Coal keeps powering India as booming economy crushes green hopes

[ad_1] Built along a stretch of salt flats in southern India, the Tuticorin power plant epitomises a quagmire for the world’s fastest-growing major economy: how to provide reliable energy to 1.4 billion people.Also read:India’s thermal coal imports climb to a...

Bombs and viruses: The shadowy history of Israel’s attacks on Iranian soil

[ad_1] EXPLAINERFrom cyberattacks and assassinations to drone strikes, Israel-linked plots have targeted Iran and its nuclear programme for years.Israel’s leaders have signalled that they are weighing their options on how to respond to Iran’s attack early Sunday morning, when Tehran...

Russia says Ukraine attack hits Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

[ad_1] Russia, which occupies the site of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, has accused Kyiv of attacking a dome above one of the plant’s shutdown reactors. Ukraine has rejected the claim, and it was not immediately clear...

UK’s Sunak to unveil $252m investment in nuclear deterrent, nuclear energy

[ad_1] UK leader says investment is vital in ‘more dangerous and contested world.’United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to announce plans to invest 200 million pounds ($252m) in the country’s nuclear deterrent and civil nuclear industry. Sunak will...

Is nuclear power on the verge of a revival?

[ad_1] Global nuclear power generation is set to peak next year, despite claims it is dangerous, costly and plants take too long to build.Critics say nuclear power plants are dangerous, expensive and take a long time to build. But nuclear...
Is nuclear power the key to space exploration?

Is nuclear power the key to space exploration?

[ad_1] Nuclear power is experiencing a renaissance on Earth, and in space. Whether we’re talking about lunar bases or space exploration, nuclear might be the key to pushing beyond our current boundaries. On the 25th of August 2012, the lonely...