News tagged with reactor core

Lab team develops capability for atomistic simulations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional scientific wisdom says that the interatomic forces between ions that control high-temperature processes such as melting are insensitive to the heating of the electron "glue" that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

iPhone goes nuclear

A fission reaction in a nuclear reactor? There's an "app" for that! An iPhone "application" or software developed by the University of Utah's Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute to look at medical ...

Technology / Software

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In-situ insights into alloys

New research has produced the first micro-scale, in-situ, real-time observations of structural changes within alloys when under extremely high temperatures and stress.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

INL engineers tackle graphite challenge with innovative new device

Employees at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory recently reached an important milestone in developing the nation's next generation of nuclear reactors by the completion of the first of six planned Advanced ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1