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A Visit to the Nuclear Missile Next Door

78-year-old rancher Ed Butcher has, for 60 years, lived with a nuclear missile as his closest neighbor — an active U.S. government nuclear missile, buried just beneath his cow pasture. "Do you think they'll ever shoot it up into the sky?" ask.....»»

Category: topSource:  slashdotApr 24th, 2022

Microsoft’s Three Mile Island Deal Signals a Broader Nuclear Comeback

Microsoft’s deal to bring back a Three Mile Island nuclear reactor is just one part of Big Tech’s quid pro quo with nuclear power......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsOct 2nd, 2024

Westinghouse’s new nuclear microreactor could power tomorrow’s AI data centers

Westinghouse is building 5 MW nuclear reactors for AI data centers that can run for nearly a decade without refueling......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsOct 1st, 2024

Judge rebuffs citizen lawsuit against Gotion plant but leaves door open

Despite a complaint that “reads like a novel or a thesis,” the Illinois judge couldn't rule out the possibility that claims against the controversial Chinese-owned battery factory in Manteno could be proved......»»

Category: topSource:  autonewsRelated NewsOct 1st, 2024

South Korea unveils its most powerful missile, which could reach North Korea"s underground bunkers

South Korea unveils its most powerful missile, which could reach North Korea"s underground bunkers.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsOct 1st, 2024

Simultaneous detection of uranium isotopes and fluorine advances nuclear nonproliferation monitoring

Combining two techniques, analytical chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have become the first to detect fluorine and different isotopes of uranium in a single particle at the same time. Because fluorine is essential.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 27th, 2024

Home Depot expands Hubspace with a smart door, smart lock, and other cool gadgets

The Smart Glass Door arrives on September 30, and it lets you toggle between a clear and opaque glass window using voice commands......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsSep 25th, 2024

Nuking a huge asteroid could save Earth, lab experiment suggests

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by blasting X-rays at a marble-sized "mock asteroid"......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 25th, 2024

ALICE probes the strong interaction three-body problem with new measurements of hadron–deuteron correlations

In an article recently published in Physical Review X, the ALICE collaboration presented its studies of correlations in the kaon–deuteron and proton–deuteron systems, opening the door to precise studies of the forces in three-body nuclear systems.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 25th, 2024

Planetary defense research mission readies for asteroid visit

The European Space Agency is about to launch a spacecraft on an important research mission designed to bolster planetary defense......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsSep 25th, 2024

Would-be Corvette thief gets trapped in car by electric door latches

The car's owner filmed the would-be thief asking to be let out before police arrived to arrest him......»»

Category: topSource:  autonewsRelated NewsSep 24th, 2024

Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly

All that's left of the Russian missile silo is a big hole in the ground. The Sarmat missile silo seen before last week's launch attempt. [credit:.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsSep 23rd, 2024

Giant panda skin cells transformed into stem cells to help ensure their survival

A team of biologists in China has reprogrammed skin cells from giant pandas into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), opening the door to creating primordial germ cells that could serve as precursors to sperm and egg cells......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 23rd, 2024

Ukraine says Russia is planning strikes on nuclear facilities

Ukraine says Russia is planning strikes on nuclear facilities.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsSep 22nd, 2024

Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump

Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 22nd, 2024

In Bradenton visit, Gov. Ron DeSantis announces major upgrades coming to I-75 highway

In Bradenton visit, Gov. Ron DeSantis announces major upgrades coming to I-75 highway.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 21st, 2024

Jury awards $116M to the family of a passenger killed in a New York no-door helicopter crash

Jury awards $116M to the family of a passenger killed in a New York no-door helicopter crash.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsSep 21st, 2024

CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December

But Geneva-based organization will retain ties with Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Enlarge / The Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN (credit: Adam Nieman/CC BY-SA 2.0) Since its founding in 1954, high-energy p.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsSep 20th, 2024

Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal

Microsoft would claim all of the nuclear plant's power generation for at least 20 years. Enlarge / The Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant is seen in the early morning hours March 28, 2011, in Middletown, Penn. (credit: Jeff Fusco/Ge.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsSep 20th, 2024

Researchers build AI model database to find new alloys for nuclear fusion facilities

A study led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory details how artificial intelligence researchers have created an AI model to help identify new alloys used as shielding for housing fusion applications components in a nuclear fus.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 20th, 2024

Kongsberg boosts US defense capabilities with missile site in Virginia

Kongsberg boosts US defense capabilities with missile site in Virginia.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 20th, 2024