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We Can't Solve Climate Change Without Nuclear Power
Sixty-five years ago, President Eisenhower took the first concrete steps toward implementing his “Atoms for Peace” initiative, presenting Soviet leaders with a detailed outline of the safety and nonproliferation rules that should guide the peaceful development of civilian nuclear energy. Three more years of determined U.S.-led diplomacy culminated in the establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which continues to be pivotal in maintaining, monitoring and...
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Nobel Prize Winner Could Have a Solution to Nuclear Waste
France produces more nuclear waste per-capita than any other country, and the industry is already excited about the potential of the project.
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This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer
Nuclear power plants are so big, complicated and expensive to build that more are shutting down than opening up. An Oregon company, NuScale Power, wants to change that trend by building nuclear plants that are the opposite of existing ones: smaller, simpler and cheaper.
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Nuclear Power Can Save the World
As young people rightly demand real solutions to climate change, the question is not what to do — eliminate fossil fuels by 2050 — but how. Beyond decarbonizing today’s electric grid, we must use clean electricity to replace fossil fuels in transportation, industry and heating. We must provide for the fast-growing energy needs of poorer countries and extend the grid to a billion people who now lack electricity. And still more electricity will be needed to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by midcentury.
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Fukushima contaminants found as far north as Alaska's Bering Strait
Radioactive contamination from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists said on Wednesday
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Fukushima's underground ice wall keeps nuclear radiation at bay
Think Game of Thrones, but this one is underground and defends against a far more realistic threat.
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Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction in playroom lab
Hobbyists say Jackson Oswalt of Tennessee is youngest person to achieve fusion
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1st contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant
A probe touched melted nuclear fuel debris in a destroyed reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
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Toshiba unveils robot to probe melted Fukushima nuclear fuel
Toshiba Corp. unveiled a remote-controlled robot with tongs on Monday that it hopes will be able to probe the inside of one of the three damaged reactors at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant and grip chunks of highly radioactive melted fuel.
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Report: Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress helps with his nuclear power push
Bill Gates said in his year-end letter last month that he planned to work to persuade U.S. leaders to embrace advanced nuclear technologies as a solution to curbing climate change. That work appears to have begun as The Washington Post reported Friday that Gates is making the rounds on Capitol Hill looking for support — and billions of dollars. Gates founded the Bellevue, Wash.-based TerraPower in 2006, and the venture had been working toward building a pilot project for its traveling-wave nuclear technology in China.
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Nuclear Energy - In the face of climate change, is it time to reconsider it?
Scientists and engineers have urged a re-evaluation of nuclear power as a source of energy, and have suggested that this area may help us to reduce the impact of climate change in the future. Numerous voices in the technological and political community are re-asserting that nuclear power can be a positive and beneficial energy source, and that its low environmental impact is a strong justification for investment and maintenance of this area.
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Russia Signs Pact For Six Nuclear Reactors On New Site In India
India and Russia today signed a pact to build six more nuclear reactors at a new site in India following summit talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The two leaders also agreed to cooperate on India's plan for a manned space mission. Russian state-owned reactor manufacturer Rosatom said in a statement that the two countries want to build six Russian-design nuclear reactors on a new site in India, boost nuclear cooperation in third countries and new nuclear technologies and are considering building nuclear plants together.
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US Congress passes bill to help advanced nuclear power
In Illinois, a nuclear power subsidy program gets a favorable ruling from US court.
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Nuclear fusion scientists just solved a major problem in harnessing plasma hotter than the Sun
Being able to control plasma that is hotter than the Sun is notoriously difficult.
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The AI that could help make limitless fusion power a reality
An AI is set to try and work out how a potentially limitless supply of energy can be used on Earth. It could finally solve the mysteries of fusion power, letting researchers capture and control the process that powers the sun and stars. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University hope to harness a massive new supercomputer to work out how the doughnut-shaped devices, known as tokamaks, can be used.
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The Nuclear Power Plant of the Future May Be Floating Near Russia
Offshore reactors could be cheaper, safer and more flexible, proponents say, making them a useful weapon against climate change. Critics are incredulous.
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The Man Who Ate Uranium
You can watch this guy Galen lick a pile of highly radioactive uranium off the palm of his hand and ignite a chunk of plutonium into a shower of flaming dust. The guy also drank reactor cooling pool water for fun and liked to go swimming in the pool to relax.
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Scientists assessed the options for growing nuclear power. They are grim.
That’s profoundly concerning for climate change.
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Belgium pledges to ditch nuclear power by 2025
On Friday (30 March), the Belgian government approved a new energy pact that will see the country phase out atomic power between 2022 and 2025. Belgium’s federal government signed off on an agreement that will see the country’s seven nuclear reactors shuttered by 2025. As part of a package of other measures, Doel and Tihange nuclear power stations will be closed and more investment will be pumped into renewable energy capacity building, particularly offshore wind farms.
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Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists
Carbon-free fusion power could be ‘on the grid in 15 years’
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