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Mayonnaise may, according to a new study, help scientists figure out how to realistically harness the power of nuclear fusion.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

While heat waves batter Europe, a million people in Southern Russia went without power due to a nuclear false alarm.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A plan to store nuclear waste in America's busiest oil field is a fascinating collision between fossil fuels and nuclear.
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By Jon Christian

Stanford researchers tasked OpenAI's GPT-4 AI to make high-stakes, society-level decisions. It recommended the use of nuclear weapons.
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By Victor Tangermann

Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.
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By Frank Landymore

NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin to test a nuclear-powered rocket in space by 2027, in hopes of using the system to power Mars missions.
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By Frank Landymore

For the second month running, the UN's security watchdog found anti-personnel mines inside Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

German startup Proxima Fusion recently grabbed millions to build a reactor that looks like a twisty French cruller doughnut.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Months after notifying government officials that its Minnesota-based nuclear plant had sprung a radioactive water leak, Xcel Energy has come publicly clean.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The scientist who run the Doomsday Clock have once again ticked it forward, bringing humanity's estimated chances of its own annihilation ever closer. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Experts argue in a number of letters published by The Guardian that the recent fusion power breakthrough is too little too late.
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By Victor Tangermann

Dozens of France's nuclear reactors remain offline following a series of troubling outages believed to be caused by stress-induced pipe corrosion.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Germany has once again fired up its coal plants. But Greta Thunberg thinks the country should just use its already in place nuclear power plants instead.
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By Frank Landymore

In October 2021, months before Russia's invasion, a YouTuber got an exclusive look inside the New Safe Confinement site at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
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By Victor Tangermann

The situation at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant — the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at the war's front lines — is bad. Really bad.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest nuclear plant, are making locals increasingly nervous about Russia.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

For the better part of the last century, one question has dogged humanity: if and when nuclear war breaks out, what will happen next? 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Officials are alarmed by Russia's decision to keep bombing a nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied region in southeastern Ukraine.
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By Victor Tangermann

A small nuclear reactor has been approved for certification by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday, the first in the country.
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By Frank Landymore

Germany may need to expand the life of a nuclear power plant as Russia invades Ukraine and destabilizes power supplies in Europe.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

The UK government is planning to bury the world's largest stockpile of radioactive nuclear waste beneath the ocean floor, sparking concern among experts.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To prevent power outages this winter, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked that as many as nine of the country's nuclear reactors be brought online.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's definitely not a bird, but it is sort of a plane — it's the non-existent but admittedly very cool Sky Cruise, a fantastical nuclear-powered sky hotel.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russian President Vladimir Putin happily announced the country's so-called "Satan-2" rocket is ready for deployment this year.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, many experts are beginning to sound the alarm on the risk fighting poses on the country’s nuclear power plants.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Professors studied fir trees growing near Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster site. The trees' whorls show growth patterns affected by radiation.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

One Michigan nuclear power plant detected a "possible fire," but turned its sirens off last year. It follows a history of concerning nuclear events.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

What could possibly be more romantic than getting engaged to be wed at the site of a nuclear disaster?
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffet have chosen a tiny Wyoming city to build an experimental nuclear power plant in.
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By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists in China say they’ve discovered a cost-effective method of creating fusion energy that could rival much more expensive counterparts.
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By Tony Ho Tran

The US Navy still has no idea what the hell its submarine hit in the South China Sea earlier this month. Officials have yet to find out what it was.
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By Victor Tangermann

According to the US Navy, a nuclear submarine sustained damage and several injuries after hitting an "unknown object" in the South China Sea.
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By Victor Tangermann

A team of physicists demonstrated that a nuclear fusion device called a stellerator could manage heats up to twice the temperature of the Sun's core.
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By Dan Robitzski

For the first time in history, renewables became the second-most prevalent electricity source in the US in 2020 after natural gas.
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By Victor Tangermann

Chinese government is digging a second field of an additional 110 silos for launching nuclear missiles, The New York Times reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

Startup Wants to Build Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Run Off Nuclear Waste
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By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is having some serious issues with procuring parts for its Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines.
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By Victor Tangermann

US soldiers stationed on bases with nuclear weapons accidentally released heaps of confidential info through virtual flashcards on study apps.
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By Dan Robitzski

The World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Forged a Strange Object
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By Victor Tangermann

Small gelatinous marine organisms called sea salps are wreaking havoc on two nuclear reactors in South Korea, forcing them offline, Bloomberg reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

Citizens were outraged after the mayor of the Japanese town Suttsu volunteered to be considered as a nucelar waste storage site.
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By Dan Robitzski

Finland's Olkiluoto nuclear power plant had a close call Thursday, initiating an emergency shutdown after one of its reactors leaked.
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By Dan Robitzski

Iran Insists That Its Nuclear Scientist Was Killed by a “Satellite-Controlled Machine Gun”
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By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scienists were able to directly observe that our sun does the same kind of nuclear fusion expected from much heavier stars.
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By Dan Robitzski

Japanese officials granted final approval to bring one of the nuclear reactors damaged by a 2011 tsunami and earthquake back online.
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By Dan Robitzski

Research reveals that the west coast of India and Pakistan — where both countries operate nuclear power plants — are particularly vulnerable to tsunamis.
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By Dan Robitzski

In the towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, people are returning to their long-abandoned homes to find them overrun by monkeys.
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By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. just approved designs for the first small modular reactors, scaled down fission reactors that could help transition away from fossil fuels.
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By Dan Robitzski

An energy startup called NDB says it's making progress on a battery technology powered by small pieces of nuclear waste. Oh, and they say it's safe.
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By Jon Christian

The Survival Condo is a converted luxury condominium complex comprised of 15 floors, reaching 200 feet below the surface.
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By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are hoping that tiny graphite-coated balls of uranium could revolutionize and bring back nuclear energy production to the United States.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new site claims to offer a guide to building an entire nuclear power plant, from the reactor vessels to the Homer Simpson-esque control panels.
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By Jon Christian

Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.
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By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is looking to arm nuclear submarines with high-energy laser weapons, according to Popular Mechanics. It won't reveal why.
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By Victor Tangermann

Researchers identified a major flaw in the U.S. government's plan to store nuclear waste: groundwater can eat away at storage containers and cause leaks.
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By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers wants to make use of nuclear waste by converting it into extremely long-lasting diamond batteries that could power medical devices.
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By Dan Robitzski

Rolls-Royce is eyeing two building sites for its first mini nuclear power stations called "small modular reactors" (SMR) in Wales and northern England.
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By Victor Tangermann

Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, is now operational and generating power for the town of Pevek.
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By Dan Robitzski

After denying reports of a system malware infection Tuesday, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) admitted that its plants had been hacked.
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By Victor Tangermann

Russia's massive floating nuclear power plant is destined to make its way across the Arctic Ocean to supply electricity to a remote eastern region.
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By Victor Tangermann

Last week, a Russian nuclear sub caught fire, killing 14. Now, a Russian Navy official says that the deceased crew averted a "planetary catastrophe."
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By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found radiation levels up to 800,000 times higher than expected in the sea water around a sunken nuclear sub.
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By Kristin Houser

As global temperatures rise, the Arctic is melting away, releasing more greenhouse gases and revealing previously-frozen nuclear waste and diseases.
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By Dan Robitzski

In order to prevent devastating hypersonic missile strikes, military contractor Raytheon is working towards a powerful laser capable of shooting them down.
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By Dan Robitzski