Teller has no regrets over bomb
Teller played important roles in the development of the atomic and hydrogen bomb. In 1939 he chauffeured another Hungarian physicist, Leó Szilárd, to a meeting with Albert Einstein. Szil...
India tests nuclear bombs
The British Gelogological Survey registered Monday’s hydrogen explosion at 4.7 on the Richter scale – similar to a light earthquake. But the failure of seismograph stations to register tod...
US Energy Secretary resigns
During his term in office Peña has promoted management reforms across the department and increased transparency at the national labs. Peña’s involvement in promoting awareness of the g...
NuPECC recommends future for nuclear physics
In the report NuPECC suggests that national funding agencies should become more involved during the planning stage of these new facilities because future facilities and detectors will be significantly...
Nuclear waste dump could be unstable
The new findings is reported by Brian Wernicke and colleagues from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the current issue of Science ...
China plans massive nuclear programme
China is one of the fastest growing nuclear energy markets in the world. Only one per cent of China’s energy needs presently comes from nuclear power and over the next fifteen years China will s...
War of words over waste
The broken promise has led to disagreements between the government and the utilities companies that operate nuclear power plants. Underlying the conflict is the fact that the DOE has charged electrici...
Nuclear firms prepare for merger
The merger between Magnox Electric and British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) should be complete within a year, creating a new group with a combined turnover of £1.8 bn and almost 18 000 staff, inc...
Critical issues at the original nuclear lab
First published November 1997 in Physics World As the sixth director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, John Browne faces broad challenges at a critical time in the laboratory’s history. Aft...
France opens new research facility – and closes two
France's newest nuclear physics facility - the SPIRAL facility for radioactive nuclear beams in Caen - has accelerated its first beams
