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Behind the scenes at MIT's <endeca_term>nuclear</endeca_term> reactor

Behind the scenes at MIT's nuclear reactor

...The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been operating the Nuclear Research Reactor on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1958. Its stream... Read more

16 February, 2011 by Martin LaMonica
What is inside a <endeca_term>nuclear</endeca_term> power plant

What is inside a nuclear power plant

...Seabrook Station was designed to store 20 years' worth of spent nuclear fuel on site. Every 18 months, spent fuel assemblies are rotated out... Read more

9 October, 2010 by Martin LaMonica
Scary tech to put a tingle down your spine

Scary tech to put a tingle down your spine

...February, 1958, a B-47 bomber equipped with a Mark 15 (Mk15) nuclear bomb — minus nuclear capsule — struck an F-86 fighter in a mid... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

Iran admits Stuxnet hurt nuclear programme

...Ahmadinejad, has acknowledged that the Stuxnet worm impacted on his country's nuclear programme. According to a report in The New York Times, Ahmadinejad said... Read more

30 November, 2010 by Larry Dignan

Expert: Stuxnet's primary target was Iran

...Stuxnet's main target was the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in Iran, an expert who has analysed the code said... Read more

15 February, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Iran confirms Stuxnet attack on nuclear site

...The Iranian Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Executive confirmed on Sunday that its nuclear reactor project had... Read more

26 September, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Symantec warns of Stuxnet-style Duqu Trojan

...acquisition) software and appeared to have been written to sabotage Iran's nuclear programme, the new malware installs a back door and is designed to... Read more

19 October, 2011 by Elinor Mills
Nasa completes tests on Mars Curiosity rover

Nasa completes tests on Mars Curiosity rover

...is put that whole device up into the cruise stage."MSL's nuclear power pack, a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, will be installed late in the... Read more

16 August, 2011 by William Harwood

Packet switching inventor Paul Baran dies aged 84

...to be efficiently transmitted across a network in the event of a nuclear attack. Baran's design has no centralised switching facility, meaning that communications... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Cern gets ready to hunt for antimatter in space

A spectrometer module that will look for dark matter and antimatter in space is set to leave Cern for lift-off at the Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday Read more

20 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Nuclear safety employee lost 'stress test' USB

...the Health and Safety Executive lost an unencrypted USB data stick containing nuclear 'stress test' data, the watchdog has admitted. The Office for Nuclear Regulation... Read more

17 February, 2012

Here's where you can stick your nuclear secrets

When it comes to nuclear power plant security, the mainstream media has perhaps understandably been highly focussed... Read more

21 October, 2010

Stuxnet targeted Iran nuclear power plant, says expert

...that the Stuxnet computer worm may have been created to sabotage a nuclear power plant in Iran. The worm, which targets computers running Siemens software... Read more

22 September, 2010 by Elinor Mills

MoD accidentally discloses nuclear sub secrets

...reports on Sunday. The Ministry of Defence accidentally published sensitive information on nuclear submarines. Photo credit: Chris Guy/Flickr Sensitive information was published by the... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

112-second nuclear spin memory: is spintronics going mainstream

...magnetic laboratory environment?" Boehme said. The magnet is used to align the nuclear spins. Previous research has shown electron spins can be lined up this... Read more

20 December, 2010

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

7 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

8 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

12 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

15 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

15 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

18 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

19 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

20 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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