides from Fukushima’s crippled nuclear...

Radioactive Fukushima Waters Arrive At West Coast Of America

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Presenters at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Honolulu in late February said ocean water containing dissolved radionuclides from Fukushima’s crippled nuclear...

WIPP Is Still The Best and Only Choice For Nuclear Waste

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The only operating underground deep geologic nuclear waste repository had its first minor accident on Valentine’s Day. It was a small release of radiation that will not harm anyone or have any...

Do We Really Need Nuclear Fusion for Power?

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The science of nuclear fusion took a major step forward today. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory blasted a small...