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Even if all nuclear power plants were shut down today, there’s a mountain of radioactive waste waiting to be disposed of. Yet only Finland has an approved solution for nuclear waste disposal, while projects in the US , UK , and Germany have failed for decades, and progress is also slow in other countries . With growing calls to extend the life of existing nuclear power stations and build new ones, that mountain of radioactive waste sitting in temporary , vulnerable , and expensive storage will keep growing. The challenge is daunting. “ High-level ” nuclear waste, which includes spent nuclear fuel, stays radioactive for hundreds of millennia , so a waste facility must keep it safely away from aquifers, violent weather, war, plane crashes, sea level rise, future ice sheets, volcanic activity, and even curious future humans for a time span that dwarfs all of previous human history. Ultimately, it’s the geology of a proposed disposal site that determines if … [Read more...] about Solving the rock-hard problem of nuclear waste disposal

The performance benefits of electric powertrains are now well understood. Thanks to near-instantaneous torque delivery and continuous advances in everything from software to motor design, cars like the Tesla Model S Plaid have rewritten the production car hierarchy when it comes to acceleration. Yet many traditionalists have been slow to come around on electric vehicles, complaining that the driving experience is too clinical and performance is too circumstantial. They say that EVs lack emotion. Well, the Rimac Nevera is about to change all of that. Rimac may not be a household name today, but over the past decade, the Croatian startup has been hard at work quietly establishing itself as a key player in high-performance EV development. What began in 2010 with a handful of employees in a converted warehouse has expanded into a 1,700-employee operation with a 200,000 m² campus in Kerestinec, Croatia. The site, which is currently under construction, will house the company's … [Read more...] about Rimac Nevera first drive: An entirely new level of hypercar performance

The Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper applauded its bosses on Tuesday for playing “an increasing important role” in helping the Taliban cement its stranglehold on Afghanistan through business ventures, particularly in pursuit of the country’s vast mineral wealth. The Taliban, a Sunni terrorist organization, seized control of the country a year ago on Monday as a result of leftist American President Joe Biden extending the 20-year Afghan war beyond the previous deadline of May 1, 2021. The group, which had previously agreed to negotiations with the U.S.-backed Afghan government, responded to Biden extending the war into September, and then walking back the deadline to August, by launching tens of thousands of attacks on the government and ultimately making it into Kabul. Then-President Ashraf Ghani, who insists he remains president of Afghanistan to this day, immediately fled the country upon the Taliban’s arrival in the capital. Taliban jihadists have struggled to … [Read more...] about China Boasts ‘Increasing Important Role’ in Propping up the Taliban

The Xbox One console did sell a lot less than its rival, the PS4 , with the PS4 selling more than twice as many Xbox One units, Microsoft has admitted in a court document submitted with Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), as per a report by Game Luster. Microsoft is undergoing investigation by the Brazilian government over its Activision Blizzard acquisition. “Sony has surpassed Microsoft in terms of console sales and installed base, having sold more than twice as many Xbox in the last generation,” admits Microsoft in the document, as roughly translated from Portuguese. , As per Microsoft, the console sales figures reportedly do not define the “key metric of success” the company likes to focus on but engagement does. Irrespective of the definition of success as believed by the company, the Xbox One console did underperform at the market when compared with the PS4, its chief rival. The tech giant has not revealed its console … [Read more...] about ps4: Microsoft admits Xbox One sold less than half of Sony PS4

The Google/China story has enough legs to qualify as a "centipede" at this point. After saying that it would no longer censor Chinese search results and that it was ready to pull out of China, Google also admitted to being the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack that went after more than 30 companies. The immediate aftermath of the announcement was a media feeding frenzy—and that was before the Chinese government's various departments even began reacting to the news. Now that they have, it's clear that Google and China are on a collision course, and that the US government is ready to get involved on Google's side. If you've had difficulty keeping up with the story, have no fear: here's a roundup of the news you need to know. Twists, turns, and U-turns An inside job? It's little more than an anonymously sourced rumor at this point, but Reuters says that insiders from Google's own Chinese office may have been involved in the cyberattack on the company. Chinese sources … [Read more...] about Google v. China: the Chinese government reacts