The Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, was manually shut down early Thursday morning due to a mechanical problem. Energy Northwest workers shut the plant ...

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example nuclear ...

Dr. Avi Perry is a former professor at Northwestern University, a former Bell Labs researcher and executive. He served as Vice President at NMS Communications. He represented the United States on the ...

China has ramped up its production of nuclear-powered submarines over the past five years to the point where it is launching subs faster than the United States, threatening to negate a sea-power ...

Community forests across Nepal produce large volumes of timber that remain unsold due to high government taxes, collection costs and competition from private and imported wood, leaving user groups ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has offered the United States and Iran several options for resolving the conflict over the republic's nuclear program. This was announced on February 19 ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

ON bombarding uranium with neutrons, Fermi and collaborators 1 found that at least four radioactive substances were produced, to two of which atomic numbers larger than 92 were ascribed. Further ...

It’s no longer a whisper; the NBA has a brazen and embarrassing tanking problem. The Utah Jazz closed the third quarter Monday, Feb. 9 against the Miami Heat up by three. They had been dominating ...

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