New Nuclear Reactor Destroys Waste

Published on March 22, 2010 by Technology Slice

New Nuclear Reactor Destroys Waste – A new type of nuclear reactor that could permanently “destroy” atomic waste is being developed by French scientists, according to chief executive of Areva, the world’s largest nuclear energy company. Anne Lauvergeon told The Times that the French group was developing a technology to burn up actinides — highly [...]

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Chile Earthquake, Days Shorter

Published on March 3, 2010 by Technology Slice

Chile Earthquake, Days Shorter – The earthquake that struck Chile was so powerful that it appears to have jolted Earth’s axis into a new position and increased our planet’s rotation speed. Calculations by a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory indicate the earthquake shortened the length of a day on Earth by more than [...]

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