723 Results From "nuclear power"

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.
Nuclear Fusion

Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

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

Nuclear Plant Admits It Accidentally Leaked 400,000 Gallons of Radioactive Water

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket.
Future Society

Startup Says Its Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Cut Time to Mars in Half

Scientists suspect that there could be past or present microbial life beneath the surface of Mars that survives thanks to radioactivity.
Science & Energy

NASA Scientists Suggest Nuclear-Powered Life Under Mars Surface

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

France Discovers Ominous Cracks in Dozens of Nuclear Reactors

New footage from the British fusion firm Tokamak Energy shows unbelievably hot plasma imprisoned in a magnetic field.
Nuclear Fusion

We’re Only Slightly Exaggerating When We Say This Footage of a Fusion Experiment Will Melt Your Face Off

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

Renewables Overtook Coal and Nuclear Power Generation in the US Last Year

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

Officials Beg Russia to Stop Bombing Near Europe’s Largest Nuclear Plant

China just surpassed a new green energy milestone, crushing the west in the process.
Energy

China’s Green Energy Surge Has Caused CO2 Emissions to Fall for the First Time

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has some fresh advice for the world’s nations: Invest in nuclear power plants — and do it as soon as possible.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says We Need More Nuclear Energy After Russia Targets Power Plants

OpenAI has announced that the US National Laboratories will use its deeply flawed AI models to help with "nuclear security."
Future Society

OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security

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

First Small Nuclear Reactor Greenlit By US Regulators

Trump's Truth Social company announced this week that it's merging with the fusion power company TAE, formerly called Tri Alpha Energy.
Nuclear Fusion

Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company

Marathon Fusion says that fusion energy reactors could also be used to turn mercury isotopes into gold.
Nuclear Fusion

Fusion Startup Says It’s Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

Scientists claim that China's "Artificial Sun" nuclear fusion reactor has more than doubled its own previous world record.
Energy

China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed the Record for Stable Fusion Reaction

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory claim to have generated more energy with a fusion reaction than was needed to start it.
Energy

Physicists Say New Breakthrough Proves Fusion Power Is Possible

Lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro has been murdered at the age of 47.
Nuclear Fusion

MIT Fusion Physicist Murdered in His Home

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.
Nuclear Fusion

YouTuber Clambers Inside Chernobyl’s Nuclear Sarcophagus

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has announced that it is planning to send a nuclear-powered "space tug" capable of transporting heavy cargo in deep space, all the way to Jupiter in 2030.
Off-World

Russia Wants to Send a Nuclear-Powered “Space Tug” to Jupiter

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption mission."
James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say We Should Blow Up This Dangerous Asteroid Before It Gets Here