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Environment

Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash

A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry weather, strong winds and the presence of land mines are complicating efforts to bring the blaze under control

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New Scientist of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 15, 2025. Anatoly Doroshenko

Physics

The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

Features

Chernobyl 2022

Physics

Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

Features

Physics

The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved

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Physics

Chernobyl cooling systems have lost power but meltdown risk is low

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Technology

US to fire up small reactors in 2026 as part of 'nuclear renaissance'

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Physics

The US is unlikely to test nuclear weapons, despite what Trump says

Analysis

Technology

Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be ready any time soon

Analysis

Physics

Nuclear fusion gets a boost from a controversial debunked experiment

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Chemistry

How superheavy chemistry could rearrange the periodic table

In an unprecedentedly precise accelerator experiment, researchers directly observed how some of the heaviest known elements react and form molecules

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Physics

Could Israel's bombing trigger a nuclear accident in Iran?

Analysis

Physics

Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

Culture

Environment

Fusion power may never happen if we don't fix the lithium bottleneck

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Society

This is how to avoid annihilating ourselves in a nuclear war

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