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Project Horizon and the Cold War moon base, the US Army’s 1959 plan for a nuclear powered lunar outpost and atomic defense

In 1959, the U.S. Army quietly drafted Project Horizon, a detailed blueprint for a 12 man lunar outpost powered by nuclear reactors and built to hold the strategic high ground. This story traces how ...
World Nuclear News

China starts construction of innovative nuclear project

First concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 1 at Phase I of the Xuwei nuclear power project in China's ...
American Council on Science and Health

From Waste to Watts: Advanced Nuclear Reactors and the Future of Spent Fuel

Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...
KOSU

Kansas will get the world's first mile-deep nuclear reactor 30 miles from Oklahoma border

Deep Fission says it plans to install a nuclear reactor underground at an industrial park in southeast Kansas. State and local government leaders are on board. It's part of a national push for new ...
Interesting Engineering

Aramco seeks US backing for 1,742°F reactor running 1,100°F hotter than standard nuclear

Texas-based ZettaJoule has secured formal support from Aramco Services Company for its high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), a project designed to produce process heat reaching 950°C (1742°F), ...
Interesting Engineering

Physicist cracks fusion reactor problem that 'Big Bang Theory's' Sheldon Cooper couldn't solve

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