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All major news outlets have confirmed that Japan has shut down its last operating nuclear reactor over the weekend. Today, May 7, represents the first time in decades when the Asian nation no longer utilizes electricity derived from nuclear fission.
Saturday evening, at 11:03 pm local time, the No. 3 reactor at the... |
7 May 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Yesterday, February 9, authorities in the United States gave the go-ahead for the construction of two new nuclear reactors in the state of Georgia. This is the first time the building of nuclear reactors is authorized in the United States, since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident three decades ago.
North Americ... |
10 February 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Astrobiologists say that naturally-occurring nuclear reactors may have contributed, or at least influenced, the development of life here on Earth. Since the constructs occur by themselves, it is entirely possible that they exist on extrasolar planets as well.
While the amount of data available on this issue is hazy... |
2 December 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Reports from the Fukushima Medical University (FMU), some 60 kilometers (37.2 miles) away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, show what the area looks like now, months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that led to the meltdown of four nuclear reactors at the installation.
FMU physicist Tsuneo Kon... |
14 November 2011
07:04 GMT |
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Physicists with the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment are currently engaged in an all-out effort to characterize and understand the last mixing angle of neutrinos. Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are leading the work.Mixing angles are math... |
16 August 2011
05:44 GMT |
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A Swedish man was arrested by police after calling authorities to ask if he was breaking any laws by constructing a nuclear reactor in his own kitchen. The man had posted videos on the Internet about his endeavor, but authorities only became involved after he called them directly.According to The Local newspaper, the... |
3 August 2011
07:49 GMT |
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The conclusions of a new study published today indicate that nuclear reactions restarted at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant about 12 days after the March 11 tremor and tsunami hit. Using limited data collected from the power plant, University of Tokyo researcher Tetsuo Matsui shows that conditions were righ... |
9 May 2011
06:04 GMT |
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A series of technologies and design methods previously used to create exploration rovers destined for other planets is now being used in a robot that is roaming the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The machine is investigating areas where humans would be harmed by high radiation levels. The advanced technologie... |
28 April 2011
03:04 GMT |
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Reports are beginning to surface of a new, large earthquake in Japan. According to the automated seismic monitoring network maintained by the United States Geological Survey, the new event had a magnitude of 7.4, and it occurred at 11:32:41 UTC today, April 7, 2011.The epicenter of the new tremor was located at a dep... |
7 April 2011
11:19 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Japanese authorities detected a crack in the reactor 2 building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Through the 20-centimeter (7.9-inch) hole, highly-radioactive water is spilling into the Pacific Ocean, and experts are scrambling to fix the issue. The contaminated water found to be co... |
4 April 2011
05:02 GMT |
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A number of scientists in the United States have been trying lately to reassure the general public that the effects of the nuclear crisis currently unfolding in Japan will not affect the country. They also spoke about the possible repercussions of an earthquake striking nuclear power plants in the US as well. There ... |
19 March 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Emergency responders in Japan have began using helicopters to try and maintain temperatures within manageable limits at reactor #3 a the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) away from Tokyo. The situation at this particular building was degrading rapidly, and so authorities decided t... |
17 March 2011
09:08 GMT |
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As emergency responders struggle to keep three reactors at a Japanese nuclear power plant from going into meltdown, experts are analyzing the chain of events that led to this situation in the first place. The fact that it happened shows that you can never be too careful when building a nuclear reactor. The incident i... |
16 March 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Over the past three days, three explosions rocked the reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The facility was heavily affected by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off the nation's shorelines on March 11. Three reactors at the plant are now going into meltdown.Japanese officials ... |
15 March 2011
05:30 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the March 11 tremor that devastated Japan, the country is currently trying to come to terms with the consequences that the most powerful earthquake in the nation's history had. Among them is the explosion that affected a nuclear power plant reactor, and is currently endangering another. The F... |
14 March 2011
02:58 GMT |
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According to the latest readings collected by the most sensitive detector of its type ever constructed, Earth does not feature a nuclear reactor at its core. The issue as to whether it did or not was heatedly debated by geologists and geophysicists, but for now their disagreements have been settled.In the new investi... |
14 February 2011
03:40 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently proposed a new method of testing whether rogue nations suspected of being involved in constructing and operating nuclear reactors are actually building such structures. In the approach, which is non-invasive, so to speak, antineutrino detectors would be installed off the coast of su... |
23 November 2010
09:37 GMT |
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The governor of Fukui Prefecture, in Japan, currently holds to his word the future of the experimental Monju nuclear power plant. The reason why this project is tremendously important is because it is the first fast breeder reactor (FBR) in the world that has ever achieved criticality. After more than 14 years o... |
25 March 2010
12:01 GMT |
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Molybdenum-99 is one of the most crucial isotopes in the entire world, as it has numerous applications in medicine and imaging. The bad news is that next week, one of the primary reactors that regularly produce the stuff will be shut down for repairs. To make matters worst, there will be a few days in March when none... |
13 February 2010
02:52 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announce the development of a new computer algorithm that allows for them to visualize the reactions that go on inside a nuclear reactor in finer detail than ever before. The neutron transport code UNIC, which is still under deve... |
25 January 2010
04:11 GMT |
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As it becomes increasingly obvious that fossil fuels are destroying our planet, and people begin to wake up to this reality, scientists are beginning to wonder what the future of energy may be. Some argue that nuclear fission could be a powerful alternative, but the most recent statistic study on the issue has reveal... |
19 January 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Physicists have been looking for a way to reduce the amount of nuclear waste produced by power plants for a long time, but they couldn't manage any breakthroughs because the technology they have used has not been advanced enough. Now, recent innovations make it possible to consider the idea of closed-circuit rea... |
21 December 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) on Monday, experts revealed a troublesome fact about Chernobyl, the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that blew up in 1986. Recent measurements in the exclusion zone, where no humans can go without protective equipment, have revealed that the radioact... |
16 December 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Scientists assessing the difficulties related to the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility in southern France have recently revealed that it may be unfeasible to fire up the reactor as soon as 2018, as current plans have it. The multi-billion-euro nuclear fusion test rea... |
20 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Over the past few years, governments around the world have started turning their attention to nuclear energy again, mostly because other energetic sectors are becoming increasingly susceptible to price fluctuations on the international market. With global warming and climate change, using fossil fuels becomes an incr... |
17 November 2009
10:00 GMT |
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The United Kingdom (UK) plans to move forward with the construction of a new generation of power plants, which it wants to have ready as soon as possible. Detailed plans of the initiative will be announced any day now by Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change secretary. The MP will also speak about the most suita... |
9 November 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Even before three independent spacecraft confirmed the existence of water-ice on the Moon, the American space agency, NASA, had plans of someday going to the lunar surface and establishing a permanent research base there. In order to make this a reality, a sustainable, durable, compact and light-weight power source w... |
6 October 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) are currently investigating technologies that could allow for the construction of a fission reactor on the Moon in the future, to help power potential outposts that may be established. The new system is reportedl... |
17 August 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Seemingly the U.S. government is also beginning to think about its role in the global warming effect and the energy dependency after ignoring most of the treaties regarding carbon dioxide emission reduction for the last years. As a result, the U.S. Department of Energy will make available to study a nuclear facility ... |
10 December 2007
04:11 GMT |
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