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New Fusion Record Achieved in Tungsten-Encased Reactor
06 May 2024 18:12 GMT
… Research Council of Science and Technology, the new diverter improves the reactor … we reported last year:
Research into nuclear fusion has made slow but … .
More: New Kind of Fusion Reactor Built at Government Lab
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‘A big risk’: Voters wary of nuclear replacing coal-fired power
06 May 2024 19:17 GMT
… the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters when asked about … to build large-scale reactors near them, suggesting strong … host nuclear energy – and for small modular reactor technology … to be deployed in other places – focus group research …
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Algonquin leaders seek answers on toxic sewage discharge at nuclear lab
06 May 2024 10:41 GMT
… Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) discharged toxic sewage at the Chalk River research … ECCC nor the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) … isotopes before the national research reactor';s 2018 shutdown … In January, CNSC, the nuclear regulator, approved CNL' …
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Private investment fuels race for nuclear fusion power in US
06 May 2024 04:03 GMT
… the United States' nuclear fusion sector could be producing … also hoping decades of research might finally culminate in … neutrons, which bombard the reactor walls and raise their temperature … , the economic viability of nuclear fusion appeared uncertain, as …
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Nuclear power makes no sense for Australia – but it’s a useful diversion from real climate action
05 May 2024 21:13 GMT
… argument)
Stage 5: nuclear small modular reactors are the only viable … Stage 6: if small nuclear reactors turn out not to be … viable, large nuclear reactors are the only path to … large-scale nuclear in more recent policy announcements.
Research has …
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Small reactors don’t add up as a viable energy source
05 May 2024 00:35 GMT
… Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the … poor economics: generating power with nuclear reactors is costly compared to other … between these costs is widening.
Nuclear reactors built during the last decade …
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Underneath a tiny island, 50 kilometres of tunnels will house high-level nuclear waste
04 May 2024 19:34 GMT
… on the first new nuclear reactor in Europe in the … modern Australian households.
The newest nuclear reactor on Olkiluoto, Finland, took … report by a major US nuclear research lab went as far … it further.
The three nuclear reactors on Olkiluoto are key to …
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STEP components to undergo testing in Czech research reactor
02 May 2024 18:15 GMT
… be tested in a Czech research reactor following the signing of an … -15 light water tank-type research reactor. They will then remain at … rig using their LVR-15 research reactor," said Fiona Harden, STEP … .
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Nuclear fusion reactors a step closer to being economically viable after scientific breakthrough
02 May 2024 13:13 GMT
… world's largest nuclear fusion reactor in Japan
A look … world's largest nuclear fusion reactor in Japan
“The tokamak … designs for developing reactors that can exploit nuclear fusion to … a consortium of fusion research institutes in the European Union …
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NNSA collaborates with Japan, Korea on research reactors
01 May 2024 18:04 GMT
… optimising the nuclear non-proliferation features of their respective research reactor models aimed … the proliferation resistance of research reactors in emerging nuclear power countries including the …