Inside a Fusion Startup’s Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony
So the race is on to engineer an efficient surrounding for fusion. One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a bunch of big capacitors to discharge at once, thus kick-starting …
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A Uranium-Mining Boom Is Sweeping Through Texas
Michaelsen thought he had won. But when the TCEQ commissioners took up the question several months later, again they rejected all of the judge’s findings. In a 19-page order issued …
Why an Offline Nuclear Reactor Led to Thousands of Hospital Appointments Being Canceled
“I remember in Geneva, two months ago, we said, ‘Pay attention, because on this specific week there is a risk of shortage if there is any problem with one of …
UN Atomic Head Visits Russian Nuclear Plant, Warns Of Serious Situation
Rafael Grossi had arrived at the power plant as he personally led a mission to assess the situation(file) Kurchatov, Russia: UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi kicked off a visit …
US Says No Indication Russia Preparing To Use Nuclear Weapon In Ukraine
We have not seen any reasons to adjust our own nuclear posture, the White House official said. Washington: The White House said Wednesday it had seen no indications Moscow was …
The US Buried Nuclear Waste Abroad. Climate Change Could Unearth It
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the …
Read Sir Michael Caine’s thrilling debut novel first | Books | Entertainment
Michael Caine’s new novel (Image: Getty/Hodder & Stoughton) When Dave looked back and remembered seeing the box for the first time, he could have sworn it had been glowing. Well, …
Radiation Is Everywhere. But It’s Not All Bad
For many of the sources you encounter in everyday life, the amount of radiation is so low that you don’t need to worry about it. But ionizing radiation can also …
Turtles Carry Signs of Humanity’s Nuclear History in Their Shells
On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along …
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previous hints of an uncomfortable …