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US-based nuclear technology company TerraPower has awarded contracts to three more suppliers for its Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project. TerraPower ...

There is some cause for hope, as the low-budget thriller Don’t Let Go has exploded in popularity since its arrival on Netflix ...

Fear the Walking Dead is a post-apocalyptic drama series created by Walking Dead comic creator Robert Kirkman and writer Dave ...

The history of nuclear power construction is the history of costs going up and up, and delays getting longer and longer — not just over the past decade but since the 1960s. And studies of what ...

Cornett said the company is exploring ways to lower consumer costs. It could bid on supplies from the Millstone nuclear power ...

Yesterday, 168 employees from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office of environmental justice were placed on administrative leave, the New York Times reports. The newspaper continues: ...

During Drake Hansen's court appearance on Thursday morning, Hansen's parents were present and told the judge about their son.

A pioneering climate scientist says global heating is accelerating. Others say we can still reach climate goals ...

Led by renowned climatologist James Hansen, the paper appears in the journal Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development and concludes that Earth's climate is more sensitive to ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News.

Professor James Hansen has warned that climate change could affect the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic. Hansen, who first sounded the ...