Of Interest archive
2013
16 Jul 2013
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Thin current sheets in space: where the action is
The Universe is filled with plasma, a charged gas consisting of ions and electrons. Thin sheets with currents separate large plasma regions…
14 Jul 2013
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Flying to Mars in a Z-Pinch rocket
At 54.6 million km away at its closest, the fastest travel to Mars from Earth using current technology (and no small bit of math) takes…
13 Jul 2013
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IAEA report finds Fukushima didn't cripple nuclear future
Less than 18 months after the meltdown accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, the International Atomic…
12 Jul 2013
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Sticking nuclei together
One of the most puzzling things about fusion is that two positively charged particles, deuterium and tritium could possibly stick together…
11 Jul 2013
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Exascale supercomputing to simulate fusion reactions
Scientists at Princeton University are composing the complex codes designed to instruct a new class of powerful computers that will allow…
10 Jul 2013
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Six orders of magnitude
To create fusion, you need a very different world to the one we live in. It needs to be six orders of magnitude hotter and six orders of…