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Chemistry

New way to pull uranium from water can help China's nuclear power push

Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous technologies. Their success comes as China needs uranium to fuel its unprecedented nuclear expansion

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Chemistry

Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process

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Technology

Lasers can help detect radioactive materials from afar

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Environment

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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Technology

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

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Society

Should Ukraine capture a Russian nuclear power plant?

Analysis

Chemistry

Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 – the heaviest ever

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Technology

Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof

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Take a look behind the scenes at the world's largest fusion experiment

Physics

Take a look behind the scenes at the world's largest fusion experiment

Regulars

Physics

Is the world's biggest fusion experiment dead after new delay to 2035?

ITER, a €20 billion nuclear fusion reactor under construction in France, will now not switch on until 2035 - a delay of 10 years. With smaller commercial fusion efforts on the rise, is it worth continuing with this gargantuan project?

Analysis

Environment

Farmland near Chernobyl nuclear reactor is finally safe to use again

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Physics

Hybrid design could make nuclear fusion reactors more efficient

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Environment

Tech firms claim nuclear will solve AI's power needs – they're wrong

Analysis

Mathematics

500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks

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