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Floating nuclear plants could herald a new era of cheap, safe energy

29 August 2018

The price of renewables is at rock bottom, making nuclear power look pointlessly expensive. But new atomic plants could be cheap - and safer too
Chernobyl disaster: how the Soviet Union's cover story was blown

Chernobyl disaster: how the Soviet Union's cover story was blown

23 April 1987

In casting through the British newspapers from the days immediately following the Chernobyl disaster, the world's most disastrous nuclear accident, disarray was clear, but not all of it was in the Soviet Union

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