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The Russian management of the occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya has reported another incident involving a combat drone. Observers from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stationed on site were informed of an attempted drone attack on Thursday, according to an IAEA situation report. The observers also heard an explosion themselves, but they were not allowed to visit the site of the alleged incident afterwards, the report said. Last week, there were several drone attacks on the nuclear power plant near the front line. The plant was not seriously damaged. Moscow an...
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New York (AFP) - Despite the recent cancellation of a next-generation US nuclear plant, backers of the carbon-free power source remain hopeful new projects will come on line by the end of the decade. Late last year, the US energy company NuScale announced it was pulling the plug on a small modular reactor (SMR) project in the western state of Idaho. The project -- the sole SMR design yet to be approved by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- faced exploding costs that took the estimated price from $5.3 billion up to $9.3 billion. The "collapse of NuScale's project should spell the end for s...
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Korea’s “artificial sun” broke its own record during a plasma operation in which temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius were supported for 48 seconds, a promising new step toward nuclear fusion. The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research or KSTAR had previously set a record of reaching 100 million degree plasma for 30 seconds in 2021, the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) said in a statement. Nuclear fusion happens when two light atoms’ nuclei merge to form a single heavier one, generating a huge release of energy. This phenomenon powers stars, including the sun, which is wh...
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EU leaders from 11 member states backed a declaration in support of nuclear energy during a conference in Brussels today (March 21) aimed at attracting support from development banks to finance the deployment of new and maintenance of existing power plants. Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden were among signatories of the declaration, which called on regulators to “fully unlock” the potential of nuclear and to “enable financing conditions” to support the lifetime extension of existing nuclear reactors. “We call for greater in...
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EU countries representing more than 60 per cent of the bloc’s energy sector have committed to decarbonise their power sectors by 2035. New analysis by campaign group Beyond Fossil Fuels has found that 10 member states have committed to eliminating fossil fuels by 2035 or sooner. Four countries - Austria, Denmark, Lithuania and Luxembourg - have explicitly committed to replacing coal and gas with renewables. “It’s encouraging that many European governments share the ambition to usher in the fossil-free era by making 2035 power sector commitments. Now more need to follow suit,” says Tara Connoll...
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White Sands (United States) (AFP) - Wesley Burris was fast asleep in bed when the world's first atomic bomb exploded just 25 miles from his front door. A blinding light filled the home in the New Mexico desert, before the impossible force of the blast shattered its windows, spraying glass across the four-year-old boy and his brother. "It was so bright, I couldn't see," Burris recalls. "I can remember asking, 'Dad, what happened? Did the Sun blow up?'" The events of 5:30 am on July 16, 1945 are now best known to millions from their dramatic re-enactment in the Oscar-tipped movie "Oppenheimer." ...
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New York (AFP) - US authorities said Wednesday they had charged a member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld with handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal. According to a superseding indictment unsealed in a Manhattan court, yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa and co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri had previously been charged in April 2022 with drug trafficking and firearms offenses, and both were remanded. "The defendant stands accused of conspiring to sell weapons grade nuclear material and lethal narcotics from Burma (Myanmar), and to ...
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Caracas (AFP) - La Russie et le Venezuela ont convenu mardi d'élargir leur coopération pétrolière et envisagé une "utilisation pacifique de l'énergie nucléaire" lors d'une visite à Caracas du ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Sergueï Lavrov. Le chef de la diplomatie russe, arrivé au Venezuela lundi soir en provenance de Cuba dans le cadre d'une nouvelle tournée en Amérique latine, a rencontré son homologue vénézuélien Yvan Gil et la vice-présidente Delcy Rodriguez. "Nous avons défini les domaines importants de notre coopération", a-t-il assuré lors d'une conférence de presse et selon la t...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied reports from US media that Moscow is developing nuclear weapons to strike targets in space. Several US media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post as well as broadcasters ABC and Fox News reported the findings by citing US intelligence last week. They said Russia was attempting to develop an anti-satellite nuclear weapon based in space which could pose a threat to national and international security. Fox News reported that the use of nuclear systems against satellites could potentially disable US military communications and recon...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied reports from US media that Moscow is developing nuclear weapons to strike targets in space. Several US media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post as well as broadcasters ABC and Fox News reported the findings by citing US intelligence last week. They said Russia was attempting to develop an anti-satellite nuclear weapon based in space which could pose a threat to national and international security. Fox News reported that the use of nuclear systems against satellites could potentially disable US military communications and recon...
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