nuclear power
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Japanese Nuclear Plant On Emergency Power After Quake, But Little Risk Of Fukushima-Type Event
A Japanese nuclear power station in Hokkaido is operating on emergency power after the region was hit by a 6.7-magnitude quake in the early hours of Thursday morning, Reuters reported. However, though the event carries unsettling overtones of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, authorities say there is currently no danger of any similar…
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MIT Receives Millions To Build Fusion Power Plant Within 15 Years
Nuclear fusion is like a way-more-efficient version of solar power – except instead of harnessing energy from the rays of a distant sun, scientists create miniature suns in power plants here on Earth. It would be vastly more efficient, and more importantly, much cleaner, than current methods of energy production. The main issue is that…
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Scott Pruitt’s EPA Says Maybe More Radiation Exposure Wouldn’t Be So Harmful
Donald Trump’s appointment of former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency this year drew eyebrows, because Pruitt had made his career as a longstanding legal opponent of the EPA and a prominent climate change sceptic. Since he’s been put in charge of the agency, Pruitt has allegedly made plans…
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Watch Chernobyl’s Huge Radiation Shield Slide In And Enclose The Damaged Nuclear Reactor
Video: We already saw how the new $2.1 billion (€1.5 billion) sarcophagus — the 275m wide, 108m tall steel shield that entombs the radioactive material leaking from the damaged nuclear reactor left over from the Chernobyl disaster — was going to be put in place to replace the old concrete structure that enclosed the damaged…