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Terrors of molten nuclear fuel
Fuel rods in Japanese nuclear reactors damaged by earthquakes and tsunamis are in danger of being completely melted and causing unintended consequences.
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Oceanography
Fish near the Fukushima power plant are contaminated 2,500 times higher
Fish caught near Fukushima nuclear power plant (Japan) is 2,500 times higher than the safe level.
Space science
China builds a fourth generation nuclear power plant
A project to build a nuclear power plant will turn China into the first country to exploit a fourth generation reactor for commercial purposes.
Space science
Building power plants in space?
Building a solar power plant on Earth orbit will be the most efficient and economical option in the next 30 years, according to research by an international team of scie…
Space science
Prepare to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon
This issue was discussed and contributed to comments at the 242th National Conference and the American Chemical Society (ACS) exhibition held on August 28.
Space science
The century-old dying of nuclear power plants
The process of dismantling an old nuclear power plant in Germany took place over 16 years and
Space science
EADS Astrium builds a solar power plant on the universe
EADS Astrium plans to bring a satellite into orbit to collect solar energy in the universe and transfer this energy to power Earth through infrared lasers.
Biology
Chernobyl: The 30-year exotic forest doesn't decompose
Nearly 30 years ago, all the world's attention was on the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, one of the most serious atomic disasters in human hi…
Biology
Use photosynthesis to recycle waste gas from power plants
This is an intriguing idea: Instead of discharging carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels into the air, recapture it with photosynthesis. Then it can be convert…
Animal world
Nuclear power plants worry about being attacked by jellyfish
British researchers have devised a predictive tool that can protect power plants built on the coast from the risk of attack from jellyfish.
Animal world
Detection of ultra-high-level contaminated fish near Fukushima 1
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on March 15 said the company measured a record radioactive level of 740,000 becquerels (bq) / kg of radioactive cesium in a fish cau…
Animal world
Japan saves animals around nuclear power plants
The animals abandoned in the forbidden area around the Fukushima nuclear power plant will soon be rescued.
Animal world
Catch 3-eyed fish near nuclear power plant
Fishermen who have just caught a wolf fish (Hoplias malabaricus) has 3 eyes in a lake near the argentina nuclear power plant.
Scientific application
New trend: Solar power floats on water
Solar energy application is by far the largest scale and probably even in the future.
Scientific application
Create clean water thanks to the waste heat of nuclear power plants
In the essay on nuclear desalination in the Internetional Journal, the Indian and Italian groups have argued that despite the community's concerns, the process's conveni…