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China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

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China is in the middle of a big buildup of its nuclear-weapon arsenal,” says Frank von Hippel , a physicist and nuclear-policy expert at Princeton University. “My My belief is that one of the purposes of these reactors is to produce weapons-grade plutonium for that buildup.”.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. But he found no takers.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element). For example, engineers at Ferranti , in the United Kingdom, developed magnetic - amplifier circuits for their computers. volt power supply.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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Amberjac Systems www.amberjacprojects.com United Kingdom-based company has provided conversions in Europe. Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles.

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