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by Pierre Celerier and Daniel Lawler Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — It was an anomaly detected in the storm of a nuclear reactor so puzzling that physicists hoped it would shine a light on dark matter, one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. However new research has definitively ruled out that this strange measurement signalled the existence of a “sterile neutrino”, a hypothetical particle that has long eluded scientists. Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said Thursday it will work with Japan’s atomic energy agency to provide technical assistance to a US start-up run by Bill Gates that is building a next-generation nuclear reactor in Wyoming. American billionaire Gates is the founder and chair of TerraPower, which plans to build its plant in the US state by 2028 using a new technology called Natrium, touted as a “carbon-free, reliable energy solution”. The Japanese […]
by Marina KORENEVA Agence France Presse SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Russia buried 14 navy officers amid tight security in Saint Petersburg on Saturday who were killed in a fire on a nuclear-powered submersible in circumstances that have not been fully revealed by the Kremlin. The officers died in the Barents Sea on Monday, but the accident was only made public a day later. Moscow has said the crew was studying the sea floor […]
VISE, Belgium (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters formed a human chain on Sunday (June 25) to demand the closure of two Belgian nuclear reactors, Tihange and Doel. Organisers said they were aiming to form a chain between Tihange reactor in Belgium to Aachen in Germany, and said some 50,000 people attended the chain, less than the 60,000 they said were needed to cover the 90 kilometres between the two cities. The core tanks at the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – A Japanese utility on Wednesday switched on a nuclear reactor, the latest to come back in service despite deep public opposition in the aftermath of the Fukushima crisis. Japan shut down all of its dozens of reactors after a powerful earthquake in March 2011 spawned a huge tsunami that led to meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing the world’s worst such accident since Chernobyl in 1986. But only a handful […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s disaster reconstruction minister resigned Wednesday after remarking it was lucky the catastrophic 2011 earthquake-tsunami had hit a largely rural region rather than Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to apologize to residents of the devastated northeastern region of Tohoku, which is still recovering more than six years on, after Masahiro Imamura sparked outrage with his comments. “It was good that it (the disaster) occurred over there in Tohoku,” he […]
Jamie Edwards, a 13-year old scientist in England, was declared as the “youngest person to build an nuclear reactor”.
