May 2020

Radioactive Waste 771 - Nevada Officials Continue To Fight Against A Geological Repository For Spent Nuclear Fuel Under Yucca Mountain

    Last week, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook Nevada. Nevada’s Congressional delegation and state officials are reiterating their fears about the safety of the proposed deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel to be located under Yucca Mountain about a hundred miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Nuclear Fusion 73 - Brown University Physicists Are Studying Topological Waves In Plasma

Topology is the mathematical study of how objects can be deformed by stretching or twisting but not tearing or breaking. Almost fifty years ago, Brown University physicist Michael Kosterlitz and his team employed topology to elucidate puzzling phase changes in particular types of matter. That work won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics for Kosterlitz in 2016.

Nuclear Weapons 727 - Pakistani Official Does Not Believe That India and Pakistan Will Fight A Nuclear War

    Samar Mubarakmand is a former chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), and the head of a team of the scientists that conducted six "successful" nuclear tests in remote Chaghi district of southwestern Balochistan province on May 28, 1998.

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