Japan’s economy and industry ministry said Monday that it will start removing melted fuel from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2021. The milestone step of debris removal is considered the most difficult part of cleaning up the crisis-hit facility. ABC News reports: Nearly nine years after [the Fukushima nuclear power plant was wrecked by a massive earthquake and tsunami],…
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Chernobyl’s Control Room Is Now Open to Tourists … for 5 Minutes
Chernobyl tour companies have confirmed that the control room is open to the brave souls who wish to be closer to the scene of the disaster Source: https://www.livescience.com/chernobyl-radioactive-control-room-open-to-tourists.html
NASA Wants To Send Nuclear Rockets To the Moon and Mars
NASA engineers want to create a rocket engine powered by nuclear fusion. “A nuclear rocket engine would be twice as efficient as the chemical engines powering rockets today,” reports Wired. “But despite their conceptual simplicity, small-scale fission reactors are challenging to build and risky to operate because they produce toxic waste. Space travel is dangerous enough without having to worry about…
Take a look inside Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4
A small group of journalists were recently allowed inside the ruins of Chernobyl’s infamous doomed reactor. On April 26th, 1986, the catastrophic acci… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/330791/take-a-look-inside-chernobyls-reactor-no-4…
HBO Fends Off Streamers at Emmys While Other TV Networks Struggle
HBO managed to thwart competition from big streaming companies again Sunday night, taking home far more Emmy wins than any other network or streaming company. From a report: Other legacy cable and broadcast networks otherwise had a rough night. All other broadcast and cable networks combined nabbed 24 awards — 10 fewer than HBO. HBO has been known for decades as…
A Major Cyber Attack Could Be Just As Deadly As Nuclear Weapons
“As someone who studies cybersecurity and information warfare, I’m concerned that a cyberattack with widespread impact, an intrusion in one area that spreads to others or a combination of lots of smaller attacks, could cause significant damage, including mass injury and death rivaling the death toll of a nuclear weapon,” warns an assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University:…
No sign Russian missile explosion radiation has reached Europe
An explosion at a Russian missile testing range led to local spikes in radiation, but it doesn’t seem to have spread to Europe as it did during the Chernobyl incident Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213200-no-sign-russian-missile-explosion-radiation-has-reached-europe/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond Russia
An explosion at a Russian missile testing range led to local spikes in radiation, but it doesn’t seem to have spread to Europe as it did during the Chernobyl incident Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213200-no-sign-radiation-from-a-missile-explosion-has-spread-beyond-russia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Radioactive Grain from Chernobyl Has Been Distilled into Vodka
The first consumer product to come out of the Chernobyl exclusion zone in 33 years could help revitalize a long-neglected community — or at least get a lot of tourists drunk. Source: https://www.livescience.com/atomic-chernobyl-vodka-radioactive-rye.html
Vodka produced in Chernobyl exclusion zone
A special type of ‘artisan vodka’ has been made from rye grown in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Named ‘Atomik’, the peculiar beverage wa… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/329551/vodka-produced-in-chernobyl-exclusion-zone…