When Fake Nuclear Disaster Fallout Reached Los Angeles

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
MIT Technology Review

Next-gen nuclear

New reactors use novel materials and compact designs to make nuclear power safer and cheaper.
MIT Technology Review

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.
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What happened when the US detonated a nuclear bomb in space

In 1962, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon in space during a Cold War experiment called Starfish Prime. The blast ...
Interesting Engineering

Nuclear reactions that are found in thermonuclear explosions, stars measured for first time

The ability to collect this experimental data in very hot, dense, star-like plasma will help researchers validate and improve ...
The Pacific Northwest Inlander

In the mid-1970s, a newly formed nuclear emergency response team descended on Spokane following a hushed-up dirty bomb threat

On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...

Moment of science: Low-background steel

It's an unintended consequence of the Atomic Age. Dan Smith shows how nuclear testing inadvertently affected steel production for decades. ☢️ ...
Yahoo

This bright star will soon die in a nuclear explosion — and could be visible in Earth's daytime skies

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The star system GK Persei, home of an infamous nova explosion, seen by the Chandra X-ray ...
Live Science

This bright star will soon die in a nuclear explosion — and could be visible in Earth's daytime skies

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit ...
The Diplomat

A Return to Nuclear Testing Looks Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It.

Prior to his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on October 30, United States President Donald Trump wrote that he has ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing ...
Boston Herald

Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say ...
Wired

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon

You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a ...