Posts Tagged ‘reactor’

Princeton Scientists Unveil Breakthrough In Fusion Reactor Technology

Authored by Brian Westenhaus via OilPrice.com, Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) utilize liquid lithium coating in fusion reactor vessels to optimize fueling and enhance plasma stability. Findings published in Nuclear Fusion highlight the importance of neutral particle density at the edge of plasma for maintaining stability and efficient fusion reactions. Ongoing research aims […]

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant shuts down last reactor in face of flooding threat

The largest nuclear facility in Ukraine, under Russian occupation since 2022, is said to be at no immediate risk of disaster Source

Ukraine war: Russian shelling forced Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor to shut down, says Energoatom

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of waging attacks on Thursday near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, causing one of its reactors to shut down just as a team of UN inspectors were heading in for a visit. Ukrainian nuclear energy operator Energoatom said Russian shelling was to blame for the reactor at the Zaporizhzhia […]

What Israel is digging up under Dimona’s nuclear reactor

News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source

China’s first Hualong One nuclear reactor starts commercial operation

China National Nuclear Corp said the first of its Hualong One units, third-generation pressurized water nuclear reactors, began commercial operations on Saturday.The reactor in Fuqing in China’s southeastern province of Fujian was first connected to the grid on Nov. 27 last year, following more than five years of construction work.“This marks that China has mastered […]

Iran Restarts Uranium Fuel Production for Reactor — Breaching Nuclear Deal

Iran has started work on uranium fuel for a research reactor in the capital of Tehran, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday, constituting the latest violation of the nuclear deal. News of the metal-based fuel production was confirmed by the state-affiliated Tasnim news agency. The move is part of a wide-sweeping campaign to avenge […]

Iran Works on Uranium Metal for Reactor Fuel in New Breach of Nuclear Deal

Flags flutter in the wind in front of the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner Iran has started work on uranium metal-based fuel for a research reactor, the UN nuclear watchdog and Tehran said on Wednesday, in the latest breach of its nuclear deal […]

Giant Fusion Reactor Hotter Than the Sun to Provide Unlimited Clean Energy Without Waste

By Andy Corbley -Aug 10, 2020 https://92d7d4ebd02b821fa04034178aac4694.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container. html Facebook Twitter Email Reddit More In France, President Emmanuel Macron held a ceremony July 27 to launch the assembly phase of one of humanity’s most-complex engineering projects ever attempted—a giant nuclear fusion reactor, a machine that could produce relatively unlimited amounts clean power. ITER workers unveil major component in […]

Iran’s parliament demands construction of heavy water reactor

Iran’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill requiring the country’s atomic agency to build a new heavy water reactor and operate a metal uranium production plant as part of efforts to challenge international sanctions on its nuclear program, state media reported. The parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission spokesman, Abolfazl Amouei, was quoted by […]

Israel Finally Admits to Bombing Syrian Nuclear Reactor, Warns Iran Could Be Next

By Andrea Germanos Israel on Wednesday admitted it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear facility 11 years ago, and Israeli officials used the confirmation to boast about their country’s military might and again threaten Iran. “The message from the 2007 attack on the reactor is that Israel will not tolerate construction that can pose an existential threat,” military chief […]

Germany’s Merkel Reaches Out to Moscow

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : German Chancellor Angela Merkel reached out to Russia, saying that Germany favors the soonest possible restoration of relations between Russia, Germany, and the European Union. Relations soured after the eruption of the crisis in Ukraine, the accession of Crimea into the Russian Federation and subsequent European sanctions. Following the UK’s Brexit”, […]

Why Black Lives Matter has gained momentum in a country where police shootings are rare

Amid anger and anxiety over two fatal police shootings in the United States, Black Lives Matter protests have erupted in Britain, where police patrol unarmed and have fatally shot very few people over the years. In the days after the police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota — and deadly sniper fire in Texas, where five officers were killed and others were […]

Germans just as angry with EU as Brits, unhappy with tackling of refugee crisis – poll

The level of unhappy residents matches up exactly with the number of disgruntled Brits, who will take part in an EU referendum on June 23 to decide on a potential ‘Brexit.’ 2 in 3 Germans want Merkel out after next year’s elections The poll also found that support for the European Union has dramatically dropped in Germany […]

Russia Warns It Will Respond To US Destroyer Entering The Black Sea

Russia has warned it will respond to a U.S. naval ship’s entry into the Black Sea with unspecified measures A senior Russian diplomat said that another US aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean is clearly an attempt to show force ahead of an upcoming NATO summit. The US navy destroyer, USS Porter armed with assault cruise […]

Hospital Sued For Violating Religious Rights By Forcing Flu Shots

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC) filed a lawsuit this week claiming that the  Mission hospital in North Carolina forced workers with religious objections to get flu shots and fired those who refused. According to Reuters: “The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against Mission […]

Thousands Protest In London Against Turkish War On Kurds

Thousands took to the streets of London to protest against Ankara’s military operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which causes suffering to the Kurdish minority both in Turkey and beyond. Organized by an activist group known as Stop War on Kurds, the protest took place in central London on Sunday amid media silence. RT […]

Society unhinged: America’s loss of empathy

     Here’s a sobering thought for the idealists among us: Even if we someday achieve a truly fair and just society, that society will nevertheless be inhabited by the same species that produced the Holocaust. “Humans are capable of many things,” as author Noam Chomsky once told me. “Some of them are horrible, some are […]

Russian TV Crew Films Turkish Military Build Up On Syrian Border

A Russian TV channel has obtained footage which shows an increased Turkish military presence on the Syrian border. The REN-TV crew reported that the lodgments are heavily fortified by tanks and self-propelled guns which are pointed in the direction of the mainly Kurdish city of Kobane This follows a series of cross-border shelling attacks by […]

Einstein Was Right: The Existence of Gravitational Waves has been Confirmed

100 years after Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves through his theory of general relativity, a team of astrophysicists has announced the detection of these distortions made in the fabric of space. “With this new discovery, we humans are embarking on a marvelous new quest: the quest to explore the warped side […]

Einstein Was Right: The Existence of Gravitational Waves has been Confirmed

100 years after Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves through his theory of general relativity, a team of astrophysicists has announced the detection of these distortions made in the fabric of space. “With this new discovery, we humans are embarking on a marvelous new quest: the quest to explore the warped side […]

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