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Nuclear power Research update Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: 1912–2007 Last survivor of German nuclear-bomb team dies Read article: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: 1912–2007
Nuclear power Research update NMR finds holes in nuclear waste storage Physicists understand alpha-particle damage at the atomic scale
Nuclear power Opinion and reviews Waste matters The need for a nuclear repository Read article: Waste matters
Nuclear power Research update Nuclear waste should be buried The UK should bury its radioactive waste in a deep repository, says committee
Nuclear power Opinion and reviews The future of nuclear power Fission, fusion and the future Read article: The future of nuclear power
Nuclear power Research update Nuclear era ends at Risø Danish laboratory shifts its focus to renewable energy
Nuclear power Analysis The public enters the nuclear debate What does the public think of radioactive waste?
Nuclear power Opinion and reviews Nuclear tales Every year we pump 60 million tons of nitrogen oxides, 100 million tons of sulphur dioxide and 20 000 million tons of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. Surely n...