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Fukushima's ground zero: No place for man or robot
The robots sent in to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima's nuclear reactors have “died”; a subterranean "ice wall" around the crippled plant meant to stop groundwater from becoming contaminated has yet to be finished. And authorities still don’t know how to dispose of highly radioactive water stored in an ever mounting number of tanks around the site.
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Giant arch to block Chernobyl radiation for next 100 years
In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been built to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site for the next 100 years. On April 26, 1986, a botched test at the Soviet nuclear plant sent clouds of smouldering nuclear material across large swathes of Europe, forced over 50,000 people to evacuate and poisoned unknown numbers of workers involved in its clean-up.
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Japan Regulators OK Costly Ice Wall at Fukushima Plant
Japanese regulators on Wednesday approved the use of a giant refrigeration system to create an unprecedented underground frozen barrier around buildings at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in an attempt to contain leaking radioactive water. The Nuclear Regulation Authority said the...
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Unable To Compete on Price, Nuclear Power on the Decline in the U.S.
Nuclear power is carbon-free and remains the source of about 20 percent of U.S. electricity. But natural gas, wind and solar are often cheaper, and unprofitable reactors are being shut down.
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German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says
A nuclear power plant in Germany has been found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet, the station's operator said on Tuesday. The Gundremmingen plant, located about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Munich, is run by the German utility RWE. The viruses, which include "W32.Ramnit" and "Conficker", were discovered at Gundremmingen's...
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Project Orion: The Spaceship Propelled by Nuclear Bombs
Before the Orion of today, the Orion of the 1950s was propelled by nuclear bombs exploding behind it.
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Woman breaks silence among Fukushima thyroid cancer patients
She's 21, has thyroid cancer, and wants people in her prefecture in northeastern Japan to get screened for it. That statement might not seem provocative, but her prefecture is Fukushima, and of the 173 young people with confirmed or suspected cases since the 2011 nuclear meltdowns there, she is the first to speak out.
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California utility to close Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors by 2025
The state’s last nuclear power plant has straddled geological and political fault lines.
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This fall, the “Radioactive Boy Scout” died at age 39
David Charles Hahn, who gained some notoriety in 1994 for attempting to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor for a Boy Scout project in his mom's Michigan backyard shed, has died at the age of 39. He passed away on September 27, but his death did not draw much media attention until Monday. Breeder reactors are a type of nuclear reactor that generate more fissile material than they consume. They have been researched extensively for decades, and a number have been built, but the approach has largely been abandoned.
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Is Thorium A Future Option For Nuclear Energy?
Nuclear reactors running on thorium are widely held to be inherently safer than the awful pressurized-water reactors we have today. So why don’t we have thorium reactors? A new TV documentary also available online answers the question quite well.
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Pilgrim’s Progress: Inside the American Nuclear-Waste Crisis
Decades of mismanagement have landed the government with a toxic, and expensive, problem.
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Swiss nuclear plants to remain on grid - SWI swissinfo.ch
Swiss voters have thrown out a proposal to close the country’s five nuclear power plants after 45 years in operation. The Green Party initiative was rejected by 54.2% of the vote, according to final results.
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Watch Chernobyl's Huge Radiation Shield Slide in and Enclose the Damaged Nuclear Reactor
We already saw how the new $1.6 billion sarcophagus—the 843-foot wide, 354-foot tall steel shield that entombs the radioactive material leaking from the damaged nuclear reactor left over from the Chernobyl disaster—was going to be put in place to replace the old concrete structure that enclosed the damaged reactor in a picture but here’s a time lapse showing the entire process. Seeing the gigantic arch structure slide in shows what a feat of engineering this was. It’s a really, really, really snug fit.
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Pentagon Confirms Russia's Thermonuclear Submarine Bomb Is Real
This is very bad news.
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A vast new tomb for the most dangerous waste in the world
Chernobyl's new sarcophagus took two decades to make. Bigger than Wembley Stadium and taller than the Statue of Liberty, it will seal in the entire disaster site for 100 years. World leaders jostle with global executives and anonymous men dressed in full camouflage as platters of shrimp, foie gras and cheesecake are passed around by white-gloved staff. It would all seem quite normal were it not for the fact that we’re just 100m (330ft) away from the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.
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Huge nuclear cost overruns push Toshiba's Westinghouse into bankruptcy
Westinghouse Electric Co, a unit of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast.
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North Korea's Nuclear Tests Could Trigger A Deadly Volcanic Eruption
North Korea’s underground nuclear weapon blasts may be accidentally destabilizing a deadly volcano. Mount Paektu has been known to catastrophically
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Storage of nuclear waste poses threat to U.S., scientists warn
The reluctance of U.S. federal regulators to require operators of nuclear reactors to spend $5 billion to enhance the security of spent fuel rods stored underground threatens the country with a potential catastrophe, scientists warned on Friday.
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Stunning Footage Captured From Inside A Fusion Reactor
This immensely high-speed footage was released captured inside the Compass Tokamak at Institute of Plasma Physics IPP. It's a pretty beautiful sight, and it shows what happens inside these huge devices.
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India Is About to Be The Second Country to Ever Use This New Nuclear Technology
As a country with a huge demand for electricity, India is wise to step up its renewable energy game. The country recently announced plans to shut down more than 30 of its coal mines and is steadily veering away from coal-fired plants, so naturally, it needs an alternative.
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