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How Does a Nuclear Reactor Work?
A nuclear reactor controls a self-sustaining fission chain reaction so that heat can be removed safely and used for a practical purpose such as generating electricity, p…
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What Is Nuclear Waste and How Is It Managed?
Nuclear waste is radioactive material that requires controlled handling because its radioactivity or other hazardous properties persist after use. The term covers severa…
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What Is Nuclear Energy and How Does Nuclear Power Work?
Nuclear power generates heat from fission, the splitting of heavy atomic nuclei such as uranium. A power plant uses that heat to make steam and drive a turbine-generator…
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What Is a Tokamak?
A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped magnetic-confinement device designed to hold extremely hot plasma using strong magnetic fields so controlled nuclear fusion reactions can…
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How Does a Fusion Reactor Work?
A fusion reactor aims to create a hot plasma in which light nuclei fuse, confine or compress that plasma long enough to release useful energy, then capture the energy in…
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First image of fusion power plant that could power 50,000 homes
Tokamak Energy shares first images of commercial fusion power plant using 200 MW effective tokamak reactor.
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50 megawatt small nuclear reactor
NuScale's mini-reactor design has been certified as safe and could be operational in the next few years.
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The ups and downs of the life of a teenager who built a nuclear reactor at home
A 17-year-old boy who shocked the nation by building a nuclear reactor in his family's shed has died at the age of 40, but not from radiation poisoning.
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Micro nuclear reactor can produce 5 MW of electricity
Westinghouse Corporation introduces an advanced reactor design that could provide nuclear power to areas where water is scarce and heat is needed.
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How do the superpowers build nuclear power models?
Nuclear power is a long-standing energy technology, and is used by many developed countries to solve particularly urgent energy problems.
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China successfully builds megawatt-scale space nuclear reactor
According to information published by Space News, this large-capacity nuclear reactor was designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and can generate 1 megawatt of elec…
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Micro nuclear reactor for moon base
Rolls-Royce's nuclear fission reactor is expected to be just 1 meter wide and 3 meters long, providing stable energy for astronauts.
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America is about to launch a spacecraft with the most advanced technology in the world
Nowadays, the race to explore and conquer space in the context of a technological explosion has urged Western countries to build launch vehicles using nuclear propulsion.
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Discover the world's first reactor that can produce endless energy
This is the world's first reactor that will power the Earth using nuclear reactions like the Sun.
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Strange uses of uranium throughout history
In addition to its use in nuclear reactors and weapons manufacturing, uranium has strange applications ranging from dentures to medical treatments.