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Experts: don’t shun nuclear for political reasons
When he witnessed a nuclear weapon detonating for the first time in history on July 16 in 1945, famed nuclear scientist Robert Oppenheimer felt the need to wax lyrical. “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,” he declared,
Extracting uranium from ocean water? Done
When we think of the oceans, we tend not to think of them as large depositories of uranium, the key ingredient in nuclear power production. We might as well start doing so, though. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
A little nuclear power plant that could
A wee reactor with plenty more oomph. That’s what NuScale Power, a nuclear power company in the US, has achieved in what is touted as a technological breakthrough. The Oregin-based company’s light-water reactors measure only 22.5m in height and 4.4m
Bulgaria is set to revive its once-moribund nuclear project
During long years of communism, Eastern European countries burned coal to power their struggling economies as if there was no tomorrow. Coal was cheap and readily available. Yet it was also highly pollutive. The environmental legacies of such policies are
