http://www.nuclearblog.org Tue, 06 May 2008 17:56:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's an article that may be of the members' interest. Chemical and Engineering News published a cover story about the latest development in Yucca Mountain repository for nuclear waste. It has a comprehensive review for the history and experts' opinions on this issue, but not much new information. For the ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/05/06/nuclear-waste-treatment-new-element-discovery-in-the-news/ I haven't had time to look at it closely, but a paper showed up on the physics arXiv claiming possible discovery of element 122. They were analyzing thorium-containing solutions in an inductively-coupled plasma sector field mass spec (ICP-SFMS) and saw a peak they could not explain at mass 292. ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/04/29/a-new-stable-superheavy-element/ Does anyone remember the E. Coli breakout back in 2006? I do. There has never been a quicker way to convince a 19-year-old to eat vegetables until you take lettuce out of their sandwiches for a couple of months. According to the LA Times report[1], these greens are washed in potent ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/04/22/irradiation-to-enhance-food-safety/ Mitch Garcia, member of DNCT and our fellow blogger, will be featured on American Latino TV this weekend. He'll be talking about the field of nuclear chemistry and how he got there. In addition, he'll be discussing the popular chemical education tools that he has created (ex. www.chemicalforum.com). Tune in ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/04/17/nuclear-chemist-and-fellow-blogger-featured-in-tv-interview/ Yesterday the blog was supposed to be debuted at the NUCL business meeting here at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Unfortunately, there was no projector available to do the demo with (although it was mentioned that we paid for it), so Noel and I did the best ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/04/08/blog-unveiled/ With the 235th ACS National Meeting kicking off in just under a week, you may want to start mapping out what events you plan on attending. The entire technical program for the spring 2008 meeting is available here. However, here's some info on sessions you really should attend: 1.) Monday, ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/04/01/acs-national-meeting/ Add yet another way for the government to track you to the list. A University of Utah team led by geochemist Thure E. Cerling and ecologist James R. Ehleringer have shown that the Hydrogen and Oxygen isotopes in human hair correlate with those isotope ratios ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/03/07/geochemists-makes-use-of-isotopesfor-forensics/ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the only international organization established to regulate and monitor nuclear installation. With 144 member states and the active threat of terrorism, the IAEA suffers from a significant increase in workload with insufficient funding. In 2002, the Nuclear Security Fund was created in the wake ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/02/28/nuclear-security-needs-more-awareness/ In recent years, time traveling has been not only a scenario in science fictions and Hollywood blockbusters, but also a scientific possibility due to the rapid developments of quantum theory. Tidbits on the possibility of achieving time traveling has sprouted up in news in the past couple of weeks. The soon ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/02/19/time-machine-possible-in-new-particle-accelerator/ Earlier this month, the American Physics Society updated their Online Archive to include all the Physical Review articles as far back as 1893. While we celebrate for the time saved from making photocopies of old, dusty volumes in the back room of the library, this new addition is also good ... http://www.nuclearblog.org/2008/02/07/physical-review-archives-now-go-back-to-1893/