2 December 2020
The UK has embarked on a step to building the world’s first nuclear fusion power station, by launching a search for a 100-plus hectare site where it can be plugged into the electricity grid
23 October 2020
Around 1.2 million tonnes of water contaminated by radioactive substances from the 2011 Fukushima disaster will be dumped in the Pacific ocean, under a plan expected to be approved by the Japanese government within weeks.
6 November 2019
This week, see scientifically informed art in New York, discover our atomic past and wrap your mind round calculus with the help of some bad drawings
13 October 2019
Wind farms, solar panels and biomass have outcompeted gas and coal power stations for the first time ever over a whole quarter, in a significant milestone
4 July 2019
3 June 2019
Lise Meitner | Physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission
11 May 2019
Seawater is full of far more uranium than we can mine from the ground, and specialised sponges could let us harvest it to use in nuclear power plants
22 February 2019
The congresswoman who sponsored the US Green New Deal suggested the plan won’t include any new money for nuclear power – that’s a mistake, says David Titley
15 November 2018
The Union of Concerned Scientists has overturned its longstanding opposition to nuclear power. Other green groups should follow suit, says Mark Lynas
7 November 2018
Limitless clean energy from fusion has long been a dream. Now it could finally come true, says plasma physicist Melanie Windridge
