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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

New Kind of Uranium Could Power Your Car Nuclear power may go portable with this new form of uranium.

Study: New uranium compound holds nuclear, petroleum breakthroughs
A form of uranium discovered by scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory may be utilized as a safer and less expensive nuclear fuel. The new molecule also draws a greater amount of energy from fossil fuels. "Actinide nitrides are candidate nuclear fuels of the future. But they can also break carbon-hydrogen bonds, which are very strong," said Jaqueline Kiplinger, one of the scientists involved in the study. Discover
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