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Powering Cars With Toxic Waste
Pac-Man + Uranium = Happy Al Gore!AP Photo; DEA/G.Cigolini/Getty Images; Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesScientists invent a uranium-eating molecule that could help turn nuclear junk into fuel With global...
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Think Carefully Before You Use That Stolen Laptop
Little Brother might be watching you Getting his computer stolen was the most fun thing ever to happen to this guy, who sounds like a bit of a tech geek. Thanks to a remote-access program he'd...
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Safer Nuclear
Self-Serve ReactorTraveling-wave technology starts out with mostly "depleted" uranium (U-238) [A] - useless metal that's thrown out when traditional "enriched" uranium fuel (U-235) is created. A small...
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Self-Serve ReactorTraveling-wave technology starts out with mostly "depleted" uranium (U-238) [A] - useless metal that's thrown out when traditional "enriched" uranium fuel (U-235) is created. A small...
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Old Soviet Warheads Fuel America's Nuclear Power Industry
From Megadeaths to MegawattsSoviet Topol-M missiles are capable of reaching Washington, but thanks to non-proliferation efforts the one seen here may make it to U.S. shores as civilian reactor fuel....
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Seven Big-Thinking Proposals For Dealing With Nuclear Waste
Nuclear Waste Meets Its MatchNorthwestern researchers have found a material that filters the radioactive cesium ions out of nuclear waste.Stefan KühnNuclear energy is looking like it will be a big part...
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Can Next-Generation Reactors Power a Safe Nuclear Future?
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Tennessee Valley Authority Looks To Build Six Small, Modular Nuclear Reactors
Babcock & Wilcox's Modular Nucelar Reactor DesignBabcock & WilcoxThe first of their kind used for commercial energy generation In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, countries like...
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Future Mars Colonists Will Pack Their Power to Go in a Suitcase Nuclear Reactor
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Obama Ordered Stuxnet Virus, Part of Organized Cyberattacks Against Iran
Cyberattacks EscalatedObama's cyberattack order significantly expands the historical use of cyberweapons in the United States.Wikimedia CommonsAccording to a report today in the New York Times,...
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Chernobyl Now
Chernobyl NowClick here to see this amazing image even larger.Left: Karen Kasmauski/Corbis; Right: Steve FeatherstoneAre nuclear disasters the new normal? On April 26, 1986, two powerful explosions...
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Powering Cars With Toxic Waste
Pac-Man + Uranium = Happy Al Gore! AP Photo; DEA/G.Cigolini/Getty Images; Kevin Winter/Getty Images With global warming grabbing headlines, carbon-free nuclear power is gaining popularity—and with it,...
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Safer Nuclear
Self-Serve Reactor Traveling-wave technology starts out with mostly "depleted" uranium (U-238) [A] — useless metal that's thrown out when traditional "enriched" uranium fuel (U-235) is created. A...
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Old Soviet Warheads Fuel America's Nuclear Power Industry
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Seven Big-Thinking Proposals For Dealing With Nuclear Waste
Nuclear Waste Meets Its Match Northwestern researchers have found a material that filters the radioactive cesium ions out of nuclear waste. Stefan Kühn View Photo GalleryIn our Future of the...
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Can Next-Generation Reactors Power a Safe Nuclear Future?
Areva's Taishan 1 EPR Facility Under Construction in China ArevaAt this time last week, the Nuclear Renaissance was in full swing. Plans were moving forward to use the $36 billion in loan guarantees...
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Pocket Particle Accelerators Like This One Could Bring Safer Nuclear Power to...
EMMA Installation Science and Technology Facilities Council-UK A wee particle accelerator in the English countryside could be a harbinger of a safer, cleaner future of energy. Specifically, nuclear...
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Tennessee Valley Authority Looks To Build Six Small, Modular Nuclear Reactors
Babcock & Wilcox's Modular Nucelar Reactor Design Babcock & WilcoxIn the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, countries like Germany and Switzerland have decided that nuclear energy isn't...
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