nuclear power
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Engineers Can Build a Site to Secure Nuclear Waste for 100,000 Years. Who Will Live Nearby?
The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely populated and lushly forested island in the Baltic Sea three hours north of Helsinki. Onkalo — the name means “cavity” or “cave” in Finnish — is among the most advanced facilities of its kind, designed for an unprecedented…
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All Systems Go for Fukushima Radioactive Wastewater Release, Plant Operator Says
Everything is in place to begin dumping treated radioactive wastewater from Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the ocean, according to the plant’s operator. The plan to do so has been in the works for years, as irradiated water has accumulated in the aftermath of 2011’s earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear meltdown. But now…
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Nuclear Fusion Power Has Reached a Turning Point, in a Good Way
To date, developments in fusion power have been funded almost exclusively by the public sector. However, something is changing.
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Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Picks Wyoming for First Advanced Nuclear Reactor
TerraPower, an experimental nuclear power company backed by Bill Gates, could open its first site as early as 2028 in the coal mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming. Adding a touch of symbolism for out with the old, in with the new, the company says their plant would be constructed near the premises of a pair…