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Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other of planning to attack one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine and Russia accused each other Wednesday of planning to attack one of the world's largest nuclear power plant s, but neither side provided evidence to support their claims of an imminent threat to the facility in southeastern Ukraine that is occupied by Russian troops. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been a focus of concern since Moscow's forces took control of it and its staff in the early stages of the war. Russia and Ukraine have regularly traded blame over shelling near the plant that caused power outages. Over the last year, the U.N.'s atomic watchdog repeatedly expressed alarm over the possibility of a radiation catastrophe like the one at Chernobyl after a reactor exploded in 1986. The six reactors at Zaporizhzhia are shut down, but the plant still needs power and qualified staff to run crucial cooling systems and oth...

A CGI video details the concept of an AI-driven Sky Cruise hotel-plane model that can stay airborne for months, and land to pick up passengers anywhere. This futuristic combination of plane and hotel has up to 20 electric motors powered by nuclear fusion and is designed to be able to fly without landing. The person who came up with the idea said that the plane will not emit carbon emissions. Theoretically, this flying hotel will never run out of fuel and can stay in the air for several years without touching the ground. Hashem Alghaili, who created an extremely detailed simulation of this interesting aircraft, said that nuclear-powered sky travel “could be the future of transportation”. Designed to operate 24/7, Alghaili even adds that repairs will be carried out on-board, which is unprecedented in the aviation industry. When asked how many people it would take to fly this huge plane, he said:  “With all this technology and you still want a pilot? I believe it’s comple...

We live in an era of renewed space exploration, where multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the next decade with crewed missions to Mars by NASA and China, who may be joined by other nations before long. These and other missions that will take astronauts beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the Earth-Moon system require new technologies, ranging from life support and radiation shielding to power and propulsion. And when it comes to the latter, Nuclear Thermal and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NTP/NEP) is a top contender! NASA and the Soviet space program spent decades researching nuclear propulsion during the Space Race. A few years ago, NASA reignited its nuclear program for the purpose of developing bimodal nuclear propulsion – a two-part system consisting of an NTP and NEP element – that could enable transits to Mars in 100 days. As part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program for 2023, NASA selec...