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HOW DOES A NUCLEAR REACTOR WORK?
The heat-generating chain reaction inside a nuclear power station takes place under highly controlled conditions within the reactor core. Uranium-235 atoms can spontaneously break-apart (fission) ...
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Kilopower: NASA’s Offworld Nuclear Reactor
the incredible energy released by nuclear fission inside the reactor’s core is used to heat water, which generates high pressure steam that powers turbines connected to electrical generators.
Inside Fukushima: Eerie drone footage reveals first ever look at melted nuclear reactor with 880 tonnes of radioactive fuel still inside - 13 years after disaster
About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors ... The drone cameras could ...
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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 ...
How a small reactor in Eastern WA became the world’s first nuclear plant 80 years ago
The world’s first production scale reactor built at the Hanford nuclear site near Richland in Eastern Washington changed the ...
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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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World's largest fusion reactor set to revolutionize global energy production
Japan has taken a major step toward revolutionizing energy production with the launch of the JT-60SA reactor, the world’s ...
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‘Junior’ for fusion reactor achieves milestone, NZ’s giant half-ton magnet powered
OpenStar Technologies completes New Zealand's first fusion energy device core component - a half-tonne doughnut-shaped magnet ...
Nuclear Fusion Has Stumped Scientists for Decades. Here’s How We’ll Finally Unlock Its Limitless Energy.
When two hydrogen atoms fuse in the core of the sun ... sustaining it—has been the work of nuclear physicists around the world for nearly a century. Although fusion reactors can come in many shapes ...
Three Mile Island Readies for Big Tech Reboot
Constellation Energy will revive the half-century-old nuclear power plant to supply electricity for Microsoft's data centers.
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Conditions inside Fukushima melted nuclear reactors still unclear 13 years after disaster struck
About 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors ... The fuel in the worst-damaged No. 1 reactor mostly fell from the core to the bottom of its primary containment ...
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1st drone probe of melted fuel inside Fukushima reactor halted
Officials hoped to film the core’s bottom to find out ... About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors. Critics say the 30- to 40-year ...