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The Robots Used in Fukushima Clean Up Were Just Killed by Radiation
Five years ago, a violent earthquake triggered a 10-meter high tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station causing multiple meltdowns. Nearly 19,000 people were killed or left missing...
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Scientists Made a New Metal, and it Makes Nuclear Reactors Even Stronger
Scientists have developed a new kind of high quality metal alloy that is suitable to use in building nuclear reactors. While it might not be a metal that has been invented entirely from scratch, it's...
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New Missile Lobs Nukes 5x Faster Than Sound
Ready For Launch Weapons developers Raytheon and Northrop Grumman are ready to start flight tests for their new hypersonic missile, which is capable of firing a nuclear warhead at five times the speed...
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A Fire at Chernobyl Is Releasing Large Amounts of Radiation
Dead Zone Ukrainian authorities say a forest fire is causing radiation levels to spike in the area of Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant that melted down in 1986. "There is bad news — in the center of...
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DARPA Is Considering a Nuclear Rocket for Moon Missions
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just handed out a $14 million dollar contract to develop and test a nuclear thermal space propulsion system (NTP),...
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Couple Gets Engaged at Site of Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown
Nuclear Bond What could possibly be more romantic than getting engaged to be wed at the site of a nuclear disaster? It's bad enough that Chernobyl tourism took off after after the seminal 2019 HBO...
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Photos From Deep Inside Fukushima Reactor Show Horrid Mounds of Radioactive...
Messy Meltdown A remote-controlled robot travelled to the bottom of Fukushima's most damaged reactor on Thursday and captured images of mounds of melted fuel that sank following the 2011 tsunami that...
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Ukraine Says Russia Is Attacking Another Nuclear Plant
Ongoing Attacks A report published earlier today in the UK's the Independent says Russia has fired additional missiles at another location containing a nuclear reactor. The outlet reported that The...
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Dirty Bomb Ingredients Reportedly Stolen From Seized Chernobyl Site
Dirty Bomb According to an alarming story by Science late last week, radioactive materials have gone missing from the Chernobyl disaster site that experts say could be used to make a "dirty bomb" — a...
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France Might Run Out of Energy Because of Russia's War
Energy Crisis The future of Europe's use of nuclear powered energy was in doubt before Russia invaded Ukraine, and it just got a lot worse for France. The country's electric grid manager asked the...
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Ukraine Says Idiot Russian Soldiers Tracked Radiative Material All Over...
Step Back Russian soldiers have really made a mess of Chernobyl, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster that killed 30 and left a nuclear wasteland behind. Ukrainian soldiers described their experience upon...
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Nukes Might've Been On Destroyed Russian Warship
Oh, Ship History's most twisted round of "which of these things do not belong" is playing out on the floor of the Black Sea this week because Russia may have lost nuclear weapons when its warship sank...
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Putin Brags That "Satan II" Nuclear Missile Almost Ready for Launch
Near Missile Speak of the devil — Russian President Vladimir Putin has happily announced the country's so-called "Satan II" rocket is ready for deployment this year. Yesterday, the Independent reported...
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Scientists Puzzled by Star That Exploded in Supernova But Somehow Survived
Maybe there is something to the legend of the phoenix. Scientists are perplexed by a mysterious star, believed to have been completely annihilated in a powerful supernova — only to be found still...
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NYC Issues PSA on How to Survive Nuclear Attack
Public Freakout New York City residents were treated to a public service announcement (PSA) about how to survive nuclear fallout earlier this week — because apparently we all need one more thing to...
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Japan May Need Nine Nuclear Reactors Turned On to Get Through Winter
In an effort to prevent power outages this winter, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked that as many as nine of the country's nuclear reactors be brought online. Earlier today Bloomberg reported...
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German Government Says It May Keep Nuclear Plant Open After All
Germany's environment minister is a member of the Green Party in the country — so she's supposed to oppose nuclear energy for idealogical reasons. But recent changes in Europe's energy landscape means...
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First Small Nuclear Reactor Greenlit By US Regulators
Newclear A small nuclear reactor has been approved for certification by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday, which could make it the first of its kind to be approved in the United...
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Fighting Heats Up Near Ukraine Nuclear Plant
Close Calls Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant — the largest in Europe — are making locals increasingly nervous. More than half the residents of the nearby city of Nikopol...
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Startup Says Its Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones "Continuously"
Lil Chernobyl Imagine never having to change a battery in a device ever again — or, in fact, a battery that could outlive you. That’s what Betavolt, a Chinese tech company, is claiming with its newly...
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