Nuclear Reactors 1366 - Argonne National Laboratory Is Working On Alternative Cooling Schemes For The Columbia Generating Station

     The current fleet of commercial nuclear power reactors across the U.S. is cooled by water from a variety of sources. Rivers, lakes, and oceans are fed through systems that extract and dissipate heat from the reactor cores. However, the recent effects of climate change have been raising the temperature of bodies of water to the point where they cannot be used to cool reactors.

Nuclear Fusion 68 - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Is Working On A New Design For A Stellarator

     A team of scientists has achieved a major breakthrough in fusion energy technology. They have built a first-of-its-kind fusion experiment using permanent magnets. This is a surprisingly simple technique that could potentially dramatically reduce the cost of future fusion power plants.

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