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The US Department of Energy has reported the discovery of a radioactive wasp nest at one of its facilities in South Carolina that was once involved in the production of parts for nuclear weapons. According to a 22 July department report, the contaminated nest was discovered at the facility – the Savannah River site – on 3 July near tanks …

Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone. Employees who routinely check radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found a wasp nest on July 3 on a post near tanks where liquid …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone. Employees who routinely check radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found a wasp nest on July 3 on a post near …

North Korean leader’s powerful sister says talks aimed at denuclearisation would be interpreted as a ‘mockery’. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister has called on the United States to accept North Korea’s “irreversible” status as a nuclear weapons state, warning that dialogue will never lead to its denuclearisation. In a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News …

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 NASA is testing a new nuclear fuel, americium-241, that could revolutionize deep space exploration. 🔋 The Stirling generator design allows for continuous operation with minimal wear, even in the event of a convertor failure. 🌌 With a half-life of 432 years, americium-241 presents a viable alternative to plutonium-238, promising longer-lasting power. 🌍 NASA’s collaboration with the …

Unlike other All-Star Games in North America, it’s not acceptable to decline an invitation or withdraw from an exhibition match without permission in Major League Soccer. Neither Lionel Messi nor Jordi Alba received prior approval from the MLS, as the Inter Miami stars skipped the league’s All-Star Game earlier this week in Austin, Texas. Both stars appear to misunderstand the …

This is an MLive file photo of an aerial view of Palisades Nuclear Power Plant along Lake Michigan in Covert, Michigan in November 2023. Joel Bissell | MLive.com COVERT, MI — Federal regulators are poised to approve a restart of the Palisades Nuclear Plant, putting Michigan at the heart of a national nuclear energy renaissance. Nuclear power has emerged as …

Jul 23rd 2025 | Albuquerque, Livermore, Los Alamos and Santa Fe Each experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California—a “shot”—lasts just a few billionths of a second. A lot happens in that brief moment, however: 192 laser beams, totalling some 500trn watts, converge in the machine’s target chamber and dump their energy onto a gold cylinder, which is …

The US government agency in charge of designing and maintaining nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack of Microsoft’s SharePoint server software, Bloomberg reported. However, attackers weren’t able to obtain any sensitive or classified information, according to an unnamed source with knowledge of the matter. The breach occurred at the National Nuclear Security Administration, an arm of the …

US Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack  Bloomberg Disrupting active exploitation of on-premises SharePoint vulnerabilities  Microsoft Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups exploited SharePoint vulnerability in attacks  CNBC China behind vast global hack involving multiple US agencies  Politico Microsoft flaw ‘opens the door’ for hackers. It will be hard to close  The Seattle Times Source link