Published on: 2025-06-09 16:06:37
On the desolate steppe of eastern Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union carried out 456 nuclear explosive tests during the Cold War at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, which sprawls over an area approximately the size of Belgium. Of these, the Soviet Union performed 116 tests in the atmosphere, and 340 underground. While some of the nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk involved atomic explosions, other experiments were designed to study the impact of conventional explosives on plutonium and highly enriched uranium
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Pacemakers are used to stimulate a regular heartbeat when the body's natural electrical pacing system is irregular or not transmitting properly. Over the years, various power sources have been used for pacemakers, including thermoelectric batteries containing 2 to 4 curies of plutonium-238 (88 year half-life). As the term "thermoelectric" implies, the heat from the decaying plutonium is used to generate the electricity that stimulates the heart. At present (2003), there are between 50 and 100 p
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May marks the occasion known as Ani-May, a time when anime fans collectively binge on their favorite titles, stock up on collectibles and celebrate the genre. In that vein, free streaming service Pluto TV is rolling out a bunch of new live anime channels for your enjoyment, and you can watch over 800 hours of TV series and movies like Hunter x Hunter, Naruto and Inuyasha. The beefed-up film library will have 120 titles that include Bleach: Hellverse and Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead. Fans ca
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Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on Earth. Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the Sun for the electricity needed to run their communications systems and science instruments. However, the farther into space you go, the weaker the Sun’s light becomes and the less useful it is for powering systems with solar panels. Even in the inner solar system, spacecraft such as lunar or Mars rovers need alt
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Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size. One of the mysteries in our solar system is why our moon is so large compared to our planet. At 3,476 kilometres in diameter, our moon is about one quarter the width of the Earth. Most of the other moons in our solar system are a tiny fraction the size of their parent planets. Most of the these relati
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bcvi - run vi over a 'back-channel' If you use SSH, you might find bcvi useful. This article attempts to describe what it is and why you might use it. Let's start with what it is: bcvi is a command-line tool that works with SSH to provide a 'back-channel' from the server you have connected to, back to your workstation. You typically use SSH because you want to send commands from your workstation to a server, but bcvi works in the opposite direction - allowing you to send commands from the ser
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