It's Europe's largest nuclear power plant - and it's situated on the frontline of the Ukraine war. It is difficult to imagine a worse place for six nuclear reactors - but how worried should we be about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant?
In nuclear power plants, the chain reactions are very carefully controlled so they proceed at a relatively slow rate, just enough to sustain themselves, releasing energy very steadily over a period of many years or decades. There is no runaway, uncontrolled chain reaction in a nuclear power ...
Against this backdrop, building more nuclear plants to provide reliable, always-on, zero-emissions power generation can seem like a simple decision. Yet in many important markets, including Europe, Japan, and the United States, public skepticism and hostility to doing so r...
The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
In some places, oil was being burned to generate electricity; this electricity could sometimes be replaced by electricity from nuclear power plants. In the 1980s, added debt became more important. Companies were told to use “leverage” to become more competitive with producers around the world....
Ukraine — has forced countries to reconsider. Japan is now considering building next-generation nuclear reactors and plans to restart others. Germany, faced with shortages of natural gas and a tough winter ahead, recently announced that it is delaying the planned closure of some of its plants. ...
In January 2020, the U.S. The Government Accountability Office said the OMB’s withholding of obligation funds for the Department of Defense for assistance to Ukraine violated the ICA. In the memo, the GAO wrote, “Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his...
protect Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine and prevent Kyiv from posing a major security threat to Moscow by joining NATO. Ukraine and its allies describe the Russian invasion _ the largest conflict in Europe since World War II — as an unprovoked act of a...
And there was much to celebrate: Trump won a free and fair election last fall, and his supporters hope he will be able to fix problems at the border, end the war in Ukraine and get inflation under control. Still, on Monday, the warning signs were clear. Due to frigid temperatures, ...
In the 1980s, scientists assessed the possible effects of nuclear warfare (many nuclear bombs exploding in different parts of the world) and proposed the theory that anuclear wintercould occur. In the nuclear-winter scenario, the explosion of many bombs would raise great clouds of dust and radi...