Asylum Seekers Forced to Work In Decontamination of Fukushima

Two Bangladeshi asylum seekers, found shelter in Japan through a decontamination job in Fukushima with false promise, the news reported Wednesday. As the Fukushima nuclear...

Even Robots Die In Fukushima’s Old Nuclear Plant!

It seems as though yet another robot has died while trying to investigate the Fukushima disaster. This robot is the third that has failed...

Fukushima Still Releases 300 Tons of Radioactive Water Daily, Just to Chill

The Fukushima nuclear disaster's effects still have not perished. Not only it already made the Pacific Ocean toxic, it also regularly leaks 300 tons...

Tricky Plutonium Byproduct One Step Closer to Being Disposable

Well, what we all knew has been confirmed, refining plutonium to make nuclear weapons is pretty much a bad idea all around. But that's...

Compact Lasers at CSU Recreate the Fusion-Making Environment of Stars

The future to laser-driven fusion has been opened with the research conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists. Within this research, scientists created...

Chernobyl to Get a Second Life as a Solar Power Plant

Chernobyl gets a second chance as Ukrainian government considers turning the site into a massive solar power plant. Ever since the nuclear disaster back in...

Newly Discovered Crystal Rids Radioactive Waste

How can radioactive waste from nuclear-fuel reprocessing plants be banished? Nature Communications published research by scientists at the national level at EPFL and the...

Japan Prepares New Non-nuclear Energy Plan

Japan is going to release an energy plan next year that shifts away from nuclear power but may lead to a greater dependence on...

Graphene Membrane Filters Radioactive Isotopes from Nuclear Wastewater

Graphene membrane can differentiate between subatomic particles. It can clean nuclear wastewater. Scientists from University of Manchester, UK, created a new graphene membrane that can...

Wendelstein 7-X Nuclear Fusion Machine Is On

The biggest, most sophisticated, nuclear fusion machine, Wendelstein 7-X, or W7-X, went online yesterday in Germany. Nuclear fusion has been circulating the news for years, promising...