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Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a way to do this without using toxic mercury

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Lasers can help detect radioactive materials from afar

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Environment

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

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Society

Should Ukraine capture a Russian nuclear power plant?

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Chemistry

Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 – the heaviest ever

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Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof

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Take a look behind the scenes at the world's largest fusion experiment

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Take a look behind the scenes at the world's largest fusion experiment

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Is the world's biggest fusion experiment dead after new delay to 2035?

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Environment

Farmland near Chernobyl nuclear reactor is finally safe to use again

Radiation surveys suggest that it is now safe to grow food on farmland that has been unused since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, but changing its status would face local opposition in Ukraine

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Hybrid design could make nuclear fusion reactors more efficient

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Tech firms claim nuclear will solve AI's power needs – they're wrong

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Mathematics

500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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