nuclear

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Gone to the dogs

25 May 2021

A story of finding unexpected companionship at the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, Chernobyl.

The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Opinion: Five years after Fukushima, there are big lessons for nuclear disaster liability

11 Mar 2016

Makoto Takahashi (Department of Geography) discusses the impact of the Fukushima disaster and Japan's nuclear-liability laws.

An early, thorium-based molten salt reactor, pictured in the 1960s.

Proliferation warnings on nuclear wonder-fuel

05 Dec 2012

Thorium is being touted as an ideal fuel for a new generation of nuclear power plants, but in a piece in this week’s Nature, researchers suggest it...

Into eternity: the nuclear waste challenge

01 Jun 2012

How can we make nuclear waste safe for millennia? Fundamental research led by the University of Cambridge will help find the answers.

Facing up to Fukushima

20 May 2011

In the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima reactor, Japan and other nations are re-evaluating their attitude to nuclear energy. Cambridge academic...

Cambridge to work with industry to educate the nuclear leaders of tomorrow

23 Mar 2011

Some of the biggest companies and organisations in the nuclear industry are lending their support to a new course which will prepare the engineers...

Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?

11 Nov 2010

Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising...

Calls for a global nuclear renaissance in new study

13 Aug 2010

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London today outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear...