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Robot retrieves first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor
The mission is not over until the sample's radioactivity is below a set standard and safely placed into a container ...
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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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 ...
Three Mile Island nuclear plant gears up for Big Tech reboot
Giant cooling towers at Constellation Energy's Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania have sat dormant for so long ...
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What Are Microreactors and How Soon Could We See One in Operation
Microreactors are a class of very small modular reactors targeted for non-conventional nuclear markets. The U.S. Department ...
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 ...
New Scientist on MSN4d
Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners
Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter photons, which could lead to ...
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How can we make nuclear fusion a reliable energy source one day?
Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core of the Sun, where very light elements merge ... but the ...
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Inside the world's first reactor that will power Earth using the same nuclear reactions as the Sun
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ... Nuclear fusion is the process by which two light atomic nuclei fuse to form a single heavier one, generating a massive release of energy. In ...
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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 ...
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TEPCO progressing in melted fuel extraction from Fukushima reactor
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex said Saturday it moved a tiny portion of melted fuel just outside a ...
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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 ...