Nuclear energy

By 2027, NASA aims to demonstrate a thermonuclear propulsion system that could cut the journey time to Mars in half using nuclear fission. Credit: NASA

Fast track to Mars: NASA's nuclear engines cut travel time in half 

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By 2027, NASA aims to demonstrate a thermonuclear propulsion system based on nuclear fission of low-enriched uranium fuel
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Engineering failures and broken organizational culture through analysis of the Chernobyl series (2019)

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Alex Shapira illuminates interesting points in the treatment of the Chernobyl disaster, which perhaps attention to in real time could have changed the tragic results
nuclear fusion. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Will we finally switch to the clean energy of nuclear fusion?

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The US Department of Energy has announced a major breakthrough after years of research into nuclear fusion, the "Holy Grail" of energy production.
Fission power generation systems—seen in this concept illustration—could provide reliable power for lunar exploration aboard Artemis. Credit: NASA

Nuclear power on the moon: NASA selects a design idea for a power generation system by fission

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NASA and the US Department of Energy are funding the development of initial design concepts for a 40 kW FSP system that is planned to operate for at least ten years in the lunar environment
A monument to the rescuers who went in to stop the radioactive leak from the Chernobyl reactor. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The Chernobyl disaster strikes a second (and a third?)

Opinion: The cessation of investment in nuclear energy after the Chernobyl disaster increased the dependence of European countries on fossil fuels from hostile and semi-hostile countries, such as Russia - which allowed Russia to invade Ukraine without hindrance, stopping the
energy sources. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The energy that never ends - the difference between depleting and renewable energy

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What is renewable energy and what is degradable energy? What are the origins of one and what are the origins of the other? How are energy sources usually sorted and how can they be divided differently?
Simulation of the nuclear fusion facility. Photo: ITER

to create the electricity that turns on the sun

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Micro-robots for cleaning radioactive waste

Micro-robots for cleaning radioactive waste

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nuclear waste. Illustration: shutterstock

A substance is developed to clean water from nuclear waste products

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North Korean President Kim Jong Un on the right, and South Korean President Moon Ji In. Image: Editorial credit: / Shutterstock.com

There is no way that North Korea will break away from its nuclear weapons and missile program, nor from its space program

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diamond. Unfortunately, the new battery won't be as pretty. Cory Schmitz

Diamonds from nuclear waste are forever

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The damaged reactor in Chernobyl, shortly after the disaster. From Wikipedia

It was not the Chernobyl disaster that eliminated nuclear energy

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Safe shutdown of a nuclear reactor. Illustration: Dassault Systems

A digital system for managing nuclear power plants

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A prototype of a compression system for a General Fusion reactor. The final device will use 200 pistons to compress plasma inside the ball at its center. (Courtesy of General Fusion)

Ideas that will change the world: easy fusion

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Simulation of a component in a nuclear power plant. From the Dassault Systems website.

The Russian NIAEP and Dassault Systèmes expand their partnership to optimize the construction of a nuclear power plant site

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XNUMXD visualization of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. Image: shutterstock

A new method for neutralizing nuclear waste in groundwater

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The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Photo: from Wikipedia

The nuclear program

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The chemical symbol of the element californium. Illustration: shutterstock

A new use of a rare element

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This visualization shows a possible configuration of a power plant located on the sea and is based on design work by Jacobo Bongiorno and other researchers from the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. Like oil drilling rigs, the structure will include a residential area and a helipad for transportation to and from the site. Imaging, Jack Jurewitz, MIT-NSE

In the wake of Fukushima: floating nuclear power plants, capable of withstanding tsunami waves

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Clean, safe and cheap energy. The laser system for controlled fusion at NIF. Photo: National Ignition Facility NIF

Scientists in the US have taken an important step towards controlled nuclear fusion

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nuclear waste. Illustration: shutterstock

Following the agreement with Iran - everything about nuclear and uranium

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Nuclear waste in northern Australia

The voice of the skeptic - the left's war on science / Michael Shermer

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The Committee for the Prevention of Nuclear Tests

North Korea's nuclear tests - what is the connection between a nuclear test and an earthquake?

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Cross section of a solar cell with transparent altacrodes

Positive energy - renewable sources / Matthew L. Wald

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US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Credit: US Department of Energy

Almost science fiction / David Bailo

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Fukushima nuclear reactor, Japan, 2007. From Wikimedia Commons

Nuclear energy - preparing for the black swan / Adam Purey

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Fukushima nuclear reactor, Japan, 2007. From Wikimedia Commons

Fukushima - a snapshot

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Warning symbol for radioactive material. From Wikipedia

How nuclear radiation affects health

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Fukushima nuclear reactor, Japan, 2007. From Wikimedia Commons

What causes a nuclear reactor to go through a meltdown and how serious is the situation in Japan

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The city of Sendai after the tsunami. Source: wikimedia commons

The decision to continue producing electricity from nuclear energy is a fateful decision for Japan's economic future

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Fukushima nuclear reactor, Japan, 2007. From Wikimedia Commons

"The installation of nuclear reactors in places prone to earthquakes should be avoided and the emergency generator should be protected against tsunamis

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Map of the impact of the earthquake in Japan, March 11, 2011. From the US Geological Survey website

A nuclear emergency in Japan due to damage to a nuclear power plant as a result of the earthquake and tsunami

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Dr. Yevgeni Shvograus. Photo: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

A generous research grant to Dr. Yevgeny Schwagraus for the development and expansion of the existing energy resources in light water reactors

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A plate to absorb the sun's absorption in a solar power plant in Spain. From Wikipedia

Two groups are competing for a concession to establish a renewable energy center in the south

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Walter Kuhn receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. From Wikipedia

Within 25 years we must abandon oil, gas and coal and rely mainly on sun and wind, otherwise humanity will face collapse

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A small nuclear battery

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Deuterium is highly compressed as nuclear energy

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Tiny nuclear reactors will provide electricity to remote towns

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Russia plans to build a floating nuclear power plant

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Chinese nuclear fusion experiment

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A star is born on Earth

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Historian: Nazi Germany conducted nuclear tests

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