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New Advances in Special Drilling Devices for Space Surveying & Mining Missions to the Moon and Beyond

  Los Angeles, CA.  August 23, 2021 – On August 15, 2021, US Nuclear’s (OTCQB: UCLE) partner Adam Jan Zwierzyński of Solar System Resources published a report on his research, prototyping, and testing of space drilling and extraction systems with the goal of developing fully autonomous mining robots for mining high-value minerals and elements from the moon, Mars, comets, and asteroids. The paper was published in ‘Energies’ journal and was written by  Adam Jan Zwierzyński , Wojciech Teper, Rafał Wiśniowski, Andrzej Gonet, Tomasz Buratowski, Tadeusz Uhl, and Karol Seweryn. It was a collaboration between the Department of Drilling and Geoengineering at AGH University of Science and Technology and the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It discusses the dire global climate crisis and the need for ecological sources of energy and mining methods that could solve the problems before it is too late. Space is becoming a new area of possible drilling applicati...

HYDROFRACKING & WATER

  What is the cost in contaminating our water? By Penelope Randall, Environmental Specialist, US Nuclear Corp Hydrofracking demands for water use is up 770 percent since 2011 according to a 2018 peer reviewed study out of Duke University. The use of millions of gallons of water and sand infused with up to 1,000 different toxic chemicals is used to fracture shale rock and release the trapped gas or oil. The wastewater, brine , and sludge are then returned to the surface and in need of disposal. Unfortunately, there is not yet a clear and safe method of disposal or storage. In many places this wastewater is reinjected into deep underground wastewater wells. There is mounting evidence that this method of disposal may be responsible for earthquakes and pollution of groundwater in some locations. The exponential growth of the hydrofracking industry and its practices constitutes a growing problem. Among these chemicals are radioactive isotopes which wastewater treatment plants...

Overhoff Technology Corp (OTC)

  For more than 40 years,   Overhoff Technology   Corporation   has been the world’s premier supplier designing and manufacturing high-quality Tritium monitors. Established in 1972 Overhoff Technology has earned a remarkable reputation as the world’s leading manufacturer of Tritium monitors. Tritium is incredibly difficult to detect and measure whether in the air or in water. Overhoff Technology continues to be the global leader in providing instrumentation for the detection and measurement of Tritium. Tritium capsules are used in gun sights, archery sights, self-luminous exit signs, watches, compasses, and other similar products. Overhoff Technology offers a full line of Tritium monitoring instrumentation portable, hand-held, and installed, serving fusion power, nuclear power plants, biotech companies, and some manufacturing companies. These include air monitors, passive samplers, nuclear power plant heavy water leak detectors, ultra-low-level air monitors, stack a...

Technical Associates (TA)

  Technical Associates provides exceptional instrumentation for the detection and monitoring of radiation, chemical, and biological contaminants for a wide variety of industries including nuclear power, environmental air, nuclear medicine, and water monitoring. Water monitoring includes a diverse suite of instruments for a facility’s water intake and effluent, and the water industry in general, including water and wastewater treatment facilities, nuclear power effluent, and seawater monitors. Technical Associates has the world’s only real-time continuous Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Tritium in a water monitor capable of measuring at or below EPA/PAG level guidelines. Technical Associates (TA)   was founded in 1946 as a spin-off from the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Recognizing the advent of the nuclear age TA’s founders designed and built the first industrial-grade radiation detectors and monitors to safeguard the scientists building the world’s first atomi...

US Nuclear Corp. Announces Annual 2020 Financial Results

  Los Angeles, CA.  August 2, 2021 – US Nuclear Corp. (OTCQB: UCLE), a leading manufacturer of advanced radiation, chemical, and biological detection and UAV instrumentation, announced the annual results for the year ended December 31, 2020. 2020 Annual Highlights Total sales revenue of $1,752,976 compared to $3,540,387 the previous year Net loss of $3,538,103 due to impact of COVID-19 Equity loss of investment $818,611 Amortization of debt discount $462,963 Total operating expenses reduced 42% to $2,558,553 as compared to $4,394,844 the previous year Robert Goldstein, CEO of US Nuclear Corp ., commented: “2020 was a challenging year for us due to COVID-19. The health and safety of our employees and their families was an urgent concern, and we took the necessary measures to ensure everyone stayed healthy. These measures included a temporary shut-down of one of our operating divisions, staggered and reduced work hours, and 14-day quarantine periods.  Sales and production w...

