��ý

Skip to content

screen grab of TV report on Fukushima disaster

Health

Fukushima accident gave everyone an X-ray’s worth of radiation

After the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan was hit by a tsunami in 2011, everyone was exposed to extra radiation, but for most people the dose was small

News

radioactive waste drums

Physics

Waste-munching bacteria could make nuclear stores safer

News

Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

Physics

Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

News

A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week

Health

A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week

News

Diamond anvils being used to put pressure on hydrogen sample

Physics

Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure

News

Inside of fusion reactor JET, showing a purple plasma on the right

Technology

Brexit puts Europe's nuclear fusion future in doubt

News

nuclear train ad

Health

Old ��ý: Happily upholding ideals since issue number 1

Regulars

The world in 2076: Artificial starlight has made energy free

Technology

The world in 2076: Artificial starlight has made energy free

Features

Controversial India-Japan nuclear deal to be signed this week

Technology

Controversial India-Japan nuclear deal to be signed this week

News

chemical flask

Technology

The reaction that would give us clean fossil fuels forever

Crack natural gas into its constituent atoms and you can burn it without producing CO2 – giving us green energy without all the pain of renewables

Features

Earth

UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant

News

Physics

Cold fusion: Science's most controversial technology is back

Features

Physics

Cold fusion is better left out in the cold

Leader

Earth

Why Hinkley Point is a nuclear folly of Titanic proportions

Analysis