Interesting Engineering on MSN5d
NASA's lunar nuclear reactor design has major flaw, claim China's scientists
Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...
Cleanup at Fukushima is stressful, dangerous
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the meltdown in Japan 14 years ...
New Atlas11d
General Fusion's reactor prototype creates plasma for the first time
Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion ... it had created plasma inside its prototype reactor – a major ...
Physics World27d
The quest for better fusion reactors is putting a new generation of superconductors to the test
Superconducting magnets inside a fusion reactor will ... in a freezer’ are formidable The Sun’s core is kept hot and dense by the enormous gravitational force exerted by its huge mass. To achieve ...
The Associated Press on MSN11d
'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup work involves high radiation and stress
Operators hope to send the extendable robot farther into the reactor to take samples closer to the center, where overheated ...
Indianapolis Business Journal13d
‘All roads point to nuclear’: Reactor incentive package moves forward in House
Supporters hold up nuclear power as more efficient and cleaner, but say the cost to get that power connected to Indiana’s ...
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy measures real-time chemical changes in molten salt
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...