December 2023

Nuclear Fusion 55 - NearStar Fusion Is Developing A Nuclear Fusion System Using Plasma Railguns - Part 1 of 2 Parts

Part 1 of 2 Parts    
     NearStar Fusion is a five-person startup in Chantilly,Virginia. They have a new energy-generating approach for creating nuclear fusion. The company is training plasma railguns to generate more power than is put in.

Nuclear Reactors 1308 - Studsvik and Fortum Are Exploring Installing Reactors In Nyköping In Sweden

     Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Finnish utility Fortum to investigate the conditions for new nuclear facilities at the Studsvik industrial site near Nyköping in Sweden.

Asteroids - Researchers Explore Alternative Metal Extraction On Meteorites And Asteroids

     Extraterrestrial mining and metal processing are key goals for space exploration. Rodolfo Marin Rivera at KU Leuven and a team of scientists in materials sciences have published a new report in Scientific Reports. They conducted catalytic dissolution of metals from meteorite proxies of metal rich asteroids by using a deep eutectic solvent.

Nuclear Weapons 841 - An Attack On U.S. Nuclear Missiles In Silos Would Kill Almost All The People In The U.S. - Part 2 of 2 Parts

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
     The Princeton researchers, using archived weather data over a forty-eight-hour period across a number of dates in 2021 to simulate the expected radioactive plume, discovered that the West Coast states were at the lowest risk due to a prevailing easterly wind.

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