Nuclear

In the south of France, ITER is inching towards completion. When it’s finally fully switched on in 2035, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor will be the largest device of its kind ever built, and the flag-bearer for nuclear fusion. Inside … Read more

I Due to Russia invading Ukraine, people seem to be more worried than usual about a nuclear war breaking out. I agree that it is definitely more likely that a nuclear war will happen tomorrow than it was, say, 4 … Read more

Fallout from nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and ’60s is showing up in U.S. honey, according to a new study. Although the levels of radioactivity aren’t dangerous, they may have been much higher in the 1970s and ’80s, researchers … Read more

The researchers measured the spontaneous emission of fast neutrons from californium-252, a radioactive isotope produced in nuclear reactors.Engineers have successfully transferred digitally encoded information wirelessly using nuclear radiation instead of conventional technology. Radio waves and mobile phone signals relies on … Read more

Politics seems to have become inimical to critical thinking, and nowhere is this more obvious than climate change. Politicians peddle apocalypse and demand that Americans accept skyrocketing gasoline and home heating costs, rolling blackouts and brownouts, endless subsidies for uneconomic … Read more

Oct 12, 2021 26 Min read time Wind turbines loom over the Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant in the south of France. Image: Jeanne Menjoulet Beyond carbon emissions and safety, the debate must also confront how the choices we make now … Read more

UK ministers will put nuclear power at the heart of Britain’s strategy to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in government documents expected as early as next week, alongside fresh details of its funding model. Kwasi Kwarteng, business secretary, … Read more

(Updated January 2021) France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, due to a long-standing policy based on energy security. Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035. France is the world’s largest net exporter of … Read more

The Nuclear Weapon Archive – A Guide to Nuclear Weapons A Guide to Nuclear Weapons If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is notthe ideals we were fighting for but the methods we … Read more