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The National Ignition Facility Just Got Way Closer To Fusion Power
In a major first, an experiment in the California lab got more energy out of its fuel than went into the fuel. We're one step closer to ignition, when the reaction becomes self-sustaining.
Obama Ordered Stuxnet Virus, Part of Organized Cyberattacks Against Iran
According to a report today in the New York Times, President Obama secretly ordered accelerated cyberattacks against the computers running...
Future Mars Colonists Will Pack Their Power to Go in a Suitcase Nuclear Reactor
This is definitely not TSA compliant.
Tennessee Valley Authority Looks To Build Six Small, Modular Nuclear Reactors
The first of their kind used for commercial energy generation
Pocket Particle Accelerators Like This One Could Bring Safer Nuclear Power to Neighborhoods
Meet EMMA, the Electron Model of Many Applications
Can Next-Generation Reactors Power a Safe Nuclear Future?
As nations around the world rush to reconsider their nuclear plans, nuclear experts look toward a future of smaller, safer reactors designed to greatly reduce the likelihood of a Fukushima-sized catastrophe
Seven Big-Thinking Proposals For Dealing With Nuclear Waste
Nuclear energy is looking like it will be a big part of a fossil-fuel-free future in the U.S. But the big question remains as big as ever: What's to be done with the waste it generates?
Old Soviet Warheads Fuel America’s Nuclear Power Industry
Could the Cold War be heating and lighting your home? If you are one of many Americans whose life is...
