New Atlas8d
A sprinkle of boron makes for a better fusion reactor recipe
ITER, which stands for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, is located in southern France and will be the world's largest nuclear fusion plant when it comes online.
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Starfield best reactors for each ship class
The Starfield best reactors are key to everything you do with your ship. Whether you’re rocking some hugely powerful weapons or a massive ship for hauling cargo, all things lead back to your ...
MIT Technology Review20d
Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile Island
A once-shuttered nuclear plant could soon return to the grid. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign ...
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Silicon Valley has a plan to save humanity: Just flip on the nuclear reactors
History is, tragically, on their side. To be sure, nuclear power today is better understood than it was in 1979, when Three Mile Island’s Reactor Two experienced a partial core meltdown ...
ABC News26d
Three Mile Island, site of 1979 nuclear reactor accident, reopening to power AI
Three Mile Island, the shuttered Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that was the site of a 1979 reactor accident that remains the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history ...
USA Today19d
They're smaller, cheaper, but still cost billions. How can TVA fund new nuclear reactors?
The Tennessee Valley Authority is finalizing the design of its small modular nuclear reactors, which received $150 million in additional funding from the TVA Board of Directors in August as the ...
Building1mon
Hinkley Point C: Building Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years
Powered by 12 engines and rolling on 96 wheels, this monster can lift 5,000 tonnes and needs dedicated tracks to move it to the different parts of the nuclear island, where the reactors are being ...
POWER Magazine22d
Google Could Use Small Nuclear Reactors to Power Data Centers
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a speech last week at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh said small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) could possibly be used to generate the ...
Metro6d
How ‘Britain’s Chernobyl’ nearly turned the north into a nuclear wasteland
A steam explosion was imminent, and plant workers threw on radiation suits to push the fuel rods out of the air-cooled graphite reactor. Water barely contained the inferno, and it was only once ...
syracuse.com23d
Small electrical fire shuts down Central NY nuclear reactors
Scriba, N.Y. – A small electrical fire at Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station has led to two units being shut down until further notice, company officials said. Around 7:30 a.m. Monday, the fire ...
The Oak Ridger21d
Evolution of UT-ORNL partnership, saving of the lab described in new book
Radioactive gallium-72, which has a 14-hour half-life, was produced in ORNL’s Graphite Reactor and transported to the Ag Research Lab for injection into a pig. Researchers from Bethesda Naval Hospital ...