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Europe is sweltering under a heat dome pushing temperatures in parts of the continent to 46C, as deaths rise and the risk of disaster grows. The spike in temperatures is being driven by a mass of hot air moving north from the Sahara, fuelled by a strong high‑pressure system known as the ‘African anticyclone.’ Meteorologists …
🛑🛑🛑BREAKING🛑🛑🛑 Iran just released this video of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei walking into an operations room looking at a Nuclear reactor. Source @DailyChinaNewss I Hope it's not a AI💥@grok Please confirm it❓ pic.twitter.com/CuWEfQFBxF — World Affair's (@AyatollahAraafi) April 6, 2026
Putin dropped a nuclear-powered torpedo story the same week one of his Balkan allies got off the hook in Washington and a Russian drone wandered over a NATO base. “Putin said the Poseidon drone was tested while running on nuclear power for the first time Tuesday… describing it as a ‘huge success’… the nuclear reactor …
According to Interesting Engineering, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded a grant of $2.3 million to a team of scientists at the University of Kentucky so they can work to develop materials strong enough to survive the inside of a fusion reactor. Considering the inside of a fusion reactor can reach temperatures of 180 million …
NEW – Coolant leak at Europe’s biggest nuclear reactor: operatorhttps://t.co/bi0Dkh0jQ6 — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) March 10, 2025 About 100 cubic metres of “radioactive coolant” leaked from Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, the largest in Europe, operator TVO said Monday, adding that the incident posed no safety risk. The leakage struck on Friday during the reactor’s …
According to a release by the Office of Nuclear Energy, Hermes reactor is being built to announce the development of the company’s commercial reactor that could be deployed next decade. Hermes will use a TRISO fuel pebble bed design with a molten fluoride salt coolant to demonstrate affordable clean heat production. The project was cleared for construction back in December by the U.S. …
Russia and China announce plan to build shared nuclear reactor on the moon by 2035, ‘without humans.’ Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has announced plans to work with China to build an automated nuclear reactor on the moon by 2035. The proposed reactor will help power a proposed lunar base that the two countries will jointly …
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Crews were called to Brunot Island for a large fire on Monday. Pittsburgh Public Safety said Duquesne Light reported the fire started after a reactor “catastrophically failed.” Firefighters ferried over to Brunot Island to fight the flames. Officials said crews were called to the island on the Ohio River around 8 p.m. …