News tagged with nuclear power

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Japan inches towards restarting nuclear reactors

Japan on Wednesday inched closer to re-starting idle nuclear reactors, just weeks after the last one was switched off amid public disquiet following the disaster at Fukushima.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 30

Flame virus a new age cyber spy tool

The Flame computer virus that smoldered undetected for years in Middle Eastern energy facilities confirmed fears that the world has entered a new age of cyber espionage and sabotage.

Technology / Internet

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

US science group says it's time to start burying plutonium

(Phys.org) -- As researchers the world over continue to try to find a way to meet the energy needs of an over populated planet, negative consequences for choices already made continue to pile up. Global warming ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 440 commercial nuclear reactors in use worldwide are currently helping to minimize our consumption of fossil fuels, but how much bigger can nuclear power get? In an analysis to be published ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (48) | comments 187 | with audio podcast report

Scientists reach the heights with gecko-inspired tank robot (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a tank-like robot that has the ability to scale smooth walls, opening up a series of applications ranging from inspecting pipes, buildings, aircraft and nuclear ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA, Roscosmos to discuss nuclear powered rocketry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anatoly Perminov, director of the Russian Space agency Roscosmos, has announced plans for an upcoming meeting between the Russian space agency, and it’s counterparts in the United States, France, Germany ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 32 | with audio podcast report

Clean energy becomes a selling point

As somewhat bewildered Apple shoppers in San Francisco, New York and Toronto learned firsthand this month, Greenpeace has a new enemy: dirty data. To attract attention to its report, "How Clean Is My Cloud?" - which draws ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nuclear power plants can produce hydrogen to fuel the 'hydrogen economy'

The long-sought technology for enabling the fabled "hydrogen economy" — an era based on hydrogen fuel that replaces gasoline, diesel and other fossil fuels, easing concerns about foreign oil and air pollution — ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Advanced power-grid model finds low-cost, low-carbon future in West

(PhysOrg.com) -- The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

The first nuclear power plant for settlements on Moon, Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets may really look like it came from outer space, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

70MW: Kyocera and partners to build largest photovoltaic power plant in Japan

(Phys.org) -- Electronics giant Kyocera, along with partners IHI Corp. and Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd have jointly announced plans to build a photovoltaic power plant in the southern Japanese city of Kagoshima, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 47 | with audio podcast report

Science fiction-style sabotage a fear in new hacks

When a computer attack hobbled Iran's unfinished nuclear power plant last year, it was assumed to be a military-grade strike, the handiwork of elite hacking professionals with nation-state backing.

Technology / Other

created Oct 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 21

Japan 'plans solar panels for all new buildings'

Japan is considering a plan that would make it compulsory for all new buildings and houses to come fitted with solar panels by 2030, a business daily said Sunday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 12

Fusion presents low proliferation risk, experts conclude

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon-usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Responding to the radiation threat

Berkeley Lab researchers are developing a promising treatment for safely decontaminating humans exposed to radioactive actinides from a major radiation exposure event, such as a nuclear reactor accident or ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast