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NASA Cooks Up Plans for Nuclear Reactor Under the Surface of the Moon [Space]

2008-09-11 19:40:00 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
 
...nuclear reactor buried under the surface of the moon. Badass. Hit the jump for NASA's full press release, which describes the plan in more precise terms NASA Developing Fission Surface Power Technology CLEVELAND NASA astronauts will need power sources when they return to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. NASA engineers are exploring the...
 
Tags: reactor, power conversion, power conversion units, system, power system, heat source unit, nuclear reactor, heat source, heat
 
 
 
 
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Paper Sheet Protects World from Nuclear Holocaust [Pentagon Report]

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2008-04-10 07:45:42 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...nuclear warheadsflying over the US, a mistake that could have had catastrophic consequences. Their explanation: a 8.5 x 11-inch sheet of printed paper used to differentiate between nuclear and conventional missiles. Really, it can't get any more absurd than this On August 31, 2007 an Air Force crew accidentally loaded six live nuclear...
 
Tags: nuclear, nuclear weapons, nuclear warhead inside, live nuclear warheads, conventional, conventional cruise missiles, weapons, paper, missiles
 
 
 
 
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Gamer Tries to Build Nuclear Reactor at Home, FBI Came Around to Play

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2008-01-18 14:34:33 by max in zedomax.com
...nuclear reactor. Too bad he didnt have a SiteHoppin.com shirt on :p Apparently bored of his amateur game-building hobby, he decided to try to make a small-scale nuclear reaction in his room, blogging his antics on the web Someone blew the whistle on him when he made claims about uranium and doubling the normal background radiation count in...
 
Tags: nuclear reactor, nuclear regulatory commission, darwin award, gizmodo antics, gizmodo, small-scale nuclear reaction, antics, radiation count, background radiation
 
 
 
 
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Toshiba's Micro Nuclear Plant: Nice Idea, But A Hoax

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2008-01-27 03:32:23 by Editor in The Gadgets Weblog
...Nuclear Reactor" that would be nothing short of a miracle. The 200 kilowatt Toshiba designed reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and totally automatic and will not overheat. Unlike traditional nuclear reactors the new micro reactor uses no control rods to initiate the reaction. The new revolutionary technology uses reservoirs of liquid...
 
Tags: nuclear, reactor, reactor types, toshiba, nuclear reactors, reactor core, hoax, micro nuclear reactor, neighborhood reactor
 
 
 
 
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Was China's earthquake triggered by a nuclear accident?

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2008-05-21 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...nuclear warhead fuel codenamed Plant 821 is to the May 12 magnitude 7.9 earthquake's ground zero, accompanying William J. Broad's May 16, 2008 New York Times story about Western efforts to monitor possible radiation leakage as a result of the quake, I couldn't help but turn cause and effect around and wonder, what if More from Broad's...
 
Tags: complex, supersecret main complex, earthquake, nuclear experts, epicenter, york times story, highly secretive center, close china, stores nuclear arms
 
 
 
 
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Was China's earthquake triggered by a nuclear accident? Episode 2: Perhaps

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2008-06-04 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...nuclear weapons plants and facilities, noting that they are close to the quake's epicenter Broad wrote, "Nuclear experts said that closer to the epicenter of the earthquake, in rugged hills a two-hour drive west of Mianyang [top], China runs a highly secretive center that houses a prompt-burst reactor. It mimics the rush of speeding subatomic...
 
Tags: china, anti-china agendas, earthquake, china runs, map, chinese weapons scientists, crack research team, nuclear experts, chinese
 
 
 
 
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Toshiba: F*** the Format War, We're Going Nuclear (No, Really) [Nuclear]

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2008-03-06 10:40:44 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
Who needs to wage a costly format war when you could build nuclear power plants? That's Toshiba's thinking exactly . They just launched a brand new company, Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corp., which will "enhance" its nuclear power business in the US. Um...what? [ Yahoo!/Reuters
 
Tags: nuclear power plants, costly format war, nuclear power business, toshiba, enhance, brand, reuters, wage, company
 
 
 
 
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Toshiba Inaugurates New Research Facility for Next Generation Nuclear Reactors

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2008-02-20 07:23:57 by HASH0x8b1e788 in Fareastgizmos.com
...nuclear reactors. The facility is located near the Isogo Nuclear Engineering Center (IEC), Toshiba's main nuclear power business engineering center, in Toshiba's Yokohama Complex. Through close coordination of key divisions, including R&D, design and engineering
 
Tags: facility, research facility, research, generation nuclear reactors, toshiba, fast reactors, close coordination, essential technology, center
 
 
 
 
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Backyard Nuclear Reactor Should Be Ready to Ship by 2013 [Nuclear Power]

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2008-09-25 18:40:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...nuclear reactors first came to light last yearbut most people probably brushed off the idea as some sort of fantasy. Whether that is true or not, Hyperion seems to be committed to the project. A recent interview with Hyperion CEO John Deal revealed that they have every intention of shipping their first product in June of 2013 He also revealed...
 
Tags: waste, waste stream, reactor, hyperion power, bomb, bomb-grade fuel, hyperion, fuel, percent