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Are courts precluded from granting fair, just compensation in nuclear accident: SC seeks Centre response on SHANTI Act

The Supreme Court questioned the Centre regarding compensation for nuclear accidents. It also sought clarification on regulatory body appointments under the SHANTI Act. The court is examining potential conflicts of interest in these appointments. Petitioners argue the new law violates fundamental constitutional rights. The SHANTI Act caps liability for private…

The Economic Times

In 1969, US engineers buried an experimental nuclear reactor under a grassy mound in Nebraska; the reactor still lies underground today

In the late 1950s, the United States Atomic Energy Commission built an experimental nuclear power plant near the small town of Hallam, Nebraska, hoping to prove that a sodium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor could reliably generate electricity for the commercial grid. It never quite worked as planned. Persistent technical failures forced operators…

The Times of India

From watts to warheads: Secretary of energy oversees big science research and the US nuclear arsenal

The U.S. Department of Energy was created in 1977 by merging two agencies with different missions: the Atomic Energy Commission, which developed, tested and maintained the nation’s nuclear weapons, and the Energy Research and Development Administration, a collection of domestic energy research programs.

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Here's what happened to everyone after Oppenheimer – to save you going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole

What happened after the credits rolled?

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Who Was Robert Oppenheimer? The Conflicted Father of the Atomic Bomb, Explained

Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century’s most famous physicist.

Inverse

'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds': who was atom bomb pioneer Robert Oppenheimer?

Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century’s most famous physicist.

The Conversation

Takeaways from AP's examination of nuclear waste problems in the St. Louis region

The St. Louis region has been struggling with nuclear waste since uranium was first processed at a plant near downtown starting in the early 1940s

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How America’s push for the atomic bomb spawned enduring radioactive waste problems in St. Louis

Newly public documents are showing how America’s push for the atomic bomb helped saddle St. Louis with an enduring radioactive waste problem

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