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China approving new domestic nuclear reactor projects and gearing up for...
1. China approved construction of its first nuclear power project since the Fukushima disaster in Japan almost four years ago brought the program to a standstill.China’s State Council gave the go-ahead...
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Ohio Replacement SSBN[X] Ballistic Missile Submarine
The U.S. Navy operates three kinds of submarines—nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines (SSGNs), and nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs)....
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Update on General Fusion
General Fusion is nearing significant milestones. General Fusion’s Approach is Magnetized target fusion (MTF). Magnetized target fusion is a hybrid between magnetic fusion and inertial confinement...
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Falling #2 Samsung is the reason Apple is nearing 90% of all global...
According to Strategy Analytics, global smartphone operating profit reached US$21 billion in Q4 2014. The Android operating system captured a record-low 11 percent global smartphone profit share during...
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NASA Dawn is Orbiting Ceres and is First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles (61,000 kilometers) from Ceres when it was captured by the...
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Low-cost silicon devices in fibers that could be made into fabrics
Aluminum metal and silica glass react chemically as they are heated and drawn, producing a fiber with a core of pure, crystalline silicon — the raw material of computer chips and solar cells — and a...
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Japan and Europe cooperating to develop the technology for hypersonic...
A European research project is studying, in cooperation with Japan, all aspects of hypersonic passenger flight.Planes this fast will need new technologies of propulsion, new materials and completely...
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Mighty Mouse could have Total Recall artificial memory implants
Mice can recall artificial memories created during sleep once they’re awake, researchers report in Nature Neuroscience. The findings support a causal role between the firing of specialized neurons...
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Locomotion control of hybrid cockroach robots
Natural systems retain significant advantages over engineered systems in many aspects, including size and versatility. Researchers have developed a hybrid robotic system using American (Periplaneta...
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Russia could have depression, currency crisis and distressed sale of assets...
Anders Aslund of the Peterson Institute for International Economics predicts a 10% decline in Russia's 2015 GDP.Since November 2014, it has been obvious that the Russian economy would shrink sharply...
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Engineered E. coli spin fibers as tough as spider silk
Spider silk is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar, but efforts to spin our own have so far failed to match the real thing. Now a German research group has come up with artificial fibres that...
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Revamping US Navy Surface ships from now to 2025
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments had a study with recommendations for improving the US Navy surface ships. It appears that one of the recommendations that was made is being followed....
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Progress to factory assembled small modular Nuscale Light Water Reactor
NuScale Power has successfully installed a full-length test version of its nuclear-powered steam generator in Piacenza, Italy. The tests will provide important input into NuScale's Design Certification...
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Google Ventures and the Search for Extending human lifespan to 500 years and...
Bill Maris has $425 million to invest this year, and the freedom to invest it however he wants. He's looking for companies that will slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life.“If you ask me today,...
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New senolytic drugs eliminate senescent cells and improve cardiovascular...
A research team from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Mayo Clinic and other institutions has identified a new class of drugs called “senolytics” that in animal models dramatically slows the aging...
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Broad Group of China completed a 57 story high rise in 19 days
Broad Group has a timelapsed video of a 57-floor 2-million-square-foot (180,000-square-meter) skyscraper fully built with energy-efficient and factory-produced components.Broad Sustainable Building...
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US Navy has a vision of distributed lethality to counter area denial
The US Navy plans to distribute lethality throughout the Fleet, increasing combat power on each ship while ensuring those ships are more capable of operating in dispersed and network-denied...
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Nine dwarf galaxies discovered in orbit around the Milky Way
A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once. The findings, from newly-released...
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US Daily crude oil production highest since Nov 1972 and US all liquids oil...
US Crude oil hit new post 1972 highs of 9.366 million barrels per day. Total liquids oil production hit a new all time high of 14.556 million barrels per dayUS daily crude oil production history from...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 251
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 251 is up at Neutron BytesAtomic Power Review – SMART SMR Moves Ahead – in Saudi Arabia and at HomeIt has been announced that South Korea and Saudi Arabia have signed a...
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