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nuclear fission
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100,000 years and counting: how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?
Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory in Sweden, where KBS-3 repository technologies have been tested. Anna Storm, Author provided Thomas…
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…
He Had “Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.” Who Was Oppenheimer?
In the early hours of July 16, 1945, some 56 km southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, a man…
Here’s a Closer Look Inside a Nuclear Reactor
Understandably, there are several questions abound concerning the use of nuclear power plants for energy generation. However, there…
Perovskite Crystals Go From Solar Cells to Radiation Detectors
This might be the first time you’ve probably heard of perovskite, but you’ve most likely already seen it…
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,…