Photos: Robots battle to tackle the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the recent euRathlon outdoor robotics competition set out to test how well robots cope with realistic mock emergency-response situations.
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Black Hat USA 2013: Day One, In Pictures
Leading security conference Black Hat 2013 boasts over 100 talks that include hacking nuclear facilities, rooting SIM cards, OPSEC failures of spies, a keynote from the NSA and more.
How to dismantle a nuclear reactor (photos)
There are currently 104 nuclear reactors generating electricity in the United States, and most will operate a few decades beyond their design life cycle. A huge engineering challenge to clean up and decommission those reactors lurks over the horizon. Most sites recently re-licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past several years will be ceasing operations around 2030. Some of the world's biggest engineering companies such as Bechtel Group will be commissioned to do most of the grunt work, and must invent new technologies to scale their operations. Bechtel's PR agency gave SmartPlanet an exclusive look (it provided information for photo captions) at the extreme engineering it has deployed in the clean up of the Hanford nuclear site, a government nuclear facility in Washington state that dates back to the Manhattan Project. Massive volumes of high and low level nuclear waste is processed, tested, and treated; systems are routinely checked for workers' safety.
Scary tech to put a tingle down your spine
It's Halloween, and time to spark up the LEDs against the things that go bump in the server room. Here are 10 scary bits of tech that put terror into terabyte
A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron Collider
The European Center for Nuclear Research (Cern) released photos of damage to the Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator was damaged by a liquid helium leak in September.
The Swedish datacentre with a bunker mentality
Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof has converted a nuclear bunker 100 feet below the centre of Stockholm into a futuristic datacentre
Gallery: Scientists react to Hadron success
September 10, 2008, the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full circuit of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern). Here's how UK scientists reacted to the achievement.
Gallery: Saving your data from nuke attack
Barbed wire, fences, guards, and guard dogs are just the first level of security for an English datacenter that claims to be safe from nuclear, chemical and biological attack.
Photos: Symantec leaves its security bunker
Having outgrown its old nuclear-bunker facilities outside Winchester, the security vendor has moved its security operations centre to Reading
Photos: Symantec under ground
A trip inside Symantec's British nuclear bunker gives a peek at how it fights cybercrime.
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