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we recently found out that the technology that keeps us all safe can also be used to put a smile on a girl's face. check. diamonds apprised of world over for the rest down being physical properties and dozen things that takes they're also a girl's best friend also the song goes and no matter whether you're the queen of england with her crown jewels or you prefer something more subtle one thing is true the larger the diamond the rarer it is and the more it's worth that's why bush and diamond producer struck up an online partnership with a complete specializing in explosive detective neutron technologies is located a two hour drive and allegedly bike right outside of moscow in the tranquil town of . the town doesn't look much like a scientific poll but appearances can be deceiving we've come to the joint institute for nuclear research institute currently unites eighteen countries and seven labs carrying out pioneering research in particle physics. and this is where the magic happens hidden away behind these radiation proof doors
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a hive of innovation and the home of neutron technologies which was founded in part by the nuclear research institute the explosive and narcotics detectors produced here are used in airports train stations as well as by the russian security services one of the latest developments is this mo body text for use in the field the device can identify the chemical makeup of any objects located in anything from a cardboard box so to thirty centimeters of solid concrete all of which is thanks to the compact neutral and it's inside. this is the heart of our unit the neutron accelerator it's only thirty centimeters tall and weighs only eight kilograms which is a dramatic reduction compared to last centuries accelerator which was six stories tall yet it generates the same number of neutrons fifty million a second and on top of that it has a built in alpha detector. which allows us to track the time. see how much progress has been made thanks to the research and development of the past fifteen years. of
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course they had me but not. the main components of the device or the neutron generator alpha detector tritium targets and gamma detector the device works by admitting to trying particles when the future one hits the tritium could be misplaced into alpha neutron particles the neutrons penetrate the objects in question while the alpha detector is responsible for determining the location of any dangerous substances the neutrons excited nuclei of the atoms they hit causing them to give off gamma rays which are then to detect since the energy of the cameras his unique to each element which allows the substance to be determined based on its elemental composition this method off as many advantages over x. rays which can misidentify system and gets to texas which don't receive objects the laser great on the front of the detects it corresponds with a neutron themes allowing the user to target the objects computes atenco sis's the information received by the detector and identifies any potential as a discrete series on their location. in addition to the mobile detector the company
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has designed a device for inspecting vehicles another for shipping containers and an underwater device by examining unexploded torpedoes and mines all of the detectors can identifiable to thirty types of explosives and be operated at a safe distance while a computer program takes care of the number crunching to get to the bottom of the matter that's way over two hundred thousand dollars the devices don't come cheap so who better to foot the bill than russian diamond joints rosa which is having problems of its own them but this unit has been set up to see whether we can detect a large diamond within a lump of kimberlite without having to rush off. if there was a large dial that was ground down first the way it usually is the shutter diamond loses a lot of its value so if we were able to detect a large valuable diamonds in the or it would offer a really good return on investment since such large diamonds are quite. very
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lucrative. following the request of the scientists to see if their technology could be applied to the diamond industry. fifty kilograms of kimberlite rock samples which is the best source of priming times for the company to trial to detection system after hours of testing neutron technology is finally struck gold story diamond the next step is for the detect to be upscaled so it can pick up the rocks containing large diamonds on the conveyor before the destroyed. because. we did indeed find diamonds inside the door and we're planning to continue testing this method next year and then to make improvements to the detecting device in cooperation with neutron technologies. we're planning to use this method for the detection of large diamonds in the kimberlite extracted from the mirror and internet. will be focusing on the largest size segment five
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carrots and above. the theory of using this technology has been proven. scott says the practical side of implementing it on an industrial scale neutron technologist can reduce the time it takes to detect diamonds i'm sure the companies will have a bright future together not only will it lead to increased profits and open up a whole new market for neutron technologies but also puts a smile in the face of many a girl the earth is a place of wonder and beauty that is rolling hills in los forests and as you just seen there are many treasures hidden out of reach but you don't always need explosives to get them. brains overbroad oil from the liquid gold that makes the world go round without it we would grind to a slow and painful fortunately oil supplies are on depleted quite yet but the bad news is that easily extractable sources are running out so we demand for oil higher than ever engineers are being forced to look for new ways. to get to the black
