713 Results From "nuclear power"

The brain geniuses at Chuck E. Cheese still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent robots — and they wouldn't have it any other way.
Robotics

Chuck E. Cheese Is Weirdly Defensive About Its Floppy Disk-Powered Robots

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.
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time

A team of engineers argues that a spacecraft powered by nuclear fusion would radically improve our ability to explore the cosmos.
Off-World

Fusion-Drive Spacecraft: Express Solar System Travel, If We Figure It Out

You can now visit the control room where the decisions leading up to the Chernobyl disaster were made. But only for five minutes.
Future Society

Daring Tourists Can Now Visit Chernobyl’s Control Room

With just hours left before he turned 13, Jackson Oswalt managed to fuse two deuterium atoms together in a fusion reactor he built — in his play room.
Energy

Middle Schooler Builds Tiny, Working Fusion Reactor

Bill Gates' nuclear energy company, TerraPower, was building a Traveling-Wave Reactor near Beijing when the Department of Energy stepped in.
Nuclear Fusion

China Tariffs Blocked Bill Gates’ Plan for Safe Nuclear Power

The engineers behind the YouTube "the Hacksmith" have crafted a real-world "Star Wars"-style lightsaber that burns hot enough to cut through steel.
Robots and Machines

Engineers Create Plasma-Powered Lightsaber That Can Cut Metal

A team of scientists at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK claim to have achieved first plasma on an upgraded, experimental fusion reactor.
Energy

Scientists Just Fired Up an Experimental Fusion Reactor

A british company is manufacturing diamonds out of atmospheric CO2 and rainwater in an attempt to reverse environmental damage.
Science & Energy

This Guy Is Creating Actual Diamonds From Reclaimed CO2

A nuclear-powered tunneling bot could burrow through Europa's icy shell to probe its composition and, potentially, access the watery darkness under it.
Exobiology

NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Tunneling Bot Could Hunt for Life on Europa

Peter Williams, formerly a physicist at a nuclear weapons research facility, claims that his superiors tinkered with important models then covered it up.
Military

Lawsuit Alleges Coverup at US Nuclear Weapon Facility

UK credit broker Money.co.uk outlined how much it would cost to get a mortgage for a house on the Moon. Their numbers are way off.
Moon

Ridiculous Analysis Claims You Could Build a House on the Moon for $60 Million

Navy "UFO "scientist Salvatore Cezar Pais has filed another bizarre patent. This time, it's for a compact nuclear fusion reactor.
Energy

Navy Scientist Known For “UFO-Like Tech” Patents Fusion Reactor

Scientists are perplexed by a mysterious star, believed to be destroyed in a supernova — only to be found still alive, burning brighter than ever before.
Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Star That Exploded in Supernova But Somehow Survived

The Japanese government has suggested it may dump contaminated water from the Fukushima power plant into the ocean, but experts say it's too dangerous.
Environment

Experts: Fukushima Water Is Too Dangerous to Dump Into the Sea

A Russian sub caught fire on Monday, killing 14 sailors — and Russia won't say what kind of sub it was or what it was doing near the ocean floor.
Advanced Transport

Russian Sub That Caught Fire Possibly Sent to Cut Internet Cables

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

This Luxury Nuclear Apocalypse Bunker Has a Swimming Pool, Movie Theater and Sauna

A new Defense Department report identifies Russia and China's nuclear capabilities as an immediate threat to U.S. satellites.
Military

The Pentagon Is Worried a Space Nuke Will Fry Its Satellites

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.
Google

Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”

NASA's mobile Kilopower mobile fission nuclear power generator could be sent off to Mars by 2022, according to team members.
Mars

This Nuclear Reactor Could Be Shipped to Mars by 2022