Updated: 2010-05-30 06:44:37
, skip to main skip to sidebar May 28, 2010 Carnival of Nuclear Energy 3 NEI 2009 Stats , Nuclear Renaissance and More Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Welcome to the third Carnival of Nuclear . Energy 1. NEI summarizes the updated 2009 nuclear . statistics US nuclear plants generated slightly less electricity in 2009 than in 2008, yet nuclear’s fuel share increased from 19.6 in 2008 to 20.2 in 2009. That’s simply because electricity generation declined by four percent in the US due to that major economic setback we’re finally coming out of the production costs of nuclear compared to fossil fuels . In 2009, the US nuclear fleet’s production costs were 2.03 cents kWh , a five percent 5 increase from 2008 after adjusting for inflation . Coal’s production
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: skip to main skip to sidebar May 26, 2010 Evaluation of High Power Density Annular Fuel for Korean OPR-1000 Reactor : Final Report Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Earlier MIT studies have shown that internally and externally cooled annular fuel makes it possible to significantly increase by up to 50 power density in the standard Westinghouse PWR while maintaining or increasing safety . margin The present project has evaluated feasibility of 20 higher power density for the Korean OPR-1000 reactor having annular fuel assemblies of different dimensions and operating conditions than the standard Westinghouse PWR used in previous MIT analyses . The most important difference is keeping the coolant flow rate fixed at the reference value in this study . H T
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The instantaneous velocity of a Brownian particle has been measured for the first time, a result Einstein believed would be impossible.
Updated: 2010-05-24 16:00:00
Researchers from the Universities of Liverpool and Durham have fitted another piece into the superconductivity puzzle that could help in the quest to bring down the cost of technologies such as MRI scanners and some energy storage applications that rely on superconductors. The result is published online in the journal Nature (19th May 2010).
Updated: 2010-05-24 12:19:41
Physicists will have a defining role to play in the next 50 years of the laser.
Updated: 2010-05-20 10:00:00
Growing gallium arsenide in thick multilayer stacks could make a big difference to the cost of compound semiconductor devices.
Updated: 2010-05-17 10:57:29
The FEMTOPRINT project hopes to create an everyday 3D laser printer that can print tiny structures into glass.
Updated: 2010-05-14 12:21:12
Kirchhoff's current law has been rewritten thanks to a three-port transistor laser developed at the University of Illinois, US.
Updated: 2010-05-12 10:56:31
The 2010 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics will be held in San Jose, California, next week.
Updated: 2010-05-07 12:18:53
A higher order mode fibre delivers 125 fs pulses over a distance of 3.6 m without any pre-chirping of the input pulse.
Updated: 2010-05-06 16:44:11
Details of an organic light-emitting transistor that outperforms the equivalent OLED have been published.
