Watch Our 360/VR Documentary POWER on How Nuclear Energy Is Made
Motherboard takes you inside three nuclear facilities in 360/VR. Continue reading Watch Our 360/VR Documentary POWER on How Nuclear Energy Is Made
Category Archives: nuclear power
Watch Our 360/VR Documentary POWER on How Nuclear Energy Is Made
Motherboard takes you inside three nuclear facilities in 360/VR. Continue reading Watch Our 360/VR Documentary POWER on How Nuclear Energy Is Made
The Plan to Build a Million-Year Nuclear Waste Dump on the Great Lakes
How to future-proof an underground vault long after we are gone. Continue reading The Plan to Build a Million-Year Nuclear Waste Dump on the Great Lakes
Make Your Own Nuclear Battery
A Betavoltaic cell is a device that uses a radioactive source of beta particles and a semiconductor p-n junction to generate electricity. Tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, is often used as the radioactive element. You may think that tritium is hard to obtain or even forbidden, however, recently you can find tritium in self-lightning key chains, and it is also used in watches and firearm night sights. The beta particles (electrons) from the tritium radioactive process causes phosphors in the device to glow, giving a light that can last for years.
[NurdRage] has just created a nuclear battery using tritium …read more
Watch Chernobyl Get Locked Inside a New Giant Steel Dome
The 108-meter tall structure was built to replace the aging concrete sarcophagus that has contained the world’s worst nuclear plant disaster for over 30 years. Continue reading Watch Chernobyl Get Locked Inside a New Giant Steel Dome
Retrotechtacular: Head Start On Tomorrow
In the 1950s and 1960s, the prospects for a future powered by nuclear energy were bright. There had been accidents at nuclear reactors, but they had not penetrated the public consciousness, or had conveniently happened far away. This was the age of “Too cheap to meter“, and The Jetsons, in which a future driven by technologies as yet undreamed of would free mankind from its problems. Names like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima were unheard of, and it seemed that nuclear reactors would become the miracle power source for the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. …read more
Is China’s Role in a UK Nuclear Plant Really a Cybersecurity Risk?
The Hinkley Point delay has fuelled speculation that the British government is sceptical of China’s involvement. Should we be concerned? Continue reading Is China’s Role in a UK Nuclear Plant Really a Cybersecurity Risk?