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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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A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor
TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
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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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How a small reactor in Eastern WA became the world’s first nuclear plant 80 years ago
Inside Matthias’ package was a small ... the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Photo courtesy DOE The core sits on 23-foot-thick concrete slab. It’s covered with a 10-inch cast ...
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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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Three Mile Island nuclear plant gears up for Big Tech reboot
THREE MILE ISLAND, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Giant cooling towers at Constellation Energy's Three Mile Island nuclear plant in ... fuel for the unit's reactor core, with work expected to start ...
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 ...