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Apr 23, 2022

Nuclear expert cautions against unfamiliar new nuclear age

Posted by in categories: military, nuclear energy

High-tech advances in weapons technologies and a return of ‘great power nuclear politics’, risk the world ‘sleepwalking’ into a nuclear age vastly different from the established order of the Cold War, according to new research undertaken at the University of Leicester.

Andrew Futter, Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, makes the warning in a for the Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), published today (Friday).

While stockpiles are much reduced from the peak of up to 70,000 nuclear weapons seen in the 1980s, progress in a number of new or ‘disruptive’ technologies threatens to fundamentally change the central pillars on which nuclear order, stability and risk reduction are based.

Apr 17, 2022

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries That Could Last For Thousands Of Years

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, transportation

Crossrail, or the Elizabeth Line, is set to revolutionize London transport, with high-speed trains running from east to west underneath the UK capital.

Apr 16, 2022

Thermophotovoltaic “Heat Engine” Design Could Change the Future of Power Grids

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, sustainability, transportation

There are so many paths we humans are running down in our chase for a greener future it’s extremely hard to keep track of everything. The auto industry is trying to go electric, either by means of batteries or hydrogen, the aviation industry is going for biofuels, while energy production and storage, well, this one is all over the place, betting on anything from the sun to the wind and nuclear.

Apr 15, 2022

We Went Inside the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

This could be the most important construction project of our lifetimes. See how digital tools are enabling the ITER project — https://bit.ly/3KGfiF8

Full story here — https://theb1m.com/video/inside-iter-worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-reactor.

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Apr 11, 2022

Squeezing Heavy Elements Between Diamonds Might Help Recycle Nuclear Waste

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, sustainability

2020 One of the heaviest known elements can be modified more than scientists thought — possibly opening the door to new ways of recycling nuclear fuel and enhanced long-term storage of radioactive elements — according to a recent study published in the journal Nature.


Squeezing heavy elements between diamonds might open doors for recycling nuclear waste.

Apr 8, 2022

CDF collaboration at Fermilab announces most precise ever measurement of W boson mass to be in tension with the Standard Model

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics

The discovery changes our understanding of everything. The world of physics may have been turned on its head.


“While this is an intriguing result, the measurement needs to be confirmed by another experiment before it can be interpreted fully,” said Fermilab Deputy Director Joe Lykken.

The W boson is a messenger particle of the weak nuclear force. It is responsible for the nuclear processes that make the sun shine and particles decay. Using high-energy particle collisions produced by the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, the CDF collaboration collected huge amounts of data containing W bosons from 1985 to 2011.

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Apr 6, 2022

Quantum Technology Will Revolutionize Our Energy System

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, quantum physics

Superconductivity and the end of resistance.


Superconductors will be a technology that we will greatly benefit from in the future. Innovative projects to solve our energy problems, such as fusion reactors, rely on their unique properties.

Apr 6, 2022

Oxford spinoff demonstrates world-first hypersonic “projectile fusion”

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics

Oxford spinoff First Light Fusion says its novel “projectile” approach offers “the fastest, simplest and cheapest route to commercial fusion power.” The company is now celebrating a significant breakthrough with its first confirmed fusion reaction.

The nuclear fusion space is heating up, if you’ll pardon the pun, as the world orients itself toward a clean energy future. Where current nuclear power plants release energy by splitting atoms in fission reactions, fusion reactors will release energy in the same way the Sun does – by smashing atoms together so hard and so fast that they fuse into higher elements.

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Apr 4, 2022

JET’s record result and the quest for fusion energy

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, robotics/AI

Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Glester catches up with two engineers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority to learn more about this latest development. Leah Morgan, a physicist-turned-engineer explains why JET’s recent success is great news for the ITER project – a larger experimental fusion reactor currently under construction in Cadarache, France. Later in the episode, mechanical design engineer Helena Livesey talks about the important role of robotics for accessing equipment within the extreme conditions inside a tokamak device.

Mar 30, 2022

HB11 Energy demonstrates nuclear fusion using high-power lasers

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics

Australia’s first fusion energy company HB11 Energy has demonstrated a world-first ‘material’ number of fusion reactions by a private company, producing ten times more fusion reactions than expected based on earlier experiments at the same facility. The technology utilizes high-power, high-precision lasers to start non-thermal fusion reactions between hydrogen and boron-11 rather than heating hydrogen isotopes to hundred-million-degrees temperatures.

This approach was predicted in the 1970s at UNSW by Australian theoretical physicist and HB11 Energy co-founder Professor Heinrich Hora. It differs radically from most other fusion efforts to date that require heating of hydrogen isotopes to millions of degrees.

Nuclear fusion powers the Sun and other stars as hydrogen atoms fuse together to form helium, and the matter is converted into energy. The Sun accomplishes fusion by having a huge amount of hydrogen atoms packed into a plasma that’s superheated to tens of millions of degrees at its core. At these temperatures, the hydrogen atoms move so fast and eventually reach speeds high enough to bring the ions close enough together that they smack into each other and fuse, releasing the energy that warms our planet.

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