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Pentagon nuclear microreactor test sparks radical new age of portable power

The Department of Defense broke ground on Project Pele at Idaho National Laboratory on September 24, 2024, launching the ...

Life is Strange developer Don't Nod adds a dash of Alien: Isolation anxiety to its usual cinematic formula, and I think it works

Life is Strange developer Don't Nod announced its next third-person cinematic adventure, Aphelion, during last year's Summer Game Fest with an Uncharted-like reveal set in space. And if the sci-fi ...
Gamereactor

First contact with Aphelion: Something between Interstellar, Uncharted, and Alien: Isolation

We've tried this intimate space thriller for the first time, with good graphics, a very personal story and a mystery to solve.
SpaceNews

NASA and DOE to collaborate on lunar nuclear reactor development

WASHINGTON — NASA and the Department of Energy have agreed to work together on development of nuclear reactors for the moon as industry awaits the release of a final call for proposals. NASA and DOE ...
CNN

New-wave reactors are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms

On the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, set against a backdrop of thick forest, a sharp-angled grey concrete building could be the face of an American nuclear renaissance. The Palisades nuclear plant, ...
NBC News

Japan's TEPCO restarts nuclear reactor for the first time since Fukushima

TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power on Wednesday restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after inspections were completed, its first such move since the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
Yardbarker

When Does Alien Isolation 2 Release?

Alien Isolation 2 made headlines when the sequel was first announced in October 2024. The announcement was part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the first Alien Isolation game, which was ...
Scientific American

NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030

The moon is going nuclear. On Tuesday NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced a commitment to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface. NASA has been exploring nuclear power for the moon ...
Popular Mechanics

China’s Fusion Reactor Reached an ‘Unbreakable’ Limit—and Broke Right Through It

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...
MIT Technology Review

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...
New Atlas

Earth built a nuclear reactor two billion years before we did

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own nuclear reactors. And they operated for hundreds of thousands of years, as ...