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Russia ‘Prepared for the Worst’ With Nuke Tests After Suspending Weapons Treaty

During a meeting at the United Nations on Thursday, Russian Deputy Foreign...

Small But Mighty: SMRs

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Nuclear Fusion Still Requires 100X More Energy Than it Produces. Here’s Why.

Since Tuesday, the media has been excited about Nuclear Fusion.That’s...

Humanity’s future — Nuclear Fusion

Humanity’s future — Nuclear FusionGenerated by the Author using Awesome AI toolsHow would you feel having a sun burning in your backyard? At the first glance, pretty scared, right? But what if that tiny sun...

See inside the creepy nuclear bunker that has been sold at auction as a unique off-grid vacation home

The inside of the bunker.SCL Auctions A Cold-War era nuclear bunker built in 1959 has sold at auction in Lincolnshire, England. The bunker went on sale with SDL auctions on November 24 and sold for £31,000, around...

America's New B-21 Bomber Is a Nuclear Drone

America now has a drone that can drop nukes. The Pentagon showed off its first new stealth bomber in decades on December 2. For weeks, the U.S. military and manufacturer Northrop Grumman had been building up the...

More than a dozen powerful explosions at a huge Russian-occupied nuclear power plant in south Ukraine, says IAEA

Overview of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on August 29, 2022.Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies. Renewed shelling near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in the last 24 hours. "Powerful...

Russia Accused Ukraine of Making a Dirty Bomb Using Images From Movies and 9/11

On Monday, the Russian military warned the world that Ukraine was in the final stages of creating and detonating a dirty bomb that would spread nuclear radiation across Europe. According to Russia, Ukraine and the...

Iranian government blames 'foreign country' for hack-and-leak of nuclear information

The hack-and-leak of emails and other materials this weekend related to Iran’s nuclear program was the result of “unauthorized access from a specific foreign country,” the Iranian government said Sunday. The...

Pentagon: Just FYI, We Have a Nuclear-Armed Submarine in the Arabian Sea

The Pentagon just let everyone know that it’s got a nuclear-armed submarine in the Arabian Sea, for no particularly stated reason. Just in case you were curious. The movements of nuclear submarines are usually secret,...

The NSA Is Displaying Its Old Nuke Launching System in a Museum

An unnamed artifact on display at the NSA’s National Cryptologic Museum. (Photo: NSA)The National Security Agency (NSA) has added an unexpected new exhibit to its museum: the United States’ newly retired nuclear...

Putin Accuses West of ‘Satanism’ and Announces Annexations in Terrifying Speech

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech at the Kremlin today where he announced the annexation of portions of Ukraine in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia. In his speech he accused the West of...

Ukrainian military intelligence claims the risk of Russia using nuclear weapons is now 'very high,' report says

Russian Yars ballistic nuclear missiles on mobile launchers roll through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade rehearsals on May 6, 2018 in Moscow, Russia.Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The Ukrainian military...

The Story of the Soviet Submarine Officer Who Saved the World Is Now an Opera

For a moment on October 27, 1962 the world came close to nuclear annihilation. It was the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the world stood at the precipice of disaster. The Soviet submarine B-59 in the depths of...

Coal to Nuclear Transition to Decarbonize the Grid

We love big projects here at Hackaday, and one of the biggest underway is the decarbonization of the electric grid. The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently published a report (PDF) on how placing nuclear reactors on...

The Death Spiral of US Nuclear Power

Artr Konyev viewing the Chernobyl Elephant’s Foot, photo US Department of Energy (source) Konyev survived in good health.If you were to believe all the articles about the bright future of nuclear power paired with...

A Nuclear War Between the U.S. and Russia Would Starve 5 Billion People

The worst part of nuclear war is surviving it. Millions would die in a nuclear exchange between superpowers like Russia and the U.S., but billions more would die in the aftermath of even a “limited” nuclear war....

‘It Could Be Anything’: Experts Tell Us What Kind of Nuclear Secrets Could Trump Steal

When the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in search of sensitive documents, it was looking for classified information related to nuclear weapons, a source familiar with the investigation told the Washington Post. Trump denied the...

Ukraine Accuses Russia of ‘Nuclear Terrorism’ After Rockets Hit Nuclear Plant

Explosions shook Europe’s largest power plant over the weekend and Russia and Ukraine are both blaming the other side. Rockets landed in the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday night, landing near dry...

Cloud Power Up

Tl;dr: The clouds should use their powers to help power the cloud. Atomically. CAPEX obsessives like myself have focused on the cloud’s vast agglomeration of compute, storage, and networking. But there is another,...

Fighting Around Europe’s Largest Power Plant Is ‘Out of Control,’ UN’s Nuke Chief Warns

The head of the UN’s nuclear regulatory watchdog is warning the world that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant “is completely out of control.” Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic...

America Says ‘Thanks For Letting Us Nuke You, Here’s a Medal’ to Atomic Veterans

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the Pentagon detonated dozens of nuclear bombs in the American Southwest and in the Pacific Ocean. It had “Atomic Soldiers” witness, work on, or monitor the explosions to see...

Congress Wants to Spend $45 Million on Nukes the Navy Said it Doesn’t Need

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) added an amendment to the 2023 military budget that would continue to fund the development of sea-launched nuclear cruise missiles. This despite the Navy’s own budget zeroing...

How Wildlife Apparently Loves Nuclear Waste

ENVIRONMENTIconic — if accidental — experiment in rewildingEuropean bison. Picture: Andrzej Kułak via PixabayWho remembers the Chernobyl disaster? The terrifying nuclear plant explosion in Northern...

Will Sizewell C be carbon negative?

A consortium including Sizewell C (SZC), University of Nottingham, Strata Technology, Atkins and Doosan Babcock has completed R&D trials using a lab-based pilot plant in pursuit of using heat from a proposed nuclear...