Determining the Source of Stream Toxins with Continuous Monitoring

Determining Stream Toxins with Water Quality and Level Data When researcher Wesley Gerrin gained access to a sediment toxicity lab in the Experimental Forest on the University of Georgia campus, he wanted to investigate an on-campus lake for any potential contamination issues. After his research was completed, he was fortunate enough to have some extra grant funding for the addition of a few samples from any location on campus, so he chose one of the most exciting sites on the University premises: Tanyard Branch. As Wesley said, “We ran the tests, and everything looked good, except for Tanyard Branch.” Tanyard Branch has been one of the most heavily monitored creeks in the Athens-Clarke County area for the last couple of decades due to contamination - it has a long history of abuse beginning in the 1700s. Native Americans long used the area as hunting and fishing grounds, but it was eventually seized by colonists. The people who then settled into the area opened botanical gard...

North Carolina Radiation Protection Acquires Drone for Radiation Measurement

From left, Robert Goldstein of US Nuclear Corp , Lee Cox, Radiation Protection section chief and William Jeffries, Radiation Protection’s nuclear plant emergency response coordinator, adjust radiation detection sensors during the first day of drone training.      June 25, 2018  - After hours of tweaking the unit after assembly, North Carolina Radiation Protection’s drone was finally ready for its first test flight. “Everybody clear?” With a sound like a very large insect, the 45-pound drone took off, stirring up the corn leaves in the field below, culminating three years of work by Lee Cox and staff at the Radiation Protection Section to make this resource a reality.  The section, part of DHHS’ Division of Health Service Regulation, purchased the drone to send into potentially radioactive environments to collect data so human inspectors can remain a safe distance away.  North Carolina will be the first in the nation to use a drone for radiation detection. O...

Is Radioactive Hydrogen in Drinking Water a Cancer Threat?

The EPA plans to reevaluate standards for tritium in water : Add two additional neutrons to the lightest component and hydrogen gets radioactive, procuring the name tritium. Indeed, even before the Three Mile Island mishap in 1979 controllers stressed that this omnipresent side-effect of atomic reactors could represent a danger to human wellbeing. The U.S. Natural Protection Agency (EPA) was just seven years of age when it put the main principles on the books for tritium in 1977. Yet, a ton has occurred in the mediating many years, and it's difficult a more drawn out rundown of atomic mishaps.  The Chernobyl and Fukushima emergencies let free a lot of tritium, however so have an apparently perpetual series of breaks at maturing reactors in the U.S. what's more, somewhere else. Such holes have incited the EPA to report on February 4 intends to return to norms for tritium that has discovered its direction into water—purported tritiated water, or HTO—alongside hazard limits for si...

Tritium Monitor

Tritium Air Monitor: High performance portable survey monitor  SENSITIVITY The 400SBDγC is useful for measurements as low as 2 μCi/m3 . The new OTC electrometer, which measures to below 10-16 amperes combines low noise and high zero stability. Unlike other instruments, the 400 series instruments no longer require a front panel manual zero control. Thermally induced zero shifts of the electrometer and associated electronics have been eliminated.  Tritium Air Monitor: Model 400SBDγC RADON INTERFERENCE, NOISE RESPONSE  For an unambiguous measurement of very low tritium a monitor must be able to ignore response to ambient radon. The 400SB series incorporates this capability and therefore produces accurate, fast and drift free measurements to nearly +1 μCi/m3 . TOTAL GAMMA COMPENSATION  Cruciform ionization chamber geometry provides nearly perfect gamma compensation regardless of photon energy, flux gradient or flux direction. Gamma compensati...