Nuclear science

Nuclear science

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  Alert to Congress: Nuclear evacuation may bog down

  Regulators and congressional investigators clashed Wednesday over a new report warning that in the event of an accident at a nuclear plant, panicking ... 

• NRC orders nuclear sites to upgrade vents

  U.S. nuclear power plants must upgrade ventilation systems at 31 reactors with designs similar to those that melted down two years ago in Japan, under ... 

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  Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

  It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. In what ... 

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  A closer look at the Higgs boson

  Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced they are confident that the new subatomic particle discovered last ... 

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  Nuclear chief: US plants safer after Japan crisis

  Two years after the nuclear crisis in Japan, the top U.S. regulator says American nuclear power plants are safer than ever, though not trouble-free. 

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  Atom smasher hiatus sets stage for more discovery

  The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a 2-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum ... 

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  Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

  Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ... 

• EPA finds contamination at former rocket test site

  Lingering radioactive contamination exists at a former rocket test lab outside of Los Angeles that was the site of a partial nuclear meltdown, federal ... 

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  AP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money

  Influential scientists who help set Japan's radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to ...