Nuclear
Model predicts long-term effects of nuclear waste on underground disposal systems
As countries across the world experience a resurgence in nuclear energy projects, the questions of where and how to dispose of nuclear waste remain as politically fraught as ever. The United States, for instance, has indefinitely stalled its only long-term underground nuclear waste repository. Scientists are using both modeling and experimental methods to study the…
Nuclear Power: The Future To Satisfy Energy-Hungry Data Centres
– Advertisement – As the world’s digital embrace is becoming tighter, power-hungry data centres are fueling an energy crisis to keep up. To sustain, Silicon Valley, AI, and Microsoft are betting big on nuclear power instead. How is this a game-changer? Data centres, the backbone of our digital world, are energy-hungry, consuming massive amounts of…
Lazarus Group Spotted Targeting Nuclear Engineers with CookiePlus Malware
The Lazarus Group, an infamous threat actor linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been observed leveraging a “complex infection chain” targeting at least two employees belonging to an unnamed nuclear-related organization within the span of one month in January 2024. The attacks, which culminated in the deployment of a new modular…