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The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) is part of an ambitious mission to explore the three planet-sized Jovian moons Callisto, Ganymede and Europa. Designing the spacecraft poses a significant engineering challenge given the long distances involved. Controversially, the probe is to be powered by a nuclear propulsion system. Callisto, Ganymede and Europa are thought to harbour oceans of probable water beneath an icy crust. Jimo would be the...
2004-09-21
Moon power extraterrestrial life nuclear Jupiter probe Callisto Ganymede EuropaIran offered to stop attacking British troops in Iraq to try to get the West to drop objections to Tehran's uranium enrichment project, a UK official says. The disclosure by UN ambassador Sir John Sawers in a BBC documentary throws new light on backroom discussions between Iran and the West.
2009-02-20
Iraq Iran nuclear favourNorth Korea has threatened to carry out nuclear missile tests unless the UN Security Council apologises for its condemnation of a recent rocket launch.
2009-04-29
North Korea nuclearReport that North Korea was considering launching a missile towards Hawaii.
2009-06-18
North Korea nuclear Hawaii USA attackE. Coli does more than just make people sick — it can also be used to clean up nuclear waste, according to researchers at Birmingham University. The research team found that E. Coli bacteria effectively breaks down phytic acid (a phosphate storage material found in seeds) and releases the phosphate molecules, which bind to uranium to create a uranium phosphate precipitate. The precipitate can be harvested to recover uranium, and voila – no...
2009-09-22
nuclear waste bacteriaThere's only one country that has ever used nuclear weapons. There's only one country that has used nuclear weapons on civilian population centers. There's only one country that has ever threatened to use nuclear weapons on non-nuclear countries. There's only one country that has over 10,000 nuclear weapons many of which are on hair-trigger alert for enemies real or imagined. There's only one country that has...
2006-02-02
nuclear weapon USA arroganceThe director general of the United Nations nuclear watchdog declared in unusually blunt language on Thursday that Iran had stonewalled investigators about evidence that the country had worked on nuclear weapons design, and that his efforts to reveal the truth had “effectively reached a dead end.”
2009-11-26
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