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Robot Grabs Melted Fuel Sample From Fukushima Reactor
More than 13 years after an earthquake-turned-tsunami triggered the second-largest nuclear accident in global history, a ...
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Core catcher delivered for El Dabaa's fourth unit
The core catcher for unit 4 at Egypt's El Dabaa nuclear power plant is expected to be installed by the end of the year. It ...
Interesting Engineering20h
US completes first key magnet for apple-shaped nuclear fusion reactor
The NSTX-U is the primary nuclear fusion reactor experiment which is ongoing at the US Department of Energy's PPPL.
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Small modular nuclear reactors can help meet US energy and emission goals—if we let them
Interest in small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs, is skyrocketing with tech companies including Google, Amazon and Microsoft investing in the emerging low-carbon energy technology.
Igniting Fusion Energy’s Future: The Surprising Power of Boron
Tungsten, the preferred material for tokamak fusion reactors, poses challenges due to sputtering that cools plasma, making ...
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Foundation reinforcement underway at Leningrad 8
Builders have begun to reinforce the lower part of the foundation for the reactor building for unit 8 at Russia’s Leningrad ...
Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted 13 years after Fukushima disaster is shut down again
A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it survived a massive ...
Robot retrieves 1st melted fuel from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor
Around 800 tonnes of fatally radioactive molten fuel remains in the plants, and the mission is a step in a long-term clean-up ...
A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor
A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged ...