Topic: nuclear safety
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Trump Administration Eases Nuclear Safety Regulations
The Trump administration enacted a regulatory change that streamlines safety and security rules for reactors built on Department of Energy land, reducing requirements and bypassing public comment. Key environmental and health safeguards have been downgraded to suggestions, allowing higher worker ...
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Google Revives Nuclear Power in Tornado Alley
The 2020 derecho permanently shut down Iowa's Duane Arnold nuclear plant, illustrating the vulnerability of large, centralized power stations to climate-driven extreme weather. The plant's safety systems, including backup generators and an automatic shutdown, functioned correctly during the storm...
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Invisible Radiation Detectors Are All Around You
A global network of sensors constantly monitors environmental radiation, providing instant detection of nuclear incidents, as demonstrated when a drone strike damaged the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement without raising radiation levels. The necessity for such vigilance was proven by the 1986 Chern...
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Inside the QuitGPT Movement and Africa's EV Future
Nuclear power is seeing a resurgence as a carbon-free energy source, though high costs and long construction times for traditional reactors are driving innovation toward smaller, safer advanced designs. Major social media platforms like Meta and TikTok have agreed to independent assessments of th...
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