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Nuclear power

Nuclear power

Ten years after Fukushima: could new fuels make nuclear power safer?

23 Feb 2021
Taken from the February 2021 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Improving nuclear fuel safety".

A decade after the Fukushima disaster, Michael Allen investigates claims from academia and industry that the next generation of nuclear fuels could reduce the risk of similar accidents occurring ever again

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station
IAEA inspectors at Fukushima Daiichi power plant. (CC BY-SA Greg Webb / IAEA)
At 2.46 p.m. local time on Friday 11 March 2011 a massive earthquake hit north-eastern Japan. Stri

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Michael Allen is a science writer based in Bristol, UK, www.michaelallen.co.uk, e-mail michael_h_allen@hotmail.com
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