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Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste 344

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 22, 2010 @06:14PM from the but-where-will-we-get-our-superheroes dept.

separsons writes "A group of French scientists are developing a nuclear reactor that burns up actinides — highly radioactive uranium isotopes. They estimate that 'the volume of high-level nuclear waste produced by all of France’s 58 reactors over the past 40 years could fit in one Olympic-size swimming pool.' And they're not the only ones trying to eliminate atomic waste: Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin are working on a fusion-fission reactor. The reactor destroys waste by firing streams of neutrons at it, reducing atomic waste by up to 99 percent!"

Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus 205

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @02:40PM from the concealed-carry-in-australian-waters dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from an AP report: "Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal. The scientists filmed the veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, selecting halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under their bodies up to 65 feet (20 meters), and assembling two shells together to make a spherical hiding spot. ... 'I was gobsmacked,' said Finn, a research biologist at the museum who specializes in cephalopods. 'I mean, I've seen a lot of octopuses hiding in shells, but I've never seen one that grabs it up and jogs across the sea floor. I was trying hard not to laugh.'"

Comment My 650 Troubles (Score 2, Informative) 215

by cschieke on Sunday December 05, 2004 @11:25AM (#11001281) Attached to: More Problems for the Treo 650

I'm having a number of issues with my 650:

1. Memory issue like everyone else. I called Palm and requested the "free" 128Meg SD card but they can't even say that they'll be shipping it to me automagicaly.

2. Phone sucks. I'm having issues with the BT 250 like everyone else. When I called Jabra, they said it's is a BT 1.0 (on the headset) and BT 1.1 (on the phone) issue, but when I called PalmOne they said it's the individual headset and are shipping out another one.

3. Sync issues with my desktop. Calendar won't sync. Palm tech support said it was due to low memory (although only after I worked in a compliant about the memory issue, not through trouble shooting the problem to that conclusion). Memo/Tasks/Contacts sync just not calendar. (Yes, I tried the custom settings, and set them to sync calendar).

4. Phone application is slow to respond to input. I get delays of 2-4 seconds. just long enough for me to think the click didn't work, so I click again and fowl up the call I'm making.

5. No Voice dial.

6. The Multi-Connector for power slips out too easily.

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