Throughout the world, interest is moving towards small modular reactor systems. Although most currently proposed designs have succeeded in decreasing the size, they have not been able to com... Read more
An advanced nuclear reactor under development by Hitachi could help solve the nuclear waste problem, and Univ. of Michigan researchers were involved in verifying its safe performance through... Read more
Football-size robot can skim discreetly along a ship’s hull to seek hollow compartments concealing contraband Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MI... Read more
New research has provided a comprehensive overview of new small-scale nuclear reactors, which could be suitable candidates to cope with the world’s ever growing demand for energy. A detailed... Read more
OFF THE COAST OF FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Twelve miles out to sea from the severely damaged and leaking nuclear reactors at Fukushima, a giant floating wind turbine signals the start of Japan’s mo... Read more
Huge herds of roaming jellyfish are becoming a huge problem in our ocean, causing millions of dollars in damage and injury and death. The JEROS Robot will hunt them down and kill them. Kille... Read more
The quest is for a new kind of nuclear reactor that would be fueled by today’s nuclear waste In a drab one-story building here, set between an indoor tennis club and a home appliance showroo... Read more
So the world has an energy hangover from its centuries long binge on fossil fuels. Here’s the coming cure: molten salts. These intriguing elixirs and their handy thermodynamic properties wil... Read more
Proponents of MSRs say they are meltdown-proof, and that they are safer and more cost effective A couple of Transatomic Power’s young co-founders – Mark Massie and Leslie Dewan –... Read more
One more major step towards the dream of nuclear fusion power. A researcher at the Universidad politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has patented a nuclear fusion reactor by inertial confinement that,... Read more
The research team recently demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and power a Stirling engine Joint DOE and NASA team demonstrates simple, robust fission r... Read more
The researchers’ goal is to eliminate 99 percent of the most toxic transuranic waste from nuclear fission reactors. University of Texas at Austin physicists have been awarded a U.S. patent f... Read more
Provides continuous nanoWatt power for over 20 years When installing micro-electronic devices in locations that are expensive or hard to reach, or just downright dangerous, you don’t w... Read more
He proposes not just one Enterprise-class ship, but multiple ships In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed... Read more
