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World’s most advanced supercomputers decode nuclear reactor turbulence to advance safety

At Argonne National Laboratory, researchers are trading in old-school approximations for raw supercomputing power, ...
Opinion

Trump has undermined the agency tasked with making sure America never has another nuclear meltdown

The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set to make huge cuts to the amount of time its staffers spend on safety and emergency ...

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 ...
BGR

Can A Nuclear Meltdown Be Stopped?

Few manmade threats inspire as much fear as the potential of a nuclear meltdown. The fact that "Chernobyl," once an obscure Ukrainian town, is now globally recognized as a synonym for catastrophe ...

15 years after Fukushima meltdown, an innkeeper makes radiation surveys to revitalize her hometown

Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted hometown in ...
Yahoo

Small nuclear reactors move forward. Will Maryland catch up?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE — Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, ...