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Sustainable high-strength concrete from industrial by-products shows improved mechanical properties and radiation shielding, ideal for critical infrastructure.

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Humanity’s first homes on Mars may not be poured from concrete or assembled from sleek prefabricated modules, but grown from living microbes that turn alien dust into stone. Instead of shipping heavy ...

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China restricting yttrium exports (along with other rare earths has seen yttrium oxide prices have been soaring 4,000% in ...

China’s experimental thorium molten salt reactor has reportedly achieved sustained thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, marking a major scientific first. The breakthrough could ease China’s dependence ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Leading U.S. small modular reactor developers have unveiled plans to deploy reactors in the UK and mainland Europe but they will face ...

The U.S.’s last big nuclear-power project came in more than $16 billion over budget and seven years behind schedule. Now, the U.S. government wants to give the AP1000 another shot. President Trump is ...

Japan is edging closer to approving the restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant - the first time it would be operated since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Hideyo Hanazumi, governor of the ...

Scientists are building a nuclear clock so precise it could detect dark matter and test the laws of physics. The secret? A rare, low-energy transition in thorium-229. Here, we explain the science of ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is accelerating the development of microreactors for military use, a push that developers say could lift the entire advanced nuclear sector. November 24 - The U.S.