As if to say, “Hi, the LHC is up and proton beams are zipping about the accelerator, smashing into one another. And, by the way, I’m using a Macbook Pro.” I have a feeling you won’t find black holes, or Windows 7 at the LHC. Hells yeah! [Read the article.] [Source]

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I’ve blogged about how cool the FRIB is going to be, now let Alpinekat break it down:

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I’ve had this website for over a decade, and I haven’t kept it up very well. My original motivation was to provide a public forum for facts on the science behind radiation and the nuclear industry. I was living in New Mexico, and the WIPP transuranic waste facility was built, but shipments were stalled because [...]

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There’s been a lot written lately about how nuclear is an important piece of the energy pie, of late. It has been shown conclusively to provide power safely and in a cleaner fashion than most other traditional sources, especially coal and other fossil fuels. The public has a bad impression of nuclear power, and not [...]

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Michigan State University has been selected as the site for the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). Building on the successful National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), this will continue to make Michigan State a premier facility for accelerator and nuclear physics for many years. Building the $550M facility is expected to bring $1 billion [...]

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As the United States, we need to get on the ball, and start moving with nuclear power or the industry will move on without us. Antinuclear and environmental groups have so distorted the dangers of nuclear power plants over the past thirty years, that it is difficult to compete and major contracts in developing nations [...]

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This is for all of my readers who might be having a bad day. It could be worse. Even if your guy doesn’t win the election, or if you your stocks are in the toilet… It could always be a lot worse. Just keep that in mind the next time you get frustrated at the [...]

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Given all the hype surrounding climate change worries, rising gas prices and improved technology, 3 out of 4 Americans now support building new nuclear power plants and continue to develop Yucca Mountain for long-term nuclear waste storage. Instead of nuclear power being relegated to the back burner because we have cheap and plentiful oil, we [...]

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Last Wednesday (July 16, 2008) was the 63rd anniversary of the first atomic test, at White Sands, New Mexico. The nuclear genie was loosed from the bottle, and continues to proliferate up to the present day. We will never again live in a world without nuclear physics, and all the good and bad that knowledge [...]

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This weekend, in the news, a few science articles: 1. Potential Earth-like Wet World found. Two planets were found to be orbiting Red Dwarf, Gliese 581, and one is estimated to be a rocky world about 5 times as massive as Earth, orbiting in the “habitable zone”. This means the terrestrial world could have liquid [...]

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