Russia Ready to Tender for Malaysia's First Nuclear Power Plant
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2015 -
Russia is ready to enter a bid for construction of the first nuclear power plant in Malaysia, if it is announced, Russia's nuclear corporation Rosatom Deputy Director Kirill Komarov said Monday.
Komarov said that Russia is ready to participate in the tender despite the fact that Moscow and Kuala Lumpur do not yet have a nuclear energy agreement.
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Researchers use plant oils for novel bio-based plastics
Pullman WA (SPX) Apr 17, 2015 -
Washington State University researchers have developed a new way to use plant oils like olive and linseed oil to create polyurethane, a plastic material used in everything from foam insulation panels to tires, hoses and sealants.
The researchers, led by Michael Kessler, Berry Family director and professor in WSU's School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, have published a paper on th ...
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Researchers design first all-photonic repeaters
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Apr 17, 2015 -
Imagine having your MRI results sent directly to your phone, with no concern over the security of your private health data. Or knowing your financial information was safe on a server halfway around the world. Or sending highly sensitive business correspondence, without worrying that it would fall into the wrong hands.
Thanks to new research from engineers at the University of Toronto, thes ...
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Combined effort for structural determination
Chester, UK (SPX) Apr 17, 2015 -
Combining powder diffraction data with electron crystallography can give us a clearer view of modulated structures. Electron crystallography has begun to be used routinely for solving otherwise intractable structures. When performed in an aberration-corrected microscope and combined with spectroscopic techniques, it can offer unprecedented detail down to sub-angstrom resolution.
"The resul ...
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Russia, Japan to Continue Developing Joint Nuclear Energy Projects
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2015 -
Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom will continue developing joint projects with Japan in the field of peaceful nuclear energy, Deputy Director Kirill Komarov said Monday.
"First of all it is the project of enrichment of Japanese reprocessed uranium at Rosatom facilities," Komarov said at the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, adding that he hoped this project would be implemented in a few yea ...
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Bury nuclear waste down a very deep hole, say UK scientists
Sheffield, UK (SPX) Apr 17, 2015 -
Scientists at the University of Sheffield calculate that all of the UK's high level nuclear waste from spent fuel reprocessing could be disposed of in just six boreholes 5km deep, fitting within a site no larger than a football pitch.
The concept - called deep borehole disposal - has been developed primarily in the UK but is likely to see its first field trials in the USA next year. If the ...
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New DNA dataset is potent, accessible tool
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Apr 16, 2015 -
Scientists focused on producing biofuels more efficiently have a new powerful dataset to help them study the DNA of microbes that fuel bioconversion and other processes.
In a paper published in Nature Scientific Data, researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, North Carolina State University and LanzaTech describe methods and results for sequencing the Clost ...
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