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Develop a large non-metallic water tank that utilizes eddy currents to efficiently and rapidly heat water. This system will feature a conductive mesh made of non-rusting metal inside the tank, with an external coil generating eddy currents to provide faster heating than traditional methods...

More than 70 people are in hospital, and six have died, following the huge fire in west London. Link RemovedA-Level student helped Grenfell fire victims overnight - then came back after sitting exam Residents have been quick to point the finger at newly installed cladding on the outside of the...

If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot...BOTH...

TOKYO — Greenpeace called on Japan on Thursday to evacuate children and pregnant women from a town about 60 kilometres (40 miles) from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant because of high radiation. The environmental and anti-nuclear group said its own data from Fukushima town roughly matched...

The hot, new, must-have item in Japan is not the latest smartphone or computer pad, but a geiger counter - a device that measures radiation. After the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant this week confirmed meltdowns in three of the facility's reactors, geiger counters have sold out in...

With measurements of iodine 131 and the much worse cesium 134 isotopes detected at 7.5 and two million times past their “regulated levels” and contaminated water pouring into the Pacific Ocean, this was inevitable: the fish are contaminated too. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports that...

The soil samples should normally be 100 Bequrels. The Japanese governments safety standard is 500 Bequrels. If the soil is contaminated with 20000000 Bequrels of radio active isotopes this is 19999500 Above the government safety standard. If as NHK is reporting this is the number detected, the...