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Japan Plans to Dump Fukushima's Radioactive Water Into the Sea
Out Of Options The Japanese government confirmed today that it will eventually dump the radioactive water stored at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant back into the sea. The Friday...
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Japan Is Bringing One of Its Tsunami-Damaged Nuclear Reactors Back Online
Comeback Japanese officials have granted full approval to restart one of the several nuclear power plants in the country that were damaged by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami. After the devastating storm...
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NASA Is Looking for Someone to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Lunar Fission NASA is moving forward with its plan to power lunar and Martian settlements with small nuclear reactors. Now, the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA are accepting proposals from...
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Trump Signs Directive Calling for Nuclear Reactors in Space
Space Nukes On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-6 (SPD-6), which lays out a plan to explore the cosmos using nuclear fission. Basically, SPD-6 is a call to develop...
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Another Earthquake Nails the Crumbling Fukushima Power Plant
Not Again A powerful earthquake struck the site of Japan's already-crumbling Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last weekend, further damaging the facility that experts and authorities have spent...
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Japanese Mayor's House Firebombed to Protest Nuclear Power
Public Feedback In October of last year, a resident of the Japanese town of Suttsu threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of mayor Haruo Kataoka's house. The mayor's crime? Tentatively...
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Truck Carrying Uranium Crashes in North Carolina, Prompting HAZMAT Response
Close Calls On Wednesday morning, a truck carrying radioactive uranium suffered a collision with a passenger van, causing a mass evacuation in case of a hazardous leak. Thankfully, no one seems to have...
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Nuclear Reactors Shut Down by "Jellyfish-Like Organisms"
Salp Clog Small gelatinous marine organisms called sea salps are wreaking havoc on two nuclear reactors in South Korea, forcing them offline, Bloomberg reports. In a matter of just three weeks, the...
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Japan Says Sorry, But It Has to Dump This Radioactive Water Into the Ocean
Moving Ahead Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says that the government has put off figuring out what to do with all of the contaminated water building up at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi...
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Japanese Prime Minister Challenged to Drink Radioactive Water Before Dumping...
Shots Shots Shots Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that the government could no longer delay its plan to dump radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
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Scientists Fear New Disaster at Chernobyl Meltdown Site
Burning Out Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed decades ago in a horrific radioactive accident. But it turns out that nuclear reactions are still smoldering away inside, even now....
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Startup Wants to Build Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Run Off Nuclear Waste
Off-Site Microreactors A Silicon Valley-based startup called Oklo wants to build tiny nuclear reactors that can run off spent fuel from much bigger, conventional nuclear reactors, CNBC reports. Experts...
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Japan Is Digging an Undersea Tunnel To Dump Fukushima's Radioactive Water
30-Year Flush In order to safely dispose of the radioactive water building up and threatening to overflow at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company...
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Scientists Monitoring Radioactive Snakes Near Fukushima Meltdown Site
Curving Snakes Nine years after the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, scientists are left wondering how dangerous the surrounding area still is. To investigate, a team of...
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Fire Reported at Crumbling Michigan Nuclear Power Plant
Heads Up What's going on with Michigan's nuclear power plants? Yesterday, local newspaper conglomerate MLive reported that a fire was detected at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant in Berrien County, MI....
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Humans Approaching Intelligence Level Required for Interplanetary Life,...
Are We There Yet? Humans might be smart enough to accomplish interplanetary life within the next 200 years, scientists said this week. A team of eight researchers published a new study in the preprint...
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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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China Announces Plan for Hybrid Fission-Fusion Power Facility
China says that it will start generating fusion power using the world's largest pulse-powered energy plant by 2028, thereby turning fusion energy into a reality — an eyebrow-raising claim, considering...
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Greta Thunberg Thinks Germany Shutting Down Its Nuclear Plants Is a Bad Idea
Who Needs Coal? Prominent climate activist Greta Thunberg has seemingly changed her tune — or at least softened her stance — on nuclear power. In an interview on the German national TV channel Das...
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Nuclear Fusion Startup Gets Funding for Twisty-Looking Reactor
Star Power The race to commercial nuclear fusion is heating up after German startup Proxima Fusion announced that it's raised the equivalent of around $8.6 million to build awild-looking type of...
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