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nuclear power

Technology

Static electricity can keep desert solar panels free of dust

Dust drastically lowers the output of solar panels, but applying an electric field to the panels can make dust particles repel each other and disperse

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Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Physics

Chernobyl power cut sparks fears of potential for radiation leaks

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Neutron facility

Physics

Chernobyl staff denied access to radiation monitoring lab

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Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Physics

Will Russia's attack on a Ukrainian nuclear plant cause a meltdown?

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Vladimir Putin

Humans

Would Vladimir Putin really use nuclear weapons in Ukraine?

Analysis

Radiation map

Physics

Chernobyl radiation spike probably from Russian tanks disturbing dust

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Ukrainian soldiers

Technology

Risk of nuclear disaster is minimal as Russian forces reach Chernobyl

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2AK7R1N Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk, UK

Environment

Cost of new UK underground nuclear waste facility jumps to £53 billion

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Description: Camera image of a plasma inside the TCV tokamak, regions of different colors correspond to different temperatures of the hot plasma. The center of the plasma is so hot that it does not emit visible light. Credit: Curdin W?thrich / SPC/EPFL

Technology

DeepMind uses AI to control plasma inside tokamak fusion reactor

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JET

Video

Nuclear fusion energy record points way to harnessing power of the sun

The nuclear fusion experiment at the Joint European Torus in Oxford on 21 December saw a ball of super-hot plasma sustained for 5 seconds

Video

Technology

Fusion energy record suggests we really could build artificial suns

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Physics

How does the sun shine? Here's why we are still a little in the dark

Comment

Technology

Snow-proof solar panels keep working even in icy weather

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Technology

Material inspired by blood vessels can extract uranium from seawater

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