Class blog for "The Unstable Nucleus" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Sunday, May 16, 2010

blog!

Class is over, but whatever

I found a nice tumblr with lots of atomic goodies.

-Cat

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010

Finland’s 100,000-Year Plan to Banish Its Nuclear Waste

New York TImes
An article about the documentary "Into Eternity" directed by Michael Madsen. It explores a lot of the issues with nuclear waste that we discussed in this class, for instance, how to store our nuclear waste and how to warn future generations about the repositories. The film explores these issues specifically regarding Finland's nuclear repository, Onkalo.
Very interesting article!

--Grace Claiborn

Friday, May 7, 2010

Elusive tetraquark

Elusive Tetraquark Spotted in Data Forest

(I'm not sure what a lot of this means, but it's still cool!)


Madeline

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Nuclear Free Middle East?

We were just talking about this in class yesterday!  Remember that article Madeline posted about Egypt proposing a plan for a nuclear-free Middle East at this month's NPT conference?  It sounds like the US is on board, along with Russia, Britain, France, and China.

And to answer the obvious question, yes, this would require Israel to admit their nukes and give them up.  Remember that since Israel isn't a signatory to the NPT, they are not involved in this particular set of discussions.  That means they may simply reject this whole idea.

More from the New York Times. 

Radiation death in India raises nuclear safety concerns.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6431TO20100504

kang

Monday, May 3, 2010

5,113

That's the number of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal.  Disclosed to the public for the first time (ever, as far as I know!).  Obama hopes that this transparency will help build confidence in the U.S. disarmament agenda.

Oh, and, the largest arsenal we've had:  31,225 nuclear warheads in 1967.

For more:  Reuters update on the NPT discussions