Engineering
Scientists at EPFL have devised and tested out a new, gamma-noise method for monitoring nuclear reactors non-invasively and from a distance. The new method, tested out on EPFL's CROCUS nuclear reactor, can improve nuclear ...
May 22, 2024
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Engineering
We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering. Much as large, expensive, and centralized computers ...
Jun 25, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Bucking current trends toward safe, clean and renewable energy resources, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur last week launched an initiative to reignite enthusiasm for nuclear energy.
Energy & Green Tech
Harnessing energy from nuclear fusion—the combining of nuclei, which lie within atoms—could be instrumental in the shift towards a decarbonized global energy system. As issues of climate change and energy security are ...
Jul 8, 2024
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Business
California, home to Silicon Valley, is eager to rein in the deployment of artificial intelligence and is looking to Europe's tough-on-big-tech approach for inspiration.
Mar 27, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The east Africa region has the fastest growing population in Africa. Between 2013 and 2017, its growth rate was twice the African average. The region is also experiencing strong economic growth. It's sub-Saharan share of ...
Dec 9, 2023
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Engineering
Nuclear power systems contain many complex sequence failure behaviors due to standby redundant designs. Performing the risk assessment of sequence failure behavior using dynamic fault trees can identify potential weaknesses ...
Aug 28, 2023
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Business
The implosion that took the lives of five souls who made the perilous deep sea voyage to the Titanic shipwreck is not your typical disaster. But perhaps the OceanGate Titan submersible craft was doomed from the start.
Jul 7, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
All equipment needed for the release into the sea of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has been completed and will be ready for a safety inspection by Japanese regulators this week, the ...
Jun 26, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
An International Atomic Energy Agency team arrived in Tokyo on Monday for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a ...
May 29, 2023
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