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Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station

Environment

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

Some AI firms think nuclear power can help meet the electricity demand from Silicon Valley’s data centres, but building new nuclear power stations takes too long to plug the gap in the short term

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Thermal-trapping device reaching 1050 degrees Celsius CREDIT Device/Casati et al. USAGE RESTRICTIONS Credit must be given to the creator. Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.

Physics

Sunlight-trapping device can generate temperatures over 1000°C

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Mathematics

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

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annie jacobsen

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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Physics

Fusion reactors could create ingredients for a nuclear weapon in weeks

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A worker inside the vacuum vessel of the DIII-D fusion reactor

Physics

Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

Culture

Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Culture

Wireless power from space

Environment

Five climate megaprojects that might just save the world

Features

Inside the UKs the Joint European Torus

Video

Future of fusion: How the UK's JET reactor paved the way for ITER

We visited the UK's fusion tokamak, JET, to see how four decades of experimentation is paving the way for ITER, the next-generation reactor in France

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Physics

UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project

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Physics

How do you recycle a nuclear fusion reactor? We're about to find out

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Space

Russia’s space weapon: Is it nuclear and does it pose a threat?

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Space

Satellite beamed power from space to Earth for the first time ever

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