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We’ve Come So Close to Annihiliating Ourselves—Multiple Times
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer helmed research that would end a world war; unfortunately, what he found would forever…
The future of nuclear waste: what’s the plan and can it be safe?
Inside the world’s first nuclear waste repository in Onkalo, Finland. IAEA Imagebank Lewis Blackburn, University of Sheffield The…
The Economics of Nuclear Energy
Brian James McManus returns in a new Real Engineering video, which goes into where investments and financial resources…
Korea’s KSTAR Fusion Reactor Sets 30-Second Plasma Containment Record
Just months after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory managed the use of 192 lasers to ignite a hydrogen…
Scientists Use 192 Lasers to Get Near Nuclear Fusion “Ignition”
All current nuclear power plants in operation around the world use some variant of nuclear fission. In it,…
World’s Oldest Manmade “Quasicrystal” Discovered Under Humanity’s First Nuclear Test Site
5:29:45 a.m. local time. Atop a 100-foot (30.48-meter) tower, a metal-coated plutonium device, called “Gadget,” initiated its implosion.…