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Russia Wants Nuclear-Powered Rocket To Go To Mars
2:59AM Jesus Diaz | The space race is on again: The Russians are planning a nuclear-powered spacecraft that will get them to Mars faster than Duck Dodgers in the 24-and-a-half century. Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov promises a design by 2012: More »
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The China Syndrome And Why We Wussed Out On Nuclear Power
9:00AM Adam Frucci | The China Syndrome was a movie about how dangerous nuclear power plants are that, fortunately for the producers, came out 12 days before the Three Mile Island disaster. You can thank it for why we’re still reliant on coal power. More »
Software
The One Place You Definitely Don’t Want To See a Windows Error Message
1:00AM John Mahoney | On the control screen of the nuclear power plant in the port of Bushehr, Iran. [UPI] More »
Random Stuff
Soviet Atomic Lighthouses Are Both Spooky and Deadly
10:51PM Jesus Diaz | Once upon a time, back when people in Russia used big moustaches and sent other people to Siberia, there were no GPS or tacky mobile phones. But they had atomic lighthouses to light the Artic shores. More »
Gadgets
Backyard Nuclear Reactors Now In Production, Cost $US25 Million Each
8:40AM Sean Fallon | I have to admit, I’m finally starting to believe that Hyperion Power’s plans to install nuclear reactors in the backyards of America’s neighbourhoods is actually going to happen. In fact, after learning that they have already begun construction on the first 4,000 units I have no doubt that they will make their 2013 deadline as well. If you were wondering how much these “affordable” reactors would cost, Hyperion has put a $US25 million price tag on each unit—which breaks down to about $US2500 per household on a 10,000 home grid and it can run for five years without maintenance. More »
Vehicles
Nuclear Powered Planes Will Not Assure the Destruction of Humankind
12:15PM Gizmodo US Edition | Aviation experts in the U.K. are arguing that the industry should push to convert their planes from using fossil fuel to using nuclear energy, an idea that’s sure to illicit a visceral “holy crap, god no!” reaction from the get go. But while it’s hard to separate the idea from the mental image of flying hydrogen bombs, there ARE actually a lot of good reasons to go nuclear in the sky. More »
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