Spain Joins Germany and Calls it Quits on Nuclear Energy, Will They Come to Regret It?
28 Dec 2023, 04:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If all goes to plan, each of Spain's final six active nuclear reactors will be completely shut down by 2035 at the earliest.
Demon Core: The Catastrophic Nuclear Experiment That Became a Viral Meme 80 Years Later
16 Aug 2023, 04:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In an online space that often tries to digest very serious topics behind the humor of internet memes, is it surprising the demon core is making a comeback?
Royal Navy’s Newest Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine Ready for Sea Trials
21 Feb 2023, 02:53 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / The almighty HMS Anson has recently left its construction site at Barrow-in-Furness and is headed to its future home, in Scotland
37 Years After Chernobyl, RBMK Reactors Are Still Operating in Russia
20 Feb 2023, 03:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even almost 40 years after the most devastating nuclear accident in human history, the RBMK class reactor isn't a relic of the distant past
Thorium: The "87-Octane" of Nuclear Fission Fuels
12 Feb 2023, 18:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / While it's pretty darn hard to get our hands on any more tritium, or even sustainable nuclear fusion for that matter, there are always other options
11 Years Post Fukushima, Japan Won't Back Down From Nuclear Energy
25 Dec 2022, 23:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / According to reports from NPR, Japan has recently backtracked a substantial amount of the anti-nuclear political sentiment held since the Fukushima disaster
Convair NB-36: The Bonkers American Bomber With a Nuclear Reactor in its Belly
23 Dec 2022, 18:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The impetus for the NB-36's development is one rooted in the atomic era of the 1950s to late 1960s. A time where the U.S. went a bit nuts about nuclear power
Nuclear Reactors Could Solve the Planet's Energy Issues, But Only if We Let Them
23 Dec 2022, 17:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We can already hear people shouting that it's not the late 1950s anymore. Well, friends, nuclear energy has made leaps and bounds since the atomic age
Abandoned for Decades, the Atom Smasher Was the World's First Particle Accelerator
23 Oct 2022, 14:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Set up in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania, in 1937, the pear-shaped contraption marked the beginning of nuclear research for civilian applications
60 Years Ago, Ford Aerospace Proposed an Insane Nuclear Powered Mission to Mars and Venus
9 Jun 2022, 01:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the days of the Falcon, Thunderbird, and the Lincoln Continental, Ford's now-defunct aerospace division had ideas for something certifiably insane
Samsung Heavy Industries to Build a Floating Nuclear Power Plant
13 Apr 2022, 03:28 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / This floating nuclear power plant using an innovative reactor based on molten salt will be able to provide electricity and to make hydrogen
Rolls-Royce to Boost Space Exploration With an Autonomous Nuclear Micro-Reactor
15 Mar 2022, 04:17 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Rolls-Royce just got a boost from the UK Space Agency for developing a groundbreaking nuclear micro-reactor for sustainable power in space
World’s Largest Nuclear Icebreaker Completes Maiden Voyage. On Diesel
16 Dec 2019, 12:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Project 22220, the largest and most powerful icebreaker of its class, went out to sea for tests on functioning and maneuverability
The Audi Mesarthim F-Tron Quattro Concept Is Fukushima on Wheels
27 Jul 2016, 16:31 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / If "apocalypse" was the first thing you thought of whey you heard "nuclear," a Russian designer would like to change that into "Audi"
Thorium Lasers Bring Nuclear Cars Back on the Table
3 Sep 2011, 18:11 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The automotive industry is making efforts to reduce the impact that the cars we drive have on the environment, but, ever since the automobile was invented patented, some 125 years ago, progress has ...
Toyota Suspends Exports to Iran
11 Aug 2010, 09:59 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Iran is currently making controversial efforts to develop nuclear weapons. While the Tehran authorities say that the move is aimed at improving the country’s energy developments, the plan is ...