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Technology

Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Is cheap, clean energy finally here?

A report in the Financial Times suggests that the US National Ignition Facility has produced a fusion reaction with a net gain in energy, but what does that mean?

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Technology

Oppenheimer: What led to the physicist's downfall?

Culture

Environment

Should Japan dump Fukushima's radioactive water into the ocean?

Analysis

Technology

Situation at Ukrainian nuclear plant is dangerous, IAEA boss warns

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Life

Dogs living near Chernobyl are genetically different to other groups

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

Physics

Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

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Technology

Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by 51¶¯Âþ

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TOPSHOT - Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. - Ukraine remains deeply scarred by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded and streamed radiation into the atmosphere in the country's north. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was occupied in the early days of the war and it has remained in Russian hands ever since. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine started a new kind of nuclear war

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WALTER TOSTO COMPANY REPORT https://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionforenergy/52231537313/ Final assembly of Europe's sector 4 of the ITER Vacuum Vessel, Walter Tosto, Italy, May 2022.

Physics

Unlimited energy from fusion became a more feasible prospect in 2022

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National Ignition Facility

Physics

Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic energy milestone

A controlled fusion reaction has generated more energy than was put into the system for the first time, bringing viable fusion power another step closer to reality

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Humans

Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find poignant voice

Culture

Technology

Crawling robots will survey ageing US nuclear missile silos

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Physics

Nuclear fusion: Has there been a breakthrough and what will it mean?

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Technology

Ukraine's nuclear plants face uncertain future after Russian attacks

Analysis

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