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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There Are Still 10 Chernobyl-Style Reactors Operating Across Russia. How Do We Know They're Safe?
The types of reactors that melted down at Chernobyl are still running in other parts of Russia today. How do we know they’re safe?
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Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way
Controlling carbon in the atmosphere will require a mix of energy technologies—potentially including nuclear reactors, which emit no carbon but are seen as risky because of a few major accidents. That risk could be greatly reduced.
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Radioactive materials involved in deadly blast, Russia confirms
A mystery explosion at a Russian weapons testing range involved radioactive materials, authorities admitted on Saturday, as the blast's death toll rose and signs of a creeping radiation emergency, or at the least fear of one, grew harder to mask.
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Russia pushing 'unsuitable' nuclear power in Africa, critics claim
Moscow aiming to win influence by wooing African states with nuclear energy
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A lightbulb moment for nuclear fusion?
Scientists pursuing the holy grail of energy generation are taking giant steps
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How nuclear power will drive our energy future
Nuclear power has a controversial history, but many energy experts say it will play a major role in our energy future. Some are working to make standard fission power safer and cheaper, while others are pursuing the holy grail of energy — nuclear fusion.
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The World's Tiniest Nuclear Plant Is Coming to Idaho
The demonstration represents a new-generation of micro-reactors.
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How to refuel a nuclear power plant during a pandemic
Swapping out spent uranium rods requires hundreds of technicians—challenging right now.
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