Biden okays program to annually build 80 plutonium âpitâ H-bomb triggers
Lucky once, we can t count on luck again.
Itâs hard to believe Iâm writing this, but the Biden administration, while unwinding or reversing a good many rules, regulations and programs of the Trump administration, is forging ahead with one particularly outrageous one: the ramping up of production of so-called plutonium âpits.â These cores of the man-made radioactive element plutonium, each weighing a few pounds, serve as small atomic bombs on their own of the size used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and are also the fission triggers needed to ignite vastly more powerful hydrogen-based fusion-bomb weapons.
By Dave LINDORFF It’s hard to believe I’m writing this, but the Biden administration, while unwinding or reversing a good many rules, regulations and programs…
Nikon Announces Judging Panel For The 47th Annual Nikon Small World Competition
Five expert judges will evaluate entries from around the world to select this year s winning microscopy images and movies.
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MELVILLE, N.Y., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Nikon Instruments Inc. today announced the judging panel for the 2021 annual Nikon Small World photomicrography and Small World in Motion video competitions.
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Nsikan Akpan, Ph.D., Health and Science Editor at
New York Public Radio, Hank Green, Best-Selling Author, YouTube Creator, and Science Communicator, Robin Kazmier, Science Editor at
PBS NOVA, Alexa Mattheyses, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and Hesper Rego, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis at the Yale School of Medicine will review and select the 2021 winning images and videos.