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10 Facts about Nuclear Energy 1. Nuclear energy comes from uranium, a nonrenewable resource that must be mined. 2. Every 18 to 24 months, a power plant must shut down to remove its spent uranium fuel, which becomes radioactive waste. 3. In 1905, Einstein discovered that mass could be changed into energy and vice versa. In 1918, Sir Ernest Rutherford showed that atoms could be split. By 1942, the world had its first nuclear reactor. 4. Today, 104 nuclear plants supply about 2 0% of the United State’s electricity. The oldest plants have been operating since before 1979. 5. Contaminated food was still sold in the Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident. One worker described the conditions after the accident: “Contaminated meat would come from the factory. The internal organs of the cattle would be black and rotten, but still, the meat was sold." 6. Currently, nuclear waste in the United States is stored in cooling pools of water and in dry storage casks at nu...

Petrol and Diesel vehicles up more than 98% of the cars in The UK, with the 2% being electric cars. As electric cars are getting more efficient and the becoming cheaper, the market place has been steadily increasing. The UK government seems to support this change by banning petrol or diesel based cars by 2040. This not only encourages new potential car buyers to buy an electric car, it also encourages manufacturers to put more focus into producing more cheaper and better electric cars. Why the Change? The UK government is in an effort to control air pollution. Petrol or Diesel based cars produce a lot of toxins and harmful gases as exhaust. With the increase in  car  sales, the atmospheric pollution is only bound to get worse over time. What are these harmful gases released into the air by petrol and diesel cars? Conventional cars exhaust various types of gases such as, Nitrogen oxides Carbon monoxide Sulfur dioxide etc. These gases are extremely hazardous, a...

It all started when Gordon Moore, the co-founder of  Intel ,   made an observation. The observation being, the density of  transistors  in an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. Although more of a statement,  Moore's  Law has held up its stance for almost half a century. But not for long -- or so it seems. With technology advancing at an exponential rate we seem to be approaching an invisible wall. In other words, we seem to be approaching the limits of our technology. The number of transistors in a circuit is directly proportional to the size of the transistor. Meaning the smaller the transistor, the higher the number of transistors that can be put into a circuit dice. Why is it slowing down? To put this exponential growth into perspective, in 2000 the density of transistors in an integrated circuit used for an average computer was  37.5 million.  In 2009 the number of transistors grew to  904 mi...