Read more about Cryptonews Russia’s illegal crypto mining crackdown continues in its unofficial Bitcoin (BTC) mining capital, with authorities confiscating 238 rigs from a community ostensibly ...

“After Kanupriya’s presidential victory in 2018, the first by a woman at PU, the student politics has turned to tokenism and using women to get votes even though almost 70% of the university ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study to assess the characteristics of particles or bubbles possibly present on Titan’s lakes and seas using Cassini RADAR observations when operating in ...

Acid Canyon — located in the heart of Los Alamos, where the world’s first atomic bombs were developed — has “extreme concentrations” of plutonium in its plants, soil and water ...

The recent discovery, by a Northern Arizona University professor, of elevated levels of plutonium in a popular hiking canyon in Los Alamos comes as no surprise. But the lab’s decades-long ...

Some of the neutrons produced by these fissions are absorbed by the more phlegmatic U-238; This forms a new, unstable element, neptunium, which soon turns into plutonium.* Plutonium is a fairly ...

Japan’s plutonium stockpiles in Britain and France totaled 21.8 tons and 15.4 tons, respectively, as of December 2020. Britain shut down its only M OX plant in 2011, which means it can no longer ...

Now I’ll jump to the device side itself. The Plutonium-238 source emits alpha radiation, which can be stopped literally with just a sheet of paper. It cannot penetrate your skin. And so the containing ...

The proposed solution to this problem is to instead use fast-neutron reactors, which “breed” non-fissile uranium-238 into plutonium-239 and plutonium-240, which can then be used as fresh fuel.