Tag: nuclear
Israel attacks Iran LIVE: Iranian official says there are no plans to retaliate after Israeli missile strike ‘targeted air base’ in city that hosts state’s nuclear programme
Thierry Breton will „Nuclear Technologies Act“ – Euractiv
EU-Binnenmarktkommissar Thierry Breton kündigte seinen Wunsch nach einem neuen EU-Nukleartechnologiegesetz als Teil der Bemühungen zur Entwicklung einer integrierten Nuklearindustrie in Europa an.
Um das EU-Ziel der CO2-Neutralität bis 2050 zu erreichen, wird ein größerer Anteil des europäischen Energiemixes Strom sein. Modellrechnungen der Kommission gehen davon aus, dass der Strombedarf bis 2040 um 57–79 % steigen wird.
Bisher konzentriert sich die EU mit einer speziellen Richtlinie und Einführungszielen seit langem auf die Förderung der Stromerzeugung aus erneuerbaren Energiequellen.
Ein aktueller Fokus
The Nuclear Explosion That Makes US Aid to Israel Illegal
March 29, 2024
Israel’s nuclear program has been in violation of international law for decades, rendering it ineligible for American assistance.
Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona.
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The researchers were startled as they looked up and saw the coal-black sky suddenly turn into a brilliant, multicolored aurora. As geophysicists with Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute, they were wintering over at an isolated ice station near Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land, a place where the temperature has dropped to as
Buchrezension: „Nuclear War“ von Annie Jacobsen; „Countdown“ von Sarah Scoles
In „Nuclear War“ und „Countdown“ sprechen Annie Jacobsen und Sarah Scoles mit den Menschen, deren Aufgabe es ist, sich auf einen Atomkonflikt vorzubereiten.
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Surviving inhabitants of top secret Soviet-era town where more than 400 NUCLEAR BOMBS were detonated reveal horrors of living in ‘the most nuked place on Earth’ where radiation left ‘everyone’ riddled with cancer
The surviving inhabitants of a Soviet-era town in northeastern Kazakhstan where 456 bombs were detonated on their doorstep, have revealed the devastating impact the explosions had on their health, with cancer spiking along with severe birth defects.
Filmmakers Thomas Brag and Staffan Taylor ventured to Kurchatov, which was a top secret town established in 1947 as the headquarters of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons program. At the time, it was not even visible on maps due to the high level
A Looming Disaster at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
This article is based on interviews and research by the Reckoning Project, a multinational group of journalists and lawyers collecting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, in the city of Enerhodar, in eastern Ukraine, is Europe’s largest nuclear facility. For decades, it has supplied electricity to millions of households, not just in Ukraine, but in Hungary, Poland, Belarus, Moldova, Slovakia, and Romania as well. Until two years ago, more than 50,000 people lived
Here’s how scientists reached nuclear fusion ‘ignition’ for the first time
One of nuclear fusion’s biggest advances wouldn’t have happened without some impeccable scientific artistry.
In December 2022, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California created fusion reactions that produced an excess of energy — a first. In the experiment, 192 lasers blasted a small chamber, setting off fusion reactions — in which smaller atomic nuclei merge to form larger ones — that released more energy than initially kicked them off (SN: 12/12/22). It’s a milestone known as
Surviving an Era of Pervasive Nuclear Instability
February 12, 2024
A call for grassroots activism.
Despite two years of war in Ukraine, rising tensions over Taiwan, and a metastasizing conflict in the Middle East, our 21st-century world has yet to experience a major nuclear blowup—a moment when the risk of thermonuclear annihilation is
The Nuclear Arms Race Never Ended
February 13, 2024
What passes for debate on Capitol Hill is routinely an exercise in assessing the most cost-effective outlays to facilitate Armageddon, not how to prevent it.
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Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking—it’s now at 90 seconds
China Quietly Rebuilds Secretive Base for Nuclear Tests
In the remote desert where China detonated its first atom bomb nearly 60 years ago, a drilling rig recently bored a deep vertical shaft that is estimated to plunge down at least a third of a mile. It is the strongest evidence yet that Beijing is weighing whether to test a new generation of nuclear arms that could increase the lethality of its rapidly expanding missile force.
A large drill rig hidden in the eastern hills of the Lop Nur