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Situation at Ukrainian nuclear plant is dangerous, IAEA boss warns

Ukraine and Russia must agree to maintain safety at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to prevent a dangerous radiation leak, says the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency

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Life

Dogs living near Chernobyl are genetically different to other groups

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

Physics

Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

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TOPSHOT - Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. - Ukraine remains deeply scarred by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded and streamed radiation into the atmosphere in the country's north. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was occupied in the early days of the war and it has remained in Russian hands ever since. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine started a new kind of nuclear war

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National Ignition Facility

Physics

Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic energy milestone

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Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find poignant voice

Humans

Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find poignant voice

Culture

TOKA robot checking a missile silo

Technology

Crawling robots will survey ageing US nuclear missile silos

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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plan

Technology

Ukraine's nuclear plants face uncertain future after Russian attacks

Analysis

National Ignition Facility

Physics

Nuclear fusion reactions create unexpectedly high-energy particles

Burning plasma fusion reactions, which have only recently been created, are producing higher-energy particles than researchers expected

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Environment

Does the UK need new nuclear plants like Sizewell C to reach net zero?

Analysis

Physics

Can a slew of nuclear fusion start-ups deliver unlimited clean energy?

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Environment

Nuclear Now review: Oliver Stone's paean to a nuclear future

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Society

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant 'not designed to withstand fighting'

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