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Chernobyl is already responsible for up to 5,000 cases of cancer in Europe.
The meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 exposed 572 million people to radiation. No other nuclear accident holds a candle to that level of public health impact.
Engineers have devised an innovative way to dismantle Chernobyl’s reactor while preventing further radiation escaping.
The UK government looks set to allow EDF to build a new kind of nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point. But are there better nuclear technologies we could use?
The restart of Japan’s nuclear reactors is good news for climate change. But there are still large psychological barriers to overcome.
Even the biggest proponents of nuclear power can’t ignore 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel globally every year. What if we could recycle every last atom of nuclear waste?
The basics of fission physics have stayed the same over the decades. But power-generating reactor designs have evolved, turning to new coolants, recycled fuel and other innovations.
It’s been almost two decades since a new nuclear plant opened for business in the United States. But that’s about to change as construction wraps up on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Unit 2…
Claude Shannon, who many consider the father of modern information theory, wrote a paper in 1949 in which he pointed out that security should never be based upon your enemy’s ignorance of how your system…
Engineers at Fukushima nuclear power plant have been trying to create a £185m ice wall to isolate contaminated water from mixing with groundwater. However, there has been a steady stream of news articles…
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Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
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Research Fellow in nuclear waste disposal, University of Sheffield
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Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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Professor of Nuclear Physics, Director of Birmingham Centre of Nuclear Education and Research, University of Birmingham
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Josey Centennial Professor of Energy Resources, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Executive Director of the Durham Energy Institute, Durham University
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ARC Australian Laureate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Construction Management; Director of Research, Applied Research Center, Florida International University
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Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Reader / Associate Professor in Environmental Geoscience, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University