London Evening Standard14d
Euston HS2 station: New twist in saga as Government says £5bn terminus will only have six platforms
He had been asked by Lord Berkeley, a Labour peer who has taken a close interest in the cost of HS2, how many HS2 trains per hour were planned at Euston, and how many station platforms they were ...
Interesting Engineering15d
US: World’s 1st commercial 400MW nuclear fusion plant to power 150,000 homes
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a fusion energy startup spun out of MIT, has announced that it will build the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant at the James River ...
The Straits Times22d
SMRT carries out exercise at one-north MRT station to counter flooding in stations
SINGAPORE – It took an SMRT team of six a matter of minutes to install three columns of stackable flood barriers at one-north MRT station on the evening of Dec 12. This was done not because the ...
CBC.ca22d
New SaskPower station boots up outside Moose Jaw
A new power station is up and running outside of Moose Jaw, Sask. SaskPower officially opened the 370-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas fired Great Plains power station on Tuesday. Construction ...
CNN22d
‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the ...
Virginia Mercury23d
Virginia to host world’s first fusion power plant
Virginia could soon make history as the home of the world’s first nuclear fusion power plant, state officials and private sector leaders announced Tuesday. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a fusion ...
Couriermail23d
CCTV captures woman leaving service station after dumping dead baby in bathroom
A woman who left her dead newborn in a service station toilet has been sentenced to four years in jail. Diana Guadalupe Zavala Lopez pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence charges after she ...
Scientific American23d
Will the World’s First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Be Built in Virginia? Here’s Why We’re Skeptical
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a company with origins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it will build the world’s first fusion power plant in an industrial park near ...
WRIC23d
Nuclear fusion power plant coming to Chesterfield will be first of its kind worldwide
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The world’s first-ever grid-scale commercial fusion power plant is coming to Chesterfield County. In a Dec. 17 press release, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS ...
Space.com23d
Chinese astronauts perform record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (video)
Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, spent more than nine hours spacewalking outside the Tiangong space station from late Monday night (Dec. 16 ...
Reuters23d
Return of NASA astronauts from space station further delayed until late March
taking what should have been an eight-day stay on the International Space Station to more than nine months. The duo had traveled to the ISS in June for the test mission, but their return was ...
Power Technology23d
CFS to construct grid-scale commercial fusion plant in Virginia, US
The plant will generate 400MW of electricity, enough to power large industrial sites or 150,000 homes. Credit: Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has outlined plans to ...