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store and keep the world spinning on its axis oil and gas deposits can be located on to anything from lays of something clay to solid rocks like granites and fossils so all companies need to drill that can make short work of anything that gets in its way there are currently three main types of drill bits the tricorn drill which is made up of three spikes roll is the fixed cutter which often has diamond edges and works by scraping away at the rock below and the turbo job which spins much faster than the other two and requires less downward force unfortunately diamonds on forever and all the drill bits wear out and have to be replaced which can be both costly and time consuming this combined with the increasingly complex nature of drilling means that traditional methods are being pushed to the limits. the institutes of high technology physics in thomas has a laboratory that specializes in boston through solid rock with high powered electrical sparks the first experiments were conducted way back in the sixty's when the theory of using electrical pulses to drill through blocks was tested results
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were impressive but the technology the time did not allow for the idea to take in perth now the university has a prototype device to offer as many advantages over traditional training methods. and with the advantage of the high voltage electrical impulse method is that we use the bore bits made of ordinary steel while and yet the model we don't use any alloy grade or diamond our spark of discharge method makes these very expensive materials redundant. and this is how it works a generator produces the electricity which is then stored in the capacitors and fed to the drill the drill bit itself has one electrode in the sensor surrounded by in a rate above the electrodes when they come into contact with the ball the potential difference between them it's a powerful spot which troubles through the wrong item like a micro explosion causing bits to break away the dead piece then carried by to the surface of the liquid form the size. it can be controlled by adjusting the distance
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between the electrodes the drills ability to make short work of solid blocks even joint attention from the brawl. the. norwegian companies like oil the tunnel construction firm. you know drill from the university of trondheim have supported our work in developing this new technology a third of what we have supplied them with a submersible high voltage impulse generator with which to drill an experimental well in granite rock so that we can investigate the potential of this technology in the field. our device is of great interest to total engineers and of course great interest to oil companies. the potential of mechanical drilling methods either with diamond heads or with lower bits has been almost fully exhausted with morton and this is why every company is now looking
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for a new method nor a new technology to ensure a fast boring speed especially through hard rocks like granite him in. the drilling speed is determined by the size of the fragments produced so in general the bigger the better however if the points become too large the system may have trouble removing them from the hole by controlling the energy produced by the generator the distance between the electrodes and frequency of the electric pulses the ultimate speed can be achieved so who knows more major oil plays see the benefits of this technology we may soon have the bright spots in toms to thank for keeping the world in motion. just the end of the first half so don't reach the remote see you after the break.
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welcome back before we look ahead to the future of technology let's take a quick buck. bites the radio telescope in the region has been overhauled us part of the project sixty four me to telescope will study black holes such the elusive dark matter i'm keeping coincides with. about planet x. so mas is a joint mission between the european space agency and most. hostile presence of the russian ministry of defense held an innovation day in moscow on the twenty eighth of august. over one thousand applications were made. to get one of the two hundred
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sixty stuns avail. university students and representatives from. the opportunity to demonstrate to the. seal of approval to the redesigned military fatigues. one of the highlights was the moscow state university. just one hundred kilograms with ease the event was such a success that the ministry plans to hold it every six months. at the beginning of the month. cope with the. winter olympics next year. with conditioning and facilities for disabled passengers while the increased capacity means that the average ticket will be twenty two percent cheaper. two thousand and thirteen competition held in san diego idea of the competition is
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for competitors to design. capable of fulfilling specific. competitors from all around the world with a three thousand dollar price some. time while all this prefer something just a little bit more extreme the parachute isn't designed with safety being of what most important. is the still room for improvement. second when. she was in. the military. and even used to help the curiosity rover. described myself as a fan of extreme sports i have always wanted to try parachuting was having witnessed this take
