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Plant operator Tepco reveals meltdown and breach of pressure vessel, with Greenpeace warning against pumping water in. Greenpeace has urged Tepco to abandon plans to flood the container with water, given the likelihood that melted fuel had damaged it. Shaun Burnie, nuclear adviser to Greenpeace...

TO CALL it a hot ticket might, in the circumstances, seem a tad tasteless. But no session at this year’s International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, held in the south of France, was as well attended as the late-running special plenary hastily arranged to provide an update on...

Microsoft employees are often as passionate about their hobbies as they are with their work. Salvador Patuel is an ADM out of our UK office during the day, but he's a hobbiest commercial airline pilot at night. Salvador loves flying so much he decided to build an elaborate controller to make his...

Link Removed - Invalid URL University of Technology, Sydney scientists have reported remarkable results in developing a composite material based on graphite that is a thin as paper and ten times stronger than steel. Graphene paper (GP) is a material that can be processed, reshaped and...

Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser. Still, despite huge technological strides in the last decade or so, visual search has plenty...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the latest in Avian robotics – SmartBird. Launched at the world’s biggest industrial fair at the Hannover Messe in Germany, the robotic bird almost perfectly mimics the flight of a seagull. More Link Removed

High radiation to force extention of evacuation zone-media * Voter anger at nuclear crisis hits PM Kan's party * No end in sight to month-long nuclear crisis (Updates with evacuation zone latest, elections, quotes) By Chisa Fujioka and Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japan plans...

Link RemovedTOKYO (majirox news) – A gigantic concrete pump is heading towards Japan, the largest in the world, increasing speculating that Japan will soon attempt to entomb the Fukushima reactors. “We either wait a few hundred thousand years for the radiation to cool, or we wait a few weeks to...

Link Removed due to 404 Error 15:25 JST April 6: Workers stopped a highly radioactive leak into the Pacific off Japan's flooded nuclear complex Wednesday, but with the plant far from stabilized, engineers prepared an injection of nitrogen to deter any new hydrogen explosions. Nitrogen...

wo gigantic concrete pumps — described as the largest such equipment in the world — will soon be on their way to join the machinery being used to pour water on damaged reactors in Japan’s nuclear crisis, company officials said Thursday. Link Removed The two machines are normally used to...

A NASA team has tested a space suit in a setting with extreme conditions akin to some of those found on Mars -- an Argentine base in Antarctica -- for possible use on a visit to the Red Planet. The NDX-1 space suit, designed by Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon, endured frigid...

Efforts to restore power to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan were stalled by smoke billowing from reactors yesterday. A cable that could allow cooling systems to be restored was attached to reactor No.2 – one of six at the tsunami-hit facility. But engineers had to...

Link Removedon Monday, March 14, 2011 at 9PM PST (UTC-8). Our fearless dev leader Duncan mentioned to me over lunch today that he thought it would be a really good idea to provide a single post on 9 with links to good C9 content related to IE9 (we tend to go out early on 9 and some of our best...

A make-shift cover -- the 'Sarcophagus' -- was built in six months after the explosion. It covers the stricken reactor to protect the environment from radiation for at least 30 years. This has now developed cracks, triggering an international effort to fund a new encasement. * Ukraine is seeking...

Microsoft’s tablet ambitions may reach fruition a lot earlier than previously expected, according to the latest leaks from the company, with Windows 8 based slates running frugal ARM chipsets tipped for as early as the end of this year. Business Insider ‘s sources claim Microsoft has set around...

In this episode, the Silverlight 5 Triad joins John on Silverlight TV to discuss their Silverlight 5 roles, some ways they receive feedback from customers, how they interact with each other, and to talk about some of their favorite features in the next release. Sam George (Development Manager)...

When you think about all the code executing in the world at any given time, there's a good chance you're thinking about a lot of code written in C/C++ (aka native code). As Mohsen Agsen mentions so astutely in this impromptu and candid conversation, C++ can be thought of as the dark matter of...

Hey all, I've just finished building my new computer, using my old hardrive running windows vista. As an Engineering student, my University gave me a free copy of windows 7 which I had downloaded. I have burned the .iso to a disk. On insertion of the disk it automatically boots vista, If I...

It's not often that we can get two minds of Link Removed and Herb Sutter's caliber together for an impromptu technical conversation during Christmas break at Microsoft... Well, we did and the next hour or so contains a lot of intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, and passion. This is one of the more...

Link Removed Link Removed ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2011) — Glass stronger and tougher than steel? A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with the...