Articles tagged "Nuclear"

The environmental and health benefits of ditching coal are clear, but it's also important to note that there's quite likely an economic case to be made as well.

When it comes to carbon-free nuclear, China is positioning itself to be a world leader, and to get paid while doing it.

The nukes are back, Fukushima be damned.

Austrian scientists say radioactive gases have been detected by sensors in Japan, and they are likely to have originated in North Korea.

Fukushima is trading its nuclear reactors for wind turbines.

All that "handwringing" over Iran's nukes comes from the same leaders who ignore the planet's most eminent existential threat.

The hands of doom are still inching closer to the end, the world's most pessimistic scientists say.

These are the apocalyptic scenarios that will be in the back of your brain while you're laughing at the Mayan nonsense.

Here we go again.

After the Fukushima meltdown, Germany vowed to abolish its nuclear reactors.

The absurd simplicity of the whole idea — Fuck shovels and dynamite, let’s use nukes — hearkens back to the techno-optimism of the 50s.

If it knocks out power to any of the power plants that lie directly in its path, the frankenstorm of the century will ruin Tuesday, too. Heck, a nuclear meltdown would probably screw up the entire week.

Visiting Tokyo last year was bittersweet. I had originally bought tickets to visit Japan just a few days before March 11th's wicked quake and tsunami tore through Fukushima and northeast Honshu, leaving a ballpark-figure of 20,000 Japanese missing, s…

The “most polluted lake in the world” is making the rounds on the internet, because apparently the internet decided it wanted to talk about nuclear waste-filled bodies of water. And this is one hell of a nuclear waste-filled body of water. It’s the n…

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu gave a sternly-worded speech to the U.N. General Assembly. It was notable not for the ‘watch out or Iran and Muslims will kill us all’ boilerplate, but for the prop Netanyahu pulled out halfway thro…

Today, in the middle of nowhere in the once-irradiated Nevada desert, a tower taller than the Empire State building came tumbling down. The 1,527 foot, 345 ton BREN tower was used to study the fallout from nuclear bombs like those dropped on Hiroshim…

For the people who wonder why we decry the "death of big science":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/6/7/megascience-blues-what-the-death-of-america%E2%80%99s-biggest-particle-accelerator-means, I suggest you marvel at this: early on in the Cold War, t…

No foolin': The secret access code to the computer controls of the U.S. nuclear-tipped missile arsenal between 1968 and 1976: "00000000":http://harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080175.

Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of them.

Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of them. He suffered no fools, and though he would be more…

“Let me run two fears by you and let me know if they’re legitimate,” says Ryan over the din at Jake’s in Omaha. The bar was packed on the day after Christmas with people we either recognized from high school, or who were Conor Oberst. Ryan contin…

Nuclear energy is powerful, but it can look even worse than the others, given persistent waste storage issues and the threat of proliferation.

The idea to use thorium as a nuclear fuel is at least fifty years in the making, and if the Internet is any indication, it's one whose time has come. Our documentary about thorium, which is only a few months in the making, is almost here too. In fact…