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Anindo Dey PhotographyGetty Images Villagers in India are worried that recent deadly floods are the result of plutonium hidden in the Himalayas. The CIA lost the plutonium after a secret mission to monitor China’s nuclear program. Although unlikely, it’s an example of how fearful people are of nuclear materials. Villagers are blaming a long-abandoned cache of plutonium for deadly floods in India’s Himalaya mountains. The plutonium, which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) abandoned in the 1960s, was meant to power sensors designed to monitor Chinese nuclear tests. While villagers in...

ITER is a huge, internationally enmeshed nuclear fusion project. After spending billions of dollars over decades, the reactor is scheduled to switch on for its first productive (“ignited”) fusion in 2035. Until then, teams will work around the clock on construction and testing. That means assembling the gigantic, donut-shaped tokamak reactor, where nuclear fuel will be turned into sun-hot plasma and circulated in a magnetic field. The magic fuel mix combines tritium and deuterium. There are just 20 kilograms of tritium, a fragile isotope of hydrogen with an extremely short half life, in ...

KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEVGetty Images New START caps the number of nuclear weapons the United States and Russia can deploy at any given time. The Trump Administration was not in favor of recommitting to the treaty. President Joe Biden's administration has signaled that the United States is willing to extend a critical arms control treaty with Russia. If Russia agrees, the move would grant a five-year extension to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which issues strict limits on the number of nuclear weapons either country can deploy on land, air, and sea. Arms control advocates fe...

The Jeff Bezos-backed General Fusion and Commonwealth Fusion Systems both are targeting 2025. These reactors use extraordinary magnets to pressurize elements into superhot plasma. Two competing nuclear fusion companies, each with venture capital superstars as major investors, say we’re approaching the “Kitty Hawk moment” for their technology as early as 2025. You love nuclear. So do we. Let's nerd out over nuclear together. Magnetized target fusion (MTF) dates back to the 1970s, when the U.S. Naval Research Lab first proposed it. But MTF’s proponents say the technology is now bearing...

On December 15, Russia carried out the anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk Oblast. The Russian government issued an advisory for civilian traffic to stay out of the areas highlighted in red below. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Probably "Nudol" from Plesetsk will be launched on December 16, reserve date December 20. On December 14, the launch of "Angara-A5" from Plesetsk. Is it possible that "Angara-A5", in addition to t...