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Method can detect harmful salts forming in nuclear waste melters
A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, ...
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Russia starts making nuclear fuel for 300 MW Gen IV lead-cooled fast neutron reactor
The automated facility has already made mockup nuclear fuel bundles for the BREST-OD-300 core design, as per Rosatom.
New quantum sensing technology reveals sub-atomic signals
Since the 1950s, scientists have used radio waves to uncover the molecular "fingerprints" of unknown materials, aiding in ...
New simulation method models antineutrinos emitted from nuclear reactors during fission
Nuclear fission is the most reliable source of antineutrinos, but they are difficult to characterize. A recent study suggests ...
A Lawless NRC Obstructs Safe Nuclear Power
The agency lacks the authority to regulate today’s small reactors, and there’s no need for it to do so.
Nature29d
Father time: the physicist on a mission to build the world’s first nuclear clock
Not only could a nuclear clock be more precise than atomic clocks ... They got creative, zapping thorium with lamps, lasers and high-powered radiation to jolt its nuclei into a higher energy ...
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Chanukah Lamp Lights and Persian Nuclear Fire Worship
The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass ... the role that a miraculous flame of fire (the atomic energy of that time) played in the events ...
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Scientists develop thorium film for revolutionary atomic clocks
Physicists at UCLA have taken a major step toward creating the most accurate clocks ever by using a thin film of thorium-229.