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

Tiny particles may illuminate reactor cores

Using particles from space to look into the heart of nuclear reactors - this is the goal of researchers at Nagoya University.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fukushima raises questions about new Finnish reactor

More than 5,000 hard-hat workers swarm over a sprawling nuclear facility in western Finland to build OL3 -- touted as the safest nuclear reactor in the world -- a claim which has come under scrutiny following ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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