Nuclear fusion: WEST machine beats the world record for plasma duration
WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak ...
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Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration!
On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the ...
Safety, nuclear waste, water use: Here’s what you need to know about Utah’s nuclear push
The U.S. currently has no permanent disposal facility for that radioactive waste, the NRC says. That means all waste from ...
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Tracking down nuclear fission's elusive scission neutron with a supercomputer
Nuclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy—may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since ...