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Laudable, certainly. Missing the point? Possibly.

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...this process is an alternative to photosynthesis, "with melanin playing the role of chlorophyll and ionizing radiation; the role of visible light." Weird.

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"The scientists admit that a commercial reactor is a long way off, but they believe the laser approach to producing fusion shows great promise." Got to be a better move than swapping oil dep

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"...a reactor fuelled entirely by thorium would have significant advantages over conventional uranium or mixed-fuel reactors." They're a smart bunch, those Scandinavians.

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"A "spark plug" that should trigger nuclear fusion in a pellet of hydrogen every 10 seconds is being tested by Russian and US researchers."

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"...the United States is considering controversial proposals to produce a new generation of nuclear weapons and revamp its nuclear weapons complex..." Bloody idiots.

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The former staff of Defense Tech are now running out of 'Danger Room' at Wired - where they're going to find their readership a lot less hawkish - witness the comments on this post.

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"Rusi Taleyarkhan, the physicist at the centre of a furore surrounding so-called bubble fusion, was last week cleared of scientific misconduct."

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"It is vital that the public should be an informed customer and that long term decisions should be made with public backing. This will only happen if all sides of the argument engage in full, fra

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"Deep beneath Wiltshire lies an abandoned fortress, strewn with old bedding, rusting machinery and stationery marked 'top secret'. This is the Corsham bunker, where the nation's elite would have

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"NASA's planned moon base announced last week could pave the way for deeper space exploration to Mars, but one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the terrestrial energy industry." Oh, great

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"These designs have a sustainable character: they are economical in their use of nuclear fuel and are capable of rendering a great deal of their own nuclear waste harmless. The ability to actuall

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"Survivors talk about playing in fallout that landed like snow, of sand that melted like glass, of hair that fell out in handfuls..." A Metafilter round-up on the US's nuclear tests in Utah.

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"New nuclear technology will cut waste so significantly that we may no longer need to dump it underground, according to an Australian government report." Electricity too cheap to meter, fors

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"It starts off as a small blob over Ukraine, but then spreads. Constantly changing shape and colour, it curls its way round most of Europe." Animated map of the spread of Chernobyl fall-out.

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"...Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build -- a large, intricate machine that , on a small scale, creat

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"Fusion researchers can breathe a sigh of relief now that the ink has dried on an international agreement to build the ITER fusion reactor at Cadarache in southern France."

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"The molten salt reactor (MSR) does what it says on the tin. It uses molten salt at atmospheric pressure to cool the reactor. The radioactive fuel is also contained within the molten liquid. So,

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"...the wonks at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Federation of American Scientists have teamed up to make a Google Earth map of the nearly nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads in the U.S.

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"'The first nuclear test by any state today is about sending a political message,' says Michael Levi ... A weapon can’t be a credible threat if no one knows you have it."

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"So why should any nation test-blast weapons anymore if supersimulators can do the job? Because, nuclear experts say, it has turned out to be tougher than most people thought to mimic the 'real t

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"A plutonium device should produce a yield in the range of the 20 kilotons ... No one has ever dudded their first test of a simple fission device. North Korean nuclear scientists are now official

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"Driving the ship would be a nuclear arsenal of staggering proportions: 30 million nuclear bombs, each of which would explode 120 kilometers behind the vehicle at intervals of 1,000 seconds."

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"A British nuclear plant recently constructed to make plutonium fuel for power reactors in Japan and Europe has been plagued with so many breakdowns that it may have to be shut down." One of

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"U.N. inspectors [...] angrily complained to the Bush administration [...] about a recent House committee report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document "outrageous and dishone

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"If you want to ferret out uranium's hiding place in contaminated soil, freeze the dirt and zap it with a black light..."

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