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A nuclear fusion power plant prototype is already being built outside Boston. How long until unlimited clean energy is real?
In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy that powers the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to ...
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Nature Built a Nuclear Reactor 2 Billion Years Ago — Here’s How It Worked
That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore ...
67 Years Later, the Nuclear Car is Still an Impossibility
The nuclear car made bold promises of ultra-long ranges and sustainability, but the sci-fi concepts are still decades - if ...
New nuclear fusion reactor’s electromagnet could lift 10 monster trucks
The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a ...
A Thorium Reactor in the Middle of the Desert Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power
Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...
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A long-abandoned US nuclear technology is making a comeback in China
China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear reactor is reportedly one of the first to ...
Japan Approves First Restart of a Nuclear Reactor in Four Years
Japan’s atomic watchdog cleared the first nuclear restart since 2021, a shot in the arm for the government’s effort to ...
Utah looks at plan to build nuclear energy reactor at Delta power plant
EnergySolutions, a nuclear services company headquartered in Salt Lake City, is working on an initiative with Utah and the ...