Ecoticias

Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

Canada begins building the first grid scale SMR in a G7 nation, using a massive buried foundation and a reactor designed to ...

What Fuel Type Do Most Nuclear Reactors Primarily Use?

Nuclear power plants use radioactive materials to create energy, but which materials specifically? Turns out, it's mostly ...

USS Columbia: The US nuclear submarine built to run 42 years without reactor refueling

The United States is in the process of building its advanced Columbia-class submarines, designed to strengthen its nuclear ...
C&EN

How can we fuel visits to Mars?

We don’t need any advanced propulsion to get to Mars,” says Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society and the astronautical engineering company Pioneer Astronautics. “We can do it with chemical ...

Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the Sun?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Why is Venus the hottest planet, whereas Mercury ...