Drone video from inside a Fukushima reactor shows a hole in pressure vessel, likely fuel debris

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant showed a ...

First nuclear reactor built on DOE land in 50 years unveiled at Idaho National Lab

A giant American flag hung resolutely Thursday during the unveiling of the world’s first experimental extra modular nuclear ...

TEPCO releases video of possible fuel debris beneath Fukushima No.3 reactor

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has released the first drone video of an above-water area located directly beneath one of the reactor pressure vessels. The footage ...
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University of Florida lab research metallic nuclear fuel

I’m a third-year PhD student here at the University of Florida. I work under Dr. Aitkaliyeva, and I do research on metallic nuclear fuels. So basically, we irradiate these fuels in a reactor, and then ...
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Inside SKALA: How Chornobyl’s Reactor Was Actually Controlled

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor. In their continuing efforts to build a full-sized, functional replica of ...
MIT Technology Review

What do new nuclear reactors mean for waste?

These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...

Inside Chernobyl's Nuclear Exclusion Zone: 5 Rare Scenes You've Likely Never Heard About

From Pripyat’s sudden evacuation to the Ferris wheel that never opened, these documented Chernobyl scenes show how eerie the ...