Published on: 2025-06-01 10:16:18
In 1980s, veterans of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program got together and recorded nearly 13 hours of presentations and interviews describing the amazing effort to make a nuclear-powered airplane. The content is mostly focused on the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiments (HTREs) which can still be seen sitting out in the parking lot of the EBR-I museum in Idaho. Dr. Jake Hecla, Stanton Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, digitized this material with the help of John Webb. The people who saved this fil
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The device’s design, published today in Joule, is related to the technology behind one of Chiang’s companies, Form Energy, which is building iron-air batteries for large energy storage installations like those that could help store wind and solar power on the grid. Form’s batteries rely on water, iron, and air. One technical challenge for metal-air batteries has historically been reversibility. A battery’s chemical reactions must be easily reversed so that in one direction they generate electri
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This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. So we’re going to be professionally silly this week and talk about the logistics of vehicle warfare in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting, in part because this is a good way to also think about why militaries (of various description) use the vehicles they use, from a logistics standpoint. Our pop-culture starting point
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Across the American West, a massive glowing streak appeared in the skies last weekend — and an experimental rocket fuel seems to have been its source. As Live Science reports, the spectacular light show was almost certainly the result of spent fuel from ZhuQue-2E, a rocket from the Chinese startup Landspace that used a methane-based fuel known "methalox" as its upper stage burned. Launched on May 17, the rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. On the other
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NASA's Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid — worth, according to some estimates, more than the Earth's entire world economy — has hit a snag. On Tuesday, the space agency announced that engineers were investigating a sudden drop in fuel pressure in the Psyche spacecraft's electric propulsion system, which caused the thrusters to automatically shut off. While the mission team could send the command to fire the engines back up, it's chosen to defer thrusting while engineers try to troub
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system. NASA published an update Tuesday revealing that the robotic spacecraft shut off its plasma thrusters earlier this month. The news wasn't widely shared until Wednesday, when NASA science chief Nicky Fox posted it on X. "Engineers with NASA’s Psyche mission are working to determine what caused a recent
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system. NASA published an update Tuesday revealing that the robotic spacecraft shut off its plasma thrusters earlier this month. The news wasn't widely shared until Wednesday, when NASA science chief Nicky Fox posted it on X. "Engineers with NASA’s Psyche mission are working to determine what caused a recent
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Since the arrival of nuclear power in the 1950s, more than 400 reactors in 31 countries have produced about 430,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, and until now no one has developed a permanent solution for disposing of it. The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that about 30 percent of this fuel has been reprocessed—elements in spent fuel can be recycled to create new fuel for nuclear plants—but the rest has been “parked” in temporary storage systems, with its final destination ye
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Months after satellites picked up a massive nuclear fusion facility in China's Sichuan province, the country's nuclear industry has blown the lid off fission tech. During a private meeting earlier this month, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful operation of a thorium-powered nuclear reactor located in the Gobi Desert. The team had achieved "full-power operation" last June, according to South China Morning Post, and recently succeeded in reloading the reactor w
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Fusion startups have a tough row to hoe. Their mission? To create a new kind of power plant that produces more energy than it consumes — something no one has ever done with fusion energy before. That means proving their technology works, showing it can be scaled up, and convincing investors it can all be done profitably. That’s already a tall order. But there’s another big challenge that gets far less attention: where to get the fuel. Most fusion startups will say that they’ll be producing thei
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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those frustrating slowdowns and speedups that usually have no clear cause but lead to congestion and significant energy waste. To train efficient flow-smoothing c
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Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently released footage of a new experiment that simulates what happens to a nuclear fuel pin when it starts to overheat. The new series of tests will ultimately help researchers better understand the safety limits of nuclear fuel. INL conducted the experiments at its Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) using a first-of-a-kind device that can detect and study the critical heat flux of a nuclear fuel rod. Critical heat flux is the physical phenomenon that oc
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A facility designed to store and recover a fuel used for nuclear fusion is set to be built. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Italian energy company Eni have partnered to construct the facility - thought to be the world's largest - at the Culham science campus in Oxfordshire. Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen which is heated and forced together to make a heavier particle during nuclear fusion. The new tritium fuel cycle facility, which will recover and re-use the part
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The US Environmental Protection Agency is throwing out fuel economy regulations that were planned to go into effect from 2026 through 2032. The new regulations would have required automakers to sell many more electric vehicles than they currently do, although due to lobbying, the previous administration softened the rules to allow for more plug-in hybrid EVs alongside battery EVs. This was widely expected to happen; the first Trump administration was tireless in its attempts to roll back vehicl
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The group’s device produces ethylene and ethane, proving that artificial leaves can create hydrocarbons. The development could offer a cheaper, cleaner way to make fuels, chemicals, and plastics. For research lead Virgil Andrei at the University of Cambridge, the ultimate goal is to use this technology to create fuels that don’t leave a harmful carbon footprint after they’re burned. If the process uses carbon dioxide captured from the air or power plants, the resulting fuels could be carbon neu
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The Viking Energy, an oil platform supply shipundergoing a pioneering retrofit to run on ammonia fuel, is now scheduled to begin operations in 2026—two years later than initially planned. Once completed, it will be the first vessel capable of operating full-time on ammonia, marking a major milestone in efforts to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions in the maritime industry. IEEE Spectrum previously reported on ammonia as a potential replacement for petroleum fuels in the shipping industry i
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A man has been arrested by UK police for suspected manslaughter after the likely death of one person following the collision of two ships in the North Sea, according to Sky News. A container ship hit a stationary tanker that was carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military on Monday off the eastern coast of England. Humberside Police in the UK released a statement to Sky News explaining they had arrested a 59-year-old man “on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter in connection with the collisio
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Two sharply different visions of AI were platformed on stage at the Mobile World Congress trade show on Monday. The true believer’s case for the technology’s potential — to merge with and transform human life for the better — was offered up by futurist and singularity priest Ray Kurzweil, who also has a research role at Google. Beaming in via videoconference in a white shirt paired with vividly painted braces, Kurzweil suggested AI will supercharge humanity — bringing, if not quite immortality
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Follow the 10-inch pipeline that stretches south from Minneapolis–St Paul International Airport, and after 13 miles, you'll find yourself at a potentially major future hub for sustainable aviation fuel in the Upper Midwest. In a deal announced in September, the Koch Industries-owned Pine Bend Refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota would receive sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)—fuel made using non-petroleum feedstocks, like renewable materials or waste—blend it into its conventional jet fuel, and send
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