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2025-05-15

Nuclear waste could power Europe for decades. This startup plans to prove it


Europe has been turning uranium into energy for over half a century. In the process, the continent has amassed vast stockpiles of nuclear waste. This radioactive material can take millions of years to become safe, and no one really knows what to do with it. Thorizon, a Franco-Dutch startup, has an idea: reuse the nuclear waste to generate new energy. The company is developing a small modular molten salt reactor (MSR) that runs on a mix of spent nuclear fuel and thorium, a radioactive metal with untapped potential.  Thorizon aims to begin construction of [...]

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2025-06-03

Meta signs multi-decade nuclear energy deal to power its AI data centers

Meta has signed a 20-year agreement with Constellation Energy that will allow it to purchase nuclear power supplied by the Clinton Clean Energy Center in southern Illinois. To help fuel its AI ambitio [...]

Match Score: 126.67

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2025-03-10

Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets

Every new gadget you buy comes at a cost to your wallet, but there’s a hefty environmental price to pay as well. Every phone and laptop out there is a non-compostable mass of metal and plastic, and [...]

Match Score: 118.59

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2025-01-29

The best power banks and portable chargers for every device in 2025

On a recent work trip, I had plenty of things to worry about — but being able to recharge my two smartphones, laptop and iPad were not among my concerns. In my carry-on luggage, I had two medium-cap [...]

Match Score: 103.34

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2025-02-17

The best laptop power banks for 2025

There’s nothing worse than trying to get work done offsite and realizing your laptop is nearly dead. OK, there are plenty of worse things, but running out of battery when you’re not near an outlet [...]

Match Score: 100.88

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2025-02-10

France pledges to build one gigawatt of new nuclear to speed up its AI ambitions

It's France's turn to get in on the AI boom. On Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron announced private investments into the country's AI ecosystem totaling €109 billion ($112.5 billion). [...]

Match Score: 71.74

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2025-08-04

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]

Match Score: 61.49

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2025-01-24

Rolls-Royce lands record £9B nuclear submarine contract in UK

Right now, there’s at least one nuclear-power, nuclear-armed submarine stealthily patrolling the waters off the UK. The sub is powered by a nuclear reactor, so it can cruise undetected for over 20 y [...]

Match Score: 61.05

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2025-07-23

US nuclear weapons agency breached using Microsoft SharePoint hack

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, attacker [...]

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2025-03-11

How to make your smartphone last longer

Replacing a smartphone every two years is partially why billions of phones go into landfills each year. If stacked flat atop one another, that many handsets would reach farther than the ISS. But we’ [...]

Match Score: 55.53