http://www.ccnmag.com Mon, 20 May 2013 03:31:15 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/fueling_nuclear_power_with_seawater Uranium floats in Earth's oceans in trace amounts of just 3 parts per billion, but it adds up. Combined, our oceans hold up to 4.5 billion tons of uranium -- enough to potentially fuel the world's nuclear power plants for 6,500 years CalTechNews Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:51:28 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/working_transistor_consists_of_single_atom The smallest transistor ever built -- in fact, the smallest transistor that can be built -- has been created using a single phosphorus atom by an international team of researchers at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University CalTechNews Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:35:51 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/extent_of_fukushima_radiation_measured Atmospheric chemists report the first quantitative measurement of the amount of radiation leaked from the damaged nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this year CalTechNews Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:09:27 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/nuclear_missing_link_created_at_last A team of scientists has created the newest superheavy element, element 117. The lifetime of element 117, which has now been created in the lab for the first time, confirms that superheavy elements lie in an island of stability on the periodic table CalTechNews Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:28:14 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/self-healing_nuclear_reactors_ Self-repairing materials within nuclear reactors may one day become a reality as a result of research by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists CalTechNews Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:22:15 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/bacteria_used_to_make_radioactive_metals_inert_ A biochemistry professor is researching the use of sulfate-reducing bacteria to convert toxic radioactive metal to inert substances, a much more economical solution. CalTechNews Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:09:43 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/theorized_but_never-seen_tiny_atom_could_soon_observed True muonium,” a long-theorized but never-seen tiny atom, might be observed in current and future super collider experiments. CalTechNews Sat, 30 May 2009 16:58:34 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/university_research_shaping_sea-based_missile_defense Mississippi State University research into sea-based missile defense interceptors is giving the Defense Department flexibility to deal with a variety of international threats CalTechNews Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:14:39 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/nuclear_fusion-fission_hybrid_could_contribute_to_carbon-free_energy_future Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. CalTechNews Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:52:12 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/deactivating_radioactive_waste_fast It may be possible to dramatically reduce the radioactive waste isolation time -- from several million years to as little as 300 - 500 years. CalTechNews Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:38:28 +0100