More than 100 medical journals across the world issued a rare joint call on Thursday for urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons, warning that the threat of nuclear catastrophe was “great and growing”. The...
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‘Oppenheimer’ Leaves Out a Major Nuclear Risk Because It Wasn’t Known Until The ’80s : ScienceAlert
Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer is filled with the titular physicist’s worst nightmares of nuclear war. Ominous visions of mushroom clouds bursting from city after city, stacks of fire rising past the clouds, and...
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What Is Nuclear Fission? : ScienceAlert
Nuclear fission is the splitting of an atom’s nucleus to create two (or more) lighter elements. Though it can occasionally occur spontaneously in isotopes of some heavy elements, such as thorium and uranium, it...
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World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine Begins Construction : ScienceAlert
Nuclear fusion propulsion technology has the potential to revolutionize space travel in terms of both speeds and fuel usage. The same kinds of reactions that power the Sun could halve travel times to Mars,...
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25 Billion Times The Energy of a Nuclear Bomb Trapped by Global Warming Since 1971 : ScienceAlert
Since the 18th century, humans have been taking fossil fuels out of their safe storage deep underground and burning them to generate electricity or power machinery. We’ve now converted coal, oil, and gas into...
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The Ghostly Glow of a Nuclear Power Station Detected in Pure Water 150 Miles Away : ScienceAlert
Buried under kilometers of rock in Ontario, Canada, a tank of the purest water flashed as barely detectable particle slammed through its molecules. It’s the first time that water has been used to detect...
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Radioactive Leak at Minnesota Nuclear Plant Revealed Months After Accident : ScienceAlert
The operator of a nuclear facility in Minnesota said on Thursday the plant suffered a leak last November of water containing radioactive tritium, but that contamination was largely limited to the plant itself. Xcel...
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You Might Survive a Nuclear Blast if You’re in This Kind of Shelter, Finds New Study : ScienceAlert
If a nuclear bomb were dropped in your city tomorrow, would you know where to take cover? Nuclear war is a terrifying thought, but for a team of researchers at the University of Nicosia...
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We’ve Forgotton The Potential Horrors of What a Nuclear Winter Would Be Like : ScienceAlert
Under the shadow of the Cold War, many in the world feared the impending prospect of a nuclear winter. According to a new report, our focus has since drifted from its horrors, leaving us...
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New NASA Nuclear Rocket Plan Aims to Get to Mars in Just 45 Days : ScienceAlert
We live in an era of renewed space exploration, where multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the next decade with crewed...
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