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Nuclear Energy – Friend or Foe?
Depending on whom you ask, nuclear energy is either seen as a friend or as a foe. There is no in-between when it comes to this discussion. There are people out there that are completely against nuclear power plants, while others claim that there are many benefits to using such technology. But what is the definitive answer to this age-old…
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2-Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Mega-Reactor Discovered in Africa
In 1972, a worker at a nuclear fuel processing plant noticed something suspicious in a routine analysis of uranium obtained from a normal mineral source from Africa. As is the case with all natural uranium, the material under study contained three isotopes — i.e. three forms with different atomic masses: uranium 238, the most abundant variety; uranium 234, the rarest;…
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