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Teen Builds His Own Nuclear Fusion Reactor At College
Cesare Mencarini’s recent extended project qualification (EPQ) earned him an “A” for his studies in the United Kingdom—and became, it is believed, the first nuclear reactor built in a school environment.
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Nuclear weapons testing cause of radioactivity in wild boars, study says
Scientists previously believed Chernobyl was the main cause of radioactivity in Europe's wild boars.
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First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
Nuclear power now makes up about 25% of the generation of Georgia Power, the largest unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co.
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Pro-tip: start your new fruit & veggie garden next to a nuclear reactor
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I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough
Bill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower.
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Why are we so afraid of nuclear power?
It's greener than renewables and safer than fossil fuels—but facts be damned.
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After 18 years, Europe's largest nuclear reactor starts regular output
Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor, Europe's largest, began regular output early on Sunday, its operator said, boosting energy security in a region to which Russia has cut gas and power supplies.
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UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
The UK Space Agency said Friday it would back research by Rolls-Royce looking at the use of nuclear power on the moon. In a statement, the government agency said researchers from Rolls-Royce had been working on a Micro-Reactor program “to develop technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on the Moon.”
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Renewable energy forecast to dominate global power sector growth by 2025
Pollution from the power sector could finally start to fall.
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Fukushima gets ready to discharge treated water into the sea
Eleven years after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the region's inhabitants are preparing for a new step. Japan will soon start discharging treated water into the sea. Water that touched the fuel has become radioactive. Filtered in a plant within the power plant, it's kept in tanks that will reach their maximum capacity in 2023.
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A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion
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Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants
Olaf Scholz's three-party coalition has wrangled over nuclear power but the German chancellor decided that the plants should stay running through winter. Germany is scrambling to reorganize its energy mix amid gas cuts.
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‘The mood is shifting’: Legislation to remove nuclear energy ban to be introduced today
Legislation with the backing of nine Senators will be introduced today to remove Australia’s nuclear energy ban. Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says he’s calling for the country to “open the window” to consider nuclear as an energy option.
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Destroying nuclear waste to create clean energy? It can be done
Scientists at CERN think they may have discovered a new source of clean energy.
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Chinese nuclear reactor proposal could power 10 International Space Stations
China is moving forward on nuclear power in space. China's Ministry of Science and Technology approved a space nuclear reactor project aiming to generate a megawatt of electricity, according to SpaceNews(opens in new tab). That's enough space power to keep the equivalent of 10 International Space Stations going, according to a NASA estimate(opens in new tab) showing the complex receives 120 kilowatts of electrical power at most. The media outlets cited by SpaceNews have not explained why China is looking for such a powerful reactor, nor released any technical details.
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Why even environmentalists are supporting nuclear power today
Environmentalists advocating for nuclear power have led a push to extend the operating life of Diablo Canyon, California's last nuclear power plant. Japan and Germany consider similar extensions.
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Nuclear power plants are struggling to stay cool
Climate change is reducing output and raising safety concerns at nuclear facilities.
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Former bosses of Fukushima operator ordered to pay $97 bn damages
A Tokyo court Wednesday ordered former executives from the operator of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 13.32 trillion yen ($97 billion) for failing to prevent the disaster, plaintiffs said.
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The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years, but the technology was never commercialized
The technology to turn nuclear waste into energy, known as a nuclear fast reactor, has existed for decades. Now, it's getting a second look.
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Physicists just rewrote a foundational rule for nuclear fusion reactors that could unleash twice the power
Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could produce much more energy than previously thought, thanks to groundbreaking new research that found a foundational law for such reactors was wrong.
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