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a hard landing i started to have second thoughts. so it looks like it's back to the drawing board for the partial of the scientific research institute of harsher design production in moscow founded in one thousand nine hundred forty six the institute is part of aviation whitman holding which is the main development for two ship harshita in russia it is one of only a few companies in the world that carries out the full range of parts you development. the institute's contacts development and production as well as ground and flight sets of all these partially systems the base era jumping ship shot we were lucky enough to catch one of the research institute partially test as well the little ones of course here on the field we have all the right conditions of land surface and things like that in reality those soldiers have to land on various different terrain here but that and they'll have to have time to maneuver so that they can lead safely he was up and he is in the ability to maneuver people and the horizontal speed of a parachute the paramount importance for descending and of course especially for
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landing is and he also will put these in the till conditions that partially just have to jump in not to mention all the equipment they carry i mean it's a special approach has to be taken when designing power sheaffer used by the military today the design institute was testing one of its latest developments the deets well beastie the detail was their latest car she produced by the russian airborne troops the lease to still be subject to rigorous testing but is expected to enter into service by the end of the year it's capable of carrying up to one hundred sixty kilograms at the speed of four point five new to the second the spare parts should be stored in the body leaving room for the touch will have been contained in the front which helps take some of the weight off when landing we went back to moscow to learn about the evolution and benefits of this part of. the boat gives you an idea evolution of the parachute design over the decades they've been used in the army. here's the six model
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developed in this. union in the mid seventy's. basically featured a circular canopy with steering belts and a top ventimiglia apex. it was the shape of a hemisphere in profile thanks to the course. but with the new developments in the aviation industry and the increased need for massive air drops we had to invent a new design and we could deal with midair collisions better between parachutes and that's how the detainee chute emerged one of the industry continue to push book even heavier capacity better maneuverability and improved safety when landing in very strong winds i believe. the only requirement was to keep the same size and weight to shoot a few minute enough people will be here. almost the body of water. it is. the detail of has proven to be the perfect solution of thanks to its unique design
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of the canopy shape and the fact that it's this angle that pushes the chute forward in the war with a. little bit if the tests prove to be successful this new model will replace the previous generation of parachute. them you know with. the institute using the latest in computer design and modeling technologies in addition to the least the institute is made of a five thousand different partially types one thousand of which are vented into mass production they range from anti spinning cargo sheets to low altitude invest you power suits some of them have an area of up to three hundred seventy five meters squared thank you carry up to twenty tons. i am doubt the computer design is then sent to this factory to be turned into reality. in addition to this production facility the institute also has researched engineering and technology schools over generations the institute has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and expertise which allows it to create such
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a diverse. age of power chutes advances in materials mean how shoes can be more complex bonjour ball than ever in addition we use new materials in parachute construction but in the post it's parachutes were made from nylon fabric no we use more modern materials so all this has enabled us to reach our goals as a city armed with this knowledge we return to the airfield in moscow untold it jumps up to twenty times a week and his goal of tracking down to a t. he can do it in around ten minutes when he's not being distracted by technology all day present my experience of the parts you constitutes and there are restored my faith in the safety of the sport and who knows maybe next time i'll be joining these guys in the not too distant future. to four million cars in moscow alone which not only has a negative impact on the capsule's roads it also produces huge amounts of waste tires every year but luckily one russian company has a knack for killing two birds with one stone. on something a lot of. push
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a scorching summers and bitterly cold winters take a heavy toll on the country's broke days along with the millions of cars and each t.v.'s that pound the surface every day i mean the road repairs and replacements are a constant struggle not only to potholes and trucks represent a house it's drivers but they're also a burden on the government's put it so the need to find a type of road service full of better withstanding the daily because of moscow's traffic and weather is pretty clear that's why scientists have been experimented with different ways of modifying both services and testing them with this mobile lab one of the most promising technologies involves mixing old tires into the else fold mixture. the practice of using asphalt was pioneered in arizona in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. with limited success while the rubberized road service offered a number of advantages over previous technologies the relatively large chunks of rubber and gravel used were prone to coming loose and damaging cars so the project was abundant in one thousand nine hundred nine. and it always starts with old
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non-recyclable cars. time is to go by leaving them all around the place people do harm to the environment the problem is you can't burn these tires put them in landfill sites traditionally this kind of waste has been used in construction all road building so. recycling technology mean that there are more and more large scale uses for all tires this type of processing putting check of is responsible for recycling some of the estimated one hundred twenty five thousand tons of worn out tires discarded by the capitol every year all ties are first shredded and then the fiber and steel components are separated and sent for further processing the remaining were is think ground down to produce tire chrome which can then be used to produce even more ty is create safe playground services as well as a whole range of other applications one of the biggest consumers of type from however is uni com which specializes in producing a super fine but powder for use in broken struction unicom be sponsored nano
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technology company bust nano this lab in podolski is where you can carries out much peace road surface research here the stuff child various combinations and ratios of materials to try and attain the ideal road surface in general roads are made up of gravel and sun although pitchman has been successfully used in roads for almost two centuries there is still room for improvement and this is where unicom stands out from the rest. unicom which stands for universal compazine materials produces a fine powder the beats anything else in the markets hands down would be some would say you can take any rubber powder. but that's not true so what you need to make it work is a physical and chemical reaction between the bitumen and whatever powder you have looked at it was and what is the extent to which the powder reacts is determined by the area of the powder in contact with the bitumen you were poor stupid totally
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with the. the. despite being very fine the roll tide from lax the surface area to completely with the pitchman always still improves the road surface the full potential the river has not been a lot the color flow like surface of the nano part of produced by unique means that just one gram of it has a surface area of up to five thousand sets me to square. however none of this would be possible were it not for the work of the team nikolski the simeon of the institute of chemical physics in moscow the team discovered even to his own surprise it is certain temperatures proper and plastics substances can be ground down to a very fine powder which led to the development of this machine we are the only ones in the world to use the dry method if we take the mix for making mixed asphalt concrete with. put the required amount of tire powder in it you know this method. amounts
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of time. before the invention of the share in juice grinding machine builders had to use the so-called wet method of adding the rubber to the pitchman this involved heating the mixture for all day which is what is required excessive amounts of energy and time to cause the bitch many cells to deteriorate it's no wonder then that other countries are trying to follow suit which with around fifty eight and somebody machine it might take them a while. for to despite our best efforts machine parts but into the studio to show you exactly how it works. and here it is. now the only main difference to an industrial version the prototype is the size the principle is exactly the same two finals at either end and archimedes screen compression zone and cooling section the old short its highs are fed into this funnel the screw then pushes them towards the stock but as more and more bits of tire build up the pressure increases the friction created cause the temps its rise to about one
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hundred. seventy five degree c. at which point the tie begins disintegrates and see through the tiny gap between the two sections the fine tire part is then cooled and comes out the front of the end and bob's your uncle that size ready to hit the roads the institute in moscow was originally created for studying the processes that occur in nuclear weapons but one thousand nine hundred fifty eight especially switching that turned their attention to chemical reactions in creating new synthetic materials but the same study the properties of these materials and developed instruments for examining the structure the prototype for producing the nano powder was created in one thousand nine hundred eighty one and laid the foundation for today's industrial machines made sure that we started using these powders very successfully. but almost because of the positive properties you feel boys. will be feeding the materials you modify tyrell feel like you did a very stable. case the structure doesn't change time little tool. so like
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you know they can be used is decades if you will never properties would remain tracting unchanged. and the benefits don't end there it's also offers better equipped for vehicles reduce noise levels as well as increased resistance to rotting in cracking in addition to all the safety and economic benefits it also provides the perfect solution to the world's growing tide disposal problem but i bet these workers are just glad that they won't have to do this section of road again for another couple of decades i'm afraid that's all for today but with the rise asphalt been using creasing throughout the world i'm sure more of you will enjoy the ride. what do you think would be high enough prize for americans and the west in general
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