Raging forest infernos in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone burning for eight days are now ‘close’ to exploded nuclear reactor amid new fears of radiation contamination Wildfires burning through Chernobyl forests are nearing the nuclear reactor There are fears that flames could reach radioactive trucks and vehicles abandoned after the notorious 1986 power station explosion Kiev has … Read more
Nuclear war using less than one percent of the world’s arsenal would spark a global food crisis in just five years, experts warn A nuclear war of just 100 bombs could be devastating to the world’s food supply Five million tons of black smoke would be released into the atmosphere This would block out the sun … Read more
Pentagon awards $39.7million in contracts to three companies that will compete to build mobile nuclear reactors Pentagon awards contracts to three firms that will build reactor prototype Companies will compete in designing small, mobile nuclear reactors BWX Technologies, Westinghouse Government Services and X-energy were picked to take part in ‘Project Pele,’ a $39.7million investment By … Read more
It’s one of the most disturbing tours in the world. Deep in the Ukrainian countryside near Pervomaysk lies a perfectly preserved nuclear launch site – and visitors can clamber inside and be shown around the workplace of Soviet soldiers tasked with destroying America, should the order have come through from the Kremlin. And yes – … Read more
The US government is developing a nuclear rocket to send satellites into the vast space between the Earth and the Moon, in a renewed space race with China. The rocket will have a nuclear thermal propulsion engine and is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the government. The engine uses a … Read more