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2 billion years ago, nature built the first nuclear reactor - here's how it worked
According to Scientific American, these uranium deposits first caught the attention of nuclear scie…
Sarah Kramer
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Lockheed May Have Announced A Big Breakthrough But They Aren't The Only Lab Working On Nuclear Fusion
The main obstacle keeping us from emission-free and nuclear waste-free fusion power is the amount o…
Jessica Orwig
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Hydrogen bombs vs. atomic bombs: Breaking down the differences in how they work, how much they cost, and which is most powerful
Hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs both operate via nuclear physics, but one is 1,000 times more power…
Adam Barnes
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Here's why a Chernobyl-style nuclear meltdown can't happen in the United States
Like 34 of the 100 commercial nuclear power plants in the US, the Fukushima Daiichi plant used Gene…
Sarah Kramer
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Chernobyl's nuclear fuel is smoldering again and there's a 'possibility' of another accident, scientists say
Researchers at the site of the catastrophic 1986 nuclear explosion in Ukraine have detected a spike…
Joshua Zitser
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Ukraine's nuclear power plants are built strong, and experts say there's little chance of a Chernobyl-like disaster
Russia attacked and took control of the Zaporizhzhia power plant, prompting apocalyptic warnings. B…
Marianne Guenot
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Putin's Skyfall missile failed a test and exploded in a deadly nuclear accident, the US says
Russian state media reported at the time that the explosion was caused by a liquid propellant jet e…
Ellen Ioanes,Ellen Ioanes
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Scientists are one step closer to understanding nuclear fusion reactions
Scientists use telescopes to observe the strange behavior of these stars. One way they do this is b…
Ali Sundermier
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This One Chart Shows 50 Years Of Nuclear Weapons Development
The development of nuclear weapons is a historical watershed. It transformed international politics…
Armin Rosen
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Trump's tweets are making people so worried about nuclear war that sales of an anti-radiation drug have skyrocketed
Troy Jones, who manages the medication distributor nukepills.com, told Kaiser Health News that he h…
Michal Kranz
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How nuclear fusion works, and why it's a big deal for green energy that scientists made a 'breakthrough'
US Department of Energy leaders announced that researchers created a nuclear fusion reaction that p…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic bombs
Hydrogen bombs, considered nuclear weapons, work using a combination of nuclear fission and fusion.…
Adam Barnes
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Google sunk $10 million in hopes of proving one of science’s most controversial experiments
Stanley Pons and Martin Flieschmann from the University of Utah claimed that they had ac…
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A mathematical technique originally developed to help build the atomic bomb is now used to figure out how much CEO pay packages are worth - like with Elon Musk
A recent prominent example is Tesla's 2018 compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk. Under that plan, Mu…
Andy Kiersz
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Chernobyl's nuclear fuel is smoldering. To prevent another accident, researchers are studying the site's radioactive lava.
In a lab, scientists recreated the lava produced by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. They hope to fi…
Aria Bendix
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Here's What 'Heavy Water' Is, And Why It Matters For Nuclear Weapons
Most nuclear reactors require a much higher percentage of uranium-235 in order to maintain a nuclea…
Andy Kiersz
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Even some of the Iran deal's most vocal critics aren't sure Trump made the right choice in withdrawing from it
Ernest J. Moniz, a nuclear physicist, former secretary of energy and one of the chief architects of…
John Haltiwanger
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US scientists trying to harness the power of the sun have made a 2nd major breakthrough for the future of sustainable, green energy
For the second time, scientists have taken one significant step forward toward a future that runs o…
Jenny McGrath
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South Korea Is Talking Seriously About Developing Its Own Nukes
The sentiment is a shift for the once confident South which announced three weeks ago that it had c…