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Important Tests for Lunar Habitat Power System Began
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA today begins testing elements of a power system that is a potential candidate to provide the energy needed to support a human outpost on the moon.
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Removing Hot Air from Nuclear Power Plants; Scientists Convert Nuclear Energy to Power without Steam
Apr 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, researchers have been in search of an economically feasible method of converting nuclear energy directly into electricity. Now, University of Missouri researchers are developing an energy conversion ...
Researchers create smaller and more efficient nuclear battery
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are ...
Eliminating the threat of nuclear arms
Feb 04, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama has made his intention of eliminating all nuclear weapons a tenet of his administration's foreign policy. Professor Sidney Drell, a US theoretical physicist and arms-control expert, explains in February's ...
New RFID technology tracks and monitors nuclear materials
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices have widely been used for tracking for years; recently, scientists from U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed ...
Nuclear cannibals
Mar 04, 2008 |
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Nuclear energy production must increase by more than 10 percent each year from 2010 to 2050 to meet all future energy demands and replace fossil fuels, but this is an unsustainable prospect. According to a report published ...
New INL project tackles nuclear fuel recycling science
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will use an innovative approach to learn how to get more use from nuclear fuel.
Penn State leads DOE consortium on hydrogen energy research
Nov 21, 2007 |
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Hydrogen energy research at Penn State expands with leadership of a newly established U.S. Department of Energy consortium funded for three years by the DOE’s Nuclear Energy Research Initiative.
Toshiba eyes new businesses for recovery
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it aimed to expand its energy, healthcare and environment-related businesses as it targets a strong recovery in earnings within the next three years.
NASA Developing Fission Surface Power Technology
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA astronauts will need power sources when they return to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. NASA engineers are exploring the possibility of nuclear fission to provide the necessary ...
NC State Nuclear Reactor Program Celebrates Scientific Breakthrough
Oct 22, 2007 |
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There were high-fives all around NC State University's PULSTAR nuclear reactor earlier this month, as students, staff and faculty celebrated a new scientific benchmark - they had just produced the most intense ...
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