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Nov 19, 20242 min read
Framatome’s PROtect Accident Tolerant Fuel reaches New Operational Milestone at Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland
Framatome’s PROtect Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (E-ATF) technology has reached a significant operational milestone at the Gösgen...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 19, 20242 min read
Who Moved My Atom?
Prof. Yoav Sagi Researchers at the Technion Faculty of Physics have demonstrated controlled transfer of atoms using coherent tunneling...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 19, 20242 min read
Physicists Achieve High-precision Imaging of Complex Molecules Using Highly Charged Ions
Schematic of the experimental approach (Image by IMP) A new study, published in Physical Review Letters  and led by researchers from the...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 19, 20243 min read
ATLAS observes top quarks in lead–lead collisions
Display of a lead–lead collision at 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair that resulted in a candidate pair of top quarks that decay into other...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 19, 20243 min read
LLNL Researchers Explore Next-Gen 3D Printing to Harness Fusion Energy
Cross-section of the target chamber in an artist’s concept of an inertial fusion energy power plant, where targets would be ignited ten...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 17, 20243 min read
AI Can ‘Hear’ When a Lithium Battery Is About to Catch Fire
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a way to use sound to detect when lithium-ion...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 17, 20243 min read
U of A engineering researchers lead design and manufacturing of advanced materials for small modular nuclear reactors
One promising form of clean energy that hasn’t attracted much media attention is produced by what’s called small modular reactors (SMRs),...
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Nov 17, 20241 min read
World’s Largest Open-sea Offshore PV Project Begins Power Generation
CHN Energy’s 1-gigawatt offshore photovoltaic (PV) project in Kenli District, east China’s Shandong Province, successfully connected its...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 16, 20242 min read
CMS develops new AI algorithm to detect anomalies
In the quest to uncover the fundamental particles and forces of nature, one of the critical challenges facing high-energy experiments at...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 11, 20243 min read
Kagome breaks the rules at record breaking temperatures
Excuse me, what? Yes, you read that right: 175 K, a.k.a. -98 degrees Celsius. In the quantum world this is actually quite hot. In the...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 11, 20242 min read
Scientists Capture Images of Electron Molecular Crystals
From top left: Scanning tunneling microscope images of electrons evolving into a single Wigner molecule (bottom right). Credit: Berkeley...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 11, 20243 min read
New chemical process makes biodiesel production easier, less energy intensive
Kevin Lofgren in the lab holding a flask containing the pure biodiesel product made with the process described in the journal Energy &...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 11, 20242 min read
EM Set to Demolish Second Submarine Reactor Prototype in Idaho
A U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management  (EM) team is set to decommission and demolish (D&D) a second submarine...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 10, 20243 min read
EV ‘batteries on wheels’ can save power systems €100bn over 10 years – Fraunhofer
Using electric vehicles to store energy and feed back into the grid could soon save Europe’s energy companies and motorists billions of...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 10, 20244 min read
Can the rising tide of stellarator technology lift the entire fusion industry?
After decades of promise, the quest for viable fusion energy using stellarators is accelerating thanks to growing investment, advanced...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 10, 20243 min read
A test stand for the High-Luminosity LHC
Two fully synchronised overhead cranes were used to handle the cold powering system, which is made up of a long transmission line and an...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 10, 20242 min read
CMS uses photons to probe the structure of nuclei
Event display of a candidate for D0 production at the CMS detector. (Image: CMS collaboration) At the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ),...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 10, 20244 min read
BASE experiment takes a big step towards portable antimatter
The BASE-STEP transportable trap system, lifted by crane through the AD hall before being loaded onto a lorry. The team monitored all the...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 10, 20242 min read
The NPCR gives a full picture of the ways the Nuclear Security Enterprise works to reduce global nuclear threats
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has released “Prevent, Counter, and Respond—NNSA’s Plan to...
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Modern Mechanics Editor
Nov 6, 20242 min read
NNSA completes and diamond-stamps first plutonium pit for W87-1 warhead
the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) verified completion of the First Production Unit (FPU) of...
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