739 Results From "nuclear power"

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 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

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 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

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

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

A team of researchers at MIT claim their "SPARC" compact fusion reactor should work — or at least in theory, as they argue in a series of papers.
Energy

MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

In three years, the Fukushima nuclear power plant will run out of space to store contaminated water, pushing officials to quicjly assemble a new plan.
Energy

In Three Years, Fukushima Could Overflow With Radioactive Water

China recently published a white paper outlining its nuclear strategy, which describes how it will never strike first or nuke non-nuclear powers.
Future Society

China Promises to Never Use Nukes — Unless Another Country Does First

There's a nearly impenetrable fog of hype surrounding graphene batteries. But it turns out the technology has a whole lot of promise, too.
Graphene

If Graphene Batteries Do Everything Scientists Say, They Could Be a Gamechanger

A group of roughly 300 nuclear fusion researchers put together a massive report of goals and priorities for making fusion power a reality.
Energy

Scientists Call for Fusion Power Plant in the United States

Congress allocated $125 million to NASA, directing it to develop nuclear propulsion technology that would improve flight speed on missions to deep space.
NASA

NASA Just Got $125 Million to Develop Nuclear Rockets

Scientists have found new evidence that Earth is moving through the remains of exploded stars for at least the last 33,000 years.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Earth Moving Through Radioactive Debris of Exploded Stars

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

Russia: Dead Nuclear Sub Somehow Avoided “Planetary Catastrophe”

Jim Woodward's MEGA drive, a theoretical spacecraft propulsion device, could allow us to travel to distant stars in the far future.
NASA

NASA-Funded Scientist Claims New Thruster Could Approach Light Speed

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

This Sunken Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean

Almost every active nuclear reactor in the U.S. is unprepared for flooding and storm surge caused by climate change; industry groups chose not to act.
Climate Change

Climate Change Could Cause Fukushima-Style Meltdowns in the US

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

Here’s Exactly How Screwed You’d Be in a Nuclear Apocalypse

China just closed the bidding period for contractors looking to build the country's first nuclear-powered icebreaker, set to be the largest in the world.
Nuclear Fusion

China Is Building a 33,000 Ton Nuclear Icebreaker