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Chemistry World March 22, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Cold Fusion Back on the Menu Preparations are under way for an invited symposium focusing on cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions at the American chemical society's 2007 conference. Will the flare-up of cold fusion excitement last?  |
Scientific American February 28, 2005 Charles Q. Choi |
Back to Square One After 15 years, cold fusion got a second chance at legitimacy from the U.S. Department of Energy, often seen by cold fusion advocates as their greatest enemy. History repeated itself, with a verdict that evidence remained inconclusive.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Erico Guizzo |
Bubble Fusion Research Under Scrutiny A Purdue University scientist stands by his findings of a hydrogen isotope undergoing fusion in imploding bubbles. Meanwhile, a group of researchers funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to reproduce his results saw no evidence of fusion.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Lahey et al. |
Bubble Power Tiny bubbles imploded by sound waves can make hydrogen nuclei fuse--and may one day become a revolutionary new energy source.  |
Science News October 24, 2008 Davide Castelvecchi |
Sun In A Bottle: The Strange History Of Fusion And The Science Of Wishful Thinking With great explanatory skill, Charles Seife explains in his latest book how fusion works and why it is so hard to get power out of it.  |
Chemistry World February 14, 2013 Mathias Brust |
Safeguarding science against falsehood demands debate False scientific claims are, unfortunately, a reality. When it does happen, journals should act swiftly, welcome controversy and seize the opportunity for self-correction. And scientists should appreciate the need for critical debate.  |
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Otis Port |
More Bang From The Bubble? "Sonofusion" may one day outshine other nuclear methods in generating energy  |
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Advancing Hidden Nuclear Material Detection On any given day, ships and trucks deliver cargo containers filled with tons of imported goods. Homeland security officials have long warned that terrorists may use them to smuggle nuclear materials into the United States.  |
Wired September 22, 2008 Josie Glausiusz |
Star Power: Why Fusion Proves Elusive In his Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, Charles Seife says "Fusion is as close as science gets to something for nothing."  |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 |
Power Sources: Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Heat, Vibration and Fusion Summaries of how each of these power sources work to create energy.  |
Chemistry World October 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Higher Than the Sun Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, head of the UK fusion program, would like to see viable fusion power a reality in his lifetime. To this end, he is strongly backing Iter, an international fusion project.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
SPAWAR Continues C4ISR, Cold Fusion, MEMS Advancement for National Security U.S. Navy researchers are looking into issues ranging from nonlinear dynamics to sensors, microelectromechanical systems, and cold fusion to bring about quantum improvements in computers, communications, and sensors.  |
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever |
Fusion Stalemate Fusion as a viable energy source for the future... A "Takeout" nuclear plant...  |
Chemistry World October 24, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Drip Line Slips Away Researchers have squeezed 29 neutrons into an atom of aluminum, bringing into doubt current theories which predicted that it would be too unstable to exist.  |
Wired April 2001 |
Verge A coalition of 14 fusion-research institutions funded by the US Department of Energy will test whether new generation methods can make magnetic fusion an efficient, affordable source of energy...  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Willie D. Jones |
A Fusion Thruster for Space Travel Clean, highly energetic reaction delivers a lot of drive from a drop of fuel.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 William Sweet |
Could Fusion Clean Up Nuclear Waste? Physicists propose a marriage of fusion and fission reactors that could save both technologies  |
Popular Mechanics December 29, 2008 Jeremy Jacquot |
3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Samuel K. Moore |
Cold Fission If a nuclear version of a solar cell sounds like one of the old atomic battery concepts from the 1950s, it is, but with a potentially all-new twist.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Paul Wallich |
Fusion on a Budget Building your own nuclear fusion reactor is easier than you think  |
Popular Mechanics February 25, 2008 Erik Sofge |
MIT Fights for Clean Power With Holy Grail of Fusion in Reach A look down the belly of extreme machines producing forces 100,000 times stronger than the Earth's and forecasting the future of efficient energy.  |
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Peter Alpern |
MIT Nanocomposite Material Holds Promise for Energy MIT scientist creates a model to design radiation-resistant materials.  |
Popular Mechanics October 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt |
Mining The Moon An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future.  |
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Alex Hutchinson |
The Next Atomic Age America's nuclear power plants will soon have to be replaced -- but with what?  |
Chemistry World February 10, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Inching towards the island of stability An international team of researchers has for the first time directly measured the mass of an element heavier than uranium.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Slakey & Tannenbaum |
What About The Nukes? The U.S. nuclear stockpile is showing its age, but building new warheads isn't the solution.  |
Chemistry World April 12, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Nuclear Power to Save the Planet The UK's chief scientific adviser, David King, has reiterated his support for nuclear power. King supports the rebuilding of decommissioned nuclear power plants in the UK to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in the next 15 years.  |
Geotimes December 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Small Nuclear War Could Pose Large Climate Consequences New findings suggest that climatic effects from even a small-scale nuclear war between states such as India and Pakistan could match the climate impact once predicted for an all-out attack by a superpower.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Peter Fairley |
Does Fusion Have a Future? U.S. funding reversal for ITER suggests that fusion energy, which always seems to be close to discovery, has run out of time.  |
Popular Mechanics February 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Plasma Plaything Warms Up for Sun-Level Work on Fusion Fusion reactors -- the near-mythic energy sources that have been on the horizon for half a century -- may be coming one step closer.  |
Scientific American December 18, 2006 Graham P. Collins |
Kim's Big Fizzle The Physics Behind A Nuclear Dud: The North Koreans produced some kind of a nuclear damp squib. What could have gone wrong depends on the nuclear fuel used.  |
Wired September 2004 Spencer Reiss |
Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom Explosive growth has made the People's Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy.  |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Peter Coy |
The Prospect for Safe Nuclear Power Fukushima has cast a pall over the industry, just as new designs are showing promise of making reactors far safer. Will fear bring progress to a halt -- or stimulate demand for smarter solutions?  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Dave Levitan |
The Rich and Their Reactors Branson, Gates, and Bezos are pushing for nuclear reactors of one sort or another  |
Chemistry World January 10, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Atomic Inspection for Nuclear Waste Storage Scientists have announced a new way to assess the safety of storing nuclear waste. Already, the method has shown that the ceramic mineral zircon, a candidate for storing nuclear waste for over 250,000 years, would lose its ordered structure in a far shorter time.  |
Wired November 2001 Evan Ratliff |
The Electric Kool-Aid Bandwidth Test Luke Stewart boldly sold politicians, businesspeople, and financiers on his trillion-dollar idea: Use the electrical grid to carry data at speeds faster than we've ever seen. Never mind how...  |
Wired March 2002 Evan Ratliff |
This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late...  |
The Motley Fool November 21, 2006 Rich Smith |
Our Nuclear Future An international fusion reactor project is set to begin next year. Fascinating, you say. But what does a multilateral government-initiated project have to do with investing? Well, who is going to build it?  |
Chemistry World October 23, 2015 Matthias Gross |
Experiments beyond the laboratory Real world 'experiments' should be carefully planned and democratically supported.  |
Salon.com December 10, 2001 Damien Cave |
Nukes now! Post-Sept. 11, isn't it time to get off our fossil fuel fixation and take another look at nuclear power?  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Samuel K. Moore |
Risk Analysis Finds Nuclear Deterrence Wanting Engineering risk-analysis methods applied to the Cold War years point to a continuing threat, says Stanford professor  |
Science News October 4, 2003 |
TimeLine: September 30, 1933 First glimpses of a new world... Most intelligent college men choose most intelligent mates... High-voltage neutrons may be most effective atom splitters  |