Showing posts with label nuclear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear. Show all posts
Monday, March 29, 2010

Nuclear Disarmament Hinges On Missile Defence Dispute

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Image from vrroom.naa.gov.au. From New Scientist: After almost a year of negotiation, the US and Russia have finally settled on a plan to fu...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Is The Nuclear Material At Los Alamos Safe From An Earthquake?

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From Scientific American: Los Alamos National Laboratory conducts much of the nation's nuclear security research, and a new study has f...
Friday, October 16, 2009

How Can We Tell If a Country Is Making Nuclear Power Or Nuclear Weapons?

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Bombs or Power?: Centrifuges are usually arranged in a triangular cascade; the layout tips inspectors to its purpose. Weapons require heavil...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

US Dirty Bomb Attack Would Bring Clean-Up Chaos

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From New Scientist: A dirty bomb attack on the US would find the country ill-prepared to clean up the resulting radioactive mess, a governme...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Why It's So Hard To Make Nuclear Weapons

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The first nuclear bomb explosion at the Trinity Test Site New Mexico, July 16, 1945, taken from 6 miles away. As Los Alamos director J. Robe...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Did America Forget How to Make the H-Bomb?

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From Mother Jones: For decades nonproliferation experts have argued that, once unleashed, the nuclear genie cannot be stuffed back in the bo...
Friday, April 10, 2009

7 (Crazy) Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs

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From Wired Science: You might think of nuclear weapons as just the most fearsome weapon ever invented by humans, but that would be seriously...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Workings Of An Ancient Nuclear Reactor

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Uranium ore. United States Geological Survey and the Mineral Information Institute From Scientific American: Two billion years ago parts of ...
Sunday, November 9, 2008

Mini Nuclear Plants To Power 20,000 Homes

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From The Guardian: £13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,0...