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Robot reveals first images of lava-like nuclear debris at Fukushima
The radiation-hardened bot adds to Japan's $72 billion cleanup
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Aboard the NS Savannah, America’s first (and last) nuclear merchant ship
Years after shutdown, Savannah still waits for funding for its reactor decommissioning.
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A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades
The road to cleaner, meltdown-proof nuclear power has taken a big step forward.
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Germans in Aachen get free iodine amid Belgium nuclear fears
The city of Aachen issues free iodine pills because of nearby Belgium's ageing nuclear reactors.
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Two South Florida nuclear power plants lie in Irma’s path. Are they ready?
The last time a major hurricane hit the Turkey Point nuclear power plant, it caused $90 million in damages but left the nuclear reactors along southern Biscayne Bay unscathed. In anticipation of powerful Hurricane Irma, which projections on Wednesday showed headed straight for South Florida, Florida Power & Light’s two nuclear plants were finalizing staffing plans and cleaning up the grounds.
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A Helium-Resistant Material Could Finally Usher in The Age of Nuclear Fusion
A collaboration of engineers and researchers has found a way to prevent helium, a byproduct of the fusion reaction, from weakening nuclear fusion reactors.
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Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
Four engineers hunched before a bank of monitors, one holding what looked like a game controller. They had spent a month training for what they were about to do: pilot a small robot into the contaminated heart of the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Japan scrapped proposed Fukushima tsunami simulation nine years before disaster
The government had proposed to Tepco that a simulation of tsunami striking Fukushima Prefecture be conducted nine years before the 2011 catastrophe but decided not to after the company objected, according to a court document.
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Nuclear Reactors, Bankrupting Their Owners, Closing Early
On January 22, FirstEnergy Corporation announced that its faulty and nearly-self-destructed Davis-Besse power reactor east of Toledo, Ohio, will be closed well before its license expires. But the shutdown is not because the reactor represents reckless endangerment of public health and safety. FirseEnergy was fine with that. No, the old rattle trap can’t cover its costs any more, not with the electricity market dominated by cheaper natural gas, and renewable wind and solar.
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North Korea used the Berlin embassy to procure technology for the nuclear program
North Korea used the Berlin embassy to obtain technology and equipment for its nuclear program, said on Monday the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, as reported by the German public broadcaster DW. “We determined that procurement activities were taking place there, from our perspective with an eye on the missile program, as well as the nuclear program to some extent,” the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Hans-Georg Maassen, told NDR.
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Europe Must Brake Mounting Nuclear Arms Race: Germany
Gabriel was responding to a so-called Nuclear Posture Review released Friday by the Pentagon that details the U.S. military's vision of nuclear threats and its response in the coming decades.
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Bill Gates has a joint venture with China Nuclear Corp to build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor
Bill Gates has a joint venture with China Nuclear Corp to build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor
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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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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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Scientists assessed the options for growing nuclear power. They are grim.
That’s profoundly concerning for climate change.
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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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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 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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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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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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