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General Fusion's reactor prototype creates plasma for the first time
Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for ...
Michigan nuclear plant shows the challenges the U.S. will face in safely restarting old reactors
The Palisades nuclear power plant aims to reopen in October, but the steam generators need major repairs that could delay the ...
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The Oldest Nuclear Reactor? Nature’s 2 Billion Year Old Experiment
When was the first nuclear reactor created? You probably think it was Enrico Fermi’s CP-1 pile built under the bleachers at the University of Chicago in 1942. However, you’d be off by — oh ...
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The first nuclear reactor, explained
It was originally planned to be built west of the city of Chicago, but construction difficulties slowed up progress, so Compton decided they would go ahead and build the reactor where many of the ...
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Is giving old reactors new life the future of nuclear energy?
“The kind of reactors being extended would not get built today,” he adds. “You are trying to restart a Caprice or an old Ford, when . . . what you need is an EV.” It was during the ...
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Nuclear fusion reactor created by school teenager successfully achieved plasma
The 17-year-old built the reactor to generate neutrons ... Notably, Cesare Mencarini’s work is claimed to be the only nuclear ...