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The US Military Stops Using Floppy Disks For Nuclear Launches
It’s always mildly disconcerting when you hear that a rather antiquated piece of technology is still in use for a particularly important job and in terms of computing, it doesn’t get much more antiquated than floppy disks. Well, perhaps with the exception of cassette tapes. There is, however, always the…
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Nuclear Plant Staff Compromise Security To Mine Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency mining has taken something of a backseat since Bitcoin crashed in early 2018. With the price steadily recovering, however, it is still practiced by a lot of people looking to essentially make a little money using nothing more than the power of their PC. It does, however, perhaps come…
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Fukushima Nuclear Plant is Using Ice Wall Defence
Fukushima Power Plant It has been nearly 8 years to the day since a giant Tsunami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant. The disaster represented one of the worst nuclear accidents since Chernobyl and ever since the incident, efforts are still underway to try and correct the damage…
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Three Simultaneous Nuke Launches in Fallout 76 Crashes Server
What Happens When You Detonate Three Nukes in Fallout 76? Several players found out exactly what would happen if you tried to detonate three nukes in Fallout 76. All at relatively the same time, in the same location. Six players found out almost immediately as soon as the bombs fell…
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Nuclear Fusion Reactor To Re-Create The Suns Power On Earth
Nuclear Reactor To Re-Create The Sun On Earth If one thing is certain for the continuation of human life on Earth, it’s that sooner or later we’re going to have to find better sources of electricity. The simple fact that is the more of us there are on this planet,…
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NASA Conduct Successful Tests On Space Nuclear Reactor
NASA Conduct Successful Space Nuclear Power Tests If we are going to start treating space as a serious and viable part of our scientific future, then solving the power problem is going to be a major factor. Like it or not, solar power, at least in its current form, is…
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Video Depicts Effects of Nuclear Bomb on Major City
A video depicts effects of a nuclear attack on a major city At present, I think it’s fairly safe to say that the Wests relations with Russia have not been so low since the 80’s. Fortunately, at that time a complete economic collapse of the Soviet Union stopped things getting…
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Cow Pats Could Be The Answer To The Energy Crisis
Cow Pats Might Solve the Energy Crisis When it comes to the power crisis, what we know for certain is that the sources we have are either not perfect or not going to last forever. One of the more notable solutions is, of course, nuclear power, but understandably not everyone…
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Scientists Arrested For Using Supercomputer To Mine Bitcoin
Scientists Mining Cryptocurrency We have all occasionally done things at work that was a little cheeky. A smidgen beyond the remit of acceptable behavior. In most instances this is limited to perhaps having an extra 10 minutes for your lunch. Maybe sneaking a cigarette break. One thing I doubt you…
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A Chinese Newspaper Issues Nuclear Attack Survival Tips
Chinese provincial Newspaper issues full-page advice sheet on how to survive a nuclear attack How to survive a nuclear attack? Be as far away from it as possible. That would be my advice if I was asked. A Chinese provincial newspaper has, however, issued a full-page spread, along with cartoons,…
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Robots Still Aren’t Able to Survive Fukushima Daiichi
It has been years since the Fukushima Daiichi plant was devastated by unfortunate events, that is no secret. It is no secret either that the clean up of the aftermath is going slow. Basically, none has happened yet. Tepco is the utility company tasked with overseeing the cleanup, but they’re…
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New US Defense Bill Could Spur New Space-based Arms Race
Incumbent US President Barack Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization act, a year-end policy defense bill that covers all aspects of the United States Military and the notable omission of one word has many concerned: “limited”. The provisions hint that the United States will seek defense technology that will…
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New Theory on Plasma Could Be Key to Fusion Power
Sustainable fusion power is a goal many scientists and governments are racing to achieve in order to meet increasing worldwide energy demands. Engineers from the UK claim that the first commercial fusion reactor is a possibility within five years, but there are still some fundamental problems that need to be…
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Forget Atomic Clocks – Nuclear Clocks Are The New King
It’s true that none of us really need extremely accurate clocks for our time-telling needs, but the accuracy of atomic and nuclear clocks is definitely appreciated in science. Back in 1949, the first atomic clock in the world was built, and the way it worked was by counting the vibrations of…
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Viruses Found Inside German Nuclear Plant
We’ve all had that scare when we’ve discovered a virus on our computer, either from a scan or a popup or unwanted behaviour on your computer. Now imagine if your computer had more than just your family pictures on or your bank details, imagine if it was within the same…
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