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The “profound change of American geopolitics” could be the first step toward massive nuclear weapons proliferation.
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Iran and the U.S. will hold talks on Saturday on Iran's nuclear programme, with U.S. President Donald Trump having threatened ...
After two planes collided, three hydrogen bombs hit a Spanish village, and one fell into the sea nearby. Two years later, ...
Plutonium 'pits' and Small Modular Reactors are all part of Energy Secretary Chris Wright's early goals for his department.
Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.
Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...
It’s likely that among the readers of this article there will be many who collect something. Whether it’s rare early LEDs or first-year-of-manufacture microprocessors, you’ll ...
While this concept sounds similar to that of a nuclear power plant, RTGs work on a different principle. Most RTGs are built using plutonium-238 as their source of energy, which is not usable for ...