Updated: 2012-06-28 01:12:19
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 27, 2012 China and the USA partner for molten salt thorium reactor project and India plans a Thorium Reactor Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet 1. The U.S . Department of Energy is quietly collaborating with China on an alternative nuclear power design known as a molten salt reactor that could run on thorium . fuel China plans to have a 5 megawatt molten salt reactor in 2015. DOE’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy Peter Lyons is co-chairing the partnership’s executive committee , along with Jiang Mianheng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS according to a March presentation by CAS on thorium molten salt reactors . Beijing-based CAS is a state group overseeing about 100 research institutes . It and the DOE
Updated: 2012-06-27 23:10:37
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home June 27, 2012 Lawrenceville Plasma Physics makes progress on science and soon should have big experimental improvements Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Here is a 6 page progress report on the Dense Plasma Focus fusion work at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics LPP Every doubling of current means 30 times power . So some relatively simple modifications which are being developed should boost power levels by 300 . times Total elimination of arcing , which they are working on now , may drop the resistance to as low as 2 mOhms . Full power , shorter electrodes , and our existing switches , FF-1 will produce over 2.3 MA , over twice our current output . New , faster switches now under design for LPP by Raytheon will get us the rest
Updated: 2012-06-26 05:00:00
Brookhaven's ion collider smashes both atoms and a Guinness World Record by achieving the hottest man-made temperature ever. The positive and sometimes unexpected practical impact of particle physics is well documented, from physicists inventing the World Wide Web to engineering the technology underlying life-saving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices. But sometimes the raw power of huge experiments and scientific ambition draw the recognition of those seeking only the most extreme achievements on Earth.
Updated: 2012-06-20 05:00:00
June 20, 2012 -- Every day researchers add another sea of data to an ocean of knowledge on the world around us - billions on top of billions of measurements, images and observations of the tiniest subatomic particles up to the movement of planets and stars. "Making sense of that - simulating, mapping, analyzing - this is how researchers work these days," said Miron Livny, computer sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "More and more researchers need more and more computing power to support that work."
Updated: 2012-06-19 05:00:00
The Review of Particle Physics, a panorama of the world of high-energy and astroparticle physics, has been compiled and issued every two years since 1957 by the international Particle Data Group, now consisting of almost 200 scientists from 22 countries and based at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Called the PDG for short, the 2012 edition of The Review of Particle Physics runs to over 1,400 pages in print and will be mailed in July to over 16,000 subscribers, with a condensed, 320-page Particle Physics Booklet to follow in September. However, the online version of the PDG has just been posted at http://pdg.lbl.gov.
Updated: 2012-06-12 12:41:13
Updated: 2012-06-06 05:00:00
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Updated: 2012-06-05 05:00:00
Batavia, Illinois--Scientists from the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed the worldâs most precise measurement of a key parameter that governs the transformation of one type of neutrino to another. The results confirm that neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrinos, have similar masses as predicted by most commonly accepted theories that explain how the subatomic world works.
Updated: 2012-06-04 05:00:00
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Scientists studying neutrinos have found with the highest degree of sensitivity yet that these mysterious particles behave like other elementary particles at the quantum level. The results shed light on the mass and other properties of the neutrino and prove the effectiveness of a new instrument that will yield even greater discoveries in this area.
