Updated around 8:50 p.m.: It has been confirmed that the Y-12 emergency response operation has ended, according to Communications Manager Taz Painter…
Fire ‘involving Uranium’ Breaks Out at Tennessee National Security Complex…
A fire ‘involving uranium’ broke out at a National Security Complex in Tennessee with all staff being evacuated from the site…
A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged…
Medium.com (via reader WiscoDave). Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand Covid-19. Summit is the second-fastest computer in the world, but the process — which involved analyzing 2.5 billion genetic combinations — still took more than […]
A 12,000 Page Application + $45M + 3 Year Review Might Secure Small Modular Nuclear Plant…
Federal regulators required the energy company Nuscale Power to file a 12,000-page application to build an advanced nuclear reactor. NuScale wants to build the first U.S. small modular reactor in Utah, but producing the 12,000-page document will cost the company tens of millions of dollars, including paying Nuclear Regulatory (NRC) commission officials $258 per hour […]