General Technology
A catch-all term for all forms of technology not included in other categories.
Mar 29, 2011
"Fukushima meltdown fears rise after radioactive core melts through vessel -- but 'no danger of Chernobyl-style catastrophe'"
Mar 29, 2011
"Government says levels are not harmful to human health as anxiety grows over leaks at stricken nuclear power plant"
Mar 28, 2011
"Safety officers plan for every known contingency, but no one can predict everything that might go wrong."
Mar 27, 2011
"For decades, Japanese officialdom and even parts of its engineering establishment clung to older scientific precepts for protecting nuclear plants."
Mar 27, 2011
"Yukiya Amano said authorities were still unsure about whether the nuclear cores and spent fuel were covered with the water needed to cool them."
Mar 26, 2011
"The first analysis of nuclear fission products in the atmosphere over Seattle provides a unique insight into the nature of the disaster."
Mar 26, 2011
"[T]he southwestern half of Japan, which largely survived the earthquake and tsunami unscathed, cannot help the northeastern half of the nation, which took the brunt of the damage, because the two sections of the country operate on two separate power grids that are incompatible."
Mar 26, 2011
"Physicists change the electrical conductivity of silicon atoms by moving a single chemical bond"
Mar 25, 2011
"China is building two nuclear reactors with a radically different design that is meant to decrease the chances of a meltdown."
Mar 22, 2011
"As the Japanese are learning, the science behind herding thousands, sometimes millions, of people from danger to safety is uncertain at best."
