SciFri Radio: Nuclear, Quantum and Particle Physics

SciFri Radio: About a Mountain
Ira talks with author John D'Agata about his book about the late Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility.

SciFri Radio: Nuclear Technologies
From small-scale nuclear power plants to advanced reactor designs, what's next for the technology of nuclear power?

SciFri Radio: Adjusting the Doomsday Clock
Thursday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists adjusted the minute hand of its Doomsday Clock, a measure of the world's vulnerability to...

SciFri Radio: LHC Returns To Service
CERN's Large Hadron Collider has been restarted following a long repair period. This week, the particle collider passed Fermilab's Tevatron in beam...

SciFri Radio: 'The Strangest Man,' Paul Dirac
Ira talks with Graham Farmello, author of a new biography of physicist Paul Dirac.

SciFri Radio: Summer Science Movies
We'll talk about the art and science of several films out this summer, from documentaries chronicling an astronomy project, to a mass-market...

SciFri Radio: Future of Nuclear Energy
Where does nuclear energy fit into the nation's future mix of power sources?

SciFri Radio: New Fusion Facility
Last week, a new fusion research facility was dedicated in California. We'll talk about the lab and what it hopes to achieve.

SciFri Radio: Particle Hunters
Researchers announced this week that they've detected the production of single top quarks at Fermilab. We'll talk about the find and the search for...

SciFri Radio: Trouble at the Large Hadron Collider
A breakdown in a magnet system during testing of the Large Hadron Collider last week may have the massive physics experiment off-line until next...

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