May 22, 2012
- Frost & Sullivan’s mining report states that Namibia is currently the world’s fourth-largest uranium producer and Africa’s largest uranium exporter, with uranium production in the country expected to quadruple in the near term, owing to increased exploration and expansion activities taking place in the Erongo region.
“About four new uranium mines in the...
May 21, 2012
- Ecat World reports that the most recent issue of the American Chemical Society’s Chemical and Engineering News magazine includes an article entitled, “Reviving Cold Fusion.” written by Steven K. Ritter. The brief summary reads, “After 20-plus years of outcast status, unconventional heat-producing nuclear reactions still seem plausible”.
The article...
May 19, 2012
- Canadian Manufacturing has an article covering General Fusion. General Fusion is creating a prototype and subsystems at full scale. They have made a full scale plasma injector that create the magnetized targets and individual full scale pistons. They have made a one meter...
- Lightbridge is developing innovative, proprietary nuclear fuel technologies designed to significantly enhance the nuclear power industry’s economics and increase power output.
Lightbridge is developing two fuel product families for power uprates in existing and new build reactors:
* All-Uranium, seed-and-blanket fuel technology – up to 17% power uprate in existing...
May 18, 2012
- Researchers have unveiled an “inexact” computer chip that challenges the industry’s 50-year pursuit of accuracy. The design improves power and resource efficiency by allowing for occasional errors. Prototypes unveiled this week at the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers in Cagliari, Italy, are at least 15 times more efficient than today’s technology.
The... - We had listed the nuclear reactors that are expected to start or restart in 2012.
All 14 are on track for commercial operation in 2012.
14 Reactors in 2012 2012 India, NPCIL Kaiga 4 PHWR 202 (operating) 2012 Iran, AEOI Bushehr 1 PWR 950 (...
May 17, 2012
- 1. Bloomberg - China’s state council, or Cabinet, will probably hold a meeting before the end of June to approve safety and development plans for the nuclear industry, according to Xu Yuming, the vice secretary general of the China Nuclear Energy Association. The government can resume approval of new nuclear plants after the plans are passed.
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May 14, 2012
- 3,000 kWhr per person per year is just to have what we consider a decent life, this means the world must produce over 30 trillion kWhrs per year just to eradicate global poverty, war and terrorism.
The 3000 kilowatt hour per person per year plan is less than half of the energy used by European countries and one quarter of what is used by the United States. If the rest of the world... - Berkeley Lab has a new approach that is a promising first step toward the development of tiny devices that harvest electrical energy from everyday tasks.
Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s...
Here’s the text for a keynote I’m doing in Calgary tomorrow at noon for a group of IT executives.
Lots to think about here – the future belongs to those who are fast!
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