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Bangor University scientists design fuel for nuclear reactors on the moon | Science & Tech News
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Scientists at a Welsh university have designed fuel which could sustain life on a base situated on the moon. A team at Bangor University in north Wales has been conducting research which they say will make space travel safer and more efficient. Rolls-Royce was given funding earlier this year to build a nuclear reactor for…
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Nuclear waste: Public to have a say on plans to bury radioactive material | Science & Tech News
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Scientists hoping to bury nuclear waste deep underground have vowed that plans will not go ahead without local support. Highly radioactive material equivalent in size to 6,500 double-decker buses is currently stored above ground at 20 sites around the UK. Some silos are beginning to deteriorate with age. Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), a government agency,…
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Rolls-Royce gets funding for moon base nuclear reactor | Science & Tech News
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Rolls-Royce has received funding to build a nuclear reactor for a base on the moon. It might sound like the setup of a James Bond film, but is in fact part of a very real-world project that aims to see humans living and working on the lunar surface. The UK Space Agency has given Rolls-Royce…
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Nuclear fusion breakthrough offers hope for future generations – but the reality may be more complicated | Science & Tech News
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This is a historic moment in fusion science. Scientists have been pursuing the dream of producing energy from nuclear fusion for more than 70 years. While fusion – the same reaction that powers the sun – has been achieved many times in many different types of devices around the world, all of them require massive…
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Breakthrough nuclear fusion experiment could ‘revolutionise the world’ with clean energy | Science & Tech News
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US scientists have carried out the first ever nuclear fusion experiment to achieve a net energy gain, paving the way for a “clean energy source that could revolutionise the world”. During a landmark news briefing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, officials revealed the successful fusion experiment had taken place last week. As…
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Inside the world’s first nuclear waste tomb in Finland | Science & Tech News
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The world’s first geological tomb for nuclear waste is rapidly taking shape more than 400 metres below the forests of Finland. Batches of lethally radioactive uranium will start arriving within two years for burial in the warren of tunnels carved into the bedrock. Other countries, including the UK, are considering plans to build their own…
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Nuclear war would cause global famine with more than five billion people killed, new study finds | Science & Tech News
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More than five billion people would die of hunger as a result of a full-scale nuclear war between the US and Russia, according to a new study. The results of such a conflict would be catastrophic for food production, climate scientists at Rutgers University have found in a peer-reviewed study published in the context of…