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Even with the Zaporizhzhia plant's shutdown, the threat of nuclear disaster doesn't disappear, either there or at Ukraine's several other nuclear plants. "We are monitoring for each one of the other nuclear power plants," Grossi told reporters this week when asked about the risks to other...
Around sixteen countries depend on nuclear power for at least a quarter of their electricity. France and Lithuania get around three fourths of their power from nuclear energy. In addition, countries like Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovenia and Ukraine ge...
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 ...
Accidents at nuclear power plants such as Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in the US are extremely important in learning lessons
Shortly after the 2005 WHO report, another study investigated the human cancer burden in the whole of Europe. It was conducted by the same principle author as the 1996 study which only investigated the areas Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and estimated 9,000 deaths from cancer amo...
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. ...
It's not that simple though. An atom's properties can change considerably based on how many of each particle it has. If you change the number of protons, you wind up with a different element altogether. If you alter the number of neutrons in an atom, you wind up with an isotope. For...
Germany and the United States have sent hundreds of Stinger missiles (like this one being fired during a Marine Corp training mission) to help Ukraine fight the invasion from Russia. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chandler Harrell When Russia invaded Ukraine in late...
it is not always clear where the money goes. The navy’s fleet operates fewer frigates and destroyers than Japan, South Korea or France. The army, at its smallest in centuries, would struggle to deploy a single heavy division. Britain has admirably emptied its cupboard to arm Ukraine, but...