Thousands Of Atoms Swap Spins With Partners In Quantum Square Dance
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2007
Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have induced thousands of atoms trapped by laser beams to swap "spins" with partners simultaneously. The repeated exchanges, like a quantum version of swinging your partner in a square dance but lasting a total of just 10 milliseconds, might someday carry out logic operations in quantum computers, which ... read more
Laser Sets Records In Power And Energy Efficiency
Evanston IL (SPX) Jul 27, 2007
The rise in global terrorism in recent years has brought significant attention to the needs for more advanced sensors and defense technologies to protect civilians and soldiers. Next-generation laser-based defense systems are now being designed for this need, including the use of infrared countermeasures to protect aircraft from heat-seeking missiles and highly sensitive chemical detectors for r ... more
MIT Researchers Work Toward Spark-Free, Fuel-Efficient Engines
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2007
In an advance that could help curb global demand for oil, MIT researchers have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating mode that is more fuel-efficient and just as clean. The mode-switching capability could appear in production models within a few years, improving fuel economy by several miles per gallon ... more
France-Libya Nuclear Deal A Dangerous Step Warn Many
Paris (AFP) July 26, 2007
French green groups Thursday attacked plans to build a French reactor in Libya for water desalination as a perilous masquerade that would encourage Moamer Kadhafi to get a nuclear bomb. Sortir du Nucleaire (Get Out of Nuclear) said the official reason for the reactor was a "deception" as the civilian and military uses of nuclear technology were "indissociable."
"Delivering civilian nuclear ... more
US Lawmakers Threatens To Block Indian Nuclear Deal
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2007
A bi-partisan group of lawmakers warned Wednesday that Congress could block a landmark US-India nuclear cooperation deal if it sidesteps safeguards to prevent military uses of the technology. The 23 legislators sent a letter to President George W. Bush saying the so-called "123" operating agreement, which reportedly allows India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, could end up violating US law.
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Australia Considers Selling Uranium To India
Sydney (AFP) July 26, 2007
Australia is considering selling uranium to India after New Delhi finalises a landmark civilian nuclear deal with the United States, the government said Thursday. Australia has the world's largest known reserves of uranium and has been under pressure sell the nuclear fuel to India since it agreed last year to supply rival Asian giant China.
But Australia has a policy of refusing to export ... more
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SUPERPOWERS
Is Russia One Of The Richest Countries
SUPERPOWERS
The Arctic Crisis Part 1
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
More Flooding As England Battles Power Cuts And Water Shortages
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New NASA AIRS Data To Aid Weather And Climate Research
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2007
There's an old saying, "You can't see the forest for the trees." When it comes to global climate change, it's not hard to spot the "trees" -- they're in the news headlines nearly every day. To see the "forest," however--that is, to gain a more complete understanding of the climate variations we're seeing--scientists use satellite remote sensing. With these technologies, they can directly measure ... more
Renewable Energy Wrecks Environment
New York NY (SPX) Jul 25, 2007
Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the environment. Ausubel has analyzed the amount of ener ... more
Asian Land Grabs Highlight Class Friction And Bureaucratic Failures
Trapeang Krasaing, Cambodia (AFP) July 24, 2007
Monsoon rains have brought new misery to the residents of this resettlement site outside the Cambodian capital. Already uprooted from their homes, the hundreds of families living here now have to contend with near daily downpours that flood their shacks with putrid water. "Living here is a misery," said Chan Bory, one of the thousands who authorities in Phnom Penh pushed from their homes in a ci ... more
US Lawmakers Question Secretive US-India Nuclear Pact
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2007
US lawmakers have warned President George W. Bush of "inconsistencies" amid reports Washington has agreed in principle to allow India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel under a landmark deal. The warning came after US and Indian officials finalized last week the implementing agreement for Washington to provide nuclear technology and fuel to India under a deal agreed upon by Bush and Indian Prime Mi ... more
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SOLAR DAILY
DuPont To Lead 100 Million Dollar Federal Program To Advance Solar Cell Module Research
AEROSPACE
Steering Aircraft Clear Of Choppy Air
ENERGY TECH
Wanted: Wearable Power System, Batteries Included
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Researcher Observes Molecular Chaos For The First Time
Waco TX (SPX) Jul 26, 2007
A Baylor University researcher has created the first experimental observation of molecular chaos, providing evidence that a widely accepted, yet unproven, assumption is indeed accurate. Molecular chaos is an assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated and independent of position. An example of molecular chaos is the air in any room. While the nitrogen and oxygen atoms ... more
Japan's Quake-Hit Nuke Plant Says Nothing To Hide
Tokyo (AFP) July 25, 2007
The operator of Japan's largest nuclear plant, which was damaged in a powerful earthquake, said Wednesday it had nothing to hide as UN inspectors prepared to visit. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team is set to arrive in Japan in the next few weeks to look at the sprawling Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). Asked to promise the co ... more
French Firm Could Build Shield Over Main Chernobyl Reactor
Kiev (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007
Ukraine could sign a contract with a French firm in September to build a giant protective shield over a damaged reactor in Chernobyl, the scene of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the emergencies minister said Wednesday. "The Assembly of Chernobyl Shelter Fund Donors made a decision in London July 17 to give its approval to the contract to build the shelter with the Novarka concern, with a pr ... more
Russia Puts Off Bushehr NPP Launch Until Fall 2008
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007
The Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran cannot be completed by the fall of 2007 as suggested by Iranian authorities and will only be commissioned a year later, a Russian subcontractor said. Russia is building the $1-billion facility, Iran's first nuclear power plant, in the south of the country in accordance with a 1995 contract, and under UN supervision as Iran is under international scrutiny o ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
Three-Pronged Nuclear Attack
AEROSPACE
EAA AirVenture 2007
TECH SPACE
UCF And Holochip Announce Global Licensing Agreement For Zoom Lens Patents
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