Tag Nuclear energy - results: 25
How nuclear icebreakers work-and why Russia is leading in this direction
So is the solid earth that there is such a thing as ”Northern sea route”. This transportation artery, passing far to the North. It is simply impossible to go to regular courts. To do this, they are accompanied by a huge atomic mon...
The first floating nuclear power station in the world in operation. In Russia
I Heard about a nuclear power plant? It sounds cool and they give us very much, but now there is a new type of these energy sources. Imagine this: an insane amount of energy that can be delivered anywhere and with minimal cost. No...
How buried nuclear fuel, and how long is it dangerous
Until then, until we learn to get energy out of fusion reaction, the most effective and economical method of its production will be nuclear power plant. Only they can provide a huge amount of energy with minimum fuel consumption. ...
Why Chernobyl is a threat to the world, even 34 years later
Even those who were born after the Chernobyl accident, probably have heard about it. Not surprising, because this is one of the greatest manmade disasters in human history. At least, it is one of the most famous and widely publici...
#video | What will happen to the planet after a nuclear war?
Universal nuclear disarmament — the only way to avoid disaster. no matter How peaceful seemed the sky overhead, the situation on the planet is extremely tense. As of 2017 there are about four dozen armed conflicts and wars a...
In the UK want to build the world's first fusion power plant
will it have scientists to create a fusion setup? the Possibility of creating fusion power plants, scientists and engineers from around the world discussing for quite some time. And the possibility of building such a facility is n...
As Fukushima has become a second Chernobyl
on 11 March 2011 at Fukushima-1, located in the homonymous Japanese city, in a strong earthquake and tsunami, which claimed approximately 16 million lives, there was a major radiation accident. A natural disaster brought down not ...
We need more powerful nuclear engines to explore space. The production of plutonium-238 is growing
last year, "Voyager 2" finally broke through to interstellar space, having more than 18 billion kilometers. This epic mission was possible thanks to nuclear energy technology which spacecraft worked for decades. The spacecraft, si...
Scientists: nuclear power is the only salvation from climate catastrophe
to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and save the planet from global warming, many countries are trying to switch to renewable energy sources. To do this, they build solar and wind farms that take up huge area of land. Scientis...
Bill gates and the Southern Company are combined for the construction of nuclear mini-reactors
Founder and former CEO of Microsoft bill gates is no longer engaged in running a software company, but ambitious projects old bill still full. In one of them, called TerraPower bill gates recently signed a cooperation agreement wi...
In a world of huge problems with the electricity. Back to nuclear reactors?
back in 2009, Simon Irish, the investment Manager out of new York, have discovered a method by which, in his opinion, it was possible to change the world. Irish saw that the entire world is in need of enormous number of projects i...
a year ago from a car rented by employees of the U.S. Department of energy, stole an unknown amount of weapons-grade plutonium, a vital ingredient for the production of nuclear warheads. It has become known only today, reports Mot...
The "best" scenario of nuclear war has shown dismal results
On the Ground, now more than 15 000 nuclear warheads — enough to blow everything to hell. Even more than enough. But how many nuclear explosions would it take to destroy the enemy? How many nuclear warheads a country-aggressor can...
Completed tests of a compact nuclear reactor for space colonies
As the portal Space.com engineers and scientists from the Research center NASA's Glenn has completed ground tests of a compact nuclear reactor with a capacity of 10 kilowatts, which . In the future the installation is planned to u...
Russia launched the world's only floating nuclear power plant
Many countries, including China and the United States, tried to create a sea or floating nuclear reactors, but attempts have sunk into oblivion. Russia, though not the first, launching a new floating nuclear power plant, 70-MW "Ak...
Russia launched the world's first floating nuclear power station
Many countries, including China and the United States, had planned to create a marine or floating nuclear reactors, but no one dared. Russia was the first, launching the world's first floating nuclear power plant, 70-MW "Akademik ...
Create a hybrid fusion reactor
Despite the rapid development of alternative energy sources, one of the most beneficial types of energy is still nuclear energy. Therefore, not surprising that in this area there are a lot of developments. For example, it was rece...
In Japan has created a robot snake for the study of nuclear power plant "Fukushima-2"
the disaster at the Japanese nuclear power plant incident in 2011, was for Japan a real tragedy. To this day its effects are felt, and dozens of companies and hundreds of professionals are trying to minimize the impact of this inc...
The first explosion at Chernobyl was a nuclear, say scientists
the Accident at the Chernobyl NPP occurred on 26 April 1986, has become one of the worst in the history of mankind. Previously it was thought that the explosion at the fourth unit was because in the experiment, the uncontrolled he...
Scientists wanted to classify the discovery of the "quark fusion"
In the image below, you can see the mushroom cloud from the explosion of ivy Mike in 1952, the first thermonuclear fusion bomb ever exploded. In the process of fusion and fission of nuclei is allocated a colossal amount of energy,...