Tag Archives: Nuclear physics

Pentaquark Particles Confirmed by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

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Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of pentaquarks particles. This historic moment for Particle physics.“The pentaquark is not just any new...

Conservation Group Finds No Fukushima Radiation Off U.S. West Coast

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Tests of water samples off the U.S. West Coast have found no indications of radiation from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, even though low levels of radiation are expected to reach the...

Why On Earth Is China Nervous About Plutonium in Japan?

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I read a funny thing the other day – China is nervous about Japan making atomic weapons and has complained to the International Atomic Energy Agency that Japan has over 1,400 lbs of plutonium that it...

Where Would YOU Put Our Nuclear Waste?

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On Valentine’s Day, a small puff of radioactivity exited the only deep geologic repository for nuclear waste operating in the world, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project near Carlsbad, New Mexico....

Chernobyl Study Proves Regional Vegetation is still Extant

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It’s been quite some time since that fateful day approximately three decades ago when the nuclear reactor leaked deadly radiation at Chernobyl thereby wreaking havoc on half the global atmosphere....

Radioactive Fukushima Waters Arrive At West Coast Of America

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Presenters at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Honolulu in late February said ocean water containing dissolved radionuclides from Fukushima’s crippled nuclear...

Radioactive Fukushima Waters Arrive At West Coast Of America

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Presenters at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Honolulu in late February said ocean water containing dissolved radionuclides from Fukushima’s crippled nuclear...

WIPP Is Still The Best and Only Choice For Nuclear Waste

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The only operating underground deep geologic nuclear waste repository had its first minor accident on Valentine’s Day. It was a small release of radiation that will not harm anyone or have any...

Controlled fusion one step closer after successful experiment

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Scientists around the world have been working hard for decades to produce a stable fusion reaction in the lab that generates more power than is required to start the reaction. Scientists at the...

Do We Really Need Nuclear Fusion for Power?

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The science of nuclear fusion took a major step forward today. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory blasted a small...