What is the connection between controlling plasma at 150 million degrees Celsius and a frozen French fry factory? The answer lies in technology transfer and applied mathematics.
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What is the connection between controlling plasma at 150 million degrees Celsius and a frozen French fry factory? The answer lies in technology transfer and applied mathematics.
On 7 July, SpaceX’s Transporter-17 mission successfully placed the BOHR satellite (a CubeSat developed by the private company City Labs) into orbit. This launch marks a historic milestone, as it is the first time a commercial, private mission has used nuclear power in space, demonstrating that this technology is no longer the exclusive preserve of major public agencies (such as NASA).
On June 3rd, the startup Xcimer activated "Phoenix," the most powerful privately-owned laser in the world. This breakthrough is not only an engineering record but also represents a paradigm shift: nuclear fusion is moving from being a laboratory experiment to an industrial race toward clean, infinite energy.
At a depth of 430 metres, within a labyrinth of tunnels carved into a 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock composed of migmatite-gneiss (known for its high stability and low risk of earthquakes), lies the world’s first permanent repository for radioactive waste.
In 2027, China will launch the first prototype of a 1 MW Accelerator-driven Subcritical System (ADS) reactor, capable of using nuclear waste to generate ‘sustainable, safe and stable’ energy, becoming the next step towards commercial viability.
NASA has reached a milestone in the space race with this technological breakthrough — the first of its kind since the 1960s — which promises to double the efficiency of current rockets and open the door to interstellar missions.
The American company Meta has signed agreements with Vistra, Oklo, and TerraPower to secure energy supplies for its Promeheus (AI) data centre supercluster in New Albany, Ohio (United States).
The advanced nuclear technology company, Oklo Inc., has begun construction of the Aurora-INL reactor. This is a sodium-cooled fast reactor that uses metallic fuel and builds upon the design and operational legacy of the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II), which operated from 1964 to 1994.
The Latin American Network for Education and Training in Nuclear Technology (LANENT) is a network of institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean interested in education, training, knowledge management and outreach in the nuclear field.
South Africa, home to the world's largest rhino population, continues to attract criminals who poach them for the illegal trade in their horns, resulting in the loss of more than 10,000 rhinos in the last decade.
Researchers at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea have developed a nuclear battery that uses beta particles emitted by materials such as carbon-14 or radiocarbon to generate useful electricity efficiently, stably and cleanly for centuries with almost no degradation.
The Wendelstein 7-X experimental reactor has successfully sustained the fusion reaction using high-performance plasma for 43 seconds and delivered 1.8 gigajoules of energy, setting a new record on the road to achieving nuclear fusion.