blog!

Class is over, but whatever

I found a nice tumblr with lots of atomic goodies.

-Cat

Could the Middle East Become a Nuclear-Free Zone?

"Israel's nuclear arsenal stands like the radioactive elephant in the room."

madeline snively

NKorea claims to achieve elusive nuclear fusion

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j8BHi4EzLfTCTaNJn6JSAueuOKZwD9FL3VKO0

they must be out of their mind.

Quantum wonders: The Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-tester

madeline snively

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

Elusive tetraquark

Elusive Tetraquark Spotted in Data Forest

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

Madeline

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

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