nuclear
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Before her disappearance, Casias, 53, worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where leading defensive nuclear research is conducted and where the world's first atomic weapons were developed during World War II.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
No agreement was that close, the officials said, noting Iran hadn’t made a serious offer to limit its nuclear work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Karen Lester, the daughter of an Aboriginal man who went blind due to British nuclear tests in South Australia in the 1950s, will also be one of the inquiry's commissioners.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki, southwest Finland, the geological repository for spent nuclear waste -- dubbed Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish -- is nearly ready to start operations.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
A nuclear accident that occurred at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 was classified after the fact as a level 5